08-31-2017, 06:35 AM
Welcome! Good on you for joining and getting serious.
Don't worry about marketing for now.
Do your work, get better, start to get a folio together. Without a folio you won't get any jobs period.
People use social media with succes in various ways. I've been freelancing for a couple of years and for me personally dA and my own folio has been far and away the main source of any work besides cold emailing companies and art directors.
Please stay away from sites like fiverr or freelancer or any site that asks you to bid your lowest against other artists for jobs. It's NOT worth it and you don't want the type of clients that use those sites. I speak from experience.
List of freelancing resources here: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7...reelancing
Read up all the posts on http://dearartdirector.tumblr.com/
Important and useful insight from a few leading AD's pov.
And with the age thing, I don't know why everyone feels this way when they are young, it's really a shame. I blame society. I am 40, started teaching myself at 34. Nobody important gives a s&*( how old you are, because it really doesn't matter in the slightest, so you shouldn't care either.
Good luck, carry on!
Don't worry about marketing for now.
Do your work, get better, start to get a folio together. Without a folio you won't get any jobs period.
People use social media with succes in various ways. I've been freelancing for a couple of years and for me personally dA and my own folio has been far and away the main source of any work besides cold emailing companies and art directors.
Please stay away from sites like fiverr or freelancer or any site that asks you to bid your lowest against other artists for jobs. It's NOT worth it and you don't want the type of clients that use those sites. I speak from experience.
List of freelancing resources here: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7...reelancing
Read up all the posts on http://dearartdirector.tumblr.com/
Important and useful insight from a few leading AD's pov.
And with the age thing, I don't know why everyone feels this way when they are young, it's really a shame. I blame society. I am 40, started teaching myself at 34. Nobody important gives a s&*( how old you are, because it really doesn't matter in the slightest, so you shouldn't care either.
Good luck, carry on!