![]() I created projects for hand lettering and improving my Photoshop skills.Īlthough social media has been an asset in building my brand awareness over the years. I began taking Skillshare classes to improve my skills and techniques. ![]() That autumn I took my first intensive 5-week online course called Make Art That Sells, which really set the ball rolling. My daughter became eligible for free nursery sessions, which I factored in when making the decision to step back into illustration. You can read more about passive income in this blog post. This year I started to upload old freelance art and icons to a Shutterstock image library and those became the seeds of my passive income. That was the year Pinterest was launched-remember that, as I’m going to talk about it later. I gave up creative work, a year after my son was born. The editorial niche was something I fell into by accident because I could draw people, but after a while I really started to resent the idealized forms I was expected to portray. I was also making a good income from editorial illustration for lifestyle and health and beauty magazines. After I graduated in 1996, I was an in-house artist at several London-based greeting card companies (including Hallmark) which I really enjoyed. I entered college for a degree in Advertising and Design, but I switched to Illustration in the second year. ![]() In retrospect I can draw this central line running down the middle, and the timeline looks incredibly neat and tidy with the major events for five years from 2013 till 2018… but the real experience was anything but linear, or smooth sailing.
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