As part of the eighth day of 12 for 2010, we’re giving away a free copy of How to Be an Illustrator. Entering only takes a few seconds, since all you’ve got to do is leave a comment. Too easy.
The winner is:
Stephan at hilbelink.net
Thanks to all that entered!
Meet Ian Yates
Ian started out as a Vectortuts+ writer, and is now the Activetuts+ editor. He knows more than a thing or two about Flash, illustration and web design. He drew all the caricatures for the 12 for 2010 celebration, and is probably the only person to have seen photos of the entire Tuts+ team who also lived to tell the tale!
Win How to Be an Illustrator
About the Book
At last! Here is true practical help for budding freelance illustrators. This book helps you avoid the pitfalls that can ruin a career, with advice on crucial first impressions, how to create a portfolio and approach clients, how to negotiate contracts, and how to handle, deliver, and bill the first job. It discusses how to set up a studio, maintain a steady flow of work, and manage time and money. In addition, it provides information on successful self-promotion, self-publishing, and the pros and cons of agents.
Packed with useful tips gleaned from the author’s own career and his work as an agent handling major artists in the US and UK, the book includes interviews with nine big-name illustrators. The reader benefits from their experience of starting out; what they learned during the metamorphosis from student to professional; what their expectations and experiences have been. In addition, art directors and commissioners describe the ways they like to be approached and the ways they really dislike.
How to Enter in 10 Seconds or Less
For the chance to win a free copy of the book, all you need to do is comment. Make sure to include your correct email address with your comment so that we can contact you. This giveaway is open worldwide, but make sure to get your comment in before midnight on New Year’s Eve, Pacific Eastern Standard Time.
To increase your chances of winning something, make sure to enter again once on each Tuts+ site. There are 8 giveaways going on right now, each with another chance to win.
Please note: Envato staff and people who have written more than two tutorials/articles for a Tuts+ site are not eligible to enter.
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This book would totally help me!
woohoo
i do not need it so i hope i won’t win
LOL at above comment.
Good luck everyone!!
I would really love this book!
Trying to get into freelance technical drawing, so this book would be great !
I just started as a freelancer, so that book would be very handy!
info@nancyzonneveld.nl
Happy New Year to you! Thank you for all your work!
Great! I want to learn more!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Thanks Tuts+
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to meet you guys. It’s good to put faces…err illustrated faces with names.
Yeah, I would like to enter to win the book as well.
I am always trying to teach others how to use illustrator. This seems like the perfect tool.
one more great contest! I’m in
What a nice way to end the year!
Happy New Year!
Yes please.
Cool giveaway, count me in!
i wanttttt!
Great
Want it
fingers and rockets crossed
Who knows, so here goes!
This book is needed
to take away my freelance woes!
entered!
happy creative new year
…
I have commented.
Nice Book.
Happy New Year everybody and good luck!!
Regards!
Pretty please?…
happy 2010
Great book! Thanks..
YoH est dans la place !
Want it…
Looks like a superb book for a starter. We need it.
nice book
This would help me draw more than the lines between my dot to dots.
Looks like fun!
i will win…positive thinking!!!
15 years after spending a buh-zillion dollars studying illustration at the academy of art in s.f. and i haven’t figured out how to be an illustrator. i think i deserve this book WAY more than anyone else.
Looking forward to be an illustrator
Hope I’ll be one of the winners