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Plan for new week

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First of all, I wish all of you fun yet productive week! And thanks for those nice words and encouragements on MATS group! I love you for that! Drawing is fun, maybe not for 16 hours a day, when your hand starts hurting, but generally it’s straight up the best job I can imagine. Thing is, that being illustrator is a “little bit” more than just drawing, and I don’t mean painting 😉 Most of us are just one man company – everyone who tried that knows that you need to wear lots of hats. To be honest, when I have tons of assigned work, (like right now) I tend to skip most of those maybe less urgent, but in a long run really important task like: online presence, working on new portfolio pieces (as I’m usually not allowed to show what I’m working on until it’s published, and also as I mentioned in opening post I’d love to try new fields), looking for new opportunities, taking care of my beloved supporters…There’s quite a few …

Where I’m starting from and where I wanna go*

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*The answer to question “where I wanna go” is usually “everywhere, except for maybe Afghanistan or Space”, but that’s not about that. This time it’s all about my illustration career (I turned 30 last year, so I think that word: career, as serious as it sounds, should be in my vocabulary). I have two major love affairs in my life : first, uncomplicated with my husband Tytus and second, with my job, which is not that sweet and easy sometimes and makes me understand all those sad songs about broken heart etc. Yup, this really matters to me – that was my dream job and I put lots of afford in getting where I’m now (partly, because I didn’t know what I was doing at first and partly, because it’s very competitive industry). So, where am I now? If I finally make new business cards (I should), they will say “Monika Suska children’s illustrator” and that exactly what I do – I illustrate picture books for kids and educational materials. It’s safe to say, that …