May 18, 2020 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Side Hustlers podcast. I'm your host from
my Heart Radio, Carla Marie. I host the Carla Marie
and Anthony Show on one or six point one Kiss
FM in Seattle. You can listen to it from anywhere
on your I Heart Radio app. And if you're listening
to this as this post, I appreciate you being here.
I know times are super crazy. I know your time
(00:20):
is super important. I know if you're supporting any of
these side Hustlers as you listen to them, I know
how important every single dollar is that you're spending right now.
So thank you so much for doing that. And no
matter when you're listening to this, thank you so much
for your time. I cannot tell you how much it
means to me when I see you screenshotting and posting
and sharing that you are listening to Side Hustlers. So
(00:41):
feel free to tag me at the Carla Murie anytime
you're listening to any episode of Side Hustlers. I want
to hear from you, and I want to hear what
you think. So thank you for supporting me and for
supporting every guest of this podcast. Now, each week I
talked to someone different who is following a passion outside
of their day job. Except for this week's guest. Now,
Brittany's passion is art, but she gets to do that
(01:01):
in her day job too, which is pretty cool. Her
day job is doing the art and graphics for slot machines. Yeah,
Brittany lives in Vegas. She's got a pretty cool gig.
And then her side hustle is also doing art. But
the catch for Brittany is that she went to zero schooling.
She taught herself everything. And we've even got a surprise
for myself in this episode. My producer Houston had Brittany
(01:24):
make some art for me in the podcast, so you
get to hear that. It's really cool. This is brittany
story for a lot of people. You know, why are
you wait? Do you know what you want to do?
And this is what you want to do? Do it.
I'm a hustles side side hustle. Do it. I'm a
hustle hust do it. I'm a hustles side hulove. Come
on ask about me, yo, don't. It's the side Hustless
(01:48):
podcast we call the Root. So coming to us from
Las Vegas. I think you're a first guest from Las Vegas.
It's Brittany. Hi, Brittany, you're in Las Vegas, right. You
kind of looked at me like I was okay. I
was like, wait, am I I'm in Las Vegas. Okay.
So your day job, I think is the freaking coolest
thing ever. You create artwork for slot machines, but your
(02:09):
side hustles also doing artwork. You do characters and designs,
and instead of me kind of explaining what you do,
why don't you explain what you actually do. So for
my day job, yes, I create artwork for slot machines,
and then on the side, I just love doing illustrations.
I kind of just like to dabble in everything. I
love doing caricatures. I did that for a long time,
(02:32):
so that's something I was able to incorporate into a
freelance thing. Illustrations, logos, just anything I can really do.
I just have a passion to do art. When you
say characters are first of all, that word kills me
every time characters are you like on the strip in
Vegas doing them? Like, how did you find people to
(02:52):
do them? Of? I started in a company, so I
started doing them on the strip and I did that
for years and it was so awesome. I got lots
of tourists, so I got to meet lots of people,
and it was really a learning experience because people are
so different looking. So I got really good at drawing
faces and it's weird. You like, look at somebody. You're like,
(03:15):
I've never drawn a person that's looks like you. This
is so fun, So I really see. I wouldn't have
said so fun of it, like I'm so scared to
mess this up. But with those kind of drawings, the
whole point is to have fun with them. So obviously
that is a super cool job. But you didn't go
to school for this. You didn't go to school for
any sort of graphic or art, which is mind blowing
(03:36):
to me because if people want to see the kind
of work you do, I want to go to your Instagram.
It's miss britt m I s b r I T
underscored Designs because it's incredible. So how did you teach
yourself this? I just started at a really young age
and I just always wanted to be better. So I
went out of my way to find people who were
(03:57):
much better artists than me and just hang out with them.
And it's like, hey, teach me some stuff. Let's hang out,
let's draw together. I love going to coffee shops and
hanging out with other artists and just like show me stuff.
I always had a passion to learn. Yeah, that's kind
of like great advice for anyone in any industry. Find
people who are better than you and learn from them.
(04:17):
I mean, that's that is the best way to learn
something is to learn from someone else, especially if they're
better than you. So you were you were working in
a coffee shop for a while. What happened there with
your artwork when you were a barista and a manager
at a coffee shop. I started being a barista there
and I didn't really pursue art very much. I kind
of just did it as a side hobby and it
was fun. But at some point, like I did great
(04:39):
at the coffee shop. I got all the way up
to manage a position I was living. It was great.
At one point, I was just like, I just love
doing art so much that I feel like that's something
I kind of want to pursue more. So, I was like,
I'm sorry, I love you guys, this is an awesome job.
