tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590091202943937222024-03-13T03:09:01.401-07:00Kim Herbst - IllustrationKim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.comBlogger497125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-64236431002475923012020-03-29T19:50:00.002-07:002020-03-30T21:31:01.104-07:00Art Student QuestionsEvery once in awhile I get a student that asks the 'ole <i>How to Be An Illustrator</i> Student assignment questions. Not gonna lie, it's frustrating that I'm basically doing the job of what a college professor should be supplying at an Art learning institution. It's a lazy assignment, and students should call out the professors for making professionals take time out of their lives and careers to do an educator's job.<br />
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This particular person was sincere, and I don't know if it was actually the assignment so much as simply a message of I Need Help.<br />
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So I'll provide some things that have helped me personally and this can hopefully work as a FAQ that I can simply link to people to in the future. (I also answer a couple of those assignment questions in the FAQ section on my portfolio site here <a href="https://www.kimherbst.com/faq">https://www.kimherbst.com/faq</a>)<br />
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<b><span style="color: white;">- How did you get into illustration as a career (how did you go about getting jobs)?</span></b></div>
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I got into illustration over the course of many many years after graduating from college. I actually have a career in video games which helps me out financially (and hey this is okay! I don't know too many that do Freelance 100% full-time without teaching or some side job), so I do illustration on the side, either commissions, gigs from companies, or personal projects.</div>
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So, first and foremost every illustrator needs a well curated online portfolio. It should only have the best of the best of your pieces in it, usually 8-15ish is a good range. You can find lots of easy templates these days (vs the old days where you'd have to learn to code the site yourself and get lots of headaches...oof). Squarespace, Wordpress etc are great examples - You want the site to strictly be you, vs having something that isn't as curated like DeviantArt, or Tumblr (where someone can see your Favorites, followers, and so many other distracting things from your own work). The portfolio should show what you're capable of, and demonstrate what sort of work you're interested in illustrating for (ie: are you interested in editorials for magazines and newspaper articles? Or children's books? Or comics? etc).</div>
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From there, I create a promotional mailer like a postcard, with my name/email/site information on one side and a sample illustration on the other side. I'll get 100-500 cards printed up of the design, and then start to put together a list of addresses of Art Directors who work at places I'd like my work to be in (using a TON of google, as well as looking in physical books/magazines, which will list mastheads in the front, with an Art Director or Creative Director's name, and mailing address for their company). I make sure these companies and publishers are in line with my style of work (ex: I'm not gonna send my more comic/flat-graphic-looking art to a place that likes fully rendered super realistic Sci-Fi style-only art). This is pretty old school, but a lot of art directors still like the mailed postcard method. It's a physical piece of work that they can hold on to, pin over their desk, or keep on hand, compared to simply saving a website URL and forgetting about it. I used to do this a few times a year but now I'm lucky if I get time to do it 1x a year (too busy, too lazy!! Bad work ethic!) Outside of that, cold-emailing places can work, and then simply posting work to social media to get people to see your work and improve over time. I find it helpful to follow other professionals on Twitter or Instagram, they give a ton of insight into building your career from their own experiences.</div>
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Some sites that offer more information on this: </div>
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<a href="https://dearartdirector.tumblr.com/">https://dearartdirector.tumblr.com/</a> - Dear Art Director is a group of anonymous art directors who answer Illustration questions, and give honest answers. Incredibly helpful for illustration careers.</div>
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<a href="https://illustrationdept.com/podcast">https://illustrationdept.com/podcast</a> Illustration Dept podcast - can listen to some in-depth talks with professional illustrators </div>
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<a href="https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/">https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/</a> Hire An Illustrator - tons of info on how to hire artists, career advice, what royalties vs advances are, etc etc. This is also a service I've used in the past (paying a yearly or monthly fee) as HAI will send out promotional mailers or emails to potential projects with portfolios that the site runners feel would best suit the project. Tons of example portfolios to peruse through for inspiration, and generally get lots of good ideas/places where you can have your work published.</div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">- Did you find your degree useful when you applied for jobs or were contacted by clients? I have heard conflicting things about getting an art degree.</span></b></div>
