I’m always interested to see how other artists promote their work. Half the battle to getting freelance jobs is the marketing. So, how do other illustrators promote their art? Well, Darren Di Lieto and the folks at HAI! have put together a book of mailer pieces. If you are interested check it out at Mail Me Art. Here’s a little more info and how to help out:

“Mail Me Art: Medium Without a Message is the follow-up to the successful 2008 Mail Me Art: Going Postal. We are proud to announce we have over 700 new pieces of mail art. Medium Without a Message is be an amazing collection of envelopes and boxes from around the world decorated by some of today’s most talented illustrators and artists. What makes the work special is that every single piece of art was sent through the postal system, exposed and on view as regular mail. At the end of this month all of the work will be on display at the London Mail Me Art exhibition.

How can you help support the project and become part of it? Well… The running costs for the project are currently at around £6000  ($9120). We’re hoping to recoup most of that by selling the new book and we’re also hoping to make the artists lots of money by selling their work at the exhibition! We’ve just finished the book and we got as many of the mail artists into the book as possible in some way or another! So please help us recoup some of the costs by making a pledge and supporting the project! In return for a pledge we’re sending people copies of the new book. We’ve also got some really cool artwork up for grabs from the likes of Dan May & Jon Burgerman! Please check out the site for more details – Mail Me Art “.

There you have it, so check it out if you have a few moments.

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It wasn’t a record month, but is there a prize for second place? I guess everyone talks about their best month ever, but never their second best. So, I guess I’ll show some respect to my number 2… umm… #2 month, that is. Regardless, I seem to be making progress with my lesser performing agencies, but my top two still seem to be lagging a little. Hopefully, that just means I’m setting myself up for a monster month.

Here’s the breakdown:

I uploaded a lot of images for the Veer "Dash for Cash". I should make a decent amount from it. I guess when the payout finally comes in, it will probably cheat me across my $3000 goal. Hopefully, I can make $3000 in a month without it this year because the point of it was more of a sustained income.

As usual, feel free to post a link to your results in the comments.

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