#drawnanddrafted

[dearartdirector]

Hey DearAD readers! Just a note to let you know that Sunday night we’re hosting a casual artist chat to close out LightBox Expo. If you’re attending LightBox virtually you might see that it’s been super busy getting into events via the site, so you can register directly on our Crowdcast page now and make sure to save your spot. 

And do yourself a favor and take a look at the tons of past seminars/events we’ve hosted that have been recorded for view anytime, and follow the page to be notified about new events.

See you Sunday!

[dearartdirector]

Tonight! Join Mallory O'Meara, author, filmmaker, & co-host of the podcast Reading Glasses (WFH 7 years) and Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director of Orbit Books & Art Biz Educator at Drawn + Drafted & Make Your Art Work (WFH 3 days) in a discussion of best practices & tips for building a sustainable & productive work from home routine. Good for the newly quarantined as well as the career freelancer. Log in ahead of time and post questions, and chat will be live during the crowdcast. Will be recorded & available to watch immediately after.

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/so-youre-working-from-home

[dearartdirector]

I'm currently in charge of hiring for my department at an animation studio and i REALLY WISH i had the time to respond to 500+ emails with advice on how people can improve their portfolios. it's frustrating because i see potential but either their website design is hard to navigate, they didn't provide a website at all in their email, or they dont have common things we look for like anatomy studies. it feels like a failure to put art school grads out there without these common sense resources.

WE FEEL YOU. All of us are in the same boat. Most folks who are ADs or in a similar hiring-artist position really DO want to help artists, but we would drown and never get our real job done if we answered one person at a time. That’s why this Tumblr exists, and all the resources at Drawn + Drafted and Make Your Art Work. Art schools really should be teaching this stuff, but Art Biz Education is spotty at best. So our merry band of Art Directors are doing the best we can to spread reliable info from the people actually hiring artists. Feel free to refer all these folks to our free downloadable onesheets on gumroad. There’s ones on how to set up a portfolio, how to self-promote on social media, how to read contracts. etc.

P.S. If you ever want to answer questions here at Dear AD drop us a note! We’d love to have more folks weighing in from the animation biz!

—Agent KillFee

[dearartdirector]

Our dedicated team of secret agent Art Directors do their best to answer as many questions as they can here on DearAD, but do you ever wish you could get answers in real time? Well, we happen to have a community on slack full of professional artists who support each other and pool information and workshop answers. You can post new questions or search the archives for relevant threads.

Check out the Art Business Bootcamp Community Membership via our Gumroad page.

[dearartdirector]

If you've been thinking about joining our Art Business Bootcamps now is a good time to join us. Tues night at 9pm EST we're doing a brand new live Q+A session for all Bootcamp students. 

If you are already a member of the crew then log in now and post your questions now! http://ow.ly/G9Qs30or4Lw

[dearartdirector]

Let's start off 2019 right with a FREE discussion on how to navigate the world as a confident creative badass, led by Allison Cimino (CEO & Designer of RockLove Jewelry) Mallory O'Meara (Author, Filmmaker, & Podcaster) and Lauren Panepinto (Creative Director of Orbit Books & co-founder of Drawn and Drafted) Over our years of friendship we have helped each other through just about every stage of being a successful creative and we wanted to share all the tips and tricks and philosophies we've developed along the way. Our discussion will be led by YOUR questions. Check out the Questions area on the crowdcast page now now to post a question in advance or vote up your favorites. The questions and the live chat will be open during the crowdcast. This discussion will be from the POV of navigating the creative business world as a female-presenting person, but all gender expressions are welcome. And don't forget to subscribe to the @drawnanddrafted account on crowdcast so you don't miss the recordings of past & upcoming events.

TAKE ME TO THE CROWDCAST EVENT PAGE

@malloryomeara @rocklove @orbit-publishing

[dearartdirector]

Did you know we also write a blog at MakeYourArtWork.com? A lot of times we get great questions here that need a longer answer than we can handle on DearArtDirector, so we write longer posts there. We also make posts like the above every so often, when we’re noticing trends in the hundreds of questions we’re getting here.

There’s a ton of useful information on it, you should go check it out. We’ll wait here!

Also, don’t forget, Registration is open for our Art Business Bootcamps...but only until April 25th! Check out more info (including a handy FAQ) here!

[dearartdirector]

Thank you for answering people's questions in such detail! I really enjoy this blog and the work that you Mods put into it. Do you have any recommendations for other blogs/ websites similar to this one?

Thanks for the kind words. We put the time in because we really feel that this info needs to be out there. So many artists don’t get the career and business advice they need to be successful — even in art school! Our goal is to give artists the info they need to do all the self-promo and networking that’s critical to an art career as effectively as possible so they can get back to making more art!

That said, here’s the rest of the sites run by the same Secret Agent Art Directors of DearAD (some more secret than others):

Drawn + Drafted — the umbrella home page to all our educational projects

Make Your Art Work — our online classes 

The ProjectCast — our podcast with successful artist entrepreneurs

The Newsletter — sign up and hear about everything

we’re also on Twitter and Facebook

and then there’s also awesome places for art education:

Muddy Colors blog

Illustration Age resource page

SmART School, Pencil Kings, and Oatley Academy for more online classes

Advice on getting your personal projects produced and published at Art Order

That should keep you busy awhile!

—All Agents