You went over your latest blog entry the night before and have spent a good deal of the morning going over it yet again. It looks great! Content is to the point and entertaining. You feel that soon you will be attracting the advertisers necessary to perhaps turn this into an actual full-time profession.
All you need now is a strong graphic to enhance and brighten up your page.
An hour later you are still searching for that photo or clip art that can support your post and it's content. Time is tight as you still have laundry to do, some shopping, dishes and make it on time to your second shift job which you put up with but simply hate more every day.
Ah, the heck with it! This piece will look fine...click! Congratulations, you have just wasted all that hard work for nothing. Picking cheap and run of the mill clip art just lessens the integrity and importance of your subject matter. A professional illustrator like myself or other professional illustrators, can create an illustration that is totally unique to you and your blog.
In many cases a simple graphic will cost you the same or even less if you commission an illustrator as opposed to buying clip art. Free? Well, anything free comes with a cost, either in content or karma. You pick.
Shown here are two simple samples showing bad and good art of the same subject matter.
Also shown is a more conceptual piece done on the subject of farmer's and their crops which I did for a client. These were done quickly and within a very reasonable budget. There are many illustrators like myself who offer a number of images per month with a fee that is within your budget.
If you want to be taken seriously and on a professional level then I am afraid that yes..."
It takes money to make money" and that is how you will attract advertisers and generate the capital to eventually quit that second shift job that you simply put up with.
