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Advice for building a career as a freelance artist

Journal Entry: Wed Nov 14, 2007, 9:18 PM
I've been asked a lot of questions and done a lot of public speaking about "your career" and how you can "make it", which feels ironic, since I'm still a few thousand dollars shy of paying off my art school loans!

But at any rate, I've been compiling a lot of this advice in one place for easier correspondences, and recently a few people insisted that I share it online. So if you are interested in that kind of stuff, here's the link to an essay I wrote:

Advice for building a career as a freelance artist
and/or paid cartoonist


--I'm sure a lot of the details are up for debate and I plan to add and change things over time. Hope you find some of it useful.
Cheers!





  • Listening to: The Gothic Archies: Lemony Snicket songs
  • Watching: Avatar!!, Fruits Basket, The Mighty Boosh
  • Eating: bread sticks
  • Drinking: pineapple juice

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*toktobis:icontoktobis: Nov 14, 2007, 9:20:56 PM
I read this earlier today, that's a lot of really good, helpful information! Thank you very much for sharing your advice.
*zvko:iconzvko: Nov 14, 2007, 9:27:32 PM
Mr. Roman is way too kind. :thanks:

(If you ever write one for aspiring pharmacists, do let me know! :p)

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*Avatar-Cosplay-Club: bringing Avatar into reality.
=alexds1:iconalexds1: Nov 14, 2007, 9:39:21 PM
I read that this morning! Its so useful :heart: :heart:
*yfrontninja:iconyfrontninja: Nov 14, 2007, 9:55:51 PM
Cute AND lots of good info. I really like the drawing at the end with the dancing gum people hee hee hee.

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~dhstyle:icondhstyle: Nov 14, 2007, 9:57:04 PM
Wow! Great read with a lot of stuff that seems so obvious, yet I'm not doing. I TOTALLY agree with not arguing with your art director. I get more work from referrals than I do from mailers and website traffic. Be nice, kids.
*rufftoon:iconrufftoon: Nov 14, 2007, 10:04:13 PM
Also read it earlier today, and a very good read it was too. Very sound advice. I will definitely link to it in next journal.
~pinksy456:iconpinksy456: Nov 14, 2007, 10:05:18 PM
i read this information and thought it was cool. but on the nick magazine link, there was a colbert report video about avatar on there too. the problem was, i couldn't see it. can u help me?

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`Nenimo:iconNenimo: Nov 14, 2007, 10:05:51 PM
probably one of the best and most complete articles I've read on freelancing
bookmarked and forwarding to friends!
I have to say though, while it may not be professional "hotstudcartoonist@earthlink.net." is an awesome e-mail address
:D

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~Riza-Cifra:iconRiza-Cifra: Nov 14, 2007, 10:06:03 PM
Fantastic! I was just searching the website for helpful guidelines for becoming a freelance artist. You're timing is impeccable. <3 Bookmark'd.

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~pacificdingo:iconpacificdingo: Nov 14, 2007, 10:25:47 PM
Thank you for posting this! This is great information!

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