When getting into a competitive industry with all odds against you and many rejections to get through, the best thing i feel is to set mini goals and achieve them each day i.e. Something that will make you feel that you haven't wasted a day idling with colour palates, doodles and web-based procrastination.

My Task was to discover what i could do to improve my creative resume. Being an artist, i believe that it is always easier to "draw" your way to success because Hey! it has worked before! But now you are in a different ball park( lol, i'm so americanized) where you have to impress seasoned Artists and Designers in their tight jeans and coffees. For once, you can't really rely on your gut instinct to seal the deal all the way. My first attempt was successful at capturing my childish/warm character without any regard about spacing, margins and prioritizing content. Naively i thought that it would definitely stand out in a sea of applicants but it finally dawn to me how difficult it was going to be.

I needed to be ... more commercial *gasp*

Here(or below) is a before and after picture of my resume, i believe that it is a big step for me because i was actually looking at other people's work for inspiration. Yeah...I have difficulty looking at other people's work because my heart drops when i realise how amazing they are and how much they have achieved when i on the contrary have done so little. Then this starts a vicious cycle of self-criticism, procrastination and depression which finally just ends with me making further plans of being a smelly hippie with no idea what an economy is like and being at a "pay as you feel" restaurant preaching to people how THEY should be living their lives. Then i throw out the idea again as i can't live without washing my hair everyday.

So yeah, good...The current resume now has a professional clean cut shave to it with a neon name sign to show that i understand that typography is important and that i can be anal when required. It was tedious and whilst attention to detail is not my thing, self-disclipine was a strong motivator. It can also be printed too without being cut out! Overall, this is a good step in my bigger goal :)