I'm a professional digital illustrator. I also train people how to create digital illustration. You know, like in a computer. Pixels, vectors, Adobe products, Apple gear, WACOM tablet, LCD, external drives. Electromagnetic Hell. So some students will find it odd that the first thing out of my mouth when I talk about method is, "Don't create your ...
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Client Profile: Womb to Bloom
Dear Freelancing Artist, Did you know there are hidden rewards in a freelance art career? Rewards that take you farther than the ability to buy tonight's keg, that is. If you're new to freelancing as an artist, you need to hear this. I wish they taught this stuff in art schools. It's about sustaining your career in ...
Are you Hip to the Bid Site Model?
Have you ever used one of those online gig-finding sites to get more work? If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out Elance.com or Guru.com. I responded to a post on Freelance Switch yesterday about this and it prompted me to expand on the discussion. In the past year ...
Holiday Card Giveaway!
It's that time of year again, kids! Sparky's mailing out his client holiday cards. I love coming up with new images for my holiday cards. This year I thought I would inject a little hope into the coming year. I'm feeling good about what's to come in 2009 and I'd like to pass that feeling along ...
How's your follow-through?
Interesting comments on yesterday's post on Communication (thanks for participating!). It brought up some other stuff that I hadn't thought of. I want to expand on a question posted by Nathan Bowers: Wonder if just building postmortems into the project plan would be good, but typically it’s always just “on ...
See Nick Design: Client Profile
Sometimes I work on projects that really drive me. There are clients I work with where I look back and think, "Man, that was fun. That's why I do this." Creating the See Nick ...