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Amanda Hall • Illustration
Illustration FAQs Amanda Hall answers your illustration questions
Amanda Hall standing outside her studio ‘The Shadowhouse’ in her secret, garden.

Introduction

The Basics

How Books are Made

Getting a Book Published

Being an Illustrator

Getting Work Experience

Training in Illustration

Illustration Studios

Starting to Freelance

Approaching Publishers

Getting Paid

Illustration Agents

Illustration Assignments

Materials & Media

Other Sources of Advice
Introduction: How loose are your briefs?
FAQs answers a wide range of illustration questions.  Email Amanda if you want to ask a question which isn't covered already. PLEASE NOTE: to keep the site relevant, your questions will be added to the FAQs pages in regular updates, but they will be in an edited form to preserve your anonymity. 


Hello, and thanks for visiting my website. As an illustrator, I frequently get asked about what it's like to do what I do. Questions come from school and illustration students through to people thinking of making a career change later on. I also hear from children’s writers looking for artists to illustrate their stories, as well as those working on ideas with creative collaborators. 

Often the questions come from visitors to my regular 'Cambridge Open Studio', as well as people who contact me via my website. See Shadowhouse, Events and News.

As there is a demand out there, I have decided to create this FAQs page to answer some of the many and wide-ranging questions that have been put to me. 

I'm inviting people to Email Amanda with other illustration questions not already covered on this page. I'd love to hear from you too if you are in another part of the children’s picture book industry and have a different experience that you'd like added. I'll try my best to answer any new questions by adding them to this page on a fairly regular basis, depending on my workload at the time. 

To make life easy I am breaking the FAQs down into headings - please click on the links to the left. I hope you find the topics covered here helpful.

Many thanks to Emily, Sarah, Jane, Aisha Elizabeth and Andrew for giving their time to help me formulate these questions.







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