I kind of just need to do something that I
(05:00):
I feel like I have to do otherwise if I
don't pursue, I'll just regret it. At work point in life,
absolutely were you selling your artwork at all when you
were there. It was just completely like just for fun.
I got little commissions here and there at the shop. Yeah,
I would hang it on the walls because she loves
supporting local artists, so she would let me hang all
(05:20):
my art on the walls. People would come in and
they'd be like, I love this, I want to purchase this,
or they would ask me for like little commissions that
I would be like, yeah, sure, that's great. So then
you you get this job doing graphics for slot machines,
which it's kind of funny. Whenever I or I'm sure
anyone is using a slot machine, they're just like, this
is pretty and it's mesmerizing and I don't want to
(05:42):
get up. I love playing this game. No one ever
thinks like there's a human behind these designs, whether I'm
assuming it's like the whole thing you design, right, like
the whole mission, that's what Those are some of the
craziest designs. When you're in a casino, those are the
ones that draw you in. But how do you lend
that job? You know you've got no schooling to say, Hey,
I went in this design school obviously to your portfolio,
(06:04):
but that had to be hard. Yeah, it took me
a long time to get into it. I think years.
I was pursuing getting into this because I live in
Las Vegas. I go into the casinos and I see
the slot machines. I'm like, this is amazing, Like this
is like taught to your artists. I was like, I
want to be a part of this. So I kind
of just kept using what I saw as reference to
(06:26):
build a portfolio and just try my hardest to get
at the level that I saw them working at. And
it took years. Yeah, I'm sure. So how do you
find people then? Who who you want to work with
for your side? I was like, how do you market yourself? Too?
Different people? A lot of them find me, which I
really love, like with Instagram. Instagram is an insane platform,
(06:48):
Like I always have people messaging me or like I
appreciate my art or I used to do um twitch streams.
Love Twitch, Yeah, I love Twitch. To a lot of work, Yeah,
a lot of work to get on there, but Twitch
is fun. But mainly it's an Instagram. So when you
would do twitch streams. Would you live stream you actually
doing the art? Yes. I would start a piece and
(07:11):
I would only work on it when I was streaming
on Twitch. That's really cool, Like, all right, you guys,
I'll be back, we'll work on this another day. And
I did complete a few pieces and it was really
interesting because I would get like people's ideas as I
was doing, and I'm like, oh my gosh, that'd be great.
That's exciting. Yeah. That it's kind of interesting because you
don't normally, you know, when you think of an artist
(07:33):
there alone at home doing what they do or somewhere
that inspires them, you don't really think of them kind
of having thousands upon thousands of people watching them do
what they love to do, inspiring them as it's happening.
So that is definitely a different way to do it.
It's a great way to get your name out there
and get new people. We twitch stream our radio morning
show from Seattle, and today someone from Australia popped in.
(07:56):
They were like what is this and like they had
no idea, So I get it. It's smart and it's
a really cool way to get your art out there
to other people. But as an artist, especially on a
platform like Instagram. Do you find that there are either
people that copy you or do you get nervous about
people copying your artwork? Not at all. If anything, I
think it's more to inspire other people. I mean, if
(08:17):
they can do it too, that's awesome. We can all
do it, so I can always create more stuff. So
what is the process for you? Then? What are you
drawing with? Because I cannot like stick figures or what happened?
So like, what is your physical process? Are you drawing with?
Are you painting? What is it? And then the final
how does that happen? Because I have no idea how
(08:38):
any of that works. I do have a few different mediums.
I love watercolor. I think watercolor is insanely fun. It's
just kind of all over the place, and how can
I explain this? It's smooth, It's smooth. I love it.
And then for like digital pieces, it's I use my
iPad pro. I love my iPad with the pen and everything.
(08:58):
And it's even better because I can usually just like
sit on my couch and do it. Yeah, you don't
have to have this whole set up. Yeah, go anywhere. Yeah,
like the coffee shop, I'll take my iPad. I'll go
sit at the coffee shop, or I'll sit on my couch.
I'll throw on some TV and I'm like, let's draw something. Yeah,
I'm assuming you're not doing watercolors at the coffee shop.
I have you have no way? Yeah? No, they have
(09:21):
these really cool water pens that you can Yeah, and
they have their pans that squish out water while you're painting.
And people laugh at me, they're like, what what are
you doing? Or I'll like ask for a cup of
water in the middle of the coffee shop or sometimes
the bar, and it's just like a really fun conversation starter.
