Wow, when you’re desperate for work there is nothing to be found. When you’re happy at work, and like your job, recruiters call you and friends from far abroad refer their friends to you for freelance work. What is with that?
Seriously, for a couple years after the dotcom bubble burst, I had no freelance work to speak of. Now that I have a regular client or two, I have more offers for work than I can handle. Life is thus unfair, but at least now I’m not on the losing end of the stick anymore. Hating my job and having no one return phone calls was not fun, especially when I had to record my misery in 5 minute increments.
Now I just have to figure out how to balance this influx of work with the desire to push my personal body of work, not to mention my own personal body of sloth which needs a lot of attention, let me assure you. Years of laziness don’t react well to the gym, or to bike rides in low gear. Neither do they appreciate 95 degree heat and no breeze.
That is my rant for the day, thanks for coming!
Some recent comps for an interactive cbt done for an ad agency…
I was going to have a hard time ripping on you because I actually like your sketches! Never thought you would hear that form me? You controlled the values and I like the compositions. The make-up mirror reminds me alot of the old style you were working on in college… I always thought it just needed depth, still think the same, but the overall piece is great! I will just say that you should push where the eye goes a little further. Then again, it might not come accross on the monitor like it should.
Technical tip of the day: JPEGs started for archiving B/W photography. They become very small if you go to greyscale before making the JPEG. The b/w sketches still came across fast for me, but I can’t torture some of my friends with your link until you get the file size down… and it won’t drop the detail that much as most aren’t going to print these out poster size. Control the view better!
The aquarium job… you can do better… much better. Clean but I will rip you a new one if you said this was your top quality of work these days!
L8r, C