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Title: It's 2011! This Book Is Now Ancient!
Review: They need to make a new edition. About half the book is made up of articles that talk about how illustration used to be, how illustration should be and how illustration is now dead (back in 2001). A lot of the articles are redundant I felt. And it wasn't constructive about how to become a successful illustrator in the new digital age. Mostly this book is too old, a little over ten years old, they mainly talk about how the computer and the web destroyed the illustration world, but the kinds of things they were saying were developments of the late 90s and early 2000s. Technology back then and now is vastly different and I'm sure the illustration industry has completely changed again.Only reason this is 2 stars and not a 1 is because I liked looking through the sample syllabi. Gave me some homework examples to try and got a list of several texts/references to read as well.
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