Category Archives: Illustration Fridays

She looks capable doesn’t she? Maybe she needs to project a little more confidence, but I’m rooting for her to get the job!

I’ve been to lots of job interviews, a few times as the interviewer, but more often as the interviewee. What an awkward social situation. With few exceptions, the people who have interviewed me have been friendly and encouraging and I often I have ended up with a job offer.

There have been one or two disasters over the years, like the time I had to interview for the job I already had because the contractor had changed, and the manager wanted to give the job to somebody else and kept me waiting and hour and a half past our appointment time; the interview turned out to be very unpleasant and I ended up asking to see his manager. Or a recent interview I had for a technical writing job,  in which the guy expressed suspician at all the graphic arts experience on my resume.

“What’s all this graphics stuff on here?” he said, eyes narrowed.

“Oh,” I said, “Some people find it useful for tech writers to have graphics skills as well as writing skills.”

“Well we wouldn’t want you back there doodling,” he said.

I knew then it wasn’t going to work out.

The prompt this week at IllustrationFriday.com is “fluid.” I was a little thrown off by that at first. My first instinct was to draw a dancer. I already have several dancer pictures drawn. Then I remembered a little painting within a painting I did (see below) of a mermaid-like person in the ocean. I took that little painting idea out and gave it its own canvas so to speak.

Here is the picture in which this idea first showed up. It’s fun and interesting how, when you do art regularly, every day if possible, idea begine to come faster and build upon each other.