01-31-2015, 05:39 AM
I don't know what your interests are specifically, but non-fiction illustration is by no means a small market. There are lots of opportunities for things like in national geographic, scientific american (or any other science mag), historical magazines (I follow a medieval warfare magazine on facebook, it has some of the most amazing and detailed illustrations ive ever seen but nobody talks about it) and any other number of magazines and publications. But like I said, they're not strictly entertainment media like the illustration we tend to see most, which is heavily marketed.
Case in point, science/history/non-fiction illustration is bigger than you might think. Some of these are kind of niche markets, but that doesn't mean you can't make some sort of a living off of it. I'm not well informed on the kind of illustration youre interested in, but my guess would be its like those other ones that I mentioned. They're just not as much in the mainstream as the illustration we're used to seeing. You never know; if you get really amazing at this later on down the line, you might create the demand for it to exist again. Nostalgia is a powerful thing
Case in point, science/history/non-fiction illustration is bigger than you might think. Some of these are kind of niche markets, but that doesn't mean you can't make some sort of a living off of it. I'm not well informed on the kind of illustration youre interested in, but my guess would be its like those other ones that I mentioned. They're just not as much in the mainstream as the illustration we're used to seeing. You never know; if you get really amazing at this later on down the line, you might create the demand for it to exist again. Nostalgia is a powerful thing