Do you earn money by studying illustration? -Illustrators reveal industry income. What are the employment prospects of this industry?

How much does it cost to draw illustrations for a month? Illustrators usually charge by the sheet. If the company signs a contract, it may cost hundreds to thousands, depending on the quality. If it involves individuals, a piece of paper may cost tens of dollars. In fact, the salary of an illustrator is not stable, because it is necessary to submit a manuscript at first. Generally speaking, it will do illustrations for well-known companies. If the painting is good, a picture may cost tens of thousands of dollars, but if it is a novice such as a magazine, it will generally cost hundreds of dollars. If you do well in magazines, a pair will cost thousands of dollars. A month's salary depends on your monthly output, and a cartoonist is also a mirror. Moreover, it is difficult to make money by painting. If you want to enter this kind of industry, then on the basis of learning basic painting well, it is suggested to learn more design things, such as graphic design, space design and game design. If you draw well, you can make a lot of money. It is still difficult to rely solely on comic illustrations, and the employment area is too narrow. Unless you become a powerful or famous illustrator. The whole network recruits Xiaobai to study for free to test whether you are qualified to learn more illustrations. You can learn about Guangzhou Zhongjiao Online Education Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zhongjiao Online), which aims to provide senior VR modelers, next-generation scene/character designers, original painting designers and post-graduation technical certificates for professionals. The service scope covers all parts of the country, and it is currently an authorized management center for 3D modeling and original painting certificate training and certification. Illustrators reveal industry income. What are the employment prospects of this industry? I don't know if you have any knowledge of the profession of illustrator. Recently, I have seen many advertisements about illustrator training institutions on various softwares. I can't help but be tempted by the marketing methods of advertising words such as "less money makes it easier to find a job" and "0 basic introduction", which is even equivalent to "never being laid off".

But are the actual illustrators really as happy as they are in the advertisements? Is it really a new choice that everyone can try? If you have to hire an illustrator, can you make money? The answer is of course yes, but there are conditions, such as solid professional ability and excellent works. Like Victo Ngai, a famous illustrator, the price of a painting can reach six figures, but she can earn millions a year just by painting. I think many illustrators use her as a model.

But what we need to know is that the income of top employees in an industry cannot fully explain the overall wage level of this industry. First of all, an illustrator is a profession with professional skills, so there must be some thresholds, such as professional ability. Speaking of it, many art professionals will inevitably cause market competition and substitution here, so what's the play for ordinary people without basic skills? Judging from the materials compiled at this stage, it seems that there are no basic ordinary people. If you want to start this industry from scratch in a few days, the pass rate is not very high.

What about some people who have their own painting foundation? What is the prospect of this industry? It is not easy for art professionals to have a place in this industry. I must constantly improve my understanding and aesthetics to ensure that my paintings can meet the ever-changing sales market. No matter what kind of professional skills, if you want to make money as a career, in the final analysis, you must meet the needs of the market. Only when the sales market recognizes the use value of your work can you produce certain economic benefits. In other words, your paintings must meet people's aesthetic standards. Everyone likes to watch them and is impressed by them. Only in this way can we sell them.

Otherwise, even if the painting itself is satisfactory, it will be difficult to obtain any economic benefits and control the aesthetics of such items when the sales market does not accept it. Even the paintings of Van Gogh, a famous painter of past dynasties, were not recognized at any time in his life. With thousands of works, he only sold one painting before his death. However, after his death, his works swept the world and were once sold at a high price of more than10 million dollars.

It is not difficult to see that no matter what the income of an illustrator is, the whole process of becoming an illustrator is far from as easy as it seems in advertisements. This profession not only has a certain threshold, but also must constantly improve its aesthetics to match the current market demand. And this kind of thing can't be mastered in just three or four days.

Therefore, the course contents of these basic novice illustrators are everywhere on different service platforms, and most of them can be judged to be deceptive. In fact, many of these courses just want to use the topic discussion of "illustrator" to attract total traffic for themselves. Here, we will dig for you. Don't spend such silly money to finally get yourself out of the corner.

Is it really impossible for a novice illustrator with zero foundation to get started? I don't think we can generalize, after all, there are some examples of completion. Must be divided into specific situations, specific analysis.

