BobbleBrain

I am, naturally, just taking my first steps in the professional world and doing work mostly for friends and acquaintances. It can feel so ungrateful to tell a client that the money they're offering just isn't enough, especially when I'm still slightly reeling that people are willing to give me money at all. But my gouache work takes tens of hours to put together, it's an insanely time-consuming and indepth process as gouache goes. I just don't think I can afford to work much below £200 when I have bills to pay and the work takes anywhere from 40 to 70 hours to finish. Thoughts?

You know that feeling? It's less than two months until I finish second year (and I have had a FUCKER of a year, in all honesty...my health was bad enough that I was basically non-functional for the whole of November and December, which was a fairly significant setback, and I'm still getting over the trauma that put me in hospital then) and, the ridiculous quantity of work I have to catch up on notwithstanding, I have no bloody IDEA what I'm doing with my life, looking at how many people out there who are better than me in every area are struggling for work. I went through a phase the other month where I literally just spent about 50% of my ti

Another night of sitting at my desk until past 6AM trying to get everything finished it is then. Still got a family's worth of cards to do, and at least one more picture to finish for Claire's present (she's getting delicious illustrations, but despite the fact that if I valued every hour of my time at like a tenth of minimum wage this would STILL be the most valuable present I'm giving everyone (there is some SERIOUS time investment going on here, man), it's still going to look like such a cheap present. Ah well. I'll finish this picture I'm working on, hopefully it won't come out too badly, and then I can bind it up nicely and it'll be fine