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About Me Member Digital Artist Alise-IchnorFemale/United Kingdom Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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Bitching and advice on job hunting

Tue Apr 14, 2009, 5:10 AM
  • Mood: Frustrated
  • Reading: Tiger in the well, by Philip Pullman
  • Playing: testing Xbox game at work
  • Eating: orecchiette with spinach and ricotta
  • Drinking: volvic touch of strawberry
This is my first journal entry so I hope it is of interest to everyone...

The topic being: Complaining about job hunting and about how hard it is to find a job, and/or decide on what job to go for!!
And also: advice on jobs please!

I mean you get your degree, have your portfolio ready, but then you just can't decide on what type of job to go for! It is also so hard finding work after Uni! I thought once I had my degree that everything would be sorted for me, that I would find a job no problem... but boy was I wrong! And also you find out that what you have learned at Uni is no where near enough to get you in to the industry! You have to learn more on your own... damn the fake illusions on life that Uni gives you :shakefist:
They all want experience, but no one gives you the chance to get any! So then you have to start by doing a crappy job which is badly paid just to get the experience that you need, and then where does that leave you?

But I guess my main downfall is that I still don’t really know what jobs to apply for... so this is mainly why I started the journal (and it then escalated in to a frustrated attack on job hunting!!), to ask everyone’s opinion. The question being: based on the work you see in my gallery, what jobs do you think I would be best suited for?
My main ambition is to aim for a digital artist/character designer position in a game or animation company. But are there other roles I could aim for?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated peeps! Does anyone also have any advice on the best ways to "get your foot in the door" so to speak? I am currently working as a game tester so that is giving me a little experience... but I am still finding it hard finding a better job... poo! I hate job hunting!

I also started this journal to get my frustration on job hunting and so on off my chest! So if anyone else needs to have a good old rant, or complain, about my topics, please feel free to chime in! The more the merrier I say! :#1:

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I am a bubbly and crazy Italian/English girl, who's trying to make it as a digital artist in the games or animation industry... I am also involved in freelance projects, so if anyone would be interested to collaborate on a project I would be happy to hear from you.
Anyone's attention and comments would be very much appreciated :D

Peace out!

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Kent, United Kingdom
  • Interests: Art, dancing, chilling, sleeping, reading, drawing, photography
  • Favourite movie: Garden State, The Notebook, Princess Mononoke, Hero, Labyrinth, Men Prefer Blondes, Wicker Park
  • Favourite band or musician: Muse,UnionOfKnifes,65DaysOfStatic,Elbow,DamienRice,Portishead,SigurRos,Sia,TheShins
  • Favourite genre of music: electronica, break beats, ambient, rock, sci-trance
  • Favourite artist: alphonse mucha, monet
  • Favourite poet or writer: kent follet, phillip pullman
  • Favourite style of art: manga, art nouveau
  • MP3 player of choice: i-pod shuffle
  • Favourite game: final fantasy series
  • Favourite gaming platform: rpg
  • Favourite cartoon character: Snoopy, Shaun the Sheep, Genie (Aladdin)
  • Personal Quote: if it's half fat you can eat twice as much
  • Tools of the Trade: photoshop, graphic tablet, pencils, watercolours, gouache paint

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:iconangrypufferfish:
Thank you for the fav. :)

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:iconalise-ichnor:
You're most welcome :D
:iconhiuki:
Elisee! you've had over 1500 pageviews! That's awesome! :D

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:iconalise-ichnor:
Hoorraaahhh!! :dance: now just need to get more art on the go... but I am so nackered when I get home and at the weekends... it is hard :(
:iconhiuki:
You need to build stamina, girly!

the trick is to just take a scrappy lined paper sketchbook and doodle loads in that - that way you won't feel like you have to do a masterpiece every time you draw :) it'll quicken you up and get you used to a day of drawing :)

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:iconalise-ichnor:
Yes well, you try testing games on mobile phones all day, and do a 1 1/2 hour journey both ways, and then tell me if you still wanto draw or sit in front of your computer when u get home, with your eyes so sore you feel like they are going to bleed!
Think I'll stick to doing work at the weekend thank you... ;)
:iconhiuki:
No, I just did a day of 3D modelling, texturing, pixel art and testing on a DS, then had a 2 hour journey from work to home, cook dinner, wash up, then sit on my computer all night drawing on my wacom :)

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:icongiraluna7:
Hi. Thank you so much for the :+fav:! :blowkiss:
:iconhalonacc:
thanks for :+fav: :D

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