When first embarking on a career in illustration you can feel a little out of your depth. It is difficult to know where, or who to promote all those brilliant creative projects you’ve been working on. This article contains a list of magazines and websites to get you started. The list is by no means comprehensive. If you know of anywhere else it would be good to submit work, please feel free to leave a link in the comments section below.
- It even has a watermark - submit your business card design
- Ffffound - you need to get an invite from someone who’s already using ffffound
- We heart it – a bit like ffffound but you do not need an invite
- Illustration mundo - a giant of the online illustration community
- Drawn! - a great blog with interesting posts
- Glubibulgà - you can contact them and request they put a link to you on their site
- Little chimp society - a great place to showcase your work, brilliant website
- Juxtapoz magazine - the infamous low-brow magazine
- Ape on the moon - another great all-round website
- I like characters - the place to be for character based art
- NewSugar magazine - a great magazine for emerging artists
- Illustration friday - you can get involved in weekly competitions
- Design week - try your luck at getting in one of the UK’s big players
- Creative Review - the feed is a great place to submit work to
- Illustrophile - fantastic blog
- Arkitip inc - nice mag, email work to submit@arkitip.com
- Communication arts - get yourself seen here
- Lines and colors - pretty broad selection of illustration
- Character design - they do artist interviews
- Design fckr™ - good place to showcase your work
- Fuel your illustration - get featured here
- Thunder chunky - great blog
- Signature illustration - good blog to showcase your work
- Society6 - an artists community website, and you can also sell your work as prints too.
- Cut-click - brilliant pdf magazine
- GizMag - web magazine
- Ammo magazine - great magazine to get your work in print
- It’s nice that - inspiration website for many a creative, great place to be seen
- Otaku magazine - submit work for the magazine
- T-shirt magazine - does what it says, if you’ve designed any tees show them off here.
- Clutter magazine - more aimed at character design and designer toys
- Root magazine - great web magazine to showcase your work
- Nt_tht_smpl - great little pdf mag
- Belio magazine - Spanish blog featuring varied works
- Wall spankers - more aimed at graffiti and sticker artists
- Art & design magazine - artists interviews and profiles
- True eye - web-zine
- File magazine - nice blog and magazine
- Vektor junkie - they do a magazine called vektorika
- Anti - great mag packed full of awesomeness
- Candy collective - a place to showcase your work
- Castle magazine - online magazine
- Idea fixa - nice blog
- Iniciativa colectiva magazine - talent showcase
- We are the image makers - Australian magazine and blog
- Multilink - great blog and magazine
- New web pick - e-magazine
- Amelias magazine - legendary magazine and now website
- Fecal face - offering free portfolios
- Shellsuit zombie - partnered by the UK’s D&AD
- Good vs evil - submit work for this wonderfully twisted little zine
- Art Bastard - get featured and have an artist profile
- Hi-Fructose Magazine - submit to the blog and magazine
- Varoom - the association of illustrators flagship magazine… Well good
- Grafik magazine - great showcase but they like your submissions to be exclusive.
- The Illustrated Ape - a great magazine
- Six crayons - they do interviews with illustrators
- Creative Overflow - they do artist interviews
- Vectips - they do interviews with illustrators sometimes
- Spray blog - nice blog
- Vector tutsplus com - select vector tuts from drop down menu in the contact us page
- Design inspiration - they do artist interviews
- Design tavern - interesting articles good place to submit
- Artybuzz - artists community, a place to sell work, and they have a blog too.
- Creative boom! - of course there’s also this cheeky little site to showcase your work
- We heart - lifestyle blog
- Thumbtack press - great place to sell your artwork as a print
- Dirty mouse - inspiration blog
- Share some candy - nice blog varied feautures
- Okay great - lots of good work featured
- Design flavr - nice blog
- Design you trust - top design blog
- Format mag - art and fashion mag
Illustration by Carlos Garde-Martin copyright © 2010
A special thank you goes to Rod Hunt (master illustrator and chairman of the AOI), and Julian James (mop haired creator of Whyisbox) for their input in putting together this list.
