Nuts and Bolts

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Nuts and Bolts is written by Charles Hively and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0981940544 (ISBN 10) and 9780981940540 (ISBN 13).

This book is for young illustrators just entering the marketplace providing them with useful tools to help them make the transition from university to the real world. While a professor may talk about the future students are too busy completing assignments for the next class to have any thoughts about what happens once they graduate. Nuts & Bolts is a culmination of over seven years of intense observation of the illustration field and the contact that the author has had personally with successful illustrators. And he is coming from the perspective of a former advertising agency art director and graphic designer as well as publisher of 3x3, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. He is in a unique position to see the best and worst of illustrator s web sites and promotions as not only does he look at them now but he s been on the receiving end of artist s promotions for most of his thirty-plus year career. On top of that he actually started out as an illustrator so can identify with the problems illustrators face. Based on a series of 2009 lectures in the United Kingdom, Nuts & Bolts talks about the three things every successful illustrator knows and the dos and donts for young illustrators entering the market. Professors, Andrew Foster and Gary Powell at Central St Martin s in London had this to say about his lecture: Charles Hively s candid lecture to the current cohort of MA illustration students at St Martins School of Art & Design in London in 2009, was full of energy and an in-depth knowledge about the subject of illustration. Issues were raised about the importance of draftsmanship, observational skills, intelligent creative ideas, and an awareness of professional practice was all fundamental in the pursuit of a successful illustrative career. His talk was the appropriate balance between subject knowledge, fun, quality imagery and a few scary bits.