I've made about £500 :)

[shiato storm]

remember those Xmas cards I posted up a while ago?
well I flogged them for all I was worth (and also had a calendar I made...) and in total I expect to have raised roughly £500

not bad for a bit of painting eh

and I'm sure I'll carry on doing more...anyone know what graphic designers get? is there a need for them or should I just keep it a hobby? comic book artist? story book illustrator? could I have unwittingly rejected my education for something I find, well, fun...!

I think perhaps

[Gr44]

GFX design can be quite hard to find work, unless you find a place in a company doing it ( rather than freelancing ) goto deviantart.com and try and get a job or to, see how things go, i warn you, people dont often tell you what they want! "something like er, this" etc etc

Good luck, no harm in trying

[Kimo]

Either way having a hobby you enjoy and can make a bit of money out of on the side can't be a bad thing

[shiato storm]

i'm more pencil to paper/painter than anything else but I scan my work in and enhance it a bit so it can be 'mass produced' if need be...
I use photoshop regularly and thus know what to do and how...but my initial image comes from papar sketch/drawing/painting.

[petrefax]

nice one mate - they were well sweet btw

[5cupa]

well it all depends who u work for the company i am with at the moment is struggling so when I interview next week the salary put forward will be around 21k and must have a degree, 2 years experience and fluid in all Adobe products, understand 3D concepts and web design an advantage

[Zathras]

Any link to the gfx you knocked up for the cards?

[shiato storm]

yup...here





should give you an idea of what I did

[Zathras]

Someone's a boatie. Where'd you row mate?

[shiato storm]

ULBC (university of london boat club)

[Zathras]

Ah, I rowed for Oxford Uni lightweights a couple of years back and outside of uni I'm rowing up in Lancaster. Did you do BIRC?

[shiato storm]

whats BIRC??

oh..that indoor rowing malarky? no way. I'm crap at ergs and even crapper in front of a crowd...I can get 6.32 but I went to that indoor chmps thing and f*ed it up bad, coming in at 6.45 ... I think the diagnosis of overtraining from the BOMC the following week sort of exhonorated my poor performance but it was an experience I'm willing never to repeat.
I prefer on the water only, I'm bloody nippy in a 1x and for the lightweight I am, taking out so many big guys was funny! I used to row in oxford, was at Teddies (no, not teddy hall, st edward's - up the woodstock rd). did ok