Sometimes, the work you do for fun leads to paid work
Got caught up in a discussion between 2 very accomplished comic book artists* friends about a Bone Club staff for one of their creator own comic characters called The Stray, a dog themed comic book superhero. During that conversation, for fun, I volunteered to throw around some cross-section designs for the Bone club, the main superhero’s weapon of choice. I did a basic animation of how it should work, then did the designs based of that. And done.
Got caught up in a discussion between 2 very accomplished comic book artists* friends about a Bone Club staff for one of their creator own comic characters called The Stray, a dog themed comic book superhero. During that conversation, for fun, I volunteered to throw around some cross-section designs for the Bone club, the main superhero’s weapon of choice. I did a basic animation of how it should work, then did the designs based of that. And done.
Few weeks later, the writer of the comic The Stray was running a Kickstarter for his new comic. He asked if I would be interested in designing a cross-section poster of the main superhero’s HQ. Paid job.
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Few weeks after completing that, one of the other co-creators of the Kickstart asked if I could also design a cross-section of the HQ for his Canadian superhero RPG. Paid job.
Few weeks after completing that, a friend of the original writer, saw the cross section I had done for the Kickstarter and asked if I could also do a cross section for one of the play sets for his action toy company. Paid job.
I got three really awesome paid jobs off something I just did for fun. Anyone else find that some of your creations, that you purely did for the fun of it, lead to other work? And for clarification, I’m not referring to the companies that strong-arm you for free work on the basis it will ‘lead’ somewhere.
