What job can I find after learning to paint?

I used to learn to draw. What have I done now?

Office clerk of the Party Working Committee of state-owned enterprises.

At 8: 30 in the morning, I make tea in a thermos cup, write materials, organize meetings in party member, engage in trade union activities, leave work at an appointed time, and never work overtime. This is my day job.

In the evening, add ice into the glass and start painting.

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When I was a child, my dream was to draw pictures every day and raise many cats.

In the fifth grade, I found a kitten and kept it for nine years. At that time, I didn't know how to raise a cat at all. Feed me cat food bought in the supermarket. In the summer vacation of freshman year, it broke out the only and last disease of cats. Unwilling to eat, the original big cat of more than ten kilograms turned into a bone. Bile duct obstruction, renal failure, fatty liver, heart failure, severe dehydration anemia, the doctor sent a critical notice to the hospital.

The doctor said there was little hope.

I said I must save it.

But how much money can a freshman girl have in her pocket? A few hundred dollars a day for treatment, her savings soon ran out.

Friends who knew me earlier may remember that I started selling paintings at that time. I felt so tragic at that time. I take him to the hospital for treatment every morning, hang water with him, go home at night and paint while wiping tears, and wake up at any time in the middle of the night for fear that he will suddenly leave.

Actually, it only lasted more than a week. After all, the disease took away my kitten.

"Selling paintings to save cats" has been helped by many pet parents.

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However, the hand-painted business has been going on, so that I will not be mediocre in college, and I can also provide good supplies for the cats I adopted later and participate in the rescue of stray animals. There is no need to consider whether there is enough money in the card.

Try to draw with different tool materials.

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The people who paint the most portraits are lovers and family members. Every time before writing, they will share their stories with me.

A client made my painting into a wedding invitation and sent a letter and wedding candy when she got married.

I have a client, from acquaintance, love, marriage, having children ... Every year on his wife's birthday, he will come to me to order one, and now it is the seventh year.

A client asked me to take a personal photo of my family and her wedding photo as a family photo, and those relatives who had already left stood with her with a smile.

Almost all the customers stayed on WeChat after painting and became my netizens. Some will give me gifts; Some people will talk to me when they encounter something; Some people will send me funny videos when they see my depressed circle of friends, and then tell me that everything will be fine.

I chose boxes and decorations for the paintings I sold.

Perhaps because of this, my first resume after graduation, I invested in a wedding company and became a wedding planner.

If portrait painting is to record memories, then wedding design is to create memories. Listening to emotions, feeling emotions, and attaching my understanding and blessings, whether it is a beautiful creator or a recorder, make me feel extremely happy.

Later, because wedding planning often had to stay up late to work overtime, I worked as a part-time wedding painter and found this stable and dull job. Portraits that were too busy to accept orders were reopened.

Feel and express the emotion in the painting

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On the day when the circle of friends sent me a new order, many old customers placed orders.

They said welcome back, and finally they waited for you.

I said welcome, this time, never close the door.

Usually, when you brush social software, you will see many students who want to try to pick up hand-drawn sheets. As an "old senior", I would like to share some experiences with you.

It says that I started taking portraits in college. At first it was just for fun, not for profit. On 20 13 wechat, micro-stores and wechat services appeared, and I also registered a micro-store with a stick figure head of "3 yuan a head". Some friends also bought small avatars to play with. When they put on a new avatar, people who are interested in it in the circle of friends also bought avatars ... that's it, I have accumulated some customers who are interested in hand-painted things. Then I added categories such as "bust 10 yuan" and "double-headed 15 yuan".

The little head portrait painted in those days

Double avatar

After a period of time, I felt that the audience of virtual goods was not very wide, and 45 yuan's physical goods were added, and the style of works began to change, from simple to more realistic. Frame it and increase the price to 80 yuan, which is the embryonic form of the present portrait.

From black and white line drawing

colour

Every subsequent price increase was based on the improvement of one's painting level. You can set the price according to the complexity of the work, the time spent and your own painting level. Therefore, instead of encouraging everyone to make a draft of cabbage price, we should have some skills in pricing and price increase, so that customers who have bought it can see the reasons for the price increase and feel that it is worthwhile to have repeat customers.

Changes in painting style

Finer

Let's talk about how to maintain customers.

We have the habit of brushing our circle of friends every day. In addition to narrowing the distance with others through likes and comments, in my spare time, I will also draw a selfie of a beautiful woman brushed by a circle of friends, and then share it with a circle of friends for her to discover. This should be a little surprise. Beautiful women are usually very happy. If she shares it with a circle of friends, it will be another wave of publicity. In addition, for old customers, I promise I will never raise prices. At what price did you buy it the first time? It will be the same price next time. In this way, I gained the long-term trust of some friends.

The most important point, I think, is that you must be sincere and happy to do a good job. I insist that everything I do is to get happiness and a sense of accomplishment.

Keep working hard ~ After all, I will start to refuel from a century-old shop for 9 1 year.