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What advice could you give to someone wanting to be an illustrator?
If you weren’t an illustrator what do you think you would be?
I live by “if you don’t ask, you don’t get” – it’s something I say to myself all the time. When I was younger I thought if I drew nice illustrations that somehow someone would discover me, but it really doesn’t work like that, you have to “ask”, if you don’t ask, you don’t get the commissions you want – you create your own luck & future. Be proud of your work, don’t be disheartened by criticism, stay creative and the doors of opportunity will fly open.
I actually have a day job so this is easy to answer. I am a search manager for a media agency. This involves running online marketing campaigns for clients - I write ads that appear on Google search & Facebook. You also have to analyse data and create presentations! It’s very numbers focussed.
What did you want to be as a child? Might/Does sound completely morbid but I wanted to be a pathologist at aged 10, when I was 14 I wanted to be a barrister and then a judge.
Do you have any advice/ quote that you live by? “if you don’t ask, you don’t get” What is the best advice you have ever been given? I don’t really seek advice, I like to weigh up everything in my own mind but everyone always tells me “do what you love/what makes you happy”