eing able to send out an invoice is biting me in the butt! I leave for New York in two weeks for the Licensing Show with just enough money to pay for my food and hotel. As a freelancer youve got to do stuff like this, theres no way around it, but, when it fails, it really hurts! There is a silver lining tho, I developed enough work to almost fill a portfolio and Ive been expanding on the designs, improving on them, creating new ones and that all goes to New York. On a slightly different note...I painted these frogs for my 10 yr old neice for her birthday and in turn showed them to a client. They picked then up with a 10% royalty!!!! So off to the photographer to be shot and then into frames for Melissa's wall. YEY!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Its hard to be a freelance designer
How time flies!, Great projects come and go and some come crashing down. The life of a freelance artist I guess. I had a wonderful opportunity to design a product as an exclusive for a major retailer, the buyer loved it, took it and then a week later was gone. Quit... Fired... I dont know, but my project has been floating around in limbo for 4 weeks now, and I have a contract with the manufacturer thats about to expire. The job took two weeks and, because of the nature of the sale, I took a very low advance. So, thirty days later that time I spent without b
eing able to send out an invoice is biting me in the butt! I leave for New York in two weeks for the Licensing Show with just enough money to pay for my food and hotel. As a freelancer youve got to do stuff like this, theres no way around it, but, when it fails, it really hurts! There is a silver lining tho, I developed enough work to almost fill a portfolio and Ive been expanding on the designs, improving on them, creating new ones and that all goes to New York. On a slightly different note...I painted these frogs for my 10 yr old neice for her birthday and in turn showed them to a client. They picked then up with a 10% royalty!!!! So off to the photographer to be shot and then into frames for Melissa's wall. YEY!
eing able to send out an invoice is biting me in the butt! I leave for New York in two weeks for the Licensing Show with just enough money to pay for my food and hotel. As a freelancer youve got to do stuff like this, theres no way around it, but, when it fails, it really hurts! There is a silver lining tho, I developed enough work to almost fill a portfolio and Ive been expanding on the designs, improving on them, creating new ones and that all goes to New York. On a slightly different note...I painted these frogs for my 10 yr old neice for her birthday and in turn showed them to a client. They picked then up with a 10% royalty!!!! So off to the photographer to be shot and then into frames for Melissa's wall. YEY!
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