It's interesting because I've been seeing a lot of people
(09:41):
now during quarantine. Obviously, coloring books were a great way
to relieve stress. For a while, we've been seeing adult
coloring books pop up. But now I'm starting to see
people do like paint by numbers or some sort of
watercolor kit. Obviously for people like me, not people like
you who know what they're doing. But what you're saying,
like how it's smooth, I can imagine that it's very
relaxing for you. It is. It's a little tedious sometimes
(10:03):
because you have to kind of understand how to work
with the water but that's what's fun with it. When you,
or at least when I play with watercolor, I kind
of just let it do its thing and then I
have like an idea where I'm going, and I hope
it's just like working with me and like this is
what we're doing. Does any of it ever, whether it's
your day job or side hustle, does it ever actually
feel like work for you? I don't know, not really.
(10:25):
I mean I love what I do and I chose
to pursue it, So I like to think of it
as I am having fun and if anything, if it's hard,
I'm learning. So you're like the best. I hope that
everyone in the world listens to you with this podcast
because you, like you just said, I chose what I
(10:46):
do and even if it's hard, you're learning. Like a
lot of people look at something that's hard and they
do not have that outlook. I know I don't always
have that outlook. So thank you for that. Thank you
for that nugget. I'm going to think of you. I'm
like brit Brittany said this, when I'm having a bad
day and mad about something being difficult, so I appreciate
that very positive person. Thank you, we all need it.
(11:07):
If you went back to being a kid, did you
ever think you'd actually be doing this as your job?
Sometimes as a kid, I always imagined I wanted to
be a cartoonist. I mean, there was a few weird
careers like a bio who are the water I'm like,
I'm like, bioengineered. I can't even say. But for the
(11:31):
most part, I always knew I wanted to be like
drawing or creating something because I loved all my cartoons.
I always watched I was always mimicking what I saw
on TV. I'm like, I'm gonna draw this now. Is
that something you're still interested in doing? Like, would you
want to do artwork for cartoons? Oh? Absolutely? I have
lots of artists that inspire me, and I'm like, that
(11:51):
would be so cool and people get to enjoy it. Yeah,
and you actually get to see it literally come to life,
which I'm sure as an artist has got to be
such a wild feeling. Oh. Absolutely. So when you're doing
like the physical art, not the graphic for the slot machines,
like maybe it's your side hustle and you're doing watercolor,
are you selling those anywhere? Is that like at a market, Like,
(12:12):
can someone order of watercolor piece of art from you,
like physically and have it mailed to them? Yes, I
I posted on my Etsy or if it's on Instagram,
I usually say it's up for sale, or if somebody
messages me and they're interested, I'll give him a quote.
So that's kind of how I just go about doing that.
If people were to reach out and they're interested, then
(12:33):
I'm like, let's do this. So what I'm gonna do
for this episode? Anyone right now who is like, well,
I want her Etsy, I want her Instagram. All of
the links are actually in the description of this podcast,
so you can just go down there and check it out.
So on side hustlers, I always like talking about how
the guests and I got connected and you when I
never communicated before the very moment that we started to record,
(12:53):
and my producer Houston found you because he listens to
Mad Scientists Party our podcast. I hadn't heard of it
until he told me about it, and you did artwork
for them. So how did you let's let's figure out
this whole trail, how did you get in touch with
that podcast and do artwork for them. He actually contacted me.
Matt signed his party, Hour contacted you. Yeah, Kevin Craft
(13:16):
actually contacted me, and I'm like, I have to ask
him how he found me actually, because I have no idea.
I was just so excited because I've heard of his
podcast and a few other ones he's been on. I
was like, oh, heck, yeah, this will be so fun.
Let's do it. That's cool. So the art I saw
the artwork you did for them. It's incredible. So my
producer Houston heard it. I guess he reached out to you,
(13:37):
and then he surprised me with artwork that you did
for this podcast for Sidehouse. I haven't seen it yet.
It's in my email. I haven't opened. I'm excited to
open it as we're doing this. Some where is it?
It literally says do not open. So I was gonna killaking.
Oh how freaking. So it's me, it's art, my producer Houston,
(13:58):
and my two cats I aunt, and it's me doing
the podcast with my actual signature. This is wild. This
is so cool. Oh I just realized it. That's the
green shirt that I wore to my live episode. It
was such a cute shirt. Thank you. This is so incredible.
