The Dro » Graphic Design http://the-dro.com Musician, Web Developer, Programmer, Graphic Designer, & Editor Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:09:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Half a Bodied Guy http://the-dro.com/web-design/graphic-design-web-design/half-a-bodied-guy/ http://the-dro.com/web-design/graphic-design-web-design/half-a-bodied-guy/#comments Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:36:04 +0000 The Dro http://the-dro.com/?p=420 half a body guy 300x291 Half a Bodied Guy

Got bored so I illustrated a Half a bodied guy.

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I finally got a few minutes of downtime which is pretty rare for me and decided to spice up my twitter background.

As a graphic designer & developer, it frustrates me that I don’t have a custom bad-ass web site and personal social networking designs. I spend all of my time designing for others and never have enough time to design for myself anymore. It’s unfortunate because the reality is, no matter how many hours I put in each day, I still seem to be getting no-where financially.

The thing that sucks about my field at the moment is that no one is really willing to pay what us designers and developers are worth. In turn, projects take longer to complete and are more difficult because freelancers end up having to take on more projects at a time, at lower costs than normal, in order to pay the bills & survive.
I strongly believe that if clients were willing to pay more, designers could focus more of their attention to the one specific project at hand and not worry about having to take on others just to stay afloat.

Regardless, I took a bit of time I had left over after completing a task and decided to finally design something for myself. Check out my new Twitter Background image and feel free to comment and let me know what you think.

I have uploaded it to the server in case anyone wants to use it as their background. I understand that it’s a personal background and has all my links on it, but if anyone requests a custom made one for use on their page, I will gladly create one for them as time permits.

Link to the full size image: http://the-dro.com/images/twitter_bg2.png

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