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Intervention Required!

People are still quite more interested in their laser hair removal than the world affairs that threaten our own public security. However, what seems to be worse is that rulers that we have trusted are also ignoring important developments that must have already been responded to.
Afghanistan was ruled by Taliban forces - this is why NATO and USA sent armies to prevent the spread of terrorism. Iraq, allegedly possessing nuclear power, was invaded and crushed along with its More

Ceramic Kitchen sinks

Ceramic Kitchen sinks are the most stylish and easy to install kitchen sinks that I have ever come across. You can get these sinks either drop in or under mount. These sinks are absolutely hassle free and all you have to do to install them is to fix them to you counter. And if you are worried of spilling water, then you will certainly like the raised rims around the sink that will prevent water spilling. The sink will stand More

Hiring An Illustrator: Freelance Or Agency?

For many years, people have struggled when hiring both writer’s and illustrator’s: should I choose a freelancer? they think, Or should I choose someone from an agency? It’s a worthwhile question, and one I have tried as best to answer below. Read on for an education, if you need it and can never decide which will be best.

1) What job have you got? It all starts with the job. If it’s a really small job then an agency will More

Be Prepared And You Won’t Fail

Thinking of becoming a freelance writer or illustrator but wondering what the first few steps you need to take are? Have no fear, no matter if you intend to design for a large format printing company, or write for a magazine, follow these handy hints and you should do better than…Me? I really should have followed this advice; would have saved a lot of time!

1) Example of writing or illustration: nobody will hire you without them. Make them your More

Freelance Toolkit

Everyone has their own idea of what to take with them on their day-to-day freelance work. I have a specialist kit that I’ve been modifying and changing for a while now. While some people think that all you need is a laptop bag and a scarf, I have a better solution. Read on for my idea of what to take and what to leave on your desk:

1) Forget a laptop bag, what you need is what they call on More

How To Back-Up!

As an illustrator who also now writes, I have LOTS of important stuff on my computer: files containing digital art, scanned-in images of photos I have lost, and all kinds of pieces of writing, including a few hundred pages of novel. It only occurred to me the other day, while randomly checking out a web-page, that I ONLY had this backed-up on a small removable memory stick device…And, more importantly, that if anything happened to this, my life would be More

Breakthrough

Seeing as every time I go online I see about fifty thousand new writers advertising their services, I thought I’d write something today about breaking into freelance writing. Probably one of the most competitive businesses out there right now, every time a job is posted it attracts literally hundreds of writers all vying for the money.

Here are a few tips on how to approach the freelance writing game. Not that More

Small Human Hulk

As a freelance illustrator I have to be honest: there are days which are a complete and utter nightmare. Days when all I want to do is snap every pen I see. In my studio some days it’s like a comedy workshop : me talking to my pen and ink as though at any moment it might break out into apology: “I’m sorry I won’t allow you to illustrate to the best of your ability today,” it might say, “I’m More

Facebook Rules

As great as Facebook is, it should really come with a User’s Guide. Incredible at connecting you to your friends and family it may be, but at the same time…Watch out…Because one false move and who knows what might happen? As many people know, it may well not be good…

Here are a few basic rules.

1) Check every now and again who is a friend of yours. Self-explanatory really…That way, when you insult someone who you were sure wasn’t More

My Heroes

The late night adverts (and I mean 2 or 3am here, not no feeble 1am!) can be actually quite cathartic, as I recently found out. There I was on the sofa, too tired to keep my eyes open, but too alive inside to bother going to bed yet. This was when it happened to me: the advertisements gave way to a kind of mega ad about laser hair removal …and for the next forty five minutes I sat in More