Since printing costs make up a big chunk of the illustrator’s budget (Postcards and samples don’t materialize out of the ether) Having a good printing service is cruical. I use
Jak Prints Fast, cheaper than most, and fully loaded with options.
Add Your CommentsWhile 3×3 is a slight journal of contempory art, “Illustration”: the magazine is a scholarly rag devoted to historical illustrations.The newest issue just hit the racks with some delightful 1940s paintings.
Occasionally, young Illustrators will be asked to do a piece “On spec”. Know these words and fear, young padawan. For on “spec is one of the slimiest things an Art director can do.
On Spec is when companies ask for a finished piece before they wil pay you. No assurance of payment, no contract. You create and then *maybe* they pay you. Would this work with a plumber? They fix a leak and then you decide if you should pay them? Hell no. The comics and movie industry is famous for On Spec deals, since they are mostly made of evil demons. (more…)
Are you in London? Then get thee to The Illustration Cupard. A delightful little gallery on Regent’s St that showcases and sells the best in modern book illustrations. It’s only opento the public during shows, so check with the website for upcomming shows.
Our own Molly Crabapple does an interview with the creator of Charm School A very strange, very NWS ilustration site. It covers art, merchendising, and how to make a killing selling prints without really trying.
I’ve long thought that the tendancy for illustrators to act like doormats is the real reason behind the lower prices and fewer jobs. Desperate to take any job, for any pay, they dilute the market.
Well, no more. Here is an amazing letter from an illustrator to a AD of a certain brooklyn-based humor magazine. Names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent.
Marc Burckhardt’s art comes from an alternate reality where Russian icon painters beatify rock stars and mexcian wrestlers. Strange and arcane, Burckhardt is known for his work in Rolling Stone. What swoony teenage girl didn’t cut out his prayer card of “St.Cobain”? Werid and masterfully done, we approve.
Check out an interview with Mr. Burckhardt in the latest issue of 3×3.
We admit a bias toward comic artists, since it is one of the most time-consuming and badly paid feilds ofillustration. So it is with great pleasure we feature the Jigsaw Store and Gallery in NYC.
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We promise, this is the last time we mention Molly Crabapple. But the little vixen is performing a reading of her scandalous essays “Confessions of a naked model.” Find out what the girl on the stand is *really* thinking
May 4 10:00 pm-12:00 AM
The Dark Show
Apocalypse Lounge
189 E 3rd St. F to 2nd Ave.
NYC.
2 drink min. No cover.
Gentleman, burn your copies of”Art News”. There is a better option.
Coagula, an L.A based based art zine is the scrappy, mean little papaer that no one admits to reading. Well, somoene must be, because the clever rag has entered its 5th year strong. Clever and more than a little insightful, Coagula covers the art world like no one else. They’ve just realsed “Most Art Sucks”, an anthology of the last 5 years,so you have no excuse to get caught up.
Check it out Here
