Well, since the last post quite a lot has happened. I landed two illustration jobs. They're not really dream jobs, more like learning the trade jobs. Basically I ended up doing about 15 illustration over a two week period. Now the quality may be questionable on some but a lot of them either had great potential or were pretty close to being as good as you'll get in that time from me.
Interestingly enough, my business partner (Chris Green) timed ourselves at taking on average 8 hours for a full colour illustration. Some of these were quite complex with 4 or 5 people in a scene. So on easier one we'd take less time. But we both agreed that we need to be doing it in 4 or 5 hours max. It's the only way our hourly rate will be anywhere near what we need to survive comfortably.
I have mentioned before that I wanted to work on my figure drawing and hands. Well, these sort of jobs give you paying opportunities to do this. I have also been practising figures and hands on my own and it seems to be getting there. My hands aren't great but are starting to come a lot easier to me and my understanding of how the torso works with the rest of the body is improving.
An interesting thing to note about the work we have managed to complete is that it took me six months to prepare 20 images for my portfolio. I managed to turn around 15 in two weeks. Maybe that in itself represents progress.
