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Resume Roast for Illustrators

Illustrator resumes are read for style range, clients, and licensing literacy, in that order, and always after the portfolio. Reviewers want to know what the work was for: editorial, publishing, brand, product, and whether you deliver on brief and on deadline at commercial pace. Forty commissioned pieces a year for magazines and brands, on deadline every time, is the sentence art buyers are scanning for.

What Gabe checks first on a Illustrator resume

Portfolio link at the top, organized by use case: editorial, book, brand work. Buyers hire for a use, not for general talent.
Name commissions and clients, like 30 editorial pieces a year including recurring work for two national outlets. Repeat clients are the strongest proof available.
Show professional mechanics: brief-to-final process, revision rounds, licensing terms handled, deadlines never missed. Reliability is what turns talent into a career.

Worth knowing

Recruiters spend about 7 seconds on a first resume scan. (Ladders eye-tracking study)

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