As a freelancer I'm glad that 2011 starts with a lot of hard work. I think I almost took too many assignments and on the top of that started planning my own stuff, so 2011 January-early May are going to be pretty intensive.... My self-initiated book (contract with the publishers already signed) for pre-school aged children, other assignment from other publisher for a 'creative coloring in book' for toddlers, a little bit of flash-game design (fun times!), and my own product series hopefully starting to sell on early May. I've just realized that its only three months (January, February, March) for illustrating books books together with designing stuff I plan to sell, and few additional weeks for printing my self-initiated illustrated products, dealing with tax-issues before starting to sell it, and probably re-printing (lets be realistic..) some of the stuff, and taking boxes from printers office to the store by a ... trolley-bus?huh?..

Probably not going to my own graduation event at Kingston University because of all of this.. Otherwise I would spend the first half of April in airports as around that time my Russian visa will end and I'll have to go back to Vilnius..

Having said that, no weeping here. Working already from Vilnius, but going to Moscow in a week and doing most of the job from there. Moscow, here I come! hope you're already making a big mug of coffee for me!

P.S. Portfolio updates coming soon as I still have to take photos of school-books I've illustrated in 2010, and also I've almost finished a flash game backgrounds and characters so those are going to be published in a 2 weeks or so.