17 Jan 05:36
--rig up a laptop screen to a raspberry pie in your pocket then walk around with the screen on your back
Shout Box archive
17 Jan 05:29
--yeah i asked antony jones how he got his first job and he said hasbro approached him at a convention. i thought to just go to a con in a shirt that has "concept artist"written on it lol
17 Jan 05:28
--I exchanged that budget to spend a year building the damn portfolio thing. Wasnt worth the money to go there with a half assed portfolio
17 Jan 05:27
--considering I'm a lazy bastard and I also spend two hours studying japanese every day I'd be afraid to try and work out how much I actually spend on art
17 Jan 05:25
--and ive become jaded because looking for work on the internet seems like a waste of time if you want to get paid more than $10 an illustration
17 Jan 05:23
--marketing myself has always felt like wasting time googling the same keywords in a different order looking for new results
17 Jan 05:21
--now im to a point where its not really about my skills so much but marketing. and u still dont quite know how to start balancing marketting and painting
17 Jan 05:20
--ive literally have woken up every day since sat down and painted and drawed
17 Jan 05:20
--i been drawing and painting non-stop all day since i graduated 2 years ago lol
17 Jan 05:19
--SO yeah, if they can push 7k hours in 2 years, it would take me 10 years of squeezing freetime between day job and freelace to get the same amount of hours in.
17 Jan 05:18
--i only photobash for mechanical stuff but it still feels like cheating lol
17 Jan 05:17
--Spaceghost: what I meant by 10 years, is that with my day job, I could only get 2h of practice per day if I didnt have freelance. That is roughly 600h per year if I dont do anything else. If I quit now and do 9h per day, I can have free nights and have almost 3,500h in a single year.
17 Jan 05:07
--but then again it could just be the fact that i was putting in hours during highschool but i didnt know how to study that well back then
17 Jan 05:02
--think that rule applied before the internet and all this free content and information we have now. the last 2 years my skills have greatly improved just from watching vids on youtube
17 Jan 05:00
--i dont subscribe to that whole "10 years before you can make money at art" thing. its been disproven by so many ppl like alex negrea.