The first year

I recently realized I'm doing this stuff for a full year now. I sold my first design at the end of august 08. A few weeks passed and I moved away from vector stuff onto traditional drawing and took it more serious. And according to emptees I uploaded 30 shirt designs this year. I still have some stuff that I couldn't show yet and did an album cover and shoes. So I think my output might be 40 designs a year. I could remove weeks due to vacations, exams and stuff but I can't cover up the fact that I did less than one design a week. I don't know about other designers and their output. But for me, this isn't the way it should be.

I improved over this year and did some stuff for really good bands and working on shoes has been an interesting project. I'm still glad that I was given this opportunity. I think I found my own style. But I'm getting more and more tired of the same e-mails and the people who refuse to answer me. I still want to do work for bigger bands that I enjoy listening to. I want to win contest and stuff. But I realized that I'm still far away from a point I wanted to reach. There's this half-finished piece lying to my left right now. But I don't have the motivation to finish it. Drawing used to be a form of escapism for me. This year kinda changed that.