The Drawing Board

The last six weeks have been crazy. As I prepare to leave for my first trade show of the year, my life gets filled with work! I was expecting an normally slow January and had held off working on my portfolios untill this month. Total mistake!!!!! I have been juggling three big Illustration jobs, two new proposals as well as a miriad of leadership responsiblilities for SCD. All of the printing for the booth walls is done and Ive decided to sell off my stock art in a way that is a little unusuall in the industry. I have over 500 pieces of art in my portfolios that have not been licensed. What happens is, someone likes my 'style' and askes me for specific designs for their project. SO..... all of that art that has been developed over the last 5 years just sits there! Well, Ive mounted prints to boards, like a fine artist would, priced them, and Im putting them in standing flip files for art buyers to go thru. WHen they purchase a piece of art they will buy the right to use it for one 'use' (like stickers) for a term of one year, if they want to use it for more than one thing they pay again! On the back of each piece is a form that allows me to keep track of the uses for each piece, once a use is purchased it may not be purchased again for another year... This idea (of Course) came up a week and a half ago so my assistant and I have been cutting and printing and mounting and wrapping for a week! I have two hundred boards, on the way to Las Vegas as I write this. I now need to transfer all of the photoshop and illustrator files to my laptop so that I can burn CDs for my buyers on the spot!

Im excited about this concept and show, I leave tomorrow. I will try to post from the show, complete with photos of my booth and hopefully lots of stock art being sold!