How illustrators sell themselves —— How to make money by drawing illustrations

How do illustrators promote their works? You can go to Illustrator China or Vulcan to set up your own gallery, then read the recruitment information and try to contribute. If you want to vote for magazines, there are good picture books, such as Painting Heart, Painting Meaning, Orange, Rainbow Color and Picture Box. Baidu has a submission address at once, and the contribution fee is still very high, but the key is to draw it well.

How to make money by drawing illustrations? Illustrations make money by sharing channels.

1, illustrator:

1) vision china/Station Kuluohai

These two platforms are both authoritative platforms. Vision china needs to upload his works on the platform after signing the contract, and Giankuhailuo can upload them directly. When uploading, you can choose exclusive or non-exclusive, depending on your needs. Although the non-exclusive income is not too high, the same works can be sold continuously to make money, which is a good way to earn income continuously.

2) Other solicitation platform websites

For example, illustrator China, rice painter, graffiti kingdom, artists' union, art box, UI China, Qiantu. com, petals and so on.

When uploading works on these platforms, it's best to pay more attention to the directional uploading of business hotspots and the serial uploading, and the effect will be doubled.

2. Peripheral products

1) own subnet:

You can open your own shop here, so you need to have your own traffic. It can also be sold on behalf of the company, and the share of sales revenue will be much less, but the products can be sold through the traffic of the platform. Before that, I simply uploaded a few pictures, and I sold a few simple pictures happily, but because it was for sale, the income was not very high, but it was also a small channel for continuous income.

2) Taobao shop cooperation:

After you continue to increase your exposure and promote yourself, some Taobao stores will take the initiative to seek your cooperation. There are two ways of store cooperation:

You set the price.

For example, a T-shirt shop has its own reserve price, which will let you set the price. The money you earn is the price you set minus the floor price of the store.

Pricing (you decide) = store floor price+price difference (earned)

Earn commission

For example, in a decorative painting shop, he will give 5% ~ 10% of the monthly sales at a specified time every month.

3) Open your own shop:

Taobao shop or micro shop. This requires you to bring your own traffic and have a certain popularity. Many people like your paintings very much. You can open your own shop and sell some peripheral products made by your own illustrations. Such as T-shirts, notebooks, mobile phone cases, canvas bags, pillows and so on.

4) publish a book:

Illustrations or picture books can continue to receive royalties.

5) offline large-scale illustration activities:

For example, the Illustrator Carnival, Singularity Art Festival, China International Illustrator Hundred People Exhibition and other activities. Here, you can constantly promote your peripheral products and meet many illustrators in the same industry. Many businesses will come here to find illustrators, which will give you more possibilities and opportunities.

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3. The customer is looking for you

This requires you to constantly promote yourself. Actively publishing works on different platforms, increasing contacts and being active in various groups will bring you greater opportunities. There is a lot about how to let customers find you on their own initiative and how to promote themselves better. The next article will explain it in detail.

4. You are looking for customers

1) illustration group

Join the WeChat group related to illustration as much as possible, there will always be demand related to illustration, and take the initiative to join when you feel it is suitable for you. You can also publish more of your latest works to let more people know about you, so that you will probably be given priority when there is suitable demand.

2)QQ outsourcing group

QQ has many outsourcing groups of illustrations, and more attention will lead to more opportunities.

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3) Submit the official account of WeChat.

Many official WeChat accounts will publish their own content in an illustrated way. If you think the style suits you, you can take the initiative to contribute.

4) Magazine submission (heart painting, etc. )

5) Submit recruitment information

There are also many recruitment illustrators or part-time illustrators on major recruitment websites, especially picture books.

6) Major vertical painting websites

Illustration-related websites such as Illustration House and Graffiti Kingdom often have a large number of illustrations.

5. Teachers/teaching assistants

Teaching assistant: it can not only bring some income, but also bring huge network resources, and accelerate growth with teachers.

Teacher: I need to accumulate my own painting level and process in the early stage. When you have accumulated to a certain extent, you can start to consider starting classes. Common ones are live courses (high income), recorded courses (continuous income) and punching activities. Common platforms include cctalk, Qian Chao, Netease Cloud Classroom, Tiger Classroom Network and Blue Pencil.

Step 6 take part in the competition

Station Cool, UI China, vision china and Graffiti Kingdom, these websites often publish many competitions related to illustration.

As a freelance illustrator, how do you sell your works? First, I like myself. The first time I went to college, I showed my work through a cool website. Slowly, someone came to me to paint. On the internet. I used to paint everything, but then slowly, because the customers were exposed to economic magazines, and gradually, the styles began to be unified.

Later, he gradually formed his own creative method and painting method. Now I want to open a personal website. Actually, I don't seem to be very good at managing myself. Because there is less time. Foreign illustrators need to pay a high fee and have time to write books, or the whole homepage or website. Gradually form their own stable customer base.

The general situation in China is rather chaotic. Customers are everywhere. Therefore, if you are good at various styles, your income will be better. Some illustrators stick to their own style. It may be amazing, but it's a long process. At home, the more important thing is the foundation. And aesthetics. After all, this is a commercial illustration.

For the public, it pays more attention to technology, serving products, pasting and product temperament. But there are also some interesting customers. But the requirements for commercial illustration are also higher. You can refer to some foreign commercial illustrators, whose skills are very strong. I feel that I am constantly improving myself and getting in touch with new things.

Style is formed slowly, don't rush it. Start planning styles and create the best series.

To sell, look at the "mature style", "well done" and "show more" mentioned in other answers. After meeting these three points, it has sold out half. Secondly, package your own works (with your own style, intention, rich connotation, etc.). ), can be made into various forms, such as picture frames, scrolls, etc. This is the sales manuscript.