Illustrators choose illustration tasks, and good illustration tasks will only choose suitable owners for them.
Participate in the production of animated films and co-brand with fashion brand and fashion toy manufacturers.
In this era, almost the two most successful paths are for the works of illustrators to generate social popularity, break boundaries, and penetrate the hearts of major collectors.
Both of these two paths require illustrators to have social popularity and a certain personal brand image in order to attract the favor of cooperative manufacturers.
The path must be set right from the beginning.
For example, the brand tone of Disney means that it is impossible for them to have any linkage with the animators in the book.
And if Takashi Murakami or Kas had painted some very o-like works, trendy clothing companies such as Louis Vuitton and Uniqlo would not select their artistic design elements for global promotion.
Of course,
It must be noted that there is an essential difference between the romance illustration task and the book artist.
This illustration commission from the Schostic Group is not something that can be placed outside. In any case, it is much higher-end than the task orders that Detective Cat took on fiverr before.
But.
Anna still doesn’t like it, it’s too unartistic.
Cooperating with the Schostic Group means a new beginning in his career. The little prince has finally managed to improve his style, so it is better not to lower it again easily.
It’s just that as Detective Cat’s fully authorized agent for the publishing house, Miss Elena cannot refuse such a large contract on her behalf without consulting her eldest sister.
"The subject matter is quite revealing. I trust your judgment."
The Detective Cat lady opposite was quite persuaded, but she looked a little curious, "But, I heard "Isn't it true that Van Doorn has painted a lot of this kind of content?"
"They are both lovers. Madame de Pompadour and the street warbler on the streets of Paris are two different living conditions. This book The character of the book is not worthy of your writing. Strictly speaking, Van Dorn has drawn countless erotic illustrations, but he has never drawn a single pornographic illustration. There are many artists who have drawn explicit illustrations, and this difference is. Van Dorn is smarter than the others."
Anna explained to Detective Cat the slight but crucial difference between the two.
It’s still the same problem.
Blue Moon is neither artistic nor stylish enough.
The lack of art is actually not a matter of scale, but a matter of depth.
Scale has never been an obstacle to serious painting art. From the perspective of Western aesthetic philosophy in ancient Greek times, the body curves of strong men and charming women are the most beautiful curves given to people by the gods.
In the old days, there were many great artists who spent their whole lives painting nude women in big official salons.
The scale of works by Gérôme, Rubens, and Renoir in his later years is larger than today’sIn general, pornographic picture authors on the Internet can exaggerate much more.
Klimt was even prouder as an erotic painter.
But the problems with plot and writing style are fatal.
“I read some excerpts from the drafts given to me by the Schostic Group. They were gaudy and lacked imagination, and even lacked sexual tension that would make people remember them for a long time. They were just Playboys written for girls. Critics will not remember this kind of book."
"You need me to read two paragraphs to you to see if you feel creative."
Although, It's a bit embarrassing for Mr. Sloth's voice to read this kind of book to Detective Cat Sister,
But they are both girls, and Anna doesn't care about reading two pornographic paragraphs to each other, but just like her own Said.
Those words contained nothing but pale physical collisions and empty descriptions of the bed.
There are high and low levels of body writing.
With Anna’s literary accomplishments, it was a best-selling book that would not seduce her at all.
There is really no need to make an exception for Detective Cat.
"No need."
It seems that the detective cat is more shy than her.
"Your sketching skills are good. If you want to draw such erotic-themed works, it would be a good idea to expand your painting style." Anna is not shy about discussing the scale of the work, "schostic The group is carrying out a large-scale project to re-translate and publish public-edition classics. In the second half of this year, it will be the time to re-publish the two books I Can Read for You, Marguerite Duras's Lovers and Hiroshima Love. I will accept these two tasks."
Just like the publishing houses in Dongxia, they always like to create a series of translations of famous names to make money from literary youth.
Schostic Group’s strategic plan includes sorting out and re-issuing books by classic writers such as Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy and Marguerite Duras that have entered the public domain. .
It is called the "No Dead Tree" project.
