Schwab_Career

**1. Examples**
1. Zami

Zami is a popular online comic artist that got her start by drawing art of characters from different comics and television shows. Once she was well known and popular enough she brought about the idea of her own comic about the supernatural called "Basin Vale". Her art art is very cartoon-ish, but she still manages to keep her characters proportional and interesting with depth instead of surface-level blandness of common cartoons today.

2. The Gorrilaz

The Gorrilaz are a band that began in the late 90s. Instead of showing their faces they produced cartoon personas to act in place of them. The band's weird sounding music is paralleled in the strange characters that are developed in different music videos. For the most part, the art is the same as pictured above, but in some cases 3D models were used or a mix of animation and live action.

3. OFF

Created by Mortis Ghost as a college student in France in 2007, OFF was translated to English early last year and took off in popularity shortly after. OFF is a video game in which simple but horrifying art is used to depict mysterious characters that are developed very well, but very vaguely. Ghost used black and white with one or two neon colors to create a dark yet seemingly cheery world to interact in. The characters are diverse in personality but most of them seem a little nutty. (A sarcastic cat, a merchant that speaks directly to the game player, a baseball player bent on ridding the world of evil etc).

**2. Careers**
Illustration can be used in comics, animated films and shows, video games and live action television as well. Character designers will follow the script of the author, use literary techniques to add in clothing that corresponds with the character's personality and traits.

**3.Skills/Talents**
Illustrators must be able to draw in a wide variety of styles with a wide variety of media.

**4. Schooling**
Illustrators don't have to go to school, but often go to college for 2-4 years to improve their art skills.

**5.Salary**
Illustrators are paid from the different jobs they do, depending on which clients want them, and which do not.

**6.Getting started**
By promoting their artwork online, (Using Deviantart, tumblr, facebook, pininterest and other websites) artists can gain popularity and do commissions until bigger name companies recognize their talents or the artist can distribute promotional pieces to their field of choice.

**7.What would you do all day?**
An illustrator would create illustrations for promotional pieces, commissions or a job they may have been hired for.

**8. Self promotion**
Sending out samples of their work, various abilities and creativity to employers on a website or in the mail would be the best way to attract attention for what they do.

**9.How?**
My (current) idea is to create an art piece that collages multiple self portraits, using different iconic art styles (Such as the Simpsons, Disney, (etc) as well as my own to show that I'm able to draw in different ways and can be flexible to whatever look the client is looking for.

**10.Research**
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/illustration/18-things-they-never-taught-you-at-illustration-school/ http://work.chron.com/degree-need-illustrator-2982.html http://chrisoatley.com/illustration-portfolio-pitfalls/