Portfolio pages of my SCAD students class work - These images all have descriptions and mediums used. Online galleries from 2007- Summer of 2008 were created using Photoshop's Web Photo Gallery feature - Flash Gallery 3.
Fall 2008 - 70 illustrations from: Materials and Techniques I, Advertising Illusrtration I, Book Illustration I.
Summer 2008 - 23 illustrations from: Self Promotion and Electronic Illustration: Illustrator.
Spring 2008 - 27 illustrations from: Electronic Illustration & Editorial Illustration.
Winter 2008 - 37 illustrations from: Materials & Techniques I, Book Illustration, and Self Promotion.
All of 2007 - 52 illustration assignments selected from the 2007 classes I taught.

Illustration Contract Form Templates - Two page PDF files that you can add your contact info at the top. Includes a functional calculating form, and tips for what to write in each field.
How to customize these contracts.
estimatetemp.pdf
invoicetemp.pdf


General Class Handouts
Art School 101.pdf
conceptworksheet.pdf
toolsforvisualcomm.pdf


General Illustration Links
100's of bookmarks about Illustration - This is a link to my del.icio.us account. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web site, which means it is designed to allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. The links are categorized by tags or keywords. I update this ALL the time.
Lots of Illustration industry links - jaymontgomery.com/links2
Bud Plant - Illustration and art books for sale of all types
Student discounted software - Academic Superstore - better prices than Journey Ed
Hardware and software best price search - PriceWatch.com
Another great best price search site - PriceGrabber.com
Comic Book Radio - online radio using an audio player like itunes on your computer
Phone Interviews of famous Illustrators about illustration- by Illustrator, Federico Jordan


Organizations and Galleries
Graphic Artists Guild
Illustrators Partnership of America - National
Freelance Forum - Atlanta, GA area only
AIGA - Atlanta Chapter
Creativity Atlanta
Society of Illustrators in New York
Society of Illustrators in los Angeles
The Art List - Monthly e-Newsletter and searchable database listing upcoming Art Contests, Art Competitions, and Opportunities for visual artists and photographers.
Illustration House


Online Tutorials
WetCanvas.com - Free Painting Tutorials of all kinds! very good!
Wet Canvas.com - Free Glazing With Oils tutorial and many others
Free Michael Halbert - scratch board and Digital tutorials - very detailed!
Tiemdesign.com - Free software tutorials
Conceptart.com - Free Concept Art (Sci-Fi, Fantasy,Comics, etc.), mainly digital
drawthrough.com - Free perspective, ellipses, bike rendering
pixelalley.com - Free Painter tutorials
Oil Tutorials - Free traditional oil painting tutorials by Philip Howe
Lynda.com - Fee based software training tutorials, worth the fee.


Online Image Reference - Please be careful about using any images online that are copyrighted!
Flickr - Personal online collections of photos, some professional quality and some are legal to use as reference
stock.xchng - If you sign up for free you can get free access to 1000's of common stock photos
Spectrologue - High res Textures and reference photos for artists
ArtMorgue.com - over 6000 searchable free images for artist reference
Modelalisa - life drawing pose photos in various angles. Great for sci-fi and fantasy illustrations
3D.sk - Human Photo References for 3D artists and game developers
Human Anatomy Pictures for Artists
The Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page - keyword search historical paintings
Webshots Community - mostly amateur photos, some high res
Prints and Photographs Reading Room
Art Renewal Center - Database of classical painters, descent size samples for inspiration
Wizards Of the Coast - Fantasy and Sci-Fi samples of lots of characters of Dungeons 7 Dragons, Magic, DreamBlade and others
Image After - large online free photo collection
Stock Vault - Free high res photos, not a great selection, but worth looking
Old Picture - large high quality old photos


Web Forums, Web Boards - talk with other illustrators all over...
The i Spot - Illustration talk with top illustrators in the world.
Wet Canvas - For all types of artists, including lots of tutorials
Illustrators Partnership of America - public and members only web board plus lots of articles
The Drawing Board - Very popular web board about everything art related for Artists.
CG Society - Enhancing digital arts, critiques, forums, interviews, tutorials, contests.
ArtWanted.com - Message Boards, Contests, tutorials, free online portfolios, etc.
Pixelbrush - Message board mainly for sci-fi fantasy digital work. Some great tutorials.


Podcasts for Creative's - Podcasts are not just for iPod users anymore. Anyone with Windows 2000, XP, or Mac OSX v10.2.8 or later can listen to all these great talk shows and audible blogs using iTunes. If you don't have iTunes you are really missing out! These are direct links to the website or the iTunes Podcast. Search for these titles below within iTunes to subscribe to the Podcasts.

Photoshop User TV - The National Association of Photoshop Professionals Vidcast, tips and tricks with humor.
Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy - Tips & tricks in Photoshop and Illustrator by a Master digital painter.
The Illustrative Designer - Great illustration and design podcast by Von Glitschka
Adobe Creative Suite Podcast- Great useful tutorials of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat. Highly Recommend this to ALL creative's.
Effective Edge - Blog and Podcast talking about real world design issues geared toward marketing professionals and print and web designers. One of my posts to the blog is discussed at length in Podcast #9 (link to MP3)
Media Artist Secrets - Blog and Podcast for the creative professional


Online Portfolio Directories for artists - usually in addition to your own site
Folioplanet.com - Free categorized link to your site and 12 image portfolio $449/year, highly recommend
Coroflot - Free 5 image portfolio with bio and links
ArtWanted.com - Free with practically unlimited images, stats, contests, forums and much more!
wwar.com/portfolio.html - Premiere Portfolio - $25 jury, $75 annual, Artist Portfolio - $36 annual, and Free Portfolio.
Portfolios.com - 10 samples - $9.95/month, 20 samples plus extras - $59.99/month
Epilogue.net - Fantasy and Sci-fi portfolios -free if accepted.
TheDigitalArtist.com - Free categorized link to your site and paid portfolio of your work
Altpick.com - For the alternative market, plus galleries, 10 images, $299 per year
Blogger.com- Free blog that can be a portfolio site in a pinch, yourname.blogspot.com, or configure yourname.com. Free and easy but no as flexible or professional.


Online Portfolio website templates for artists - all have easy online creation, Custom templates and the option for your own domain name for additional money. Prices subject to change of course.
Foliosnap.com- 4 plans ranging $18.99-$58.99 per month, cheaper if paid yearly, image protection, several great add on's, 14 day free trail, recommended.
Foliolink.com - TURNKEY ACCOUNT Service Fee $239.00/yr, Setup Fee $149.00/one time
PREMIUM ACCOUNT- Service Fee, $349.00/yr, Setup Fee, $249.00/one time
Artistportfolio.net- Free portfolio option, plus more full featured $99 per year website.
Qfolio.com- Monthly Subscription - $15 Basic Level or $18 Premium Level (w/own domain name), with other one time fees.
Siteonspot.com- Lots of features, Monthly: $29.95, Yearly: $299.50, No Setup Fees
Yahoo Web Hosting & Site Builder- Monthly plans $8.96-$39.99, free site builder for Windows user only, limiting but cheap.