The little prince drawn by Detective Cat is a key sub-project of this strategy.
The same is true for large-scale illustrations.
Painting for Blue Moon is a show of sensuality, and illustrating the representative work of Marguerite Duras, winner of the Goncourt Prize and a master in the field of body writing, is a sign of the artist's elegance and timelessness.
This is like the same stripping scene.
Whether an actress takes off her clothes in a film festival gold medal-winning literary film or takes off her clothes in a meat-selling live broadcast, the former is a goddess dedicated to art, and the latter is a slutty bitch. They are completely different. concept.
Today’s detective cats have a problem compared with those really great painters.
From the previous Batman to the current Little Prince, her painting style is a bit too oriented towards young readers.
Miss Irina does not want the public to completely lose sight of the art of detective cats.The image and painting style are equivalent to that of a children's book artist who can only draw children's illustrations.
Such an artistic route is too limited and young.
Maybe the upper limit is to cooperate with Disney or Nintendo and participate in the production of animated movies and cartoon characters.
The world already has a master of fairy tales, Jane Arnold, and there is no need for a second copy.
When necessary, Miss Elena wants Detective Cat Sister to draw something specifically "for adults" to attract more attention from the art collecting world.
Illustrating a lover, even if it is not as good as the sad body in a very obscure feature film, is at least equivalent to the erotic performance of sketching Ruth without clothes in Titanic.
In the final analysis.
With such good painting skills, even now there is pressure from Sir Brown and Oil Painting Magazine.
Anna still hopes that in the future, Detective Cat Sister’s works will go to art exhibitions and receive important awards in the art world.
Illustration is just a springboard, and the display cabinet of the art museum is the ultimate destination for great artists.
"I'll think about it and let's take a look at it then."
"Okay."
Interesting
Anna was slightly picky Raise your eyebrows.
She felt keenly that the detective cat opposite seemed a little reluctant to let go of this topic.
This is completely unlike the reaction of a thirty-year-old older sister who is not taboo on meat and vegetables.
Of course, he does not look like an experienced painter in his 60s.
She thought of the old man named "Gu Tongxiang" who was the new agent of Ma Shi Gallery, and shook her head slightly.
Strictly speaking.
It is very unlikely that a painter of this age will take orders on the Internet and use a youthful and youthful online name such as "thedetectivecat".
But the group of painters is just like a botanical garden where all kinds of weird and wonderful flowers gather together.
Some painters are particularly good at self-promotion and rhetoric in front of the media. There are also some painters who say a few words to outsiders and make people feel shy and faint at any time.
They cannot speculate based on common sense.
"In this case, let's talk about it in the second half of the year. I declined the Blue Moon manuscript. You can take a look at this task during this period. Compared to romance, I think its style is more suitable."
Anna opened an email on her computer.
This is another invitation from the Schostic Group's "No Dead Wood Project", which is a supporting illustration for a letter called The Blazing World.
This book is very poorly known, and to be honest it is not smooth to read, but its advantage is that it is very compelling.
The most famous feudal era science fiction in the world is Frankenstein published by Mary Shelley in 1818.
But two centuries earlierbefore.
In 1666, Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, Queen Charles I’s lady-in-waiting and wedding bridesmaid, published the world’s first female science fiction book, Thebzgord: The Blazing World.
Duchess Cavendish's scientific literacy was much higher than that of ordinary aristocratic women of her time, and she was even one of the patrons of the newly established Royal Scientific Societies of Britain and France.
It is the world's first utopia, combining elements of fantasy, science fiction, romance, fictional political theory, and philosophical and theological debates.
While this book has such a high academic status, it is also unknown to outsiders.
The only reason is that the threshold for reading this thing is really high.
It is not as approachable as Shakespeare's plays, and some of the rhetoric still contains the word formation methods of Middle English before 1453 and a large number of foreign French vocabulary.
Anna thinks it’s just right.
Miss Elena had read this book with her tutor when she was a child.
The fiery, magnificent and psychedelic writing style, the vague and chaotic world view, and the rhetoric of clouds and mist are also very suitable for expression in drawings and paintings.
