While presenting one hundred ways to draw a bird, the author unveils the facets of life as an illustrator, in the hope that doing so will help to make everyday life as an illustrator a little simpler.

Felix Scheinberger was born on 14 October 1969 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). The entrance exam for the FH fu¿r Gestaltung, Hamburg (University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany) would be his ticket to an education. There he studied illustration, which then seamlessly resulted in self-employment. In the past ten years, he has illustrated more than fifty books, worked for prestigious newspapers and collected various prizes and awards. He has also taught in Mainz, Hamburg, Mu¿nster (Germany) and Jerusalem (Israel). His previous publications have influenced design agencies to rediscover hand-rendered drawing as well as pencil and watercolours. Felix Scheinberger now lives in Berlin and is a professor of illustration at the FH Münster (University of Applied Arts, Münster, Germany).

Introduction

... a Bird?

So You Want To Be an Illustrator.

Fear of the Blank Page | Talent | Illustrating is Decision-Making | How We See What We See | Concrete and Abstract | Everyone's an Artist | Ideas | The Magic of Making | The Search for Your Own Style | No Accounting for Taste? | Bad is the New Good | No Pain, No Gain, or the Early Bird Gets the Worm | Searching the Internet | Truth Telling | Variety | The Soul of a Sketch | Is Illustration Art? | Guiding Colours | Details and Perspective | Preparing the Paper.

Illustration Techniques

Pencil | Colored Pencils | Red Chalk, White Chalk and Charcoal | Pastels | Ink | Ballpoints, Fineliners and Friends | Markers and Felt Pens | Watercolors | Gouache and Tempera | Oil | Acrylic | Woodcut | Collage | Computers and Generative Design | Photoshop | Illustrator.

The Life of an Illustrator

Material Fetishism | Workplace and Studio | Presentations | Business Sense | Contests, Sales Pitches and Trial Illustrations | Competition | Teamwork | Communication Problems | Negotiating Strategies| Time Is Money | Your Own Price | What Does An Illustration Cost? | Productivity and Time Management | Out of Breath | Sideline Settings | Correct Acquisition Placement | Portfolio Advice | Portfolios | Agents and Representation | Illustration Archives | Your Own Projects | Bread-and-Butter Jobs and Ersatz Identities | Ready or Not, Here I Come! | Ever Wish You'd Gone into Banking?

Grand Merci! | Participating Illustrators | Copyright-Credits | About the Author | Book Credits.

Illustrators included.

Claus Ast, Atak, John James Audubon, Kono Bairei, Hans Baltzer, Gary Baseman, David von Bassewitz, Lou Beach, Orit Bergman, F. W. Bernstein, Larissa Bertonasco, Aljoscha Blau, Jörg Block, Claudia Boldt, Jutta Bücker, Nadja Budde, Timothy Bush, Noah Carev, Jim Cohen, Els Cools & Oliver Streich, Sonja Danowski, Henrik Drescher, Jean Manuel Duvivier, Elke Ehninger, Tom Eigenhufe, Wolf Erlbruch, Anke Feuchtenberger, Max Fiedler, Hannes Gaab, Katja Gehrmann, Conrad Gesner, Erhard Göttlicher, Katharina Grossmann-Hensel, Astrid Haas, Claudia Hahn, Katharina J. Haines, Olaf Hajek, Stefanie Harjes, Kristina Heldmann, Ute Helmbold, Lars Henkel, Marcus Herrenberger, Herbert Holzing, Daniel Horowitz, Dorothea Huber, David Hughes, Bernhard Jäger, Omar Jaramillo, Hendrik Jonas, Dieter Jüdt, Alexandra Junge, Frederik Jurk, Katja Kamm, Keren Katz, Saskia Keultjes, Constanze von Kitzing, Martin Kleingräber, Julius Klinger, Roman Klonek, Sebastian Koch, Steffen Kreft, Tobias Krejtschi, Gregor Krisztian, Nora Krug, Silke Luise Langner, Till Laßmann, Jonas Lauströer, Max Ley, Carolin Löbbert, Stephan Lomp, Marie Charlot Manzewski, Nora Marleen, Ann Marshall, Lorenzo Mattotti, Sylvain Mazas, Marco Mazzoni, Möbius, Bernd Mölck-Tassel, Anne Möller, Jörg Mühle, Daniel Napp, Pia Neumann, Jens R. Nielsen, Robert Nippoldt, Falk Nordmann, Bernhard Oberdieck, Andrea Offermann, Sarah Palisi, Nele Palmtag, David Polonsky, Claudia Pomowski, Arthur Rackham, Geffen Refaeli, Wiebke Rauers, Boris Röhrl, Christine Rösch, André Rösler, Franziska Sacher, Merav Salomon, Felix Scheinberger, Nesrin Schlempp-Ülker, Christian Schlierkamp, Alexander Schmalz, Jörg Schultz, Reinhard Schulz-Schaeffer, Takeuchi Seiho, Annika Siems, Nina Spranger, Meike Staats, Ralph Steadman, Anja Stiehler, Detlef Surrey, Einar Turkowski, Tomi Ungerer, Sarah Varon, Franziska Walther, Tim Weiffenbach, Juliane Wenzl, Sascha Westphal, Sabine Wilharm, Saskia Wragge, Stephanie Wunderlich, Lisbeth Zwerger.