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http://smokingmegaphone.tumblr.com/post/4617418230/cally-gibson

It's nice to find people like stuff, You don't get much feedback after college, but Google is like a pat on the back sometimes

Thanks Jim for the heads-up on this one :)

whoppie do! new hous, new studio, a sudden brainwave that the couple of children's book ideas I've had swimming around my head since graduation are actually one and the same story...
And the icing on the cake this week, my portfolio has been featured on the front page of illustrtionserved
http://www.illustrationserved.com/

Watch this space, illusive illustration career; you will be mine, oh yes, you WILL be mine...

oh and some weird drawings done on an online doodler

random

things I wish to post here...

so...
I look in my inbox today and I seem to have recieved an email xmas card from a mag I have previously worked for...featuring my artwork.

I did this piece for them a year ago. I was paid the very arbitary sum of £50. Re-use and copyright didn't even enter into it. I wouldn't have minded but I wasn't even asked!!!

Here's the rub, the lady who runs the mag has always been lovely and championed my work, so I don't want to piss her off by going mental about it, but i genuinely don't know how to make illustration work in favour of the illustrator anymore. I was 'hired' for a lucrative Tesco job two weeks ago, and then dropped to go in-house at the last minute after prelim sketches and Facebook joyous hype...I'm at the end of my tether.

If someone feels like giving me some advice I would just love anything right now that didnt make me feel like this is a complete mugs game

Help

This happened,

Hi guys it's been a while. Picture making has kind of taken a backfooting in my new role as Digital Media Tech at UCF. Which pays the bills.

I love drawing but it was making me have to decide between rent and food.

I will always keep this up. It leaves a gap when I don't do it and being surrounded by super creative students all day long does in fact keep me hungry and poised for exciting pencil action as soon as possible

I wrote a book. there were budgies involved. I dressed in gold paper and doodles and assaulted several publishers with it.

Anybody who fancies a look over, I can send them a PDF version for joyous appraisal

Please email me callygibsonillustration@hotmail.co.uk and you get a little digital copy.

If by any fluke, yopu are the publishers i sent it too, please think of my little face all lit up with joy should you wish to publish.

Too Many Budgies © Cally Gibson 2010