Thursday, November 15, 2007

Advice for building a career as a freelance artist and/or paid cartoonist by Dave Roman

Illustrator Dave Roman (that's him on the left, in his room, on his bed, drawing comics, with the inspirational images of Batman, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes and a Bloom County Anxiety Closet in the background) offers a mountain of good, solid advice about becoming a person who draws professionally.

There's a lot of good stuff here. I'm still reading it -- and will have to reread it to digest everything. I was nodding my head in agreement a couple of times, particularly the "learn PhotoShop" and "get a business card" tips Dave passed along.

Thanks for spending the time to do this, Dave!

Link via Dirk Deppey's Journalista! via Drawn! via Flight. (Poor flight has no exclamation mark in its moniker.)

4 comments:

David King said...

Thanks a lot for pasing along this link. Great info I wouldn't have seen otherwise!

dave roman said...

good job catching the Bloom County reference!
:D

Mark Anderson said...

Looks like I got some reading to do.

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There ya go, Flight. Enjoy!

Mike Lynch said...

Dave R., it was great to see this go viral. So much good advice in one place!