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This is.... tough. I <i>do</i> genuinely feel my degree was immensely helpful, but MICA had classes that greatly prepared me compared to so many other Art institutions at the time. We had a senior year class that was dedicated to portfolio building, and creating the marketing promo material postcards I discussed above, as well as writing Illustration Contracts for jobs, and generally how not to get screwed over by clients. Not many other schools (at least when I graduated in '06) really focused on that, and it was terrifying to hear that, especially with how much higher education is costing these days. Another thing is, when I first graduated my drawing hand was NOT remotely where it is today, and I hadn't fully grasped the concept of Illustration as a whole until a few years after. So a lot of my drawing practice came-AFTER the school part, but the job-hunting prep was certainly useful.</div>
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School can be a great place to bounce ideas off others in the class, but it's mostly dependent on how much you put into it yourself. It's a two-way street, and sometimes we're really lucky and get an INCREDIBLE professor who can help hone our skills and guide us, and other times we get a professor that's just there for the paycheck and puts minimal effort in. It also is dependent on how many hours we dedicate to our craft. Talent can take you an inch but constant practice and hard work will get you to the other side of the universe in comparison (I say this as someone that took like 10 years to really get into her own stride). </div>
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I will say, there are SO MANY online resources for students these days though, that can be cost-effective. Skills share classes, Bobby Chiu's Schoolism (<a href="https://www.schoolism.com/">https://www.schoolism.com/</a>), Baltimore Academy of Illustration (<a href="http://www.baltimoreillustration.com/">http://www.baltimoreillustration.com/</a>), Ctrl Paint (<a href="https://www.ctrlpaint.com/">https://www.ctrlpaint.com/</a>) are just a few great online learning resources as examples. To adequately age myself, YouTube didn't even exist when I graduated college. Now we've got tons and tons of drawing techniques and process videos that we can take in and learn from, it's awesome. Even tutorial videos to learn new software (and software that now can be more cost efficient like Clip Studio Paint, or Procreate, etc instead of constantly relying on only Adobe products). </div>
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I can talk a bit about my video game career, because it's gone hand-in-hand with my illustration career. I got into games by rapidly learning how to do 2d animation in Flash (now known as Adobe Animate, and wow I feel old) along with digital artwork. That basically got me a step ahead of most other artists because it was one extra skill-set that not everyone had, and I was specifically hired full-time for it at my 2nd game job. I also thoroughly enjoyed it because I've always loved animation (but felt an entire career in animation would be incredibly daunting). This has evolved to me working full-time in Mobile games doing concept art, animation, and art direction, with 13 years of experience at this point. It's helped me learn how to work with others, not get offended if my work needs to be revised (NUMEROUS times), and do lots and lots of visual problem solving which helps in the Illustration career. </div>
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What I mean by visual problem-solving is say you're given an illustration job to create a particular sized digital banner, how do I go about making sure all of the basic information is presented so it's readable at its size? How do I go about making sure the composition is strong, and leads the viewer's eye around the entire piece, or how do I make sure the eye is drawn RIGHT to the area I want everyone to focus on? All of this gets done a lot while working in games, so I felt I could use it to help strengthen my illustration career as well, just making sure the two sides kept helping bounce off one another. </div>
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Draw, a <b><i>LOT</i></b>. Make sure to keep practicing, and make sure to use references. References are an illustrator's best friend!! A lot of non-artists got this weird issue with references and made artists think it was "copying" back in the day and frankly that's all wrong. </div>
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By references I don't mean just sit there and copy precisely what you see (that can certainly be helpful to make studies from, and that's okay), or make it look photographic-accurate. I mean, see how things look, or take photos of yourself if you need a specific pose, and use it as a <i>guide</i>. It helps to nail down how things work, like anatomy, or how fabric blowing in the wind looks vs how it drapes against something, how to make things look properly weighted in a space, and so on. Make sure you're working with believable perspective if it's got a background on it. Plan portfolio pieces out, make a couple different thumbnail sketches to figure out the layout of your piece, before diving into it completely. All illustration comes from the basics in drawing lessons, and flows out from there! </div>
