Hi ^^

[Mirna94]

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!

Hi! It is very relieving to hear that, but I will still have to put myself out there properly sooner or later.
Thank you for the links!
My main source of info so far have been Feng Zhu's (FZD) podcasts and he is so serious and professional about it, it made me a bit anxious about my age and experience.
Good luck to you too!

hello, Nice to meet you
youre not too late to the game, i decided to start trying to take things more seriously at 26 and im almost 30 now still in the struggle. if it feels late well, on average i seen people getting to a livable looking situation about 6 years in.. so you can still hit it before 30 and thats not bad i think, if its something you really wanna do. if youre real keen maybe youl get there sooner.
anyway feel free to add me on discord or wherever if you want any help, crits, direction or just someone to show your stuff to and get some feedback.
only if you want to ofcourse, anyway good luck with it all

Hey, nice too meet ya! I feel a little bit younger now haha :)

What salary would count as livable, though? I've heard its about 40k for junior artists. And I have no idea how good you have to be to get taken in as a junior artist by any studio. I only see pro work on Artstation and such and get intimidated haha.

I'll add you once I make an account. I have maaany questions. Thanks again!