#allagents

Well, that’s way to big a question for this format...but luckily for you, we have an entire course on Art Business, and we’ve discounted it by 90% to help artists for the duration of the quarantine: https://gumroad.com/drawnanddrafted?recommended_by=search#Kbqkw

And you can always download our Art Business Onesheets for free on gumroad as well: https://gumroad.com/drawnanddrafted?recommended_by=search

And last but not least you can join our supportive Art Business Community on Slack (usually $10/month but we’ve waived the fee while the quarantine lasts): https://gumroad.com/drawnanddrafted?recommended_by=search#RpUaf

THANK YOU! We are doing the best we can in this hell-year. We hope you are doing the same. Glad to hear that Dear AD is helping you! Stay safe and sane as possible!

Love,

All Agents

Our dedicated team of secret agent Art Directors do their best to answer as many questions as they can here on DearAD, but do you ever wish you could get answers in real time? Well, we happen to have a community on slack full of professional artists who support each other and pool information and workshop answers. You can post new questions or search the archives for relevant threads.

Yes! We want to be exactly that: a friendly elbow to the ribs. We want you to hear our voices in your head, see our mildly disapproving eyebrow raise, and feel our warm encouraging hugs when you are about to back down from doing something you know is right out of fear. 

Thanks for the note, it means a lot!

—All Agents

This is why we do this and we love to hear it’s working. Thank you so much for writing in!

Thanks! We’re going to keep going until we go thru the ENTIRE BACKLOG and pick out the overthinking ones! Or, until Agent Negative Space gives up and goes running off into the hills.

The official cocktail of Art Directors is The Last Word, says Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director or Orbit Books. So we’re going to go with that.

—All Agents

Good question! I’m glad you thought to ask first <3.

NO. PLEASE DON’T. Don’t tag people, let them find you.  If you want them to see the thing, send them an email with a link or 72 dpi attachment! DO NOT TAG ADS AND/OR PUBLICATIONS IN POSTS.

The only time you should be tagging art directors and publications on art posts of any kind is if the art was commissioned by them and/or you worked directly with the AD. 

If you’ve already done this, don’t panic, just go UNTAG THEM RIGHT NOW, and then go and sin no more. Seriously, don’t tag people who didn’t work on the project with you, it’s a terrible marketing strategy and is high up on a list of pet peeves for…well, almost everyone, AD or not. 

Thank you

-All Agents