Speaking of the more popular illustrators on the market now, most of them are CG illustrators. CG illustrator refers to a way to create by using some computer technology or hand-drawn board. Therefore, many of these fashion bloggers who shout the guise of "zero foundation" actually have a background in arts and crafts training, but they have no foundation in this respect. In this case, it is really guaranteed to spend a few days learning to master the use of board drawing software, and then you can get started and make money after you are proficient.

However, this is completely different from the zero foundation that most ordinary people imagine. If I hear that you are a zero-based layman, interested in this industry and want to enter this industry, my suggestion is to learn some basic professional skills of fine arts painting first, then polish your basic skills of fine arts painting, and then consider the economic benefits of your works.

In addition, because of the different types of requirements, the threshold for illustrators has indeed decreased a lot. Many requirements will no longer require illustrators to have professional drawing skills such as color, interior space and perspective, as long as they can show the information that bidders want to express. This also gives many novices who want to enter this industry a lot of confidence.

Indeed, many illustration styles now do not necessarily have too many arts and crafts methods. For example, the illustration style of graphic design, as long as simple colors and patterns are matched, can be an illustration. This is also the main course content and orientation of many speed learning courses.

Learning is really easy, but until the process of making money gradually, it is another scenery. Having said that, it is necessary to prevent lightning strikes. Many illustrated English training classes often use a false advertisement. They publicize and plan according to the salary level of the great god in the application industry and the teaching content matching the difficulty coefficient of Xiaobai, and lure you to study and train in the remedial class. However, after spending a lot of examination fees and adding some special equipment, it is very likely that the profits earned in the end will not even go back.

These illustrators draw a list of commercial services with one action, which must be very professional, and Xiao Bai, who just started, can't afford to draw. However, Xiaobai's design style can be mastered according to several days' study and training, because there are more and more people studying illustration at present, and there is a situation of low difficulty coefficient and large supply.

Xiao Bai has been trying to draft a draft all day, which consumes a lot of time and energy. In the end, only ten dollars were paid, and some were only a few dollars. With a huge sales market, there is no professional monitoring and management means, and there will continue to be cheated manuscripts, which makes people angry and helpless. I have several good friends around me who try to get started with illustration. After a period of trading, they have been joking with me that cleaning up Aquarius is faster than drawing.

In the final analysis, this is that our investment in learning and training funds is not positively related to our income. There will be a story in Zhihu's response to the illustrator's income. Xiao Bai is a novice. He spent tens of thousands of yuan to study the content of illustration course, but he didn't find a job after studying in many training institutions. In the process of taking orders at home, I was cheated by a single boss and ran away. Finally, he only found a new employee to join a small company as Art editor, and was demoted to an intern by HR at that time, and finally got a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan.

Nevertheless, it is not enough to remain neutral, but at this stage, the bottom situation of all second occupations is like this. The influx of new employees has intensified the competition in the industry market. Therefore, as my good friend, a pure white without basic knowledge and work experience, it is difficult to compete with other painters for high-priced business orders.

Today, in the post-COVID-19 epidemic period, the experience of earning money by working is becoming more and more obvious, and the number of people in the second occupation is slowly increasing, which leads to more and more fierce market competition in the second occupation industry and more and more obvious levels of income.

Illustrator is one of the most common examples. Great efforts in the industry will bring millions of profits. Art candidates will constantly improve their aesthetic standards to adapt to the changes in the sales market. At the same time, there will be waves of new products. Will it be more and more objective to play back these advertising words originally mentioned in today's program after we recognize the current situation of this industry?