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(One great illustrator, and someone I highly admire, Yuko Shimizu, shows all of her processes of her illustrations on her site, starting with the finished piece, and as you stroll right, you can see her different thumbnail sketch layouts, then the work she puts into making the entire thing <a href="http://yukoart.com/work/oscar-wilde-fairy-tales/#main">http://yukoart.com/work/oscar-wilde-fairy-tales/#main</a>).</div>
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Final advice is: Try not to get too defensive about your own work. I used to get very angry and give the excuse, 'but that's my style' when people would point out the weaker parts of my anatomy in my drawings. Instead I should have focused on simply improving my drawing hand, taking in the information, instead of trying to settle on 'my style.' I started using more reference, attending local figure drawing sessions, and improved the anatomy in my own work. </div>
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From my experience, you don't have to listen to <b><i>EVERY</i> </b>criticism that comes your way, but if you hear the same thing from like 5 people? I'd stop and actually listen, and take the time to practice improving that skill!</div>
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Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-5457198669375972232016-01-13T17:43:00.000-08:002016-01-13T17:43:07.298-08:00Bundyland - Willamette Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Had the opportunity of illustrating the cover for this week's Willamette Week newspaper up in Oregon, covering Ammon and Ryan Bundy - "Two devout Mormon brothers have created a fantasy camp for commandos in Eastern Oregon." Big thanks to AD Julie Showers for the job.<br /><br /><div>
You can read the article here: <a href="http://www.wweek.com/2016/01/13/bundyland/">http://www.wweek.com/2016/01/13/bundyland/</a></div>
Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-6840442406455469732016-01-09T17:40:00.001-08:002016-01-09T17:40:25.094-08:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />Happy New Year with a new you! Finally finished up that personal illustration.<br /><br />WITH A SPEED PAINT VIDEO TO BOOT. <a href="https://youtu.be/rQw6Wyv7ZOo">https://youtu.be/rQw6Wyv7ZOo</a><br /><br /><br />Some of you might know I’ve been dealing with Topical Steroid Withdrawal for like 2 years now (month 21 yay). I made a ton of progress, my skin isn’t nearly as terrible as it was this time last year. So here’s to shedding red skin, healing up, feeling better, and getting over this intense hurdle. My hands are still itchy but I’ve been feeling a lot better about drawing in general these last few weeks.Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-323495643856843852015-12-12T18:03:00.002-08:002015-12-12T18:03:44.743-08:00Grave of the Fireflies New process video and illustration up.<br />
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-86345565704811426082015-12-09T21:27:00.001-08:002015-12-09T21:27:41.562-08:00Horror Film Concepts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New work for a client that's pitching a horror film. Hopefully got the scary-enough part going on. Very fun to work on. Also - horror film concept art for the characters:<br />
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-7824482904147266682015-11-13T11:34:00.000-08:002015-11-13T11:34:25.357-08:00Indypendent - How Neocons Destabilized Europe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
New work for NYC's free paper, The Indypendent, for a political article about how neoconservatives destabilized Europe with their shouts of "regime change." You can read the article here - <a href="https://www.indypendent.org/2015/11/11/war-refugees-regime-change">https://www.indypendent.org/2015/11/11/war-refugees-regime-change</a></div>
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-14976278659714338342015-11-02T09:38:00.000-08:002015-11-02T09:38:06.546-08:00Colorado Springs IndependentTwo covers I had the opportunity to create for the Colorado Springs Independent, for their Best Of issues! The theme was Roaring 20s -<br />
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New speedpaint video for the upcoming Halloween season! This illustration is for a client's new album, and wanted it themed for the spooky holiday.<br />
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New illustration in progress, using Andrew Loomis's informal subdivision technique. I discuss it greater length on my Patreon page<br />
