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Important things I’ve learned as a doink who went straight from retail to freelance illustration/design with no education or background:
- Save every email
- Create email folders for finished/unfinished orders
- Invest in good equipment (for me that meant the iPad Pro)
- Save every email
- Create email folders for finished/unfinished orders
- Invest in good equipment (for me that meant the iPad Pro)
- Take no criticism personally. If it stings, hold it, feel it, breathe, address the root of the sting, and then move.
- Don’t question success, just roll with it and take the damn money.
- No one else is going to sell you. Toot your horn as loudly and obnoxiously as possible.
- Don’t question success, just roll with it and take the damn money.
- No one else is going to sell you. Toot your horn as loudly and obnoxiously as possible.
- Do hand stretches regularly
- Sit up straight and get a better chair (there’s always a better chair)
- Keep a bowl of cereal bars, fruit, beef jerky on hand for those hyper-focused times where you forget to eat
- Sit up straight and get a better chair (there’s always a better chair)
- Keep a bowl of cereal bars, fruit, beef jerky on hand for those hyper-focused times where you forget to eat
- Streamline everything. Time is money and paid work doesn’t need to be a belaboured masterpiece. Use refs. Trace that chair for the right perspective. Build templates. Use composites. Use platforms like Gumroad.
- Learn learn LEARN everything all the time and never stop. FIN
- Learn learn LEARN everything all the time and never stop. FIN
November 1st marked 5 years as an artist. Totally missed that. So this thread is my honorary “look what I can do!”
