So, haven’t quite managed to photograph and edit my latest
finished artwork yet …
At the moment I’m trying to figure out whether to start
making submissions again and, if so, what sort of submissions to work towards.
This post-every-two-weeks goal has been good in that I have a lot of new
artwork to send out, but I haven’t really spent a lot of time thinking about
what I’m going to do with what I’ve made and how it all fits together. Submissions
are actually a lot of work, partly be due to the challenge of walking that fine
line between confident and annoying in the cover letter but also because it’s
quite hard to talk about yourself as a professional illustrator without having
really done much freelance work. I used the word “emerging” last time I did a
bunch of submissions, but there may be a limit to how long you can be in the
process of emerging. By now I might be “emerged, but not very busy”. Anyway, I’m
sure that there’s a very good word that sits halfway between emerged and
established without being too wanky.