It is almost the opposite extreme to the popular Blue Moon. The publisher only released it to enhance the quality of the No-Dead Wood project.
The sales volume of this kind of thing will never be better after it is published.
Similar to those small coffee shops, they like to display high-quality bone china tea sets in the most eye-catching windows of the store. They are beautiful but few people will actually buy them.
"It's just right for Detective Cat Sister to draw."
Miss Elena knows very well.
The current popularity of the Little Prince project is because Saint-Exupéry's books have long been one of the best-selling fairy tales in the world.
It has a large reader base, and has encountered warm-up discussions caused by various coincidences on the Internet. Finally, it is the miraculous product of Detective Cat’s own painting ability and the three-party factors added together.
Difficult to replicate.
There is only one Little Prince in the world.
So no matter what the next illustrated book of Detective Cat is, it will not get the same level of attention and sales.
The readership of Saint-Exupéry's other masterpieces such as Sand and Stars and Night Flight is far inferior to that of The Little Prince.
As long as sales decline, people like Sir Brown will have the opportunity to badmouth Detective Cat.
In this case,
let’s abandon book sales completely and go for a different track.
From best-selling fairy tales to serious literature, from commercial films to fight for box office, to literary and artistic films to fight for style, see if you can pursue awards in the illustration industry.
In order to show that the judges in the literary and art field have different visions from ordinary audiences, unpopular sales are actually bonus points when judging awards.
Titanic, Pulp, The Truman Show, The Pianist, etc.Super blockbusters that can enter the top 100 or even the top ten of film and television in both depth and box office are all born in the same year, which can be called a fight between gods.
As a result, at the Oscar ceremony of the same year, all competitions for the Best Actor and Actor awards were lost to a niche literary film called Perfection.
The Blazing World is Anna’s chosen work for Detective Cat.
"But you have to be mentally prepared. The salary for this kind of work will not be high. Including the cover painting, the package price of the complete contract is US$2,700. I should be able to negotiate a few more points of dividends at most. , but actually it doesn’t make much sense when you think about the sales volume.”
Ana smiled bitterly as she typed.
High threshold and good sales are mutually exclusive options.
I want to have artistic depth and be able to judge awards, and also have explosive sales and make a lot of money. Haha, you are not the real father of the publishing house. Where in the world are there so many cheap pies to pick up.
The estimated sales data of Blue Moon this year is also more than 300,000 copies.
And the Blazing World
If it can sell 3,000 copies, the publisher will be in high demand.
If it were not for a giant publishing house like the Schostic Group, it would be able to share a lot of the costs of warehouse storage, logistics, transportation and factory printing when publishing a book.
If a small publishing house produces this kind of book, it will lose even its pants.
Even the schostic group.
While ensuring good printing quality, if you break it down evenly, you may lose a few pounds, or even more than ten pounds, for every book sold.
It was originally intended to reflect the publisher’s “publishing responsibility to pay attention to the literary value of books” and “the social mission of discovering outstanding female writers who are unknown in history.” This business of striving for politically correct voices to make money at a loss and face projects.
How is it possible to give an extremely high price for the manuscript?
The landlord has no surplus food.
This book has never been a commercial project that requires an external illustrator to be hired. The art department planned to have its own full-time illustrator work on it.
It was Anna who came across the name of this book after flipping through the huge publishing schedule given by the other party.
She took the initiative to contact the other party, and the art department gave a symbolic quotation of US$2,700 because Detective Cat was in the limelight these two days and did not want to offend.
If the price of the contract is too low.
There is no need for Miss Elena to stay behind.
"Although the money is low, let's think about it differently and treat it as if the publishing house publishes promotional albums for us for free. The painting opportunities are still good. Fantasy style, ancient history, and high academic value , the female power of female authors, you, the artist, are still a girl, and you have all the favorite promotional elements of illustration judges in recent years."
"So many buffs. Add it to your body, even if there is oilWhen it comes to drawing, as long as you are good enough, you have a chance to earn several major awards in the illustration industry. "Please remember to bookmark, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft and free reading