Asking for a little favor.

A few years ago -for obvious reasons- I deleted all my american services. (instagram, facebook etc)

The result was my business plummeting down, no projects came in anymore, making it nearly impossible to come around after 20 years of career.

The favor I'm asking is if you know someone who's working with illustrators, or even just interested, just share my stuff please. Thanks :)

My portfolio
https://www.itchi5.com

#freelanceillustrator #illustration #europe

itchi5 Illustrations

Illustrations by Tijmen Ploeger

@itchi5 I saw in your timeline that you did portraits in the past. Is it still possible to commission portraits from you? I'd like to replace my current avatar here and on several other websites.

@m2c_n3e

Thanks for the offer, I'm doing mostly full illustrations, but send me an email with details and then I'd be hapy to let you know on tuesday. :)

@itchi5 I wish I had a need for your work, it looks fantastic!
@jgilbert @itchi5 I was about to say the same thing

@Maddogeco

Mentioning is already a support. :)

@itchi5 I like your work! Will keep you in mind for our publication (www.localnewspasadena.com). Just bookmarked your site for later reference.
@itchi5 you have a very crisp, clean style. I pitched my Insta and twitter, and even Reddit started banning people for musky reasons. But yay for mastodon for now at least.
@itchi5 You do excellent work! Not unfortunately anything I can use myself, unless I decide to turn any of my books into graphic novels. But I will see if I can find anywhere useful to spread the word.
@itchi5 I'm not in the market for illustrations but I love your work! I'll put your name forward if it ever comes up.

@itchi5 This guy is on here and you might follow what he does to be known

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Revoy

https://www.davidrevoy.com/
https://peertube.touhoppai.moe

I have no idea, but he seems to be doing well and maybe you could use some of his ideas in your own self-promotion. Best wishes anyhow! :-)

@davidrevoy
@shichimi

David Revoy - Wikipedia

@gemlog @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @shichimi

Ah yes I've heared of him indeed, he's managed it great indeed!

I'll take a look and see if something's in there which can help me out, thanks!

@itchi5 oh wow, I love your aesthetic.
@itchi5
I don't know if your retreat was from US social media only or everything. But your beautiful illustrations would be a nice fit for Society6 in my opinion.

@cflange

It was from the american big ones (nothing against normal companies) and society6 is part of that, like redbubble and behance too. But thanks for the offer. :)

@itchi5 Same in music. I have to stay on the dirty platforms until something no better comes along. It sucks, but I wouldn’t be able to contact a bunch of my people otherwise. All I post now is music stuff, though. More personal things show up here.
@itchi5 your illustrations are gorgeous!

@itchi5

You've been blessed with an auto boost from me

I don't understand why your work went sour you must have had clients in real life right?

@itchi5

#FediHire is a useful hashtag, you can follow it.

Click on it and there's a follow button at the top.

@kevinrns Thanks, will take a look at it!

@itchi5

Three bits of advice:

Create a presence on Behance.com. Many art directors treat behance.com as a talent search engine, especially freelance talent.

Put together a LinkedIn presence. People will look.

I can recommend you to an SEO guy.

@tuban_muzuru

Thanks Tuban, though behance and linkedin are the type of companies I'm trying to find a european replacement for. But thanks for the help!

@itchi5

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@tuban_muzuru

Ja klar, ich dachte Sie kommen aus den US, aber deutsch spreche ich gerne.

Momentan focusse ich mich nür auf europeische nicht-groß geschäften, das ist eine lange geschichte, aber so ist es halt.

Aber vielen dank für dein vorschlagen, wirdt geschätst.

@itchi5 And that’s exactly why I keep these profiles … there aren’t enough viable alternatives at the moment.

@itchi5 really nice work!

Is that David Suh with the floating camera?
https://www.instagram.com/davidsuhphoto?igsh=MWVlOWk3dWh3ODlibQ==

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@Ferrous

Hey thanks, and no it's not David, but looking at him it could be him indeed.

I do portrait illustrations on commission so these things could be done.

@itchi5 Would you be interested in cover art for books?
Writers starting out or self publishing may be interested, you will find them on sites like this.

@RHW

Oh most definately, most things I work on are covers, advertisement and wall decoration.

Which site were you mentioning or did I miss something maybe?

@itchi5 @RHW That was my first tought too. I so see these as book covers... The facial expressions, the ruffled clothes.
@MariaCalendula @itchi5
I didn't mention specific, check the #'s here for #writers #bookstodon etc, engage w them and spread the word. I have privately sent your details to a few writers I am in touch with already. I like your art and thought it could produce good cover art as your archive showed various other styles as well.
Good luck.😊

@RHW @MariaCalendula

Oh that's awesome of you, thank you so much! :)

@itchi5 realy wishing you success you deserve it
@itchi5 Looks great. Good luck!
@itchi5 @oatmeal , I think.

@caleb @oatmeal

I try to think sometimes too. (doesn't always work) ;)

But serious, it seems something went wrong with the text in your reply?

@itchi5 @oatmeal oh, I just meant that I think Oatmeal is looking for illustrators, since I saw a recent post about that (though quite possible I’m mistaken, and it was animators, not illustrators, which is why I added “I think”).

@caleb @oatmeal

Ah ok! Yes animating is not in my scope, I did it 'back in the days', but skipped it since I was way to much focused on details haha.

Thanks for the mention though!

@itchi5

Then start sharing images we can retooth... It would be preferable to avoid any external links that may be uncertain in content, and to steer clear of using CloudFlare. Thank you!

@itchi5 just curious why you left insta and Facebook?

@birgir

Using a service = supporting a service, including their wrong decisions.

I left way more then just those 2, basically all huge american corporations. It's because they're not playing fair in europe, take over/down everything which isn't theirs, so european services have nearly no chance to be on the market, in their own continent.

So that's why I stopped using them all, and am looking for european ones to use, and therefor support.

@itchi5 yes. They are a bit to much dominating. I have been trying stop using the many services but I feel as you do that I would disappear from the rest of the ,,normal" people still there that are still drinking the koolaid.
@itchi5
That's excellent work there!

@itchi5

Reposted here at Mastodon
And posted it at BlueSky.
I hope things will change for the good.
Love your work.

@itchi5 Went to your website and saw the statement: "What you need is a human illustrator."

I can think of a number of reasons, but it may be interesting for your readers and potential customers: Why do I need a human illustrator?

(Thanks for leaving proprietary and central services for the fediverse. That is courageous and will be rewarded one way or the other. It would be interesting to know how you have ruled out other reasons for the decline of your business.)

@ber

I'll look at the tagline again soon and see if there's extra info needed. You're right it might need more information for non artists.

And of course there might be other reasons for the decline, but when you drop your social media after years of use, and then it all goes down, then it's just a clear thing it's the main reason.

Thanks for your feedback!

@itchi5 the advent of "generative" image processors based on neural networks may have caused a disruption independent from your social media change.

Anyhow, best of luck for building up your business again.

@ber

Ah yes AI definitely plays a part too indeed.

Thanks for the best wishes!