5 Books Every Illustrator Must Read | Contracts Pricing Creativity Licenses & Illustration Agents

Hi everyone, In this video, I'm sharing 5 books every illustrator should read. I'm sharing the best books for illustrators written by great illustrators like Lisa Congdon, Simon Stern & Andy J. Pizza. This set of books are a great tool if you are starting your illustration career or you are already working as a professional illustrator. In this book, I find a lot of information that helps in regards to licensing your artwork, or how to price illustration work, no matter if it's for editorial illustration, advertising illustration, or packaging.
Each of the books I'm showing you guys will cover a specific topic, like the illustrators guide from Simo Stern, it's meant to give you a general idea on how the illustration business work, then you have the Graphic Artist Guild handbook on Pricing that goes deep into how much you should charge for your work.
You might have already a few of these books, but if you don't I highly recommend doing the investment and getting the one that resonates the most with you. In the video, I forgot to mention that at the end of the Artists Guild Handbook, you have a lot of contracts and license templates that can help a lot
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Books Mentioned in the video:
👉The Illustrator's Guide To Law & Business by Simon Stern (on Amazon): geni.us/5bGD
Published by the AOI (Association of illustrators): theaoi.com/
👉Becoming a Successful Illustrator by Derek Brazell & Jo Davies (on Amazon): geni.us/tPdZNV
AOI members (35% off) at theaoi.com/membership/discounts/
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Jo Davies: / jodaviesillo
👉Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines - 15th Edition (on Amazon): geni.us/lCIiZ
The Graphic Artist Guild: graphicartistsguild.org/
👉Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Signed by Lisa Congdon) geni.us/Ws9MM8u
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (on Amazon): geni.us/qzaOFbJ
Lisa Congdon: / lisacongdon | lisacongdon.com/
👉The Creative Career Path by Andy J. Pizza (on Andy's Etsy): geni.us/oomrVT
Andy J. Pizza: / andyjpizza | www.andyjpizza.com/
Andy's Creative Pep Talk (Podcast): www.creativepeptalk.com/episodes
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[@AsiaOrlando]

Hi guys! I highly recommend these books, it's a good investment if you don't have them. Every one of them is a great source of information! Let me know what you think!

[@belannastya]

Thank you so much for all your amazing work! Day by day i started my day with r channel ❤️

[@benjaminlyons5261]

Thank you so much for sharing this info. Will happily check these out and add them to the library.

[@MadeByKhani]

Thank you this video was really helpful! I was wondering I should price my work and I feel like these books will be really helpful. Going to watch your video about pricing now 😉

[@RohitHela]

Thank you for sharing this video. it is highly informative for young artists who want to enter the industry.

[@Aklime88]

Hello Asia, thank you for this episode. In general, since I found your channel, I really enjoy to be back to your vids. You have a very good quality content. Thanks to your videos I have a hope that I will manage to work as an illustrator one day. And that I will manage to do it while constructing my life abroad. For now, I need to work on my portfolio and then, I get into an action. Greetings from Poland. I'm heading to Amsterdam today ;)

[@sarahveloso8477]

Thank you for sharing this! I’ll definitely be checking them out.

[@AsiaOrlando]

Great Sarah! I really find those books useful :) hope they will help you as they helped me :)

[@turdnugget]

I'm binge watching your channel right now and I think I'm in love! 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for all the book recommendations, I never even knew legal books for visual artists existed.

[@AsiaOrlando]

thanks, there are really great books about that, this one is really comprehensive, really glad it helped!

[@margaritarakhmanova9024]

Hi! Thank you for your videos and information that you give. I’m really like your style and waiting for new videos 🤓

[@YadiAngelArt]

I love how informative and beautiful all these books were. They're all totally going on my Christmas wish list! 😆 Thanks so much for this helpful video!

[@AsiaOrlando]

Thank you so much 😊 glad you liked them .. hope they make it to the Christmas tree 🤗

[@yuting386]

Very helpful thank you

[@Tabibuch]

Asia, this video is so helpful! I've put all the books on my wish list (good for Christmas ;))

[@AsiaOrlando]

Thank you so much :) it’s going to be a nice Christmas treat 🤗

[@josepediatra]

Thank you very much. This is just what I needed!

[@AsiaOrlando]

So happy to hear that Jose 🤗

[@newflanged_]

Thank you!!!

[@TeapotTales_]

This video was very helpful, thank you so much for the recommendations. I will definitely purchase some of these books. 😊

[@AsiaOrlando]

So glad that’s helpful ... I know they helped me a lot :)

[@AAKZ]

Very helpful ☺️❤️

[@Gre_tel]

Imediadly ordered the Illustrator's Guide to law and business! Thanks a lot Asia:)

[@AsiaOrlando]

That’s a great book - extremely useful- and heavy :)

[@aat10Kyoko]

Thank you for sharing info on these books :-) I'm going to order them now. I have been in graphic design for 30 years and now it's time for me to move on.

[@AsiaOrlando]

Love all those books, so happy that helped 😊 all the very best

[@sandihester]

Great video and recommendations! I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos (just subscribed) - you do a great job with editing and filming - really nice channel!

[@AsiaOrlando]

Hi Sandi! Thank you so much, such a nice comment :) welcome 😊 I hope you enjoy my vids 🤗

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[@anasaric941]

thank you!

[@AsiaOrlando]

You're welcome Ana!

[@dinaraeva]

Thank You! This video was very helpful!

[@AsiaOrlando]

So happy that helped :)

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[@AsiaOrlando]

Thank you so much! Glad you liked it :)

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