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-12141220104546963722015-07-28T11:18:00.000-07:002015-07-28T21:18:15.390-07:00PATREON<br /><br /><a href="http://www.patreon.com/kimherbst"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JIi-_RVNmmM/VbfGcwbC1GI/AAAAAAAAUPg/1ByUherF4s8/s640/patreonheader.png" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />I’ve started a <a href="https://www.patreon.com/kimherbst">Patreon Page</a>! </span><br /><br />What in the world is Patreon? Well there’s this handy<a href="https://youtu.be/V3wdE22QxHg"> video </a>you can watch of me, where I squint and wriggle my eyebrows a lot while I explain in the first 60 seconds. If you don’t feel like watching the video - Patreon is where people can support the creators they love.<br /><br />Basically I’ll continue to post artwork, including daily sketches, WIPs, illustrations etc, but now you have the option of supporting me, by donating as little as $2 a month (that’s like.. less than one fancy coffee a month) to see my artwork AND receive extra goodies, in the forms of drawing videos, art prints, mailed postcards of my illustrations, and more! <br /><br />It comes down to this: The more support I receive, the more I can give back to you! I’d truly appreciate any re-blogging or sharing of this - even if you are uninterested, perhaps your friends might be? Thanks, everyone! :)Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-16341912061784299922015-07-21T15:14:00.001-07:002015-07-28T21:17:50.720-07:00Some graphicsMaking some graphics for an upcoming project. Ignore these, please haha<br />
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-66145274107958618152015-07-16T17:30:00.003-07:002015-07-16T17:30:43.107-07:00Practice Editorial IllustrationI'm attempting to break into more editorial illustration. To do that, it's best for an illustrator to show Art Directors that they can do those things. Soooo I'm going to start making samples that would correlate to particular articles that didn't have an accompanying illustration.<br />
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In recent years, San Francisco's expensive (astronomically un-affordable) real estate has been getting scooped up by Chinese millionaires, while more locals are forced out of the city.<br />
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Accompanying article -<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/How-and-why-buyers-from-China-are-snatching-up-5924991.php" target="_blank"> http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/How-and-why-buyers-from-China-are-snatching-up-5924991.php</a></div>
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-66133059622071016822015-07-13T22:29:00.003-07:002015-07-13T22:29:57.023-07:00RIP Satoru Iwata<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />Imagine if Doraemon turned on Nobita's descendant and decided to go on a rampage in the past, to ensure he wasn't enslaved by the kid in the future.<br /><br />Doraemon's Revenge! - completed for "The Doraemon: Fujiko Fujio Tribute Art Show” at Q POP Gallery in Los Angeles, CA! This will be printed on wood board -15" x 10" for sale during the exhibition.<br /><br /><b>Q POP SHOP<br />128 Astronaut E S Onizuka St<br />Los Angeles, CA 90012<br /></b><br /><b>Opening Reception - July 25th<br />Show runs from July 25th to August 16th!</b>Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-8369730706307066482015-06-26T14:32:00.002-07:002015-06-26T14:32:46.059-07:00Marriage EqualityQuick illustration because of the news I woke up to this morning. Love wins.<br />
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-12268606833233884842015-06-16T20:08:00.000-07:002015-06-16T20:08:21.721-07:00Mobile Games<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br /><br />New personal illustration for this week - <b>‘Mobile Games’ </b><br /><br />I worked as an artist in mobile games for the last 5 years. I don’t have anything against them. There are very good ones and there are also bad ones. <br /><br />However, the rare emails sent in where a husband or wife is thrown out of their home because they couldn’t control their online spending for a game I worked on was extremely difficult to hear about. <br /><br />When creating a game, you always aim to create something fun but also don’t want to live on the streets, so you want your product to be lucrative. Sometimes people can’t control spending on games the same way as at a casino, or buying cigarettes/drugs, alcohol etc. <br /><br />It was very hard to come to terms with the fact that I’d drawn artwork for a product that caused a problem in another person’s home and as a result, it ended up taking advantage of their addictive personality. Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-64250482540283287112015-06-12T22:34:00.000-07:002015-06-12T22:34:07.522-07:00Bridge To Terebithia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New personal illustration for one of my favorite childhood books, <b>Bridge To Terebithia</b>. I actually never saw the Disney film made a few years ago, but maybe one day will get around to it.Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-13710821047032053212015-05-31T14:05:00.000-07:002015-05-31T14:05:12.523-07:00Thumbnails!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-40016316750165216792015-05-29T17:17:00.002-07:002015-05-29T17:17:50.395-07:00Fanart Friday - Mad Max Fury RoadFINALLY got to see Mad Max: Fury Road! Quickie fanart sketch because it was such a fun film.<br />
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<br />Kim Herbsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04911326854250208976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59009120294393722.post-35826648611408608742015-05-29T14:47:00.000-07:002015-05-29T14:47:02.869-07:00KARMIN!<br /><br />I had the VERY lucky opportunity to create some Tour Graphics for the band, Karmin, as well as illustrations for their upcoming album, Leo Rising! Huge thank you to a fan who caught a shot of Karmin on stage with my artwork from the other night :) you can follow her on twitter <b>@anjelaeileen</b> or <b>@maulinvora</b> on Instagram.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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