The illustrator that i chosen in this week is Victo Ngai, a New York based illustrator from Hong Kong and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and majored in illustration. Her career life is successful with lots of Awards, for examples, she got the FINALIST, Hugo Award Best Professional Artist in 2018, 2017 and The New York Times 20 Notable Op-Ed Art in 2010, 2012, 2013. Her had lots of experiences to cooperate with international company or publication, for example New York Times,Reader’s Digest, Hong Kong Airlines, Adidas, Apple, American Express and Head & Shoulders……etc.
Victo keeps updating her event planning every month, also the portfolio is shown on her Personal Website in very detail. Clearly is for business considerations. The contents in her personal website also contained the new magazine’s interview and report, Q&A sessions about her creation and concepts.
Besides, she is a full-time illustrator with well - time management and work planning. She loves eating and traveling and GOT ( an TV drama Series ). There are many posts about these daily life topics are appeared twice a week (Especially, her Instagram has a lot of her holiday trips and book sharing posts). Moreover, she would upload all her illustration’s progressing onto her social platforms accounts( like instagram ), for skill sharing and concept explanations. She has lots of social platform accounts and pages to sharing and promote herself. Although, most of them having similar contents, it could touch more people with different aspects or backgrounds. To compare with her personal website, these online platforms are more closer and “approachable” to the audiences and readers. Sometime, she would accept interviews with TV broadcast, Newspaper, Magazines or events, like CCTV interview for China, be the guest in Offset 2019, Dublin and UK Digital Artist magazine interview. She sharing her creation process or skills or tutorial in the interview
Plus, her working hours in each day around 5 hours normally or 7-12 hours (on busy day, heard form her guest talk in Hong Kong Business of Design Week 2017 and in Hong Kong Design Institution).
Victo cooperates with serval agencies for open commissions, such as WEPRESENT, Morgan Gaynin, Pinzle etc….. On the agency websites, we could see the portfolio and her past commission experiences.
The commissions from New York Times, famous international companies or magazines, are all through Agency to accept.
She said cooperated with agency could save time. “You don’t need to negotiate about the salary and illustration styles with your client. Your Agency will take care of it”, from her guest talk in Hong Kong Design Institute, 2017. She also said that all the things she have to take care just about the quality of illustration, and focusing on your own creations.
On the creation freedom aspect, Victo had said that her client gave her lots of space on it. The clients always gave some concept and keywords, then the rest of the details were her own creations. For example, New York Time would gave her the article and let herself design the compositions, colours, characters……everything.
According to the online resources and her personal website informations, Victo would not accept any unpaid jobs. She only have free online tutorial courses on Skillshare.com . Also, she had a online store for selling illustration prints and books.
• Personal Website @https://victo-ngai.com/work
Facebook Fans page @ https://www.facebook.com/VictoNgaiArt/
Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/victongai/
Twitter @ https://twitter.com/
YOUTUBE @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRMzZ2ROHw
WEPRESENT @ https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/victo-ngai/
Morgan Gaynin @ http://www.morgangaynin.com/artists/ngai/
• Interviews & Talks & Lecture ( Magazine / Online Media)
(Korea) Pinzle : Online interview
(Dublin) Offset 2019 : Talk guest
Skillshare : Online Tutorial & Lectures ( First 2 month free of class) @ https://www.skillshare.com/profile/Victo-Ngai/2197279
WeTransfer ThisWorks Interview →
(Hong Kong) Business of design week 2017 : Guest Talk, Guest sharing talk in Hong Kong Design Institute 2017
Escape from Illustration Island interview →
Oldbookillustration interview →
UK Digital Artist magazine interview →
