这本书不仅是关于插画的，虽然它确实包含很多插画。但它还包含更多内容。本书探讨了插画师这个职业，从钱这个令人烦恼的话题到合适的工作场所的问题。如何获得佣金？如何成功谈判？什么是合理的价格？如何处理插画工作中的日常事务？它解释了诸如使用权、版税征收协会和艺术家的社会保障保险等概念。当然，它还介绍了各种各样的插画技巧。简而言之，它努力使人们得到启发，发挥作用，并回答尽可能多的问题。书的作者一方面为新晋插画师提供了二十多条真正有用的小贴士，例如，如何消除空白页经常会激发的恐惧感，另一方面，以实用的方式介绍了二十五种最重要的插画技巧，这种方式可以唤醒读者的学习欲望。作为与幽默文字匹配的平行叙事，书中还有一些由截然不同的插画师创作的图像，他们的手法和风格各异。这些图片多种多样，却很容易比较，因为它们都表现了同样的东西：一只鸟。

Illustration is applied imagination. This book is not only about illustration, though it does contain illustrations lots of them. But there's more. This book examines the profession of illustrator, from the vexing subject of money to the question of the right workplace. How do you get commissions? How do you negotiate successfully? What's a fair price? How do you handle the everyday routines involved in illustration work? It explains concepts such as usage rights, collecting societies and social security insurance for artists. And, of course, it presents a wide variety of illustration techniques. In short, it makes an effort to enlighten, be useful and answer as many questions as possible. Its author does so, on the one hand, by offering more than twenty really useful tips for budding illustrators for example, how to stop the fear that a blank page often inspires and, on the other, by presenting the twenty-

five most important illustration techniques in a practical way that awakens the reader's desire to learn more. As a parallel narrative accompanying the humorous texts, there are images by very different illustrators who work with a wide variety of techniques and styles. These pictures are diverse yet easy to compare, because they all show the same thing: a bird.