03-21-2015, 08:50 PM
I think the first thing you need to do is stop making excuses. If you don't like something about your life, change your own perspective about it first, only then will things change externally.
This is going to sound harsh, but when I hear your sob story I know all you are doing is just making it become more true and more relevant the more you constantly feed it and let it define you. You are doing this. Not some set of external things.
You need to be able to really look at yourself with honesty and love, not self loathing, and see yourself for what you are, both "good" and "bad". It means becoming aware of aspects of your nature that maybe aren't doing that great a job of enriching your life right now, and looking deeper at why you may be this way. The first step is awareness, then comes the change. Just wishing things to be a certain way, is pretty pointless without action.
In terms of figuring out how to self promote, I did actually tell you on facebook everything I have done to promote myself recently. Search freelance job boards on the usual suspect websites, Post folio links on polycount, indiedb, reddit, dA etc. Search for and then cold email companies/kickstarters/AD's/magazines/whoever you want to work for saying you're available for work.
Repeat daily.
Might take a while to get some hits, depending on your folio. Do you have one? If you don't, you need one.
That's it. :)
This is going to sound harsh, but when I hear your sob story I know all you are doing is just making it become more true and more relevant the more you constantly feed it and let it define you. You are doing this. Not some set of external things.
You need to be able to really look at yourself with honesty and love, not self loathing, and see yourself for what you are, both "good" and "bad". It means becoming aware of aspects of your nature that maybe aren't doing that great a job of enriching your life right now, and looking deeper at why you may be this way. The first step is awareness, then comes the change. Just wishing things to be a certain way, is pretty pointless without action.
In terms of figuring out how to self promote, I did actually tell you on facebook everything I have done to promote myself recently. Search freelance job boards on the usual suspect websites, Post folio links on polycount, indiedb, reddit, dA etc. Search for and then cold email companies/kickstarters/AD's/magazines/whoever you want to work for saying you're available for work.
Repeat daily.
Might take a while to get some hits, depending on your folio. Do you have one? If you don't, you need one.
That's it. :)