Beautiful Quote

"If someone could look at the earth from outer space, see how it rotated every twenty-four hours into the shadow of night, they would see millions, hundreds of millions, of incandescent bulbs light up nightly, glowing with white-hot tungsten, in the folds of that shadow–and know that man had finally conquered the darkness."

Oliver Sacks

Ideas to promote your work - ILLUSTRATORS

Membership of the AOI is not mandatory to purchase a portfolio spot on their site, it is a little cheaper however the Standard portfolio is €113 for non-members and the Custom portfolio is €143.80 (For 1 year) http://www.aoiportfolios.com/index.phpoption=com_content&view=article&id=704&Itemid=103


"AOI Portfolios have been developed by The Association of Illustrators (AOI) to promote illustration to the creative industries.

Launched in 2003, we currently feature around 10,000 illustrations by nearly 500 artists covering a broad spectrum of styles, techniques and specialisms. The Portfolios are managed by the individual artists themselves so the content is regularly changing as new images are added to the site."

http://www.aoiportfolios.com


They offer guidelines for commissions, introductions for newcomers and a spotlight feature.

The Irish Design Shop

The Irish Design Shop aka Clare & Laura, have updated their web site to include lots more products (including a selection of cards from yours truely). It is clean, crisp and elegant www.irishdesignshop.com

Here are some of my cards featured:

Yvonne Kennedy Special offer for Prudence Magazine

Some of the new illustrated cards I'm working on for 'C'...

...which is ages away! I'm just getting a very early start :)