Anastasiia Ku

With this post I continue the series of tips of how to sell your stock images. Please press “Continue reading” to find out more:

This week’s tip is Analyze Magazines and Adverts.

Magazines and other periodical literature often use stock images. They are probably the most important target for many stockers as they publish weekly or monthly, so need new images quite often. Analyzing all the vectors in an average magazine will help you to find out what are the most needed images in the publishing industry nowadays.

So I just suggest you to buy one and look at the vectors that appear in it.

I downloaded a random women’s magazine from here, and figured out that vectors used there can be divided into:

-          Banners or frames of all shapes to make some particular text more noticeable:

-          Speech bubbles, thought clouds (they are normally used for the same puprose as other frames or banners):

-          Arrows (often with banners):

-          Text backgrounds that wouldn’t distract the reader from the text yet would decorate a blank page:

-          Images related to the subject of the periodical publication (like make-up or shopping in women’s magazines):

-          Images or icons related to the article:

-          Decorative elements:

-          Images that illustrate a particular article or story:

Some of these types, like banners and arrows, are, obviously, quite universal. So now, looking at those images you have an idea where to concentrate on.

Yet this doesn’t mean you should completely copy the images you see in the magazines, use these ideas for inspiration; create your own vision to the subject, adjust the concept, make it look even better than you saw in the magazine :)

Here is one of my images that I recently drew:

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