Becoming a Freelance Illustrator for Marvel, Disney and DC: Doaly
What's in this episode
How does a creative side project turn into a decade long freelancing business working with the biggest names in pop culture, like Disney, Pixar, Marvel, DC Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros and Sony Pictures? All good super-heroes have an origin story. And this interview tells the series of events that took Doaly from working for a company in Birmingham, England, to the front page of comic covers seen all over the world. Signing at Comic-con events. It's quite the transformation. Tarlochan Doal, AKA Doaly, spent 15 years as a full time in-house web and UX designer. Illustration was the side hustle he did to scratch a creative itch, designing movie posters for films he loved. Then one Saturday morning, Doaly woke to an email from a movie studio. And his whole script changed. This episode of the Being Freelance podcast with Steve Folland covers: - Why he filled his portfolio with the work he wanted to be hired for, and how design blogs and social media got it in front of the right people - The passion projects that catapulted his career — including a Wonder Woman piece that sold 1,500 posters in a weekend and let him quit his day job - Using UX contracting to bridge the financial gap in