BIRTH OF AN ARTIST

The title of the post is not as presumptive as it sounds. Rather, i'm hoping this month will the launching pad to get my illustration career started. So in that sense a more fitting title might be: ARTIST FOR SALE. As most people know, or at least those reading this blog, i've had my illustration website up for a few months now (if you haven't checked it out at all or lately, take a look. For those who have been there before there's a new animated intro with sfx that I just set up last week).

So now that the site is up I need to get it out there and promote it to the public at large. I've signed up for a few free portfolio sites where you get to post a handful of images and provide links back to your site. So that's a good start, but this month is going to be all about self-promotion. The main form of this promotion is a postcard that i've created and had printed. Click on the image to check out both the front and back. So i've now got a box of 500 of these sitting on my desk and for the last week or so i've been working my way through my copy of my Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market book compiling a mailing list of publishers, magazines, greeting card company's etc...So hopefully in the next week or so my postcards will be traveling far and wide and maybe some will find accepting homes. We shall see. If you know someone I should be sending one to, please post a comment and let me know and i'll get one out in the mail.