Art Career - Illustrator

The illustrator career includes a wide array of different types of art and artists. Illustrators can create designs for books, companies, decorations, and much more. Depending on where the illustrators work, they made need a college education in art or a related art major. Many illustrators work freelance which requires you to have good organizational skills and networking skills. One of the parts of illustration that I am very interested in is book illustrations. This includes book covers as well as illustrations to accompany stories. Most of the top art colleges have an illustration major.

Rhode Island School of Design has a highly ranked illustration program. VCU is also a strong school for illustration in the area.

The estimated pay of this job is around $65,000 for a hired illsutrator and $60,000 for a freelance illsutrator.