Category Archives: All Business

Posts about the professional aspects of creating commercial art.

Meanwhile

Hello earthlings, fear not, LittleLion is still here and still pumping, so don’t write us off just yet! ;-) The short absence is justifiable, read through if you will.

As most of you know by now, LittleLion Studio started as a hobby and as such, without rules, guidelines, best-practices and methods. [...]

Life In The Woods

The fifth installment of the "Baby Prints" collection brings a very important business implication for those who, like myself, sell Royalty Free licenses to the microstock market.
Unfortunately, once an image hits the microstock agencies, behind its sales hides an enormous number of irregular license uses. Honestly, I cannot put a number [...]

Time Is Of Essence

"Who has time? Who has time?" [Merovingian - The Matrix Reloaded]. When working as an illustrator contributor to the microstock market, the very first decision you are faced with is becoming or not becoming and exclusive contributor to some agency. Every rule has exceptions but my understanding (based on research and [...]

Is Microstock Illustration For You?

Microstock is a tough business for commercial illustrators, no doubt, but also a market in which one can strive and have as a bridge to more advanced projects. Let’s see the pros and cons of this venue:

Pros

It allows you to work from home at your own pace.
Low initial investment.
Possibility of lifetime earnings from [...]