~Vihma

Glad to hear everything is going well

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That's really amazing! how did you get into you're line of work?

@Riverz: Oh, it was partly a really frustrating way. I went to the huge bookfair in Frankfurt, to show my illustrations. Got many visiting cards from publishers. And many publishers showed interest in my work. But I got no illustration-jobs. This was during my studying.

And on Frankfurt Bookfair 2006 I was so deep down, that I cried. My good friend Akatonbo was with me. And she comforted me, bought me some tea and food in the illustrator's café and she told me that at last everything will go fine. Surely, at this time, I didn't believe her. But okay, okay, she and my family and all my other friends were right.

But it was really a hard time. And it was extremly funny how I got my first illustration's job. It was the time I worked on my diploma. A extremly stressful time. And I got the phonecall from a publisher's bureau, if I am interested in working at a book-project.

Of course, I was!! It was two weeks before my diploma. That was another drama. But okay. I got my diploma. And short after, I got my first job as an illustrator.

The bureau found me on the webpage of an illustrator's agency named Filu were I publish my works. (by the way, I should update my gallery there.....)

The Filu-archive runs the Illustrators-Café were I cried on the bookfair. I was already member of Filu, but I thought, that my works are so horrible, that nobody ist interest to work with me.

Yeah, that is the story. Full of self-pity, fear for the future and desperation. But on the other hand full of hard work and not staying in self-pity, fear for the future and desperation.

I always managed to stand up and move on. And in the future I will always stand up and move on.

My mother told me the idiom: "Who pushes up the cat's tail, if not the cat itself?!"

She is right.

Wow, you're story is so inspiring. Reading this reminded me of myself amazingly enough, especially the part where you cried. I'm so happy for you, I hope everything goes well for you in the future. Thank you for shearing you're experience with me

Congratulations and get well soon!

Thanks!! *cooks some more Chai Tea*

Congratulations, Vihma! I'm sure 2008 will have a lot in store for you and your art. Your illustrations have so much cinematic emotion in them...you're going to be famous.

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Thanks a lot!! It's funny one of my customers told me yesterday, that in my illustrations is much dynamics, that is typical for my. I think, I am on a good way.

Thank you