Industry Structures

Industry structures

Design houses

Illustrators who are hired by Design Houses are employed to create illustrations 'within the house's style'. The illustrator doesn't 'own the rights' to their finished image and are paid by the design house in work wages.

Freelance

Freelance artists work for themselves and paid in commission by certain companies or interested parties. They use online networks such as facebook, twitter, flickr, instagram, tumblr, google+ ect. to showcase and advertise their work.

Network

Networks are groups of artists that work together and often collaborate together and support each other to make their own working group by advertising their network group through websites.

Jack Teagle is a freelance illustrator that showcases and advertises his own artwork through his tumblr blog (http://jackteagle.tumblr.com/) and his own official website. (http://www.jackteagle.co.uk/)

(This illustration by Jack Teagle was created for Phillip Dearest's zine 'Sewer side cult')