The archive · 6 letters · 2018 – 2019
Life and art tips
from a freelance illustrator
An archive, kept word for word: the road to illustration, the kinds of work illustrators do, art school plain-spoken, and what starting a comic taught her about the internet. The journal didn't stop — it moved behind the Print Club door.
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IT Guy & Art Girl comic book is coming!
Big studio news: IT Guy and I got married in January, and our comic IT Guy & Art Girl is becoming a real book — plus what I think of the new bilingual comics.
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New comic and how to deal with haters
I posted my new comic ITGuyARTgirl everywhere and met my first haters. What the internet taught me about trolls, criticism, and focusing on your fans.
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Illustration Career
To Art School or not to Art School
Is art school worth the fee? An honest look at the pros and cons of art school versus teaching yourself illustration, drawn as a climb up a mountain.
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Illustration Career
The Art of Applied Art (aka. the types of work illustrators do)
Fine artists sell art in a gallery; illustrators sell art as a service. A guided tour of the kinds of work illustrators do — books, ads, film, packaging, games.
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Earlier entries
The journal didn't stop
Bonnie now writes about her own work, ideas and studio life on Patreon — sketches, process and print-club news, posted as it happens. These six letters stay here as the record of how it all started.
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