02 Feb 15:41
--fact: you study more effectively at midnight - it also can improve your memory retention alot
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02 Feb 15:27
--@point5 i did finally watch the secret life of ariety during my hiatus this week
02 Feb 15:19
--/pvt 3266 This guy's day rate is in the four-figure range, apparently. http://www.johnnylighthands.com/#/comic/
02 Feb 15:17
--I'm a chronic insomniac. Sitting here grinding out studies. If I can't sleep I may as well be productive.
02 Feb 14:16
--lol, I don't think it's the rendering skills that's wanted, more like what's behind the drawing or some other stuff
02 Feb 14:01
--Maybe it's just a British thing. I remember this one ACD I know showing me some stuff by the guy who's considered 'the best' advertising artist in the UK.
02 Feb 14:00
--I don't think they give a fuck how well you can draw as long as a) you can do it in less than an hour and b) you can kind of see what it's meant to be.
02 Feb 13:59
--Also the work I've been getting has been with advertising agencies, not game studios or stuff like that.
02 Feb 13:08
--it's like World is saying, "Give up, you just can't win. Anywhere. You already lost years ago. You're just a walking dead in denial."
02 Feb 13:07
--I keep getting told I need to get a job. I'm using the day to do studies, but maybe not hard enough. Then at night I want to do something for myself too, and not think much, and not stressing over how to write another coverletter until 5 minutes before going to bed
02 Feb 12:45
--It's like the world is saying to me, 'no, you can only make money by drawing. Now get better at it'.
02 Feb 12:44
--When I think about how I got turned down by everywhere including McDonalds and the toilet cleaners for work, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
02 Feb 12:43
--That said, I think an ad company wants me to come in and talk to them about the possibility of an entry-level 9-5 doing storyboards and sketches for them.
02 Feb 12:42
--I'm kind of lucky in that no-one's offered me a full-time position yet, just freelance. So although the financial instability sucks I do at least have plenty of time to study.
02 Feb 11:10
--I really like putting on a film I know word-for-word and sketching to it.
02 Feb 10:57
--i limited myself to only 2 hours of painting on my cpu for the past 2 days and the ideas just came flowing from being bored out of my mind with daytime television
02 Feb 09:27
--/pvt 3806 yeah very true, done a bit of design stuff for people, a few companies, good fun to do though hard at times not to make look tacky