My dream come true!
Many would say that I am living the dream! What dream? The dream of being FREE! I work but only when I feel inspired. I sleep when ever I feel like napping! I don't have a 9 to 5 job! I stay up all night and sleep away the morning! I have a BOSS and that's ME!
I am a full time artist and I doodle for a living!
I always enjoyed drawing! It was the only thing I did at school! Okay, I did learn some other stuff as well but it was my favorite class. I also went to school to learn marketing and because I wanted to dive into the commercial drawing side of life, I followed classes about those things as well. I am pretty good in promoting others.... ((Sign)) I suck at promoting myself! I think that has always been my biggest problem.
You see, deep down inside, I am a pretty shy person. I want to be in shadows, behind the curtains while others step into the light.
While I learned to be among humans... ((Stop laughing)) I am still fighting the battle!
To shine, I have to step into the light and embrace the attention that comes with it! Like many other artists, I also have the following struggle. I like all art made by others even if it's just a stick puppet! But when I look at my own work.... HELL! I started to share my art online after I joined Steemit many years ago. I guess before that, I was too scared to show the world what I loved!
Now, so many years later, I share a lot of my work without thinking. I don't mind if people don't like my work either. I learned a lot from online posting! This is also the reason I am posting on Hive! To find an audience, make friends and also to find other amazing artists!
Mynew struggle is setting up my own studio. Or building it I must say! And this is why I am glad I found ! You see, in this amazing group you find even more amazing people who can give you great advice because they are either in the same boat, just starting or have already done a whole lot when it comes the being an entrepreneur!
Did I mention that I created a free mini library with my studio? The idea behind it is not new. We have a lot of them here in the Netherlands. Mine crashed! All over the floor! You see, I am building everything in my studio from old stuff! Not because I don't have the money to buy new stuff btw. I just hate waste! Why not use something old and give it a second or third life! However... Sometimes I scratch myself behind my ears and scream : WHYYYY!
On the picture above you see my desk area. The shelfs are third hand, the desk is second hand and I got it all for FREE! Lucky that did not crash yet! I will show more pictures when it starts to become something! My goal is to sell more of my own art and to work towards illustrating a book! I am entering some illustration contest in hopes to get a job! Next to that I am forcing people to watch my work even if they don't want to! That's a joke of course! No, it's not but that's ok!
Anyways, this is me and this is why I am a Hive Hustler!
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