Category Archives: Organizing

Building an art portfolio for licensing while doing other design work.

Licens­ing artists must have a big col­lec­tion of images, illus­tra­tions or pat­terns that are avail­able to license to man­u­fac­tur­ers. So a licens­ing artist must keep on cre­at­ing new art to make sure this col­lec­tion or art data­base is reg­u­larly updated … Con­tinue read­ing

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How Chicktionary is like working.

The game Do you know Chick­tionary? It’s a word game, like Scrab­ble, that I’ve been recently addicted to play­ing on my iPod. You basi­cally get 7 let­ters that you have to use to spell as many words as you can. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Twitter favorites, Instapaper and organizing online readings.

I have a con­fes­sion: I peak into my Twit­ter friends’ Favorite tweets. Well, if I fol­low the peo­ple I fol­low, it means I am inter­ested in most of what they have to say, right? And if they are select­ing tweets … Con­tinue read­ing

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Should I, or should I not protect my online portfolio with a password?

As a licens­ing artist, I have an online gallery of illus­tra­tions which I pro­tect with a password. I only share that pass­word with poten­tial cus­tomers with seri­ous inquiries about my work. I pub­licly dis­play only some of my illus­tra­tions, a few pieces … Con­tinue read­ing

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How do you manage your work schedule?

Some­times in my stu­dio, work is peace­ful, dead­lines are far, and time is smooth… Then one morn­ing, an email comes in with a new project and a new date. Great! More work is good! I’ll just skip the bike ride this after­noon… … Con­tinue read­ing

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