again there's lots of boards out there with people looking for artists if your willing to step out of your comfort zone. For me Ive gotten 90% of my freelance work through Craigslist. Am currently looking into working with more stable clients eg. outsource houses.
After I got laid off from my first job I worked at Target and worked a lot of really random short term jobs off craigslist and a little bit of freelance I could get, really sucked but had to do what was necessary
I took some contracts in the product illustration industry. lots of work out there if your willing to leave your comfort zone. www.thumbtack.com has some stuff on it
I don't know if anyone has any experience with this, but I'm actually looking to get into wwoofing (basically working on an organic farm in exchange for a place to stay and food) and hopefully starting remote freelance on the side.
I work in IT for the government in Ottawa. Mon thru Fri hours and when things get slow I surf PC and model on my laptop. It's a great stepping stone but surrounded by 3 grey cubicle walls sucks the creativity out of me.
I tried to keep whatever I did art oriented. So I did some custom airbrushing during the year I was laid off. Helmets, motorcycles, rc cars, etc. Kind of fund doing more tangible work, but it was tough.
I've been working as Lighting/Comp artist for about 7 months now, 6 months at one studio, one month at a new studio. Wages are comparable to modeling and it seems i can move over to the modeling department with some ease (only been at this specific company for about a month now, was at another one on a 6 month contract)
For those who managed to get some Freelancing, how did you go about getting started with that? I know we have a freelancing board here, but it just seems to be page after page of individual modelers asking for work. I can't imagine that alone would be good enough to get attention given the amount of people and how one…