Category Archives: General News

Want To Win A Copy Of The Escape From Illustration Island ebook ’15 Steps To Freelance Illustration’?

It's competition time again and Thomas James, creator of the awesome illustration resource site 'Escape From Illustration Island', has been kind enough to give me 2 copies of his excellent new ebook '15 Steps To Freelance Illustration' as prizes to participants ...

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Promotional Mailers - Snail Mail Can Be Fun Again!

This is a guest post by illustrator and author Holly DeWolf As illustrators we know that promoting yourself is a daily event. If you're anything like me you are always thinking of new ways to create promotions. Typically we gravitate to the technological side of things. Your website, email, banner ads, pdf portfolios, LinkedIn, Twitter and the many ...

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Have You Joined The zero2illo Clubhouse Yet?

A couple of announcements... The Clubhouse My lovely wife has just set up the Ning forum site for zero2illo for us, so we now have a shiny new clubhouse to hang out in :) Click here to sign up. It's been set up so that I have to approve each member. That way we can keep those ...

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Meet Ciaee…

I'm very excited to finally announce and introduce the new zero2illo guest writer - please give a warm welcome to Ciaee. I've been a big fan of Ciaee's beautiful work ever since we connected through this blog and Twitter. So, when I ...

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2009 was the year that…

2009 has been the biggest year of my life so far with some big decisions made, finally taking some action, the life changing arrival of my beautiful daughter and the realisation that sometimes working towards your goals means working on something else entirely. The start of a new year is always a great time for reflection ...

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Back soon…

Apologies for the delay with this months newsletter and regular posting schedule - I have a good excuse though... My beautiful daughter was born by cesarean on 4th July and so I'm taking a little time off blogging for a week or two while my wife and I find our feet and welcome our precious new ...

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Going From zero2illo: Lessons Learned So Far (Part 2)

Following on from Part 1 of lessons I've learned since embarking on this journey from full time Graphic Designer to full-time Illustrator, lets dive straight into Part 2: 5: Ask Questions It's easy to be intimidated by those illustrators whose work and careers you admire - thinking that they wouldn't give you, a lowly aspiring ...

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