Posts Tagged ‘Starving Artist’

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Working as an artist, freelancer, writer or some other self-employed creative person extraordinaire is never easy. It’s hard to explain to family why your income varies so much, even though you’re constantly working. If you do breakdown and decide you need a second “real job” to help pay your rent filling out the job applications is painful. Having to answer questions about “gaps in your employment history” to someone who always has, and in all probability always will, worked directly for someone else is a daunting task. Regardless of how large your freelance checks have been, explaining to a normal person that you work as a writer, artist, freelancer, photographer (that does anything other than school portraits, weddings or fashion spreads in Vogue), designer, musician, etcetera makes you look like an unfortunate lost soul in many people’s eyes.

Though most of us were told as children that we can be whatever we want to be when we grow up, that message usually changes as we get older. Which is disheartening to those of us that refuse to believe that we can’t be comic book characters or artists when we “grow up.”
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• Nubby Twiglet made a wonderful post full of Graphic Design Resources.
• Fawn Gehweiler made a post recently titled Cute Clutter vs. Creative Chaos where she shows images from other artist’s workspaces and homes.
• Do art schools care about your GPA?
• I want this calendar!
• Blurb is an awesome site that lets you create your own bookstore quality books on your own computer, then you send the file to them, they print it and ship it back to you. They’re having a free shipping special for purchases over $10 from now until 11:59 PM PST December 5, 2008. That’s tomorrow night! So, hurry and make yourself a book. Enter this promotion code at the checkout: freeshipping!
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