{"id":1763,"date":"2023-08-24T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:49:03","slug":"how-to-become-a-freelance-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/2023\/08\/24\/how-to-become-a-freelance-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"How to become a Freelance Illustrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1764\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/files\/2023\/07\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_443941219_415638767647_1_original.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Connie is a Freelance Illustrator &amp; Animator, based in Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Her playful approach to illustration combines scratchy hand-drawn textures and bold digital shapes to create colourful, contemporary artworks that celebrate food, wildlife and everything in-between!<\/p>\n<p>Connie is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Winchester and co-hosts Creative Coffee Morning \u2013 a monthly virtual event for creatives to meet, chat and grow their network.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on this one hour zoom, to hear how Connie has used her illustration degree and understand how you can attract clients and expand your network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connie will talk about:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Her career journey so far<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tips to grow your network &amp; client base as a freelancer<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Self-promotion online<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Juggling money and managing client expectations<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Advice for emerging creatives<\/p>\n<p><strong>To find out more and book your free place, just click here<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/how-to-become-a-freelance-illustrator-tickets-536151843597?aff=ebdsoporgprofile\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/how-to-become-a-freelance-illustrator-tickets-536151843597?aff=ebdsoporgprofile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie is a Freelance Illustrator &amp; Animator, based in Brighton. Her playful approach to illustration combines scratchy hand-drawn textures and bold digital shapes to create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/2023\/08\/24\/how-to-become-a-freelance-illustrator\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}