Posts from — November 2009
I’m supposed to be working
This is me supposed to be working:
Clearly…uh…NOT working…
I also realised that I forgot today is “Vintage Ad Friday”, and have shortchanged you one vintage ad. Hah! Sorry about that.
On the bright side, I’ve had such a good response from my entries about being a freelance illustrator and selling work wholesale that I am currently in the process of writing more about it – specifically, getting your art out and about into physical places: cafes, shops, galleries, the like.
So stayed tuned.
November 6, 2009 Comments Off
Happy Happy Happy
I’m feeling kinda depressed today. Unmotivated with my art or work. It probably doesn’t help that I feel very tired…I feel like I’m slogging through thick molasses to get anything done.
That is, I WAS! Until I checked the post box!
This year I took advantage of Deviant Art’s free shipping worldwide offer, and ordered a bunch of little prints to use little gifts, gift tags, cards etc for people this Christmas. Had I had more money, I would’ve ordered much larger ones, but at least I got SOME, even if they are small.
And, since I was ordering and it was so cheap without paying shipping, I got a couple for me. My favourite being from artist Ravenari!
I’d have taken photos of the other things I ordered, but since they’re not all for me and some are going as gifts to people, I can’t or it’d spoil the surprise.
The above are poor quality pictures (really, my camera is dieing), but I’m VERY impressed with the quality of the prints from Deviant Art. To be honest, I was expecting slightly dodgy, but the colours are good, it’s crisp, it’s Kodak paper – all in all, a lot better than I was expecting.
So now I’m happy, and am going to go about hanging some of these up near my work space as inspiration. 
November 5, 2009 Comments Off
Scary stuff
I attended a wedding recently, and a quick look at the wedding photos on facebook revealed possibly the scariest photo of a wedding guest ever.
And it’s me.
Have a look at this. I’ve cropped the photo as best I can, so as to just show me (nobody else wants to be seen with me here, I assure you):
Scarily enough, this is a genuine, candid photo.
Please observe the way my red pupils are each facing opposite directions the way shark eyes do, and that I appear to have exposed a solid, scary wall of front teeth. All the better to eat you with.
I don’t know about you, but if I met this character in a dark alley one night, I’d shit myself!
November 4, 2009 Comments Off
Selling your products wholesale
It’s been some years since I closed my wholesale website and stopped selling my art products wholesale, but it was a good source of income while I was.
At the height of it’s success, my wholesale orders alone paid my rent every week (usually with some left over), meaning money I made through licensing, retail sales, original artwork sales and commissions was able to be allocated to other expenses.
I stopped doing it for a whole host of reasons, but the major one being that I was living in a very tiny flat at the time.
My bedroom turned into a stock room, my tiny lounge room and dining area turned into a work and packaging space, prints dried across the lounge itself meaning there was nowhere to sit down and we ate dinner squished onto the edge of Seth’s futon, which usually had a pile of stuff on it too.
For my sanity, it had to stop, but it IS something I’m considering picking up again at some point in the future. And while it lasted, this is how I went about it.
November 2, 2009 1 Comment
Handy Hints Sunday!
Hello again dear (or deer, if you are one) reader, and welcome again to Sunday’s HANDY HINTS!
This week, we have a particularly handy hint for those of us who know an idiot who could really use a slap up the side of the head, but good etiquette dictates that you don’t do so.
THERE IS NOW A WAY TO WHACK ‘EM ONE!!
‘How is that?’ you ask, gentle (but slap-happy, apparently) reader?
Turn it into a dance!!
It’s as simple as it is brilliant. And here’s a video to demonstrate exactly the way to go about it:
Now go forth and slap dance!
November 1, 2009 Comments Off
