Hello! I'm a freelancer + here's my story + I'm gonna stop lurking
#1
Hello everyone! :)

I've been lurking crimson daggers for quite some time now. I usually chat a bit on livestream on and off but most of the time I work during streams so you might not have seen my name pop up too much.

Anyway I'm Jordy, I'm from Belgium - I recently graduated and have a degree in digital arts (my school sucked but at least I learned some 3D - in particular Zbrush is relevant and handy) there and got a taste of the game industry)

I was offered a full time job at a relatively big game studio, working in house as a 3D artist and concept artist (bit all-round) I worked on cliché fantasy games. In theory this was my dream but I discovered that it just... sucked. So after my 4 month internship I kindly declined their offer (shocking all my school and their company, because they are the *only* and biggest game studio in my country) and decided to go freelancer full time - because fuck it.

I've always been very ambitious and I like to control my own fate rather than produce 2 3D props a day, factory style, for a company of which I have no idea what it is doing.

I've been going for about 4 months now, full time. Started very casual, with literally 0 clients but I've been very quickly improving my skill and client list and overal been very surprised at how well this is working out. I can proudly say I'm starting to get swamped in pretty nicely payed stuff, and that I have decline work because I'm full for the next month (felt really cool the first time)
That said I live relatively humbly (perfect at the beginning of my carreer) so it doesn't take much to make more than I spend.

Other than working on NDA stuff I do daily sketches and studies - lately been doing 2 or more per day. (You can find these on my facebook art page) I live stream some times and generally just spam the shit out of every social media there is.

So here are some of my links! (Best one if you want to keep up to date is my FB page.)

http://jordylakiere.com/
https://www.facebook.com/JordyLakiereArt
http://jordylakiere.deviantart.com/
https://twitter.com/JordyLakiere
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread....book/page9
http://www.livestream.com/jordylakiere


The reason I decided to actually stop lurking and post stuff here is because ever since I started working and finished school I'm definitely missing a "community" sense in my life, and you guys basically rock. I will definitely start livestreaming more of my studies since so far doing them alone with little feedback only helps so much. (and isn't as fun)

Cheers!

Jordy

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#2
Oh wow! Welcome to the daggers :D
Feel free to link your links in your signature which makes it easier for us to find and pm Wolkens your livestream link to have it added to the list!

Just out of curiosity, would you be doing a mentorship program here? Or just your Video tutorials for now? :0

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#3
(01-31-2013, 06:59 PM)Chiritsu Wrote: Oh wow! Welcome to the daggers :D
Feel free to link your links in your signature which makes it easier for us to find and pm Wolkens your livestream link to have it added to the list!

Just out of curiosity, would you be doing a mentorship program here? Or just your Video tutorials for now? :0

Thanks man! Definitely will do that, thanks.

I thought about mentorship after I saw the subforum but I sort of cant afford the responsibility right now with client work and all. Also it would be pretty unfair to do free mentorship when I actually give private lessons (paid) to a few students. My video tutorials are totally free and always will be, however. (and I also dont hold back on any info there) but for personalised feedback and paintovers I charge the same as my freelance rate, I hope that makes some sense :)

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#4
Heya,
How is it like to work full time on art? I do some freelance work myself, but definitely not full-time, just the occasional extra penny here and there.
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#5
hehe welcome aboard Jordy. Took you some time man

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#6
Sickbrush - haha yeah dude, I feel the same way.

MrBeast - I feel like full time is almost the only way to go. It's kindof an all or nothing kind of thing (to me) so I basically went in head first and insta-full time. It's pretty good so far.

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#7
Againe professional artist ?! I mean, hi Jordy )

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#8
(01-31-2013, 08:12 PM)JordyLakiere Wrote: I thought about mentorship after I saw the subforum but I sort of cant afford the responsibility right now with client work and all. Also it would be pretty unfair to do free mentorship when I actually give private lessons (paid) to a few students. My video tutorials are totally free and always will be, however. (and I also dont hold back on any info there) but for personalised feedback and paintovers I charge the same as my freelance rate, I hope that makes some sense :)

I figured you'd be busy with many things considering you had to decline some paid work lol, but it's nice to have you here on the forums non the less! <3

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#9
Nice dude, congrats. I saw you posting on ca.org looking for work awhile ago. Glad to see something worked out for you!
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