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I stopped being an illustrator about two years ago now. Since then I've been working as a culture analyst and strategy boffin.
I got bored of the 'scene' of illustration. I got tired of wondering about how to keep the work relevant and I got tired of sitting on my own. Most of all I got tired of the commercial grind. The crap you have to do commercially takes up all of your time, and what you love doing as personal work doesn't ever seem to get commissioned.
I haven't done a single bit of illustration over the last almost two years, and I haven't looked at any of my old work either. Its been a really good time. It was great to leave all that stuff behind completely and make a totally clean start in a new direction.
I was just looking at something on Thee blog, then remembered Diego once asked about putting some of my work on there, so I had a look and found it. I looked at the examples of work he pulled out almost as though for the first time (not that horrible way you usually look at your own work: overfamiliar, from the inside out) and I got nostalgic.
Its rough and ill-drafted and all that crap (I'll never like the way I draw things), but I suddenly got a pang to be doing some of that once more.
What's the world like out there for illustrators at the moment? Is it a good time to be an illustrator?
- sounds like you care too much about what others think********
- Sounds to me like I'm interested in what the world is like out there for illustrators, and whether its a good time...Horp
- ... to be one. But the pang was fleeting. I got an old sketchbook out tonight. Had a go, still can't do it, no love lost.Horp
- sounds like you care too much about what others think