I've talked about my many different jobs on this planet.
However, I forgot to bring up my short stint as a Children's Book Illustrator.
However, I forgot to bring up my short stint as a Children's Book Illustrator.
And, yep, I totally forgot about it until now. Can you believe that?
Waaaaayyy back in 1998, I illustrated a children's story called Field of Beans for a small start-up children's book publishing company in Columbus called Berry Books.
Take a gander at it right here.
The cool thing about this particular project was that I thought up the actual look and feel of the characters. In fact, the publisher (Curtis Paulson) liked my characters so much, he kept them around in other books.
Another cool thing: According to the website, a total of nine books have been printed and distributed in every state and several countries.
Eat your heart out J.K. Rowling.
Granted, I didn't make a ton of money off of this project (I think it was about $600 for about 70+ hours of work including meetings, revisions, sketches, etc) and the final product isn't that spectacular. But, this particular experience not only helped hone my illustrating/cartooning skills, but it introduced me to the wonderful world of Photoshop - and its endless possibilities.
In any event, when I talked about writing and illustrating my own book, I had totally forgotten that I already have one in the coffer. Cool!
So, in addition to this new copywriting job, and the book illustrator job, I now have had a grand total of 37 jobs - in almost 38 years.
Yay me!
Waaaaayyy back in 1998, I illustrated a children's story called Field of Beans for a small start-up children's book publishing company in Columbus called Berry Books.
Take a gander at it right here.
The cool thing about this particular project was that I thought up the actual look and feel of the characters. In fact, the publisher (Curtis Paulson) liked my characters so much, he kept them around in other books.
Another cool thing: According to the website, a total of nine books have been printed and distributed in every state and several countries.
Eat your heart out J.K. Rowling.
Granted, I didn't make a ton of money off of this project (I think it was about $600 for about 70+ hours of work including meetings, revisions, sketches, etc) and the final product isn't that spectacular. But, this particular experience not only helped hone my illustrating/cartooning skills, but it introduced me to the wonderful world of Photoshop - and its endless possibilities.
In any event, when I talked about writing and illustrating my own book, I had totally forgotten that I already have one in the coffer. Cool!
So, in addition to this new copywriting job, and the book illustrator job, I now have had a grand total of 37 jobs - in almost 38 years.
Yay me!
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