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Rise of the machines: How illustrators can avoid being replaced by AI

Creative Boom

If you're a freelance illustrator, it's easy to wallow in despair and imagine your job will soon be taken over by a faster, cheaper AI alternative. An important part of freelancing is planning ahead and ensuring there's enough work coming in to pay the bills. Adding extra strings to your bow is also a good idea.

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How The Studio became an essential place for creatives to network and learn in 2025

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock This year, we launched our own private community, which has quickly evolved into a lively chat platform and an essential learning hub featuring online sessions as well as real-life events across Britain. Feeling alone and isolated as a freelancer? Read on to find out how to get involved.

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How to calculate your day rate as an Illustrator

Lisa Maltby

There are many costs involved with running a freelance business and these will vary for each illustrator. Studio Rent & Utility Some illustrators work from home and others rent studios it is rare for an illustrator to get regular freelance work on-site. Below are costs based on an example illustrator.

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State of the industry 2025: are freelancers surviving, or thriving?

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock What's it like being a creative freelancer in 2025? For many freelancers, 2025 has brought an amplification of the traditional feast-or-famine cycle, with longer dry spells followed by intense periods of activity. In 30 years of freelancing, I've never known it this bad.

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Illustrator Tegan Price on the importance of good mental health with the help of creativity as she launches workshops in London

Creative Boom

Artist has taken successful concept of workshops she ran for major brands such as Nike, ASOS and Timberland to help other freelancers or individuals get together and create. Freelancing can be a lonely gig, however much you love it. It was something I realised that I absolutely loved doing.

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Fresh tools to help creatives run their freelance practice in 2024

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We asked the Creative Boom community what tools save them the most time and effort, and here's what they had to say. It doesn't matter how talented you are in your chosen creative discipline; that's only half of the work of being a successful freelancer.

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How to stand out as a freelance illustrator in 2023

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock With so much talent out there, how do you get noticed as a freelance illustrator? And working as a freelancer means that you can, to a degree, work when you want, how you want, and where you want. But first, you need to attract freelance clients. Give talks or workshops. Start a blog.

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