Stephanie's Drawings

Email name-Hey everyone, I've been doing a lot of consulting one on one with artists and writers this past couple of months and one thing that I noticed was that most of the people contacting me have some clever or strange name for their email, and I wanted to suggest how VERY IMPORTANT it is to use YOUR NAME or YOUR BRAND NAME in your email. If you don't have a name at your name dot come yet, that's fine, but then use your first and last name and Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo or something. It gets very confusing trying to figure out who the email goes to. I have heard a lot of ADs and editors speak at conferences about it too; it's oh so important. Just thought I'd post this as a gentle reminder of how you're marketing yourself. :)

Usually I don't write a lot here, I save that for my op ed blog-"I'm Just Sayin'" but I have to say something when I share these two paintings I did this week. First of all, I am an artist. I make 100% of my living right now as an artist-usually it's childrens book illustrations and sometimes I still get to work in animation. The style I work in is cartoony-I am a cartoonist and I love it. What people don't realize is that to be great or even good at cartoons we artists must learn the basics first, we are real artists. I took anatomy and life drawing after Disney had offered me a job-I could pass the animation test, but I needed to learn the basics. I admit I didn't spend years at art school and have been public about admitting that so people feel like they can tell me that I don't deserve my career and what I hear all the time "you aren't a real artist." I am not sure what they mean by that since again 100% of my living is from art...