Elaine Leon Fashion Illustrator Graphic Designer

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Dance in the Rain

June 22, 2015
Sometimes no matter how hard you try, or don’t, you come to the realization that perhaps you must change and adapt. When Elizabeth Gilbert finished Eat Pray Love, the pressure was on for her to create something just as spectacular and grand. Instead she started a garden. This year has been spectacularly well to me. And when downtime came, I took a calligraphy class. This isn’t a new skill. I took calligraphy while studying commercial art. While taking the class, I realized my  ...

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Q&A-How Do I Get My Artwork Noticed?

May 15, 2015
Going through my Q&A I will answer two questions from a fabulous illustrator Sapphire Shiohwan from http://www.sapphireillustration.com/. Thank you so much for your lovely complement! Now to your answer! The best advice I can give you regarding how to land jobs with big companies is this: Dress for the job you want to land. Or in our case, draw for the job you want to land. If you want to work with beauty companies, draw beauty related items. Couture fashions? Draw that! You have a lot  ...

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Advice for Success

July 9, 2012
I asked a friend and colleague whom I am a consultant for her business, ‘Is my help helping you?’ She tells me that I had given her great ideas, that she hadn’t time to implement them. She took someone else’s advice on an issue I had advised against, and she lost hundreds. She goes on to tell me her great plans for her business. She wants her business to help charities she cares about and the fact that her business hasn`t taken off frustrates her. “But I  ...

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