ABOUT ILLUSTROPHILE

Illustrophile is an illustration blog for everyone that has an interest in illustration and commercial art.

The site was established in 2007 by Charlene Chua, who is a Toronto-based illustrator. If you would like to suggest a link to be featured, please send us a message with the URL on the Contact page.

Thanks for dropping by and we hope to see you again!

Q: What does ‘Illustrophile’ mean?

A: ‘Illustrophile’ is supposed to be a combination of ‘illustration’ and ‘phile’. So it’s supposed to mean ‘lovers of illustration’.

Q: What’s the purpose of the site?

A: The main purpose of the site is to showcase and promote illustrators and commercial artists.

Q: What kind of art do you showcase?

A: We try to showcase all kinds of commercial art, although we focus on the individuals who create the work instead of the studio/ group/ company.

Q: How often is the site updated?

A: The site was originally updated by posts made by the individual authors. Now, the site pulls feeds from our member illustrators’ blogs. We have no set update schedule for interviews or features at present.

Q: How do I get my site featured on Illustrophile?

A: If you would like to suggest a link, please send us a message with the URL on the Contact page. Due to the amount of suggestions we receive, we regrettably can’t feature everyone. We currently have a fair bit of submissions so it can take us several months to get round to featuring you, so please don’t get upset if you don’t hear from us for a while! If you are selected though, you will be informed by email, so be sure to include that!

HOW DO I ADD MY NEWS TO ILLUSTROPHILE?

Illustrophile now only publishes news from it’s member illustrators. Membership is by invitation only.

HOW CAN I HELP ILLUSTROPHILE?

Are you a programmer or developer that loves Wordpress and illustration? If so, we’d love to hear from you! We need some folks to help us better Illustrophile, hopefully by sticking the site with a new look and enabling certain things we have in mind. Please email Charlene directly at charlene [a] charlenechua.com if you want to help out!

We might be able to offer a token fee and the usual links, ads on this site in exchange for your services, but no we can’t toss oodles of cash your way – just so you know!