Illustration artist, come here
Illustration artist, come here
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- ideaist1
1. Commercial Illustrator.
2. Their are quite a few; they're never "on" QBN because they're too busy working. http://arthurmount.com/ comes to mind.
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3. It's all about style; I've seen technical, great illustrators fail because they lacked style or tried too many styles. I've seen average illustrators succeed because they made their style relevant and in demand, or someone else did.
Illustration is commercial art, like advertising so the process is a little conflicted between expression and commercialization.
Godspeed Bennn!
- Just "illustrator." Don't need 'commercial' as a qualifier, it's implied.Gnash
- I know non-commercial illustrators.ideaist
- I've always heard them called 'artist' here. See: Art of the day or Fav Artist threads.prospect
- Artist is a loaded term, illustrator slightly less, and so on and so on...
...You are what you are.ideaist - Defining what you do is based on the business our fathers did, not the way we do things. It's not to appease ourselves, but to appease those in charge.ideaist
- </rant>ideaist
- If you Google illustrator you'll get more pertinent results though.prospect
- @ideaist -- what is non-commercial mean? I'd assume that was just an artist, no?Gnash
- @Gnash totally. So artist = non-commercial, illustrator = commercial artist.
Lolz @ technicalities.ideaist - So that would make Jeff Koons an illustrator?prospect
- prospect, that makes JK a hall monitor.doesnotexist
- I think Ben just wants to know what he should call himself in this context, "Illustrator" would be what he should use.Gnash
- "Commercial Illustrator" would look too 'ye olde shoppe' on a card or siteGnash
- My vote goes for "Illustrator" as well, no ambiguity there.prospect
- @doesnotexist
I guess your voice as a visual artist has more authority than mine.prospect - (not sure what the Koons reference meant - you don't think he's an artist, prospect?)Gnash
- Yes, of course he's an artist. I was just being a cunt about ideaist's
"So artist = non-commercial, illustrator = commercial artist." comment.prospect - Just a personal annoyance over the need to call illustrators artists. It's not a 'philosophical' issue for me just a practical matter of common definitions.prospect
- ah, get it.Gnash
- I love all y'all.ideaist
- “I love humanity but I hate people.”prospect