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I am working as a freelance illustrator for last 10 years. Drawing such a things for money. There was loads of commercials from Europe, US, Brazil, China, Indonesia, UAE, Russia all over these years. Private clients as well as big well known companies such as Blackberry, Danon, Kinder, McDonald's, Pepsi, Wrigley are often standing in a queue waiting for my service. I never had too much of free time to draw for myself in such a schedule.
Steemit & Golos
Two months ago I've just found two great blogging blockchain platforms Steemit.com & it's small Russian brother golos.io where you can get material appreciation for high quality unique content. It means that you get paid for your likes. Everyone here can become not just an author or curator but an investor also. You can get really really nice payments if you get noticed by big players here. Look at my numbers under each and every post. Not much but not bad, right? Anyway I would spend same time on posting all these things in Facebook and other networks for free to get new clients and PR.
Here you are also get payments if you find and like some really good and fresh content. You can send that money to your credit card or leave make them work here as a deposit like in a bank. If you decide to deposit your money then you can grow your Steem Power which influence on the amount your like cost and curation rewards. Everyone starts as a minnow here but can grow into orcas or even whales accumulating power.
To get noticed by the clients I was just posted finals of my works in social networks in past. But I always wanted to tell some more in details. There is a story inside each and every illustration. This platforms has very nice motivation to start blogging more.
Recently I've just remembered how I was drawing my own newspaper when I was 5 years old in 1990. I was telling and drawing everything there, stories from my family, my dreams and was just making fun. It was real hardware blog! I love to get back into childhood. Here it is very easy to realise.
eSteem Mobile Client
There is a mobile client in every social platform. Golos and Steemit also has it's own: eSteem. You can create both accounts there and get notifications and do all the things like you do on the site. It is very useful application but it's interface could be significally improved, that is why I wrote to the authour of that application with some advices. He liked that :) Now in a free time I am working on the UI of eSteem. I hope to show the results soon.
Challenge Myself
There would be inner chat in eSteem soon. In the chat there would be my sticker packs. Images from this post are sketches for the new eSteem Sticker Pack. By posting this I am starting a challenge to spend 2-3 hours a day drawing not only commercial orders but just for fun. Neares month I will spend this time drawing at least one page of sketches and one character in final for this sticker pack.