Piggies

I passed my Review just fine. Yay for me. This is one of my recent pieces that I showed at it and them important people seemed to like it. I got some good compliments, but more importantly for me I got some good advice. For example, I need to keep in mind my color theory sometimes. On many pieces I get too complex with the color and lose focus or make an unviewable mess. Or I have made the mistake on several pieces of having the value or saturations too similar. I would never know these type of things without outside critiques because I very often get too wrapped up in the process to see my own work objectively. That is probably true for any activity that anybody does.

I am currently working on a deck of cards that I will use as a promotional gimmick to send to Art Directors. Then they can throw them away along with all the other crap that all the other desperate wannabe illustrators send them. Speaking of, I believe I got a paid commission yesterday, kind of. I am still working it out, but it will be a little money and exposure, so I am happy. The part that I don't like about actually getting free-lance jobs is the accounting. What the hell am I supposed to do about that? I hate all that paperwork. That's one of the things that killed Marigold's Calendula Card business.