Can you really make money by studying illustration? Illustration may be just a skill for many babies who learn drawing or illustration, but it's really cool for me to see this skill through illustration, so I summed up this answer ~ No more nonsense, now get down to business and get dry goods ~ 1. Become a contracted designer of the illustration website, upload the works designed by yourself to the corresponding platform, get some benefits while punching in, and even participate in some competitions held by the corresponding platform. 1. Graffiti Kingdom's old illustration website, many illustrators know that novice illustrators can use it to punch in the early practice. The recognition and encouragement of others will make you stick to it better, and the guidance of some experts will make you progress faster. This platform will have a series of illustration activities, prizes are generally bonuses and hand-painted screens, and there will also be some part-time outsourcing of illustrations, which can be directly docked, as long as you have the strength. 2. Station Cool Station Cool is a multi-design platform, and illustration is also a part, but it is not just an illustration platform. This platform is suitable for small partners with good illustration skills. When your works are of high quality and constantly updated, you can quickly accumulate popularity and fans and become a personal IP, and a rich dad will take the initiative to come to you. Being an illustrator's personal IP, becoming bigger and stronger, is itself a trend of traffic and realization, which I have always encouraged and supported before. The follow-up ways of realizing personal IP mainly include cooperative courses, cooperative business illustrations and cooperative book illustrations. Author: Deer Seventeen Links: Source: Zhihu Copyright belongs to the author. Please contact the author for authorization for commercial reprinting, and please indicate the source for non-commercial reprinting. 3. rice painter 4. Half a dollar and five cents. Vision china 6. Illustration China 7. Money way. com 8。 Petals need not publish on too many platforms at the same time, but play on 3-4 platforms in detail, because everyone's energy is limited. Under the premise that we can't study every platform clearly, it will be better to focus on 2-3 platforms! Second, take part in the illustration contest. If you can win the prize, you will have corresponding cash income, and some competitions will also have some corresponding prizes. In fact, the extra benefits of participating in the illustration contest also have advertising effect. Even many rich fathers will come to the illustration contest site to find some illustrators or illustrators suitable for the style. Winning an illustration contest can not only improve your skills, but also improve your popularity and follow-up income. 10. Japanese Illustration Competition The Japanese Illustration Competition is an illustration competition organized by the Japanese Illustrator Association and the top illustration competition in Japan. However, the requirements of this illustration contest are very high, and the work review and submission process is more rigorous and strict. Only accept pure creation, do not do business cooperation, do not publish, is a very credible illustration contest. & ltimg src = " " data-size = " normal " data-raw width = " 1 144 " data-raw height = " 120 1 "class =" origin _ imagezh-lightbox-thumb "width ="1144 "data-original =" "/> The picture above shows the Holbein prize of the 20 19 Japanese illustration contest, which was won by HannahLi (China) of China. The picture is from the network, ~ 1 1. The World Illustrator Award is a competition jointly organized by the Illustrator Association (AOI) and the Illustrator Directory (DI), and it is also the most famous in the world. 12. American 3x3 International Illustration Competition The American 3x3 International Illustration Competition is an illustration competition organized by 3x3 Contemporary Illustration magazine, and it is also one of the most representative international illustrations in the world. In addition to receiving generous cash rewards, the illustrator's works will also be published in the annual edition of 3x3 Contemporary Illustrator Magazine, which will be spread around the world. It is very beneficial to shape personal brand and enhance personal influence. 13. Bologna Illustration Exhibition Bologna Illustration Exhibition is one of the highest illustration exhibitions in the world and the most important cooperation and exchange platform for international illustrators. It is called "Oscar in Illustration", so if you can be selected, it will be very beneficial to shape your personal brand and enhance your personal influence. 14. Asian Illustrator Annual Competition The Asian Illustrator Annual Competition is an illustrator competition sponsored by the Asian Illustrator Association. It is also the first grand event in the illustration field led by Asia. At present, it is widely praised and has great credibility and influence. Ilustrio International Ilustratio Competition held by Hilibrand has become one of the few heavyweight illustrators in the Asia-Pacific region and even the world, with strong credibility and influence, which is an excellent channel to enhance personal brand and influence. 