Because I am not very clear about this industry, I look at this matter from a non-professional point of view. When it comes to commercial illustration, everyone will be familiar with it, especially in recent years, with the rapid development of online sales, e-commerce and technology co., Ltd., the market of commercial illustration has expanded rapidly, and the demand for illustration is increasing! Judging from the development trend of illustration in the past century and the internet environment, the market demand for commercial illustration will only grow in the next decade, and the demand will grow!
Whether a thing can last for a long time depends on whether the gratitude feedback from environmental factors and internal environment is excellent. The external environment refers to whether painting illustrations can bring you the most ideal income, social recognition, career growth, self-worth recognition and so on. The internal structure is itself, and its own talent, layout and long-term development, including physical health, may affect the outcome of this problem. If it can develop continuously and steadily, it can naturally be a lifelong career.
It should be good. This is a new industrial chain in recent years. The development prospect is good, and the prospect of commercial illustration is still very good. At this stage, the illustration industry is still quite blank abroad, and talents are urgently needed. An optimistic speculation says: "Business service illustrators will be far ahead in the future 17 emerging industries, and they will become high-income people like big-name stars, carbonyl α ⒖ hairstyle engineers, fashion designers and other occupations. Business service illustrator is an urgently needed talent in the field of computer graphics, which is widely used, such as the role setting of mobile games, the design of advertising posters, the design scheme of cartoon mascots, and the release of illustration pictures.
Commercial illustration liberates traditional artistic creation from paper and pen, and achieves the best visual impact according to a computer and a hand-drawn board. The key is to have a good idea of "going left and going right". This is a love story that only takes you ten minutes, a book with no more than 1000 words, and a book with more pictures than words. Its success unexpectedly made this walk-on illustrator popular. Better illustrators are not always trained, and the most important thing is to have good creativity in order to express the intention of the business incisively and vividly. If you want to study business, you can also go to a special training institution to study. Things like China Illustration Network have their own training institutions. See more for yourself.
Is illustration easy to learn? Is it difficult to learn? What is the prospect of illustration industry? First, the illustration industry will not treat you badly.
At present, the market for illustrators is still very scarce. As long as you have the strength, finding a job is not a problem. Before looking for a job, you should practice your skills and lay a good foundation for your promotion. It doesn't matter if the salary is lower at first, it's important to improve yourself at first. When you are really mature, salary will not be a problem. It is very understandable that you can't always generate electricity for love and study illustrations for life. Below I will explain the industry prospect of illustration in detail, and also give you a reassurance. Just learn, and the illustration industry will not treat you badly.
Second, I want to make an appointment with you. I hope you can have a great teacher.
If you teach yourself completely? Do you think you can learn well?
You go online to pull information everywhere? Do you think you can learn?
Are there any illustrations? Can you handle it yourself?
However, if you have a master to take you, do you have a feeling of hope in learning illustration? Yes, when we first learned illustration, the easiest thing to give us hope was an awesome teacher. We have a great teacher as our teacher, and we are particularly confident in our hearts. Although we can't do anything, we are always at a loss and have inexplicable confidence. So the best prospect of learning illustration is to have a good teacher to take you.
Of course, students may be worried about not finding a good teacher. The theory is like this, but the reality is very skinny. It doesn't matter. I'll introduce you to an online illustrator. He will make a free live broadcast on the Internet at eight o'clock every night, and many people on the Internet will listen to it because it is very humorous and easy to understand. It sounds very enjoyable and makes people feel that their brains are wide open. Students who want to study can go to Yu Rou's external mind (homophonic): the front group is w9, and the back group is Kaka. Just combine the above two groups of letters in order. Smart people know how to absorb the essence of others and use it for me. Don't wait any longer, start your way of illustration learning.
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Illustrator liberates the traditional painting art from paper and pen, and achieves the best visual effect through a computer, a graphic tablet or an ipad. The strong demand of advertising, media, film and television, animation games and other industries makes commercial illustrators a very scarce talent in the design industry. The market can be said to be in short supply, and wages are of course rising. It also makes commercial illustrator one of the most potential and "money" occupations in the future. Commercial illustrators are known as "golden rice bowls".
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Any occupation is to support the family by meeting a certain demand and then getting paid. The same is true of illustrators. Before learning to draw, it is best to start with the illustration industry and get to know the general situation of this circle. In this way, we should start from the European and American environment where the market is mature and standardized, and credit is guaranteed. In fact, the circle of people also has its own operating mode, such as not charging by the piece, but timing.
