Some freelance projects have tight deadlines. Others move at a slower pace. Way back in Spring of 2005 I was contacted by a publisher to illustrate a series of children's books designed to help kids understand various Christian concepts. Since there was no real rush our understanding was that I could set it aside to work on other more urgent projects...
Here's a neat site I stumbled upon recently. Illustrator Dani Jones has compiled a list of fifty nifty Illustration links. I've only briefly visited a few of the links so far, but it looks like a good list with lots of informative and/or inspiring stuff dealing with various aspects of illustration. I'm looking forward to browsing more of the links...
On top of a busy week for deadlines I'm having some major issues with my computer. Among other things I've got to re-install my operating system and try to recover over 100GB of deleted files. It's not pretty. I spent most of the afternoon under a desk in the corner of my studio curled up in the fetal position while...
I'm under the gun with some projects, so no time to write a blog post. But don't go away empty handed! Here's three blogs loaded with great info on freelancing: Freelance Switch Freelance Folder Wake Up Later In some cases their content is geared towards other types of freelancing besides illustration (i.e. freelance writing, freelance web design, etc.) but much if it can still...
After reading my recent two-part post entitled "How To Bid Out A Project" (Part 1 and Part 2), artist Mike Dashow emailed me with a question. He writes: I really enjoyed your blog post on bidding out a project...
After 28 episodes on DVD those crazy veggies from VeggieTales are starring in their second big-screen feature film, The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (official site). "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" started out as a Silly Song on VHS way back in 1997 (every VeggieTales episode has at least one Silly Song). The song became so popular that the Pirates...
