Moral and ethical considerations
When handing over your art to an art director/editor they may decide to edit your work in order to suit the publications style/concept, I think I would find this hard to deal with as I would wonder why they didn’t use it as it was, but some illustrators in the industry such as Ollie Macdonald Oulds try to see the original and edited pieces as two separate works, as being able to ‘let go’ of your work enables it to be seen in different formats.
Representing different cultures, races, sexualities and other minorities is crucial for an illustrator as you need to “actively think about how figurative subjects will be portrayed physically.” (Selby 2022) However research needs to be put in considering the portrayal of these to avoid treating them as stereotypes or tokens (Gabriele 2021) I think this is important since as we illustrators have a duty to take proper care into the research of other groups, we are not part of so we can fully understand what message we are conveying in our work.

When it comes to taking jobs, by accepting ones that are underpaid, it does not only affect us, but also other illustrators in the community as “If people don’t occasionally say no to the fees offered, the publisher in question never has any reason to consider raising them.” Many illustrators can end up working for below minimum wage by underestimating the amount of time they will spend on a piece.