(1) The minimum hourly wage of American imperialists is $7.25 (for reference). In western society, high-paying jobs are nothing more than doctors, lawyers and corporate executives. The hourly wage of surgeons with knives is $ 175-285. What is the painter's income? The specific hourly wage ranges from $25 to 100. The average price of the whole illustration is about $65,438+000-500. Need a higher cover, the price will be more than 2000 dollars. More specifically, for example, detailed, complicated and demanding illustrations used for publicity may rise to several thousand dollars. In fact, it is already difficult to evaluate here. Different project requirements, different levels of artists, and different personal efficiency, but usually the faster you draw, the higher your income. For example, if people ask you to finish it in 10 day, you don't have to paint for 12 hours every day. In an environment where you are paid on time, you will definitely get more money.
(2) Illustrators don't have jobs every day, and the salary is not that simple. Strictly speaking, efficiency, level, style, education, etc. It's all useless The only standards in the industry are works and qualifications, especially the latter. What projects have you participated in? What did you show? What are the specific responsibilities? This is the key to determining income. In short, the "average annual salary" of game painters in Europe and America is around $50,000.
(3) As for freelance illustrators, they just wait for the job and do it when it comes. I ask you to draw something, you dawdle for ten days to submit the manuscript, pass the acceptance, calculate the money and settle the bill, and the guest officer walks slowly. Freedom of working hours and attitude, such as bumper harvest in the first half of the year and laziness in the second half; For example, gay friends mixed a big job and then divided the rain and dew;
(4) Most painters started their careers from freelance illustration. Just waiting for work may not have so many lists. So it is better to enter the company. The game industry has always been one of the big consumers of illustrations.
On the basis of working for five nights, I am glad to see my body swelling.
(1) Unlike the aforementioned European and American markets, commercial illustration started in China around 2000, when the game industry in Chinese mainland was not an industry at all. There are American and Japanese game predators outside, and there are scattered CDs inside, so the situation will not be mentioned. People who can mix game illustration and conceptual design are rare.
(2) Around 2005, many commercial illustrations gradually matured. The wooden bridge of online games has made many painters find their goals. There are also some people who are connected to the European and American markets through the internet and can receive thousands of dollars of jobs. But most people don't know the market environment of others, and there are not a few foreigners who have been cheated. Only a few lucky people can really participate in the production process of European and American game manufacturers.
(3) Around 2065438+00, while online games, page games and social games flourished, smart phones also began to explode. Based on this platform, an unprecedented game market followed, and the domestic game market was instantly ignited. Smart phones and related applications have given birth to the demand for illustration art, which is the really fierce demand gap. Since then, full-time, part-time and freelance illustrators are willing to work hard, with tens of thousands of dollars a month.
Fourth, the income of illustrators.
(1) Monthly income of 4,000 yuan: Can you draw an excellent cover illustration every week?
If you can, you can try to find a magazine or weekly magazine with a cover of 1K or so. If four magazines sign contracts at the same time. After two months, your payment income will be stable at 4K per month.
(2) Monthly income of 8,000 yuan: Can you master a variety of mainstream painting styles and be familiar with comics, illustrations and advertising illustrations?
If possible, sign contracts with magazines and publications, and sign contracts with animation, games and advertising companies to do external illustrations. After two months, the income stabilized at 8 K.
(3) Monthly income 15000 yuan or more: can one third of the income be used as social expenses?
If you can, you can contact the heads of TV stations, film and television companies, film crews and event planning companies to establish cooperative relations and promise business commissions. After half a year, the income will be stable above1.5w.
(4) Monthly income of more than 20,000 yuan: Can you run a large-scale project and pay the start-up fee in advance?
If you can, you can find a planning project or company to cooperate with. Active income is high, but it is also risky. However, it is easy to earn more than 2W a month.
Can I be an illustrator all my life?
There is no denying that the painter's career will fluctuate under the influence of the market. But the life span of a painter can actually be very long. Many people will say that being older is not as good as an intern who just graduated. They can stay up late to catch up.
In fact, the more experienced painters, the higher the efficiency, the more recognized by customers, and the higher the pass rate of project completion. Some popular painters have even become well-known brands of the company and become one of the core competitiveness of the company. Especially those painters with high influence in the circle, their appeal even far exceeds the value of the works themselves.
Can an illustrator work all his life? To take a step back, in fact, after the painter retires from the first-line work, he has rich project experience, and can also control the quality of art for the company, guide new people, participate in planning and so on. You can also independently develop, open studios, hold training courses, hold art exhibitions, publish personal collections, sell the copyrights of your own works, and so on. As long as your work is recognized by everyone, you can do it for a lifetime.
Can an illustrator work all his life? As long as you really like painting, you should boldly devote yourself to this industry. As long as you really paint and polish your work, painting won't let you down.
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 can be seen everywhere on different service platforms, and most of them can be judged as 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 match, you can make 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?