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Anyone have some good tips? 1/ https://twitter.com/jeffwillisart/status/1326649965750333441
From this Litebox member's persp. (formerly editorial, currently animation) ALL of the platforms are bunk & you usually have to sign away all rights just to even see the jobs available 2/
Creative temp agencies like Creative Circle or Contently pay decent, but getting work is rare/cattle call style. You sign away all rights, but it gives you access to markets, (like drawing for a corp powerpoint no one will see) that you otherwise couldn't access w/out them 3/
Honestly, the best route is to find designers, art directors, & producers at creative agencies or media companies that hire work you like or work that is similar to your own. Look them up on LinkedIn, use an email hunter extension to find their COMPANY email 4/
& shoot them a personal email w/ 1-3 of yr best images (inline), a link to your site (not your social), saying
"Hi, I'm [your name] I dig your work on [x project] I've attached some work I did for [x project]. Would love to collaborate if the right fit comes up. " 5/
"Hi, I'm [your name] I dig your work on [x project] I've attached some work I did for [x project]. Would love to collaborate if the right fit comes up. " 5/
Don't worry if you don't have any commercial clients in your portfolio. While that's helpful *EVERY WORKING ARTIST* got their first job based on personal work & oftentimes even late into your career personal work will net you more jobs than some lifeless drawing for a big bank 6/
you may ask Why do I need a real site? Why can't I just link to my IG? - Bc the MF with money making the decisions are often boomers & even if the AD is your age they might have to make the case to these geezers to hire you & suits wanna see a website, not yr tiktok 7/
They're wondering if it's SAFE to give their money to an internet stranger & if that stranger spent a little money on building a site instead of having the same free social media page everyone's uncle has, it shows them yr a safe(r) bet. That you're invested in yr trade. 8/
It's also a numbers game. You wanna put together a list of 100-300 (many artists have far more) designers you like & routinely send them work. It is not uncommon to not hear back from these cold emails & oftentimes you have to email people for YEARS before they hire you 9/
It's all part of the process. You have to trust that your work is getting better & that it WILL get in front of the right person. Reaching out 4x a year is a good frequency or AT MOST every 6 weeks. 10/
It's not an exact science, but if you keep at it, you'll start to get work, start to build relationships & years later you'll look at your list & there'll be 5-10 people on it that you KNOW you can rely on getting work from 11/
People will change jobs & yr 10 reliable people will fluctuate- but if yr consistently on time, fun to work with & take an interest in these designers as your co-workers & colleagues, (maybe they don't have a gig, but how are they doing?) you'll have regular work in yr inbox 12/
YMMV -This is not the official Litebox path, as we're a collective in a wide range of commercial art industries, but this path has worked for me. Take what ya like, leave the rest. Happy to answer q's. Your path will be unique in its own way & that's part of the fun. 13/
Hope this is helpful & if anyone else would like to share how they find work, I think it'd be great to see all the different winding paths folks can take to a commercial art career
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