Hey guys! How's it going? Well since last i posted,(i know its been a while) But i had finished the books that was assigned to me was out for work for a week and half also i had to get new mac mini since my 8 yr old G4 died due to hardware failure. The day prier to that, my job had called me back to ask for me to assist the director of design (His names is José ) to illustrate the covers for the text books i had started working on when i first started ( i was working on Math 1 through 3). It was just gonna be a contract for a week, while between the both of us where gonna work on the illustrations.

For all the book, all subject had to have 3 covers, since it was 1rt 2nd and 3rd grade, so 4 subjects (discarding English since those books have not been made yet) had a deadline since 12 covers had to be made. Originally it was gonna be divided down the middle, he would do 6, i would do 6 and so forth. But Since he was the one in charge of doing the layout of the covers themselves, he did 3 and did 9 and he would also help me out by adding or removing certain things for it to be more aesthetically pleasing to the design of the covers.

We managed to finish on time, then He also wanted to do the English covers just to have them handy as well, so my contract got extended for another week, that also gave them time to to make more adjustments to the previous covers when they had passed through the big bosses of the Editorial. So while i was making the adjustments asked, i was working on the English covers. During all of this, my other boss Karys, she told me before she was leaving on vacation ( which she desperately needed) she said that come the 24th of Sept. since I will be finishing the English covers i was gonna be signing a new contract this time till December coz i'm gonna be working on the English books 1st through 6th grade books.

So, the 24th was right around the corner and José the day before came to check on me and he was asking for more changes on the previous covers ordered by the big owner of the editorial, and i said, "Dude tomorrow i'm signing a new contract which is to start on the books for English" He looked at me puzzled and left.

The next day, they only extended me for another week :/ and i was confused and it was cos José ordered human resources to extend the covers contract more. I was kinda upset, cos i was informed that the contract i originally was sign was gonna stipulate that i was not gonna receive minimum wage anymore, since it was gonna be for a longer period. but then i found out why.

This was 1 of the biggest wrench thrown, José comes up to me and tell me that the bosses asked for 12 new covers for the workbooks with the excuse that the people that worked in the warehouse could not tell the difference between a text book form a work book..... when they are supposed to be cohesive
and that set back what Karys had ordered also setting me back with the English books. The other big wrench thrown in the mix was that José after informing this to me that he was leaving the 30th of sept. to Austria for 2 weeks. leaving me completely alone with the new covers, he didn't even explain to me how different they where going to be or i could add backgrounds to them....well i found out the hard way this week that just passed. I was making them just as simple as the other covers but the design was slight they different and that meant more elements to add to fill up space : /

Well on the 1st of October, i finally got to sign the contract its till December 31st and no more minimum wage :3
i'm gonna be getting the same steady salary as the other illustrators, no benefits, but i don't mind that all still being a temp. Anyways hopefully by tomorrow i can finally get started with the English books and they wont bother me anymore with changes form the new covers, i've been all this week making and fixing the changes asked, José really had some timing for this... : /
But now i got more work, so i'm just gonna around on the weekends, sorry for anymore delays and for not being around as much anymore >:

well be seeing ya.