Happy Halloween from Mavis

[mavruda]

Hey GFY ---
Some designer's talk. Is this a Rant ?! No, most like a show off. Sorry in advance - the thread is long.
I'm still looking for a remote, permanent job.
Lorie and Eddie found a gig for me - yeah what they do actually works - this is for the people who I was talking a time ago - yes - Xindustries works fine.
The problem if any - is that the job offers with good positions are too few and the candidates are too many - normal thing I suppose. That means the best will get the best of all. Or the luckiest gets the best. Like in bukkake party with horses. / try to ignore the last sentence/. And the last word comes from the companies.
So - Lori and Eddie - thank you guys! Even though I still got no job ...
They found me an awesome company - and the test job was to make 3 gif animated banners - the term was 3 days. Since I was nervous and eager to get the job - I didn't sleep or eat a whole day - and did these for a day.



I was so confident that I'm gonna get that job that when i Was done, I went to sleep for 12 hours! Some days after - I've got the "nailed" with mail where their head designer was saying that they will not offer me a job, since my portfolio is "impressive" but does not include "responsive" design samples. That is true. I don't have a single responsive design in my folio. I told them the test job is 3 days - I used 1 of those 3, GIVE Me a test job to make responsive task!!
The answer was that they actually picked a guy who has more experience in responsive design.
Well. I guess they have right. And point. But why would they give a banner task if they need a responsive stuff ?!? Every man needs a chance - not only one, but many. Didn't get mine though. Life goes on anyways.
Anyway - I met some awesome guys - most of them were honest that they don't need to hire someone ATM.
Some of the guys however didn't responded - remaining silent - after taking the necessary info from me : salary, work time etc. Normal stuff. Probably the best way not to offend someone, but still keeping the road "clear" for "future" collaborations.
I have started to accept small purchases. Some of you came and most purchased logos with cartoon characters from me. However some of you "forgot" to pay. The price for the logo starts from $50. Logo with character. So far I was taking the money after the job is done, thinking that this is fair to the client and the best way to leave him happy to come back again afterwards and to tell the others to come too.

I'm still holding myself of the normal practice -
A. Raising the prices for a exclusive cartoon logo - between $150 and $500 - depending on the complexity - right ?!?!? This is brand. I take $50 - and I offer 3 different versions!
B. Taking the half or the entire pay in advance - well... Should I ?!?

Here are some examples / noone purchased a site, my folio is getting bigger with logos and cartoons anyway (but not with responsive designs - lol).... /

1. LINK 1 - the guys for whom I did this are AWESOME, cool - it's easy to work with them - everything goes smooth and so on.

2. This cool guy came to me - and working with him was awesome! :-) He was happy, I was happy - got paid fast - and there's the result

LINK2 LINK3LINK4

3. This client here wanted a cartoon character - and I gave him 3 versions /like I mentioned on the above/. LINK5 - so the final version ended like this: LINK 6
I also made a popup for him, but there's not much of a design in making a popup.

4. One of the best clients I've had - amazing guy, knowing EXACTLY what he wants! I wish such kind of clients to all the good designers around!
LINK 7LINK8 LINK9 LINK10

And not to forget I did a comic strip too/ SAMPLE / - however I didn't wanted to put with my name on that one, and the client was cool with that - even laughed ! :-)

5. ....
LINK 11LINK12

6. Now.... I have to say that I do have my defeats. You all know that online game. I met the guys out there - they are cool too. They gave me test job, but at the end we found out that my style does not look like their and not going well with them at all.
LINK TO A CHARACTER SHEET

Most of you know that I owe and draw on two websites. One of which is a paysite. Then why the fuck I'm looking for a job instead of making money using the sites I have ???

- Many answers - mainly for the lack of understanding the online internet business, SEO and other stuff that concerns traffic and convertion. There are many people that come to my site - not inside, because they have to pay, but "to the site". There are a LOT of people mainly from:India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Ukraine, Russia, China, The Filippines, Turkey, Kiribati.... - why they don't want to pay ??
Wait.... No need to answer on that question. The people who comes and pay actually on my site are from USA, Canada, France, UK and Belgium - but they are too few.

Social Networks : Yes I use the social networks - I even got banned from reddit for posting things that are not mine, even though I tried to explain the webmasters that I'm the guy who owns the site and who draws the stuff - and the stuff is actually mine, and they got me banned for spam shortly after :-)

Facebook - I know a guy with 2000 + friends who was re-posting some of my stuff among his friends. However his friends are all traders, i.e. all of them selling ( like me ) no one willing to buy. BUT I got a "massive traffic" from Iraq (75 people and returning visits) and message on Facebook from a guy named: Khaleed Almoudi who said: " Ples draws me! " - as reference he send me link to his phone made by cellphone, where I was able to observe his widely stretched anus and very hairy rear. I didn't kept the photo - I was in a bad mood and closed all further friendship requests to my personal facebook account.

Tumblr - I started to follow, I even tried that idea / one of the gfy guys shared in here - with following the blogs, registering with different e-mails - this is not working. Just saying. But I found out who Kelsey Pilsen is.
Then someone asked me to draw some guys pissing, while some MILF are watching then and discussing their sizes.
I did that and now the same guy is one of my devoted fans and member of my site. Depravity Schools comic strip is following his ideas. Conclusion : tumblr is good for bringing traffic and members, especially if you are not brainless monkey who just post shit and does not care of what will happen. I was following up to 1000 different porn and not so porn blogs.
Then one day my tumblr box got overfloaded of crap and started to unfollow. Now I follow around 200 blogs, that inspires me - and almost every post I see is pleasant to me. Followers there are not dumb. They see who you are following and depending on this you get followers yourself - and eventually traffic to your site - and then sales.

Twitter - I have no idea what is going on in there. I have connected it with my blogs and every post I do - goes in there.
I can see Cyberhustler's posts from here :-)

Instagram ! - It's cool feature - SELFIE! :-) And all of the cockshots of mine are going on my site, my blogs - EVERYWHERE.
Now you must start following me on instagram: http://instagram.com/mavisrooder


Now before I proceed to entertain you / ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED ?! / I want to say -

I'm looking for a permanent and remote job. I am web designer. I draw things. I do animations.
Even some unfinished ones - like the one on the sample below:

LINK TO UNFINISHED ANIMATION WITH SEX


Now a little bit serious - I'm family guy. I need the job not only to support my family. This is what I do - this is what I am for. I'm here to create.

Just to tell you what I don't do.

I do not program - I don't code in php, javascript or similar.
I am not proficient in WordPress, eventhough I can customize my own blogs or sites - so I don't claim experience in WordPress.
I don't have responsive designs because the clients or my previous employers didn't wanted this from me, but I use Dreamweaver CS6 and this allows me to make this with no problem.
I don't do video editing and I'm not photograph.

I use Photoshop, psd - html tableless.I draw and animate.

If you are interested of hiring me for single job / or to offer me a job at all - before the X-mas - you can mail me at: mavrudart at gmail dot com.

Please don't troll me, and no need to tell me how talented am I - if I was that successful I would not be looking for a job. Just say "Happy Helloween" - I will post some drawings in here. This is what I do.

Happy Halloween everyone !

[mavruda]

Happy Halloween