This website is aimed at getting skilled people together with people who need those skills. On your profile (if you consider yourself a said skilled person) you put what your strengths are and you make a little portfolio for yourself.
After that, you can either forget that you even made an account, like I did, or you can search and apply for jobs that non-skilled people post. The jobs can range from taking five minutes to five months, and payment can be either hourly or a fixed price.
A few days after forgetting that I'd made an account, I got an email. The email said that someone was interested in hiring me! She said she saw my portfolio, liked my work, and wanted me to -get this- illustrate an entire children's book for her!
The book was about messy pigs, and she wanted me to draw a bunny and a pig before she hired me to see if I was capable, since all of my portfolio was of faces.
I was so excited that I got to drawing right away, which probably wasn't the best idea, since my hands were earthquakes. I decided to draw the bunny sort of reprimanding the pig, because in a story about messy pigs, you can be sure that the bunny will be the one trying to fix 'em up. Why is it always bunnies, I wonder? Probably because they are so cute and unobtrusive in the midst of their reprimanding.
So I sent that to her, and she said that I was hired. In fact, she said, with a few tweaks my concept art could be one of final illustrations! I flipped out. I had been right about the bunny, and now I had saved myself time, and gotten off at a great start with my new boss! I had shown that I can read minds, and that is very helpful for client trying to describe how she wants the illustrations to be.
Sadly, this job means I will be very busy and won't be able to work on my comic. But I will still be making the illustrations with the iPad pro, which is an even bigger feat in some regards. And don't worry, I will still blog. In fact, I already know what my next post will be about. It will be about what it is to be a children's book illustrator. I think I am qualified to answer that because not only have I illustrated a children's book before, but I also remember what it was like reading them as a child, and I know what makes children tick.
In other news, I finally got my hands on the iPad pro smart keyboard cover thingy majig. Also, my oldest sister is flying to Europe today and will be gone for two years. But most exciting of all, yesterday I got my copy of the official Star Wars novel, 'Before the Awakening,' and it does not disappoint!
Have a great week everybody! Make sure to comment your thoughts, and I will reply. Read me next week, and show this blog to any artist buds you have acquired. Goodbye!
After that, you can either forget that you even made an account, like I did, or you can search and apply for jobs that non-skilled people post. The jobs can range from taking five minutes to five months, and payment can be either hourly or a fixed price.
A few days after forgetting that I'd made an account, I got an email. The email said that someone was interested in hiring me! She said she saw my portfolio, liked my work, and wanted me to -get this- illustrate an entire children's book for her!
The book was about messy pigs, and she wanted me to draw a bunny and a pig before she hired me to see if I was capable, since all of my portfolio was of faces.
I was so excited that I got to drawing right away, which probably wasn't the best idea, since my hands were earthquakes. I decided to draw the bunny sort of reprimanding the pig, because in a story about messy pigs, you can be sure that the bunny will be the one trying to fix 'em up. Why is it always bunnies, I wonder? Probably because they are so cute and unobtrusive in the midst of their reprimanding.
So I sent that to her, and she said that I was hired. In fact, she said, with a few tweaks my concept art could be one of final illustrations! I flipped out. I had been right about the bunny, and now I had saved myself time, and gotten off at a great start with my new boss! I had shown that I can read minds, and that is very helpful for client trying to describe how she wants the illustrations to be.
Sadly, this job means I will be very busy and won't be able to work on my comic. But I will still be making the illustrations with the iPad pro, which is an even bigger feat in some regards. And don't worry, I will still blog. In fact, I already know what my next post will be about. It will be about what it is to be a children's book illustrator. I think I am qualified to answer that because not only have I illustrated a children's book before, but I also remember what it was like reading them as a child, and I know what makes children tick.
In other news, I finally got my hands on the iPad pro smart keyboard cover thingy majig. Also, my oldest sister is flying to Europe today and will be gone for two years. But most exciting of all, yesterday I got my copy of the official Star Wars novel, 'Before the Awakening,' and it does not disappoint!
Have a great week everybody! Make sure to comment your thoughts, and I will reply. Read me next week, and show this blog to any artist buds you have acquired. Goodbye!