Professional Pig Vector

I need to get back in the habit of posting on here. It seems like it’s been awhile since I’ve done it. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to post, I just haven’t had much time.

I’m still trying to make something from doing vector work for microstock. Until I find a job, or get back into doing more freelance work, it’s about all I have that’s earning me anything… and even then it’s not all that much. Especially since I went non-exclusive from iStockphoto. Right now I’m submitting to two sites (iStockphoto.com and Shutterstock.com), and hopefully soon, I’ll get my work on to others.

This image up here is something new that I’m trying. I’m getting really sick of the “trace-over” stuff, and I want to get back into doing more original illustrations. The problem is, for the amount you get back doing microstock, I can’t justify spending a lot of time on a single illustration. So I thought I would try doing single character illustrations for awhile and see how that goes. I sketched a few up today, and vectored this pig one tonight. I wasn’t really keeping track of the time on this, but including the time to draw and sketch it, I figure I spent at least four hours on this. I need to get quicker.