Free work. Unpaid work. Spec work. Whatever you want to call it. If you're not getting paid, you're probably being taken advantage of. Unless of course its something you really want to do. You may have always wanted to work for a particular charity or for a cause that you feel passionate about and would [...]
Well that’s entirely up to you really but there are a few things you should check first. More of that later. In the summer of 2020 (a year we’ll never forget), I took part in my very first art competition. Well, as a business anyway. Obviously I can't forget about all those colouring, egg decorating [...]
1 You need patience and bucketloads of it. You will wait. A lot. For emails. For feedback. For the green light on a project. For approvals. For the final say from everyone involved that the job is complete. For your invoice to be paid. The last one is usually the biggest wait of all. 2 [...]
That age old question. Do I pay a designer to do it or can I do it myself for free? Well it all depends on what you're considering a designer for really. If you're talking about social media posts, there are definitely things you can do yourself using something like Canva. If you don’t already [...]
Everything. Well that was short and sweet wasn't it? Seriously though, autumn has to be my most favourite season so I thought I’d give it a little shout out before winter arrives. I think a lot of artists probably love autumn for much the same reasons as me. Here's what I love about it. I [...]
Ooh, I do love an art programme, don't you? It doesn't even have to be that arty. I will watch a bridge being built, skyscrapers being erected. Hell I'll even watch someone glass blowing or bashing iron bars into fence posts because it's the process that's the exciting part right? It's why we're addicted to [...]
It’s 20 years since the illustration studio I worked in stopped trading and I was made redundant from a job I loved. I was devastated. I had no work and no contacts. The internet was barely even a thing. I had nobody to ask anything and nowhere to learn new things. It was a very [...]
I'm part of an amazing design community. I've made friends from all over the world because of it and we have our own community hub to share work, tips and have general chit chat. It's all thanks to the lovely team at Design Cuts. It's their 8th birthday this week and they've had an amazing [...]
I am stunned to have received another award exactly a month after winning the Theo Paphitis #SBS (Small Business Sunday) award. Yesterday, I tweeted the very talented and beautiful Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox, about Slinkeee Illustration with the #WOW hashtag. Every Wednesday, Jacqueline chooses her favourite 3 women's businesses to [...]
I'd just finished work last night at around 8pm when my phone and computer started going crazy. I thought that maybe it was lots of spam emails coming through at once. However, when I came to look at my phone, I had a tweet from the very lovely Theo Paphitis telling me I'd won Small Business [...]
