Hi Chris, I agree with Mark that no two stories will be the same.. I'll be glad to share mine with you as well. Im currently 37 and have been in the computer industry for 20 years. I started programming professionaly as a senior in high school. I've been a musician since the age of 12. I have a need for high tech as well as creativity in my life. I decided that digital art was a wonderful way to bring these 2 together for me. I started doing digital art about 7 years ago. My first gig was for a friend. He is a programmer and needed a "Splash Screen" for his program. I did a still image to his specs and he freaked out. That gave me a lot of confidence. I started my own company, Hawkin-Z GraF-X, and will do pretty much anything I can as far as art and music. I pimp myself out as much as I can. I havent found a way to make this my main income, yet! Im currently a Senior NT Systems Admin but would love to get out of the 9-5 grind world and work for myself. You can make a CDROM with still images, some animations and maybe some HTML pages to guide the potential client through some of your work on the CD-ROM. Get a decent web page up on the net advertising your services. Sit down and figure out how much you need or want to charge for specific types of work. Draft up a list of what type of work you might be interested in doing... Still images, Web icons/logos, animations, modeling, banners, print items..etc... Another thing that you can do is sell your still images in small art galleries. ;) Do some cool images, print them (high quality of course), frame/mat them then give them to a small art gallery on consignment. Works pretty well. I know I kinda rambled along, sorry about that. Also - Go to some other commercial/professioanl artists sites and see if they have any prices posted. That will give you some idea on price setting. Just a few ideas. If you have more questions...Please post away! Good luck and keep us updated. Regards, Clint

Clint Hawkins
MarketPlace Manager/Copyright Agent

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All my life I've been over the top ... I don't know what I'm doing ... All I know is I don't wana stop!
(Zakk Wylde (2007))

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