16. British EV&A Illustrator Award The EV&A Illustrator Award is an illustration contest founded by Victoria and Albert Museum, which aims to award the best illustrator of the year, but requires that the illustrator Bi Xi must live in the UK, or the entries have been published/published in the UK this year. 17.Bradis international illustration biennale award Bradis international illustration biennale award is the earliest and largest non-commercial illustration award in the world, but the works to be submitted are published works, and corresponding books need to be provided and nominated by relevant organizations in various countries. Therefore, this competition is demanding, and it is also the highest and most important exhibition and award in the field of illustration. These competitions are influential and suitable for illustrators with high level of illustration. For some beginners or illustrators whose illustrator attainments have not reached the corresponding level, in fact, they can enhance their influence through other channels, and at the same time they can earn a certain income to support their interests and skills. Third, to create a high-profile personal IP To be honest, the most lasting way for illustrators I can think of is actually to be a personal brand. Because I am personally a practitioner and beneficiary of personal brands, I have always supported skill realisers to be personal brands. Because this is the most lasting way to realize. How to build a personal brand? In fact, the two mentioned above are one of the ways, because becoming a signing author of the corresponding platform or winning the grand prize of the corresponding competition is actually an effective endorsement and an excellent way to enhance personal influence. So how do you accumulate fans? In fact, for illustrators, whether they are beginners or illustrators with certain accomplishments, sharing is the best way to accumulate fans. Share your illustration learning process to various platforms recommended by the algorithm, such as Little Red Book, Zhihu, Mile Mile, Weibo, Tik Tok, Today Headlines, etc., and the system will automatically distribute your works or learning process to interested people. When your content is high-quality dry goods, it will naturally attract a group of people with the same frequency to follow. In addition to earning the cost of the platform (some platforms publish content with income), when your illustrations are seen by people with a heart, there may be higher quality cooperation, such as book illustrations and commercial illustrations. For sharing this piece, my personal suggestion is to divide it into three pieces, one is your finished work, the other is the record of the whole illustration completion process, and the last one is about the dry goods sharing in the process of learning illustration. To have the continuity and accumulation of content, you can't do one thing in the east and another in the west, so that others can see the strength of your personal IP at a glance and adhere to the useful principle. Building a personal IP is a long-term process, and it cannot be done overnight. Don't think that the content within 10 will be very popular. In fact, when you continue to send dozens or even hundreds of articles, a lot of things will naturally come. For example, we recently made a little red book, which accumulated about 3K fans in a month and got 45,000 likes, but in fact, I was still lazy and only sent less than 20. Platform summary: 18. Little Red Book 19. Zhihu 20. Bili Bili 2 1. Weibo 22. Tik Tok 23。 Today's headline 4. The ability of illustrators, WeChat official accounts, Weibo and other channels to learn to search and integrate resources can help you do many things, but many people often don't have this ability. Searching for the corresponding keywords in Illustration Group, WeChat official account, Weibo, sogou and other channels will actually lead to many unexpected things. In fact, what I want to give you is not the specific channel, but the ability to search. You can try to search the corresponding keywords on the corresponding platform, and there will be a lot of useful information and many manuscripts about illustrations. Search for the keyword: illustration on the corresponding platform, for example, directly search for the keyword: illustration on WeChat, and you can search for the corresponding learning and submission platform. Corresponding platforms: 24. Wechat 25. Zhihu 26. Little Red Book 27. Penguin 28. Weibo 29. Sogou, what needs to be reminded here is that there are many platforms, and you need to have certain screening ability. When docking with other resources, we must pay attention to fraud prevention, which I will write clearly at the end of the article. 5. Find an illustrator on Witkey website. There will be many design requirements on Witkey website, which is actually a good choice for illustrators. You can directly search the corresponding keywords on the corresponding platform. Maybe many babies will find it very troublesome and need to do so many things. In fact, in my opinion, these are all things that must be done by a willing heart, and they are all pre-things, which have a great impact on the post-income in the later period. Corresponding platform: 30. Pig Bajie 3 1. Yipin witkey 32. Direct employment in Mi Dou. Zhaopin recruitment 35. Deer 17, 16, Taobao or salted fish orders, in Taobao or salted fish to do face painting, design trademarks and cultural and creative peripheral products (such as book illustrations, many writers need). Uploading the Yan characters made by our own illustration technology on the "WeChat emoticon open platform" can also increase income through appreciation. Of course, when making facial expressions, we should still combine hot spots with skin, so that users and communication will be stronger. Seven, material accumulation and learning methods Material accumulation and learning methods are also the contents that I must share in every article. Why? Because I think it is very necessary to learn the promotion skills in the early stage, because it is necessary to be hard to strike while the iron is hot. Corresponding materials and learning platforms: 36. Graffiti kingdom 37. Stand cool 38. Petals 39. Petal net and sugar pile community are mainly used for material accumulation, so you can pay attention to some big V's and enrich your material library by collecting high-quality materials compiled by them. Material accumulation is very important. 