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To sum up, the speakers emphatically stated that illustrators today must band together to protect the long term health of the industry. Say "No" to all-rights contracts. Create market force to fight the bleak sense of isolation that can affect freelance illustrators and distance them from one another, thus weakening them to buyers and their selfish practices. Learn ways to work cheaper, faster, and better. Band together with other artists to come up with new hybrids of commercial enterprise, as the stock houses are doing, such as print-on-demand Giclee prints and posters. Feed your entrepreneurial spirit and develop new markets on your own. Thus, a discussion that could have been disheartening provided invaluable and uplifting encouragement to all who attended.
