As a bit of an intro, I’ve been working as an illustrator for just shy of two years, and it’s been a real learning experience. There’s a lot I didn’t know, and a lot I didn’t realize would come in handy. I really love illustration and my fellow illustrators, and so I thought it would be nice to provide a little resource of what I have learned and will figure out in the upcoming future.
TRADE SECRETS is just that; a resource. One part work diary, one part advice column, I’m going to put forward what I know to help others. I often get asked about promotion, so I’ll give my two cents on that, as well as finances. I’ll provide resources of companies I’ve found to help with making certain items. In addition I hope to get more people into the fun either by guest blogging or interviews– I figure that learning together will help us all get a little sharper.
If you’re interested in taking part, please drop me a line, or if you have general questions I can help answer or find an answer to, that’ll work just as dandy.
Till then!
-meg
January 13, 2007 at 8:40 am
Excellent website concept. Best wishes.
January 13, 2007 at 9:31 am
Just discovered trade secrets through Illustration Mundo and it’s brilliant. I am a recent graduate illustrator starting out from England and all the help I can find at the moment is valuable. If there is any way I can get involved please let me know.
Keep up the good work.
Best Wishes x x
January 14, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Thankyou so much for putting this together - such a great idea and community-spirited to boot! Good luck with it all.
January 14, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Thanks everybody for the nice comments! I hope you get some good use out of the blog.
fantazmagloria– i’m super impressed at your skill, i really love the show posters and ads you and your partner’ve come up with!
-meg
January 15, 2007 at 11:52 am
This looks an ace resource. Thank you.
January 16, 2007 at 5:48 am
Wow, thanks Meg. Been digging your freak series so I really appreciate your opinion. Cheers!
January 22, 2007 at 7:08 pm
So happy you are doing this! I am just getting my work out there so this is awesome. Your site has been on my faves list for a while. Ditto Fantazmagloria on the community spirit.
January 30, 2007 at 7:12 pm
You are a benevolent goddess of illustration bestowing your wisdom to the novices like myself. Thanks for taking the time to do this. It really is helpful. May you have continued success.
February 8, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Great site and idea, we illustrators must stick together, cool work! Found you through Drawn Blog, kudos from Portugal,
Goncalo Viana
June 9, 2007 at 11:17 am
I love your site! I just started a blog on my own site, with a similar bent — sometimes promotional stuff, sometimes advice and tutorials, sometimes other people’s work that inspires me.
As a freelancer who’s been in the biz for twenty years, I can hopefully give you some advice. But I’m as much in the dark about a lot of it as you are, and I’m sure you’ll have ideas and solutions I won’t have thought of. That’s the beauty of sharing with colleagues.
You’re on my RSS feed — I hope you’ll want to add me to yours. Or bookmark, or whatever. You get the idea! Thanks for adding to the general dialogue by starting your own forum.
July 20, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Hi
Do you know how to get the kind of “skippy” , inky lines that William Steig was able to get ? On the same note, the early drawing of Andy Warhol (shoes,cats,etc) are made with equally exciting lines…..any suggestions ? I am a painter, yet I lean heavily on drawing. I need to make lines like these guys ! HELP ! Thanks oxox Suzanne