Smother..

Hey! Yes, I am listening to 'Daughter' 

It has just occurred to me that my last few blogs haven't really had much to do with my Illustration, so maybe I should get on that really. 

So far, the plan is: Work hard, send work off, social network the hell out of the net and try my damndest to get any PAID work I can so I can run like the wind out of retail.

My boyfriend is losing his job as his HMV is the only one in the area to shut down *sigh* however I am hoping every cloud has a silver lining and this means he can seriously take some time off and hammer his Illustration (yes, we are both Illustrators) we met in our first year of uni on our course and now live together in my home town.

If all else fails we will save from whatever jobs we are in and travel maybe to New Zealand and try and get some work out there or if we get some money we could travel the world. 

I have even written what times of the year are best :) especially Japan is the hardest as they seem to have a lot of festivals, which I want to go to but its picking to right ones, but I also want to be there when its not as busy so its easier to get around. Think it will prob be May sometime, I want to be there for Golden Week and see the cherry blossoms!

Anyway, back to Illustration. 

Today I will be doing some more silhouette practice and Online presence stuff. 

Omg, my sites are annoying me, I can't manage them all and I am usually so organised. Right...Ok.

Right, This is my workspace, my main influences are Loish, Range Murata, Camilla D'Errico and Saejin Oh. I also surf 'Deviant Art' as there are some amazing artists on there. 

Here's a pic from 2011 - well I took it today but it was published in 2011:

My first publication in Neo Magazine when I was just starting out in digital:

 So to show a yearly progression I made this:

There's quite big steps there - so I hope to keep striding! - or maybe I'll even start to strut all cocky and confident-like.

I should probably start to concentrate on one thing at a time. I have been social networking at the same time as writing this and I haven't even had breakfast or coffee WHERE'S MY COFFEE! That's it, I'm getting one brb:

^_^ that's a good cup of Joe! Nescafe Cappuccino's are amazing - However - they don't do the chocolate sprinkles and I have to say quite frankly - that's bull.

*peace*

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