a very helpful website for freelancers and some news

Well i'm not sure if this will help anyone but it's full of advice and guidelines. If, like me, you hate dealing with the money side of things, you might want to go to this website... Freelance Fees Guide it covers so many aspects of freelance work, that i am sure someone could use it for advice. If not maybe throw it to the wolves....

Anyway enough of the darker side of things. Stuff (don't you just love that word....stuff...stuff....stuff it....stuff up, his stuff, her stuff, their stuff) with Egmont is moving forward and i have another date set to meet up with them to show all my work for The Flower in the Snow story. 'Yippee', i cried when i heard the news, but that was choked back when i realised i had SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH WORK TO DO in such a small amount of time. So i now have to get off my butt and pull my proverbial socks up (any higher and they'll be hitching a ride on my lugholes). I could write a list of things i need to do by then, but, and this may sound stupid, i don't actually know what i need to do. I know what i want to do and that's get a big crayon, a roll of wall paper and make messy with it. Alas, i doubt this will get me very far when they ask to see pictures of polar bears and rabbits and other strange things.

So now i am here thinking 'jeeee....sus, what shall i do next?'. Where's all the advice i stored away during the 3 years i was at uni? This is when i realise it's a lonely life as an illustrator, who do i turn to to help me get done what i need to get done. I hate to put myself onto other people, sometimes it's hard to ask for advice as i hate bothering friends. I guess i shall have to put it out into the universe and maybe whilst i'm at it i'll ask for some scones, a nice cake stand for my friend, a new pencil and a castle. (does anybody else want anything whilst i am asking the universe to deliver?)

Well i guess i'll say watch this space and thanks for reading, i hope the website i linked to is helpful.

Bah humbag and stuffing Santa back up the chimney.

Well here we are again. Writing those conscious and unconscious thoughts (the unconscious usually go something like this "wkjjh egf sergg aehr g g  ejrhge quack", so i'll refrain from sharing too many of those).

I am not feeling christmassy. No really, it betrayed me, it came and it left very quickly. Whoosh. I enjoyed the feeling for as long as it was here but it decided to say it was leaving. oh well. Another time!

I am enjoying the twinkly lights and seeing other people enjoy this time of year. Even in times of economic crisis it's good to see people gesticulating 2 fingers in the direction of the bank gods and spending like crazy. 

I heard from Egmont about my work and so far so good. The roughs went to another meeting and they were praised quite highly. Some stuff to change but isn't that the way! Hand in date is early January and then i have to wait for the greenlight meeting. In the mean time my agent wants colour work to take around so i think i'll be busy for next coming months. (Probably a good thing as i seemed to have lost my other glove and my hand is cold waiting for the glove to be given back to me).

It's still a lonely life as an illustrator but hopefully the new year will bring some new challenges and people to meet. I look forward to it. Get rid of the old and bring in the new please!

I thought i'd share another rough with you (above probably as i haven't worked out how to insert image between para's). I quite like the way they look on screen, gives me hope for publication :o)

So the Santa stuffing, shall i do it if he decides to visit me? Hell yes and i'll send him packing with some (bah) humbugs too ksdjgf w gkaw gdag js  v we gt d quack ;o)

Lists and things

Ooo what a day i'm having. There's so many things written on my list of things to do. Here's a little shifty into my world of list writing...

1. Get some stuff
2. draw some bits on the dooberry
3. POLAR BEAR bum
4. moosic

and there we have it, a list of deep thought and importance. Hmmm, yes, i'll be sorted if i get that list ticked off, eh!. Anyway enough of that waffle (or is it dribble/drivvle?). 

I haven't blogged in ages and feel pretty poop for not getting my inner most waffle on here for people (or beings) to read some time in the future. So why haven't i been waffling....i mean blogging? Well mainly due to sorting out my illness which has boiled down to be chronically fatigued. Remedy? Oh yes! I had a food intolerance test done and it looks like i'm intolerable...i mean intolerant to dorito's. Uh huh, those and wheat, fructose, dairy, yeast and celery. Hmmm but fear not i can eat saw dust and S.F.A. Don't worry about me i'll be fine. 3 bean salad here i come.

I've also been working on book roughs for Egmont publishers... i'm loving it. If not a little wobbly at times with my 'style' (god bless Martin for making me shudder when i use the word style) i am endeavoring to have fun with my work. I've been around some really negative people which makes me want to scream at the top of my lungs "it's a PUPPET" (i know i know, i don't make much sense, at least i know i don't make sense, that's half the battle isn't it?) 

So here's an image i really like that i produced a couple of weeks ago (above), it was sent to the author and she loved it. YAY....(mental image....Loo clicks heels in the air). 

Erm, yes and i've done a few more. I'll add at a later date, i have to finish ticking things off my list. Joy.