One of the things I have come to expect and accept being an illustrator is that I am going to be asked to do various random favours...anyway this evenings efforts are in aid of a friend of mines masters...it took a couple of hours...and that is before I've done any ammendments! Doesn't leave me after work much time for myself but hey ho...friends are worth it.
This one is at least grateful...amazing how little thanks I get for my time sometimes. This is normally due to a lack of understanding of what they are asking to be done...or even more irritatingly...of how to explain what they want to be done! (This is worse because I have a stab at it...and then hear "Oh sorry that wasn't what I had in mind at all") It these ones that say "Can you just..." it's never as simple as that...never! You think Da Vinci had to put up with "Can you just..."?
Becoming an illustrator has really taken over my life...I didn't train to be an illustrator...I just got pushed into it...for which I will be forever grateful. It was so much not an artist at secondary school that wasn't allowed to take GCSE art...I didn't like writing the justification that went along with the picture....I just liked to draw...be creative...make things!
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