40.ArtstationArtstation's style is biased towards conceptual style, European and American style and punk style. Most of them are foreign painters, which is a good place to accumulate materials. 4 1.Pinterest is suitable for beginners and low-level illustrators to improve their skills. Many excellent designers will focus on the theme of the project, from the aspects of project requirements, design problems, illustration techniques and so on. Other illustrators can see the whole process of creating a complete project by some senior and high-quality illustrators, which is of great benefit to the improvement of personal illustration skills and design thinking. Is the world's largest photo social sharing website. Its main purpose is: it can be used to search for pictures with specific themes, and the recommended pictures are accurate and interesting. People with poor English can use Google Translation to help search, and the pictures are of high quality, which can be the same as the accumulation of materials. 43, 44, Zhihu 45, Xiaohong wrote: 1 at the end. The realization through illustration skills is achieved through our own skills, but at the same time, we need to sign a contract with Party A, which is helpful to safeguard personal rights and interests; When signing a contract, you must read the terms of the contract carefully. For unclear or unclear places, it is necessary to formulate them in detail. It is best to find a lawyer who understands the corresponding regulations to help with the audit; Generally, the payment process should be stipulated in the contract, such as what proportion of fees should be paid after the content is finalized, what proportion of fees should be paid after the quantity is completed, and how long it will take to pay all the fees after all the work is completed; 3. Pay attention to communication with Party A during the cooperation. More communication will help both parties to coordinate their opinions, make their works more in line with Party A's design requirements, and avoid many unnecessary troubles. Pay attention to more communication, more communication and more communication; 4. Talking about cooperation on any platform is dealing with people. Naturally there will be all kinds of things. Be careful not to get rich overnight, adhere to the principle of labor value, pay attention to the safety of personal property, and don't be cheated. After all, it is hard ~5. Sharing more, delivering more value and interacting more may hurt some people's dream of "moving in three months and earning more than 10,000 yuan a month". In view of this problem, I believe that all readers present here will have a profound voice, which many people want to know .. We will analyze the root of the problem step by step. First of all, where does the income of an illustrator come from? Most people will answer "painting, of course ... painting is my profession, and I am running for love!" " "People who know a little better will answer" nothing more than going to work in the company or outsourcing, or a combination of the two ". Well, you're all right ... most people should tend to contract packages, but on a certain platform on the Internet, there are 200 portraits, 2000 Japanese illustrations and 25 cartoons, and the promotion of beautiful women directly exceeds 10,000. Is it really that simple? At the beginning of the year, because the company had just received a whole package project of foreign games, but at that time, the work was piling up and friends around me had other projects at hand, so they posted some relatively easy-to-achieve work on the platform. A total of more than 60 people signed up, and only 3 people met our requirements. Others are either inappropriate in style or slightly inadequate in level. There are two real problems: 1. In the circle of digital painting, outsourcing, especially as the main income channel, is obviously a state of insufficient supply. 2. Most companies, with valuable high-premium outsourcing, will try their best to digest it themselves or transfer it to people around them to earn some recommended price difference. If the premium is low, there will naturally be corresponding applications, and the demand is not obvious. In order to prove this point, I also asked some friends in the industry that Company A (mainly making comics, and now three comics are being serialized) has a clear post plan. In addition to the comics produced by our company, we sometimes touch the whole package of some comics, and basically do all the projects that we can digest. Employees occasionally work 996 hours, with an average overtime of 40 hours a month. The most important thing is to let go of the inspection work, because it takes a long time, is low in difficulty and has a low premium. The general price is 15-25/ cell (excluding the platform diagram). If the level is acceptable, cooperation can be carried out privately for a long time, and there will be fewer middlemen who earn the difference. Company B has only a few art posts (mainly engaged in games and R&D), and the distribution channels have obvious relationship games, and the original paintings are outsourced. Generally, it is released to a reliable team or a specialized outsourcing company in the form of a whole package for production, and the production cycle is specified. As for the whole set, it