12-03-2014, 06:25 PM
hey guys,
here are some sketchbook pages from when I stayed at my parents for 2 weeks. The one water color picture with the 2 trees was done outside as well as the drawing of the building. Both times it was really cold so my mom made me gloves with holes for the fingers so I can draw and have warm hands at the same time. Pretty neat, huh?
Anyways I am working my way slowly through Glen Vilppu's Drawing Manual, I recommend you check that out if you can. It is just really good to start over with drawing once more and learn it from the ground up.
Also I decided to do studies and reading up on stuff more on weekends and try to do focused work during the week. I sometimes had the feeling that I couldn't do work before I hadn't done at least one study, which at times really slowed me down. And as good as slowing down is, it hightend the pressure on me, when I really had to do something but didn't do it right away.
And I had a rather unpleasant experience the other day. I had given someone an offer for doing characters for them for 200€ the piece. I thought I had a good offer but in the end, they went with someone who is doing them for 150€ the piece. The other guy is doing 1 per week. That means he gets 600€ per week. The fuck? How can he live of that? It is really strange to have this feeling of being to expensive while not even having started freelancing lol.
I hope my other endeavours are blessed with more success. For instance I am working on that logo above for 80€, which is incredibly low and I have sunken more than 12 hours of work into it. It was partly my mistake (not working focused enough) and partly theirs (not deciding what they want and wanting changes), but mainly it was because I had no contract with them to begin with. So next time I will say: Sketch 25% of the money, Final Design 30%, Color Comps 30%, Final Picture 15%. And any rework after that goes by an hourly rate. That way I increase the
pressure on their side and safe myself of grey hair. My dad gave me that advice and I will try it next time and tell you how it worked out.
Cheers,
Flo
here are some sketchbook pages from when I stayed at my parents for 2 weeks. The one water color picture with the 2 trees was done outside as well as the drawing of the building. Both times it was really cold so my mom made me gloves with holes for the fingers so I can draw and have warm hands at the same time. Pretty neat, huh?
Anyways I am working my way slowly through Glen Vilppu's Drawing Manual, I recommend you check that out if you can. It is just really good to start over with drawing once more and learn it from the ground up.
Also I decided to do studies and reading up on stuff more on weekends and try to do focused work during the week. I sometimes had the feeling that I couldn't do work before I hadn't done at least one study, which at times really slowed me down. And as good as slowing down is, it hightend the pressure on me, when I really had to do something but didn't do it right away.
And I had a rather unpleasant experience the other day. I had given someone an offer for doing characters for them for 200€ the piece. I thought I had a good offer but in the end, they went with someone who is doing them for 150€ the piece. The other guy is doing 1 per week. That means he gets 600€ per week. The fuck? How can he live of that? It is really strange to have this feeling of being to expensive while not even having started freelancing lol.
I hope my other endeavours are blessed with more success. For instance I am working on that logo above for 80€, which is incredibly low and I have sunken more than 12 hours of work into it. It was partly my mistake (not working focused enough) and partly theirs (not deciding what they want and wanting changes), but mainly it was because I had no contract with them to begin with. So next time I will say: Sketch 25% of the money, Final Design 30%, Color Comps 30%, Final Picture 15%. And any rework after that goes by an hourly rate. That way I increase the
pressure on their side and safe myself of grey hair. My dad gave me that advice and I will try it next time and tell you how it worked out.
Cheers,
Flo