How do you like? How do you like everything? I mean,
(14:19):
the cats look just like the cats Houston, You've got everything,
got his nose ring in there. It's just like, what
is the process of making this? Like when you sit down,
like what did you do first? In this one? It's
actually funny. He gave me both of your Instagram So
I went and found like a ton of pictures. I
probably had like four or five pictures just lined up,
and I'm just like drawing your face until I feel
(14:41):
like I get pictures correct. It's crazy to me knowing
that there was a woman that not only did I
not know, but I didn't even know existence with pictures
of me drawing now that I think about it. So
that's really funny process. I like when I'm sitting in
a public place and I just like have a bunch
of rain photos of somebody's face, They're like, oh, that's interesting,
(15:03):
Like just happy what I paid program are you using?
Is it photos illustrator? What are you procreate? Didn't even
know that was the thing. So for any artist or
someone wants to be an artist, you recommend that. But
the first step for you are you kind of penciling
what you're doing. Are you immediately going to my green
shirt with a green color? Oh goodness, No. Everything is
(15:24):
penciled first, and it's reworked tons of times, like I'll
go over over and over again. I'm a little bit
of a perfectionist, so it's like I won't be happy
with the first ten noses that I draw, especially because
noses are hard, I can't imagine. So after I get
like a good pencil lines out, I will go over
an ink it. And once I ink it, there's layers
(15:47):
and I can throw colors underneath, and I can change
the colors without ruining anything else. It's a really fun process.
It's incredible, Like I just keep staring at it. It's
wild how you are able to do this. It's just
it is really cool and I can't wait to share
with everyone. You mentioned earlier that it took you a
few years to lend that job doing graphics for slot machines.
(16:08):
What was happening during those few years and what was
that process like? Because I'm assuming kind of getting regretting
is not obviously the easiest, especially because it's your personal work,
it's you showing, it's you're being very vulnerable as an artist.
So for anyone who is in that process right now,
feeling that failure moment even though they're not really failing.
What advice do you have for them? Just keep trying,
(16:28):
don't let it get you down. Like there's always an opportunity,
and if you don't make one, they'll always be another.
I mean, the best you can do is look at
what you're doing and see how you can make it better.
What you did wasn't at the standards, so you're like,
just keep improving. Do you think that you're gonna ever
make your side hustle your full time job? Because what
(16:50):
you do, I mean you could get land a big project,
like you said, doing artwork for a cartoon. Do you
think that is your goal to just continue doing big projects?
Or do you want to always have this day job
of doing slot machines and continue doing this as a
side hustle. I would love to do what I'm doing
for a while, Like I really enjoy it and I
am just like really starting to learn, So I don't
(17:12):
really have any plans to do for a while, but
at some point I love trying other things, So who knows,
maybe down the road, I'll want to create a cartoon
or I would love to make, like a side scrolling
video game or something cool like that. Just like I
like big projects. I like learning and being able to
(17:32):
experience different types of art. How does it work as
an artist? As your day job know that you or
do they have to know that you do something like this?
On the side, they know that we do like commissions.
On this side, I don't think they really mind. I mean,
I go in, I do my job really good, so
they can't complain everything else on the side. Yeah, everything
else on this side doesn't interrupt what I do at work.
(17:55):
It's my own thing. Have you ever walked into a
casino and seen something that you've designed to come to life? No?
Not yet. I can't wait for that to happen. That
would be cool. That's gonna be the craziest thing. You're
gonna have to somehow tell us. Next time I go
to Vegas, I'm gonna check in with you to see
what designs you've done and where they are so I
can go find them, because that would be I want
(18:15):
to have everybody give me picture proof. Yeah, I want
to see you at the machine. I want to see
the ticket when you're done, and maybe you'll have some
lucky machines that will be great people want to go.
I hope that happens well. Brittany, thank you so much
for being in side House. Thank you for this amazing
piece of art. I can't wait to share it. You're
incredible what you do. I'm excited to see what's next.
(18:37):
I can't wait to play the video games you create
and then watch the cartoons that you create. Thank you
so so much. Okay, thank you. It was so nice
talking to you. I really had fun. Thank you so
much for being here, for listening to side Hustlers, for
supporting the people on this podcast. You can always go
to the links in the description of this podcast to
learn everything about Brittany, and then you can also go
(18:57):
to my Instagram. It's at the Carle Marie. You can
click the link in my bio and almost everything I
mentioned is always there in that link tree or whatever
I've got set up, and then you'll be able to
click around and see previous guests as well. Thank you
again for being here. Please rate and review this podcast.
That helps so much. I know it sounds so dumb
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(19:19):
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Instagram until next week, Keep hustling,
Welcome to the Side Hustlers podcast. I'm your host from
my Heart Radio, Carla Marie. I host the Carla Marie
and Anthony Show on one or six point one Kiss
FM in Seattle. You can listen to it from anywhere
on your I Heart Radio app. And if you're listening
to this as this post, I appreciate you being here.
