Q1: How did you get your career started on a professional level as a freelance creator? What where some of those challenges you faced and how did you make your self stand out?
I did a lot of writing for magazines and the like which got me my first few commissions. I just kept my portfolio updated and work started to gradually roll in. The main challenges I faced were just related to learning how to freelance - how to manage work and money flow, how to be productive and survive in the business world. I didn't worry too much about making myself stand out - my work has always been pretty uniquely my own, it took care of that aspect for me.
Q2: How did this lead you to working for major corporations?
Happened naturally. I've always made a large volume of work and shared it in the usual places. They came across me and asked me to work for them. I did adequately for me, they asked me to do more.
Q3: What keeps you motivated to create?
Not something I think about. It's just how I've always been.
Q4: Knowing what you know now. Do you have advice for a junior college student looking to take a path similar to yours? Such as things that someone should be doing at this time or should already know.
Yeah, if you want to take a path like mine do yourself a favor and take accounting and business management classes. Experiment and create art in your own time, you don't need someone to teach you if you're determined enough. That sentiment does not apply to running a business.
Drew Barr
Dan Padavic
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