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There are a variety of aspects to freelancing as an artist. Subcategories are listed below.
Figure
out what area you are interested in (see the section on different
areas of the field).
- Check out all of the relevant societies
and guilds to find out more about the field.
Looking through their web sites will help you to figure out what seems like an interesting career direction and what does not.
Do you need more education? Visit the education
section to find out what your educational choices are.
Do you have a client base? See the getting
started with a business section.
Once you have answered the above questions and are ready to get into
business, you will want to develop a style. Developing a style of your
own is very important. It makes you look experienced, and it calms customers.
(Customers don’t want to guess at what you will give them; they want
to know that the illustration you make for them will look exactly like
everything else you do.)
There are different ways to develop a signature style – you can work
with similar colors, similar mediums, etc.
Some science illustrators work in traditional styles
such as scratch-board or watercolor.
You can read about these techniques, from the experts in each technique,
in The
Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration. This book is excellent,
and is also fairly expensive. A much less expensive book that discusses
illustration styles is The
Encyclopedia of Illustration Techniques. This book is not specific
to scientific illustration, but it is a great sampling and investigation
of styles and techniques.
Other illustrators create their illustrations with computers
by either pushing pixels with Adobe
Photoshop or by working with the vector based program Adobe
Illustrator or Corel
Draw , or a 3d program such as 3d
Studio Max or Maya.
Read more about the available software in the
illustrator's software section.
Linking information
Title: Medical Illustration
URL: http://biomedical-illustration.com
Description: Information for scientific illustrators, medical illustrators,
graphic designers that specialize in medical content, and those who
hire them.
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