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You're Not Going Crazy- Things are Really, Really Bad for Working Artists (and the trend isn't pretty)

Drawn and Quartered: Why things really are tough for illustrators right now (and why I’m still drawing anyway)

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Jason Chatfield
Oct 29, 2025
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“2025 is the year the industry changed, and it will never go back.”

If you’ve been wondering whether illustration feels harder than it used to, congratulations… It’s not in your head. The market reall…

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