{"id":23596,"date":"2023-09-29T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=23596"},"modified":"2023-09-27T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:07:19","slug":"industrious-illustrating-41-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/09\/29\/industrious-illustrating-41-another-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrious Illustrating #41 &#8211; Another Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome back to year 3 of Industrious Illustrating, which means a new header image! I&#8217;m going with a new header image look this year to reflect my growth and evolving identity as an artist. Each header image shows off some of the works I&#8217;m the most proud of making in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of other changes, I&#8217;ve been thinking recently about what I want this school year&#8217;s Industrious Illustrating columns to look like. Ever since I started selling art at anime cons over a year ago, more and more of this column has focused on conventions and upcoming events I&#8217;m doing. Just talking about these events in announcements isn&#8217;t the most riveting blog material, so I thought about how to make my experiences more interesting and unique as content.<\/p>\n<p>I then decided that I&#8217;ll be putting a greater focus this year on writing about the ins and outs of being a freelancer and selling my art.\u00a0While I will still post about the artwork I&#8217;ve made recently and the processes that go into making art, I also want to bring my own experiences running a small business as an artist to the table for people who may be interested in making that jump to marketing and selling their creations for money.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the business topics I plan on addressing with this year&#8217;s Industrious Illustrating columns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Profit margins<\/li>\n<li>Different types of art products<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;marketing funnel&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Different types of art fairs\/conventions<\/li>\n<li>Fanart vs. original art<\/li>\n<li>Commission invoices and finding clients<\/li>\n<li>How much does a social media following matter?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And much more! I&#8217;m also up for doing columns about topics suggested in the comments on my posts, if anyone has questions or wants me to elaborate more on any of the topics I&#8217;ll talk about this year. Anyway, I hope you guys will continue to follow along with this blog column this year even now that I&#8217;m moving slightly to a new focus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome back to year 3 of Industrious Illustrating, which means a new header image! I&#8217;m going with a new header image look this year to reflect my growth and evolving identity as an artist. Each header image shows off some of the works I&#8217;m the most proud of making in the past few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2255,"featured_media":23610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23611,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596\/revisions\/23611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}