doesn't matter much that it becomes several handbags in the hands of the painter who finally finished the manuscript. Anyway, there is an agreement, and compensation will be agreed if the production is not completed, but generally there will be no situation that it cannot be completed due. The storage company will plan Company C (in kind) according to its own production cycle. I remember the previous answer mentioned that a friend of mine went to a wine company to be their illustrator. Because of this relationship, I learned that their company usually designs illustrations on the outer packaging of wine, and the workload will be relatively relaxed. Basically, an artist can meet it, but many such entity companies, such as mouse pads, cups and snacks, have you got it? The so-called outsourcing on the platform is often low-premium, time-consuming, or some companies with unclear needs have sudden temporary needs, so there will be high-premium outsourcing, but this kind of outsourcing has unstable factors and it is difficult to become your long-term meal ticket. So those who think they have just left the society, with their painting skills that they think are ok, think about waking up in the early morning sunshine every day, making themselves a cappuccino, putting on headphones and playing a soothing music, gracefully turning on the computer to start their day's work and planning their long-distance trip next month ... According to my long-term observation and statistics, most of the illustrators who have just entered the company have an average income of 4 K. If you don't want to work in the company, you think you can accept orders more freely, and most of your income is around 3K. It is not only the problem of low outsourcing unit price, but the unstable source of the package. You said that if you have a full-time job combined with outsourcing, it's ok, but it's very hard, so sometimes you don't believe the advertisement of "becoming an original painter in three months and going abroad in one month" on Xiaopo's website. Just look at it. Bah ... Is illustration really a dead end? Many people are already confused when they see the above content ~ Who am I? What am I doing? Are you going to paint again tonight? So painting is really a dead end? Not necessarily. As you can imagine, drawing a circle is really like a pyramid. Inside the pyramid, there are people who have entered the industry. There are countless people who want to come in and look forward to the beautiful world inside. After all, escaping from society is the mainstream state. After four years, I don't like college majors. I suddenly feel that I have loved painting since I was a child and have extraordinary talent. Then give it a try, take a closer look, and find that nine out of ten people think the same way. When you surpass the same group of people, you successfully enter the pyramid and find that you are still at the bottom, surrounded by countless people in the same predicament as you. These people have no problem eating, but their lives are relatively tight. After staying at the bottom for 3-5 years, you find yourself familiar with the rules of the industry, your ability has improved, and your personal network resources have stabilized. At this time, you can truly achieve economic independence without worrying about the first cup of milk tea in autumn. You don't need to worry about your daily life. As for the top of the pyramid, you will naturally understand it in the middle. Many times, in addition to your strength, you also need your self-packaging, opportunities and other factors. Where are illustrations generally used? Since you want to engage in this industry, you must first understand where your ability should be used, what company you can apply for, and who the outsourcing party will be. Illustration covers a wide range of types, including children's publications, commodity publications, story publications and so on. Now, due to the development of self-media, various official WeChat accounts and other self-media platforms have corresponding illustration requirements for articles, and the demand naturally increases. Some companies will set up special posts, and the salary is generally around 4-8K, depending on the size of the company, the comprehensive income of the city where you are located, and your ability. Because people are often attracted by visual things, the demand for product pictures is further enhanced. There are too many similar products, such as mobile phone cases, commodity packaging and so on. The post establishment is the same as above. If it is outsourcing, all kinds of prices are available. For example, many mobile phone cases like to use national illustrations, 500 to 2000, and some like to use simple cats 100 to 300. According to the specific picture requirements, advertising illustrations mainly include poster advertisements and web advertisements, and the specific classification depends on customer needs. \ Design visual presentation for the front end of games or film and television works, and transform words into visual graphics, which is convenient for modeling colleagues to make. Generally, there will be more original painter positions specially set up for games or film and television companies, and few companies will set up original paintings alone. First, the artistic style of the game needs to be unified, which requires the main beauty to unify the design style and color system, which is set by the following original painters. Second, there will be more repeated revisions and communication. If outsourced, real-time communication will be more difficult, and the 4-6K cycle of game projects will be more urgent: the original painter (role/scene) is second-line.