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From Dream to reality - in two years to professional illustrator

November 25, 2018

Exactly one year ago I wrote a blogpost titled “From dream to reality - in one year to first customer illustrations” where I showed you how I started to earn money with illustrations for my first clients. The post ended with stating that I have drawn eight paid portraits for people I knew and strangers. As I am a vivid journal writer, I can see that three days later I made my plan for the next year, 2018, and I had a big plan for it!

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I’m not sure if it is a polish superstition or something I have heard from someone in my youth, but it stuck for good - the idea that your new year will be the same as the last night of the old year (and therefore go and celebrate!). So I could have predicted how my 2020 would be on New Year's Eve and it wasn’t looking good. I was running between bed and bathroom with a gastrointestinal infection and slept through midnight, completely exhausted and feeling sick…

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One year has passed, again, the third year living my dream, working as an illustrator. Well, the first year I didn’t even know I wanted to be an illustrator, I just started to draw again after a really long time and things fell into place...so let’s say it was the second conscious year working as an illustrator. And this year I did not achieve everything I planned, as I did last year, because of a major life change: I became a mother.

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From Dream to reality - in two years to professional illustrator
November 25, 2018
From Dream to reality - in two years to professional illustrator
November 25, 2018

Exactly one year ago I wrote a blogpost titled “From dream to reality - in one year to first customer illustrations” where I showed you how I started to earn money with illustrations for my first clients. The post ended with stating that I have drawn eight paid portraits for people I knew and strangers. As I am a vivid journal writer, I can see that three days later I made my plan for the next year, 2018, and I had a big plan for it!

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