I guess this can go either way: what do you do and what do you want to do?
I airbrush paint when I'm not chopping, and I hope to get into graphic novels. I sort of stumbled on this site trying to learn PhotoShop and a site referred +e here as a way to make money with PhotoShop ( ) what do you all do and what would you rather be doing?

I used to upholster, but i retired from that at 32, went into E-commerce.

now I wanna retire from that, and win the lottery.. basically, as long as my bills are paid, I no longer care as long as I dont have to punch in at someone else's company

i'm a graphic/web designer, coder, flasher, i'd drop all to chop for a living

I donate a drop of blood once a month to pharmaceutical companies. Apparently they water it down and make ten 55 gallon drums of Viagra Concentrate out of it.

I'm a quality control technician for a large uk company that prints photos and makes all kinds of photo related gift products.
But I always wanted to get into graphic design for computer games.

I'm a covert operative for Scotland Yard living in the States.

Hi

I sell industrial products ( pipe/valves ), however I am looking for a nymphomaniac coke connection with a Ferrari dealership. No experience necessary.

If I get it I'll be calling Gravyboat for a transfusion.

I was a stay at home mom to my four kids, but hubby got laid off and plans changed. I am back at work now as a very busy secretary and hubby stays home with the kids.

I am also a full time student (was marketing, but starting next semester, will be Professional Writing)

I would love to be in advertising, web-media design, graphics design.

I can't find an online school that handles that, so I am just plugging away on my own having fun with it on the side.

I'm currently not able to work due to illness but I'm trained in early years care & education, mentoring & support work, elderly care & retail..... hopefully one of these will come in handy when I'm ready for my return to work!!

For now though I've turned into a bit of a chopping addict & it's going to be that way for a little while I guess.

15 years Royal Australian Navy electronic technician
18 years WA Newspapers Robotics technician
Electronics engineering degree diploma in pneumatics and Liquid drive systems.

Dumped it all to start my own Photo restoration/graphic design business don't make that much money but enough to survive but shit I'm more happy and alive for doing what I do now.

You could always join Mythbusters with all that robotics knowledge. That's how those guys got into movie special FX!



That's the real point of it. I traded my consistent job that didn't kill my back (stupid back injuries) for a job doing auto body that takes 45 minutes to get to and wont pay consistently just so that I can have the chance to eventually airbrush some stuff on people rigs. My wife and I are 10x happier because of it, even though I probably wont make very much money at it. I'm figuring out that there is always a way to make it work. The people that are actually doing what they want made it happen with very little. Good stuff guys!

I was an airbrush artist. Now, I'm a digital artist. I'll become a painter.
And when I'll be enough old and that I will have a little free time, I will make like gravy... I will give blood.

Some of the stuff I do
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After:


Composed:



This I illustrated the candy
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b201/ReyReyM/?action=view&current=image-1.jpg











































This one is old but it has my daughter in it in the front.



The "All" add I illustrated everything in it.
I illustrated the cereal boxes
I do a lot of illustrations for packaging. I don't set the type usually.
The agencies usually do that.
Vlasic I illustrated the pickles on the jar.
Lysol is photo retouching and montage work
I don't design them I just create artwork for them to use in their ideas.
Cereal boxes I do from rough sketches that they send me.

More illustrations:

Rey,
Well, that explains why you seem to be so damn good at this stuff. How did you end up landing a job like this or is it freelance?

saw the Kaboom ad. So what was Billy Mays really like

Seriously it weird when you recognize these and you know who created them. Cool