WOMANKIND INTERNATIONAL ISSUE 22 - To Illustrate or not to illustrate?

Womankind’s inaugural Art & Illustration Award was held in 2019 and received hundreds of entries from artists from around the globe.

The theme was ‘flower’, to which I submitted my entry ‘Daisy’, which made the final 5. This experience formally introduced me to illustration, helping me gain confidence in this forte.

I subsequently illustrated for a few magazines, but realised this type of work (freelance) wasn’t for me. So what could you learn from my experience? Well, of course, everyone’s different. But my main takeaways of professional illustration work as a neurodivergent person;

-Communication can be a problem. If people don’t come back to you re questions when you’re waiting to move on with work, then it’s a waste of valuable time, especially with deadlines looming

-Roughs don’t mean roughs. They mean produce something that’s ready to publish, or to the standard of work you sent in

-Money in the beginning can be terrible, more on that in a later blog