Hi @kirsten-mcg, thank you for sharing your feedback! Regarding your examples, I’m definitely in the “persistent” category!

Sometimes people will tell me, “Wow! You have so much talent! What are you doing in construction? You should be an artist!”

My response:

“Thank you so much for your kind words! Construction is paying the bills, one day Art will hopefully do the same. ☺️”

What I lack in raw talent, I’m trying to make up with hard work, resilience, grit, persistence and a ‘never give up’ attitude!

This community is helping tremendously with that.

This might sound weird, but I like the humorous art memes on IG and enjoy remixing them with my art.

@Laurel-Aylesworth-0 thanks for the heads up! Gonna check this out.

Last year, right before lockdown, I had a bunch of postcards printed that never got sent out, cuz ... you know! Posting digital postcards might help to get things going (or at least get me back on track with that aspect of marketing).

😊

Hey everyone,

So I was watching the "How to Make Money in Illustration (Part 1)" video and it talks about one section of the children's book illustration market that Lee White refers to as the educational section of publishing companies. He says how the pay is poor and it is "work for hire" but it is a more easy way to break into the market and get some work published.

I think I'd like to take this path, but can't find much info on how to start submitting to that market. (I found an article here, but it is catered to writers, not illustrators.)

Does anybody have any experience, info, suggestions, or thoughts on this?

Thanks,

~Shams