Where does Fashion Illustrator work?
The work of a fashion illustrator can be divided into 4 specializations:
1 option: classic
Fashion Illustrator draws sketches and sells them to designing companies, brands or glossy magazines.
Designers can use sketches to design advertising catalogs, lookbooks, their social networks, and even to print designs on their clothes.
Glossy magazines buy illustrations to publish them on the pages of the magazine.
Usually they pay from 50 to 200 euros for 1 illustration.
2 option: advertising
Today, many companies buy photos and illustrations for their websites, brochures, offices and banners. They buy such illustrations at special stocks. A fashion illustrator can sell his work on international stocks and make money indefinitely. His illustrations can be bought an infinite number of times.
3 option: clothing designer
Any successful fashion designer is a good fashion illustrator. Simply because it is important for a designer to convey his thoughts and ideas in clothes. Illustrator skills are especially important for those designers who work in large companies. The designer draws fashion sketches half of his working time.
4 option: stylist
There are stylists and image consultants who use illustration skills for their clients. First, they use illustrations to design their social networks. Second, they include creating illustrations for clients in their wardrobe services.
Working as an illustrator: at home or in the office?
Fashion illustrator jobs are mostly freelance work from home. You can work from anywhere in the world just having access to the Internet.