I know times are super crazy. I know your time
(00:20):
is super important. I know if you're supporting any of
these side Hustlers as you listen to them, I know
how important every single dollar is that you're spending right now.
So thank you so much for doing that. And no
matter when you're listening to this, thank you so much
for your time. I cannot tell you how much it
means to me when I see you screenshotting and posting
and sharing that you are listening to Side Hustlers. So
(00:41):
feel free to tag me at the Carla Murie anytime
you're listening to any episode of Side Hustlers. I want
to hear from you, and I want to hear what
you think. So thank you for supporting me and for
supporting every guest of this podcast. Now, each week I
talked to someone different who is following a passion outside
of their day job. Except for this week's guest. Now,
Brittany's passion is art, but she gets to do that
(01:01):
in her day job too, which is pretty cool. Her
day job is doing the art and graphics for slot machines. Yeah,
Brittany lives in Vegas. She's got a pretty cool gig.
And then her side hustle is also doing art. But
the catch for Brittany is that she went to zero schooling.
She taught herself everything. And we've even got a surprise
for myself in this episode. My producer Houston had Brittany
(01:24):
make some art for me in the podcast, so you
get to hear that. It's really cool. This is brittany
story for a lot of people. You know, why are
you wait? Do you know what you want to do?
And this is what you want to do? Do it.
I'm a hustles side side hustle. Do it. I'm a
hustle hust do it. I'm a hustles side hulove. Come
on ask about me, yo, don't. It's the side Hustless
(01:48):
podcast we call the Root. So coming to us from
Las Vegas. I think you're a first guest from Las Vegas.
It's Brittany. Hi, Brittany, you're in Las Vegas, right. You
kind of looked at me like I was okay. I
was like, wait, am I I'm in Las Vegas. Okay.
So your day job, I think is the freaking coolest
thing ever. You create artwork for slot machines, but your
(02:09):
side hustles also doing artwork. You do characters and designs,
and instead of me kind of explaining what you do,
why don't you explain what you actually do. So for
my day job, yes, I create artwork for slot machines,
and then on the side, I just love doing illustrations.
I kind of just like to dabble in everything. I
love doing caricatures. I did that for a long time,
(02:32):
so that's something I was able to incorporate into a
freelance thing. Illustrations, logos, just anything I can really do.
I just have a passion to do art. When you
say characters are first of all, that word kills me
every time characters are you like on the strip in
Vegas doing them? Like, how did you find people to
(02:52):
do them? Of? I started in a company, so I
started doing them on the strip and I did that
for years and it was so awesome. I got lots
of tourists, so I got to meet lots of people,
and it was really a learning experience because people are
so different looking. So I got really good at drawing
faces and it's weird. You like, look at somebody. You're like,
(03:15):
I've never drawn a person that's looks like you. This
is so fun, So I really see. I wouldn't have
said so fun of it, like I'm so scared to
mess this up. But with those kind of drawings, the
whole point is to have fun with them. So obviously
that is a super cool job. But you didn't go
to school for this. You didn't go to school for
any sort of graphic or art, which is mind blowing
(03:36):
to me because if people want to see the kind
of work you do, I want to go to your Instagram.
It's miss britt m I s b r I T
underscored Designs because it's incredible. So how did you teach
yourself this? I just started at a really young age
and I just always wanted to be better. So I
went out of my way to find people who were
(03:57):
much better artists than me and just hang out with them.
And it's like, hey, teach me some stuff. Let's hang out,
let's draw together. I love going to coffee shops and
hanging out with other artists and just like show me stuff.
I always had a passion to learn. Yeah, that's kind
of like great advice for anyone in any industry. Find
people who are better than you and learn from them.
(04:17):
I mean, that's that is the best way to learn
something is to learn from someone else, especially if they're
better than you. So you were you were working in
a coffee shop for a while. What happened there with
your artwork when you were a barista and a manager
at a coffee shop. I started being a barista there
and I didn't really pursue art very much. I kind
of just did it as a side hobby and it
was fun. But at some point, like I did great
(04:39):
at the coffee shop. I got all the way up
to manage a position I was living. It was great.
At one point, I was just like, I just love
doing art so much that I feel like that's something
I kind of want to pursue more. So, I was like,
I'm sorry, I love you guys, this is an awesome job.
I kind of just need to do something that I
(05:00):
I feel like I have to do otherwise if I
don't pursue, I'll just regret it. At work point in life,
absolutely were you selling your artwork at all when you
were there. It was just completely like just for fun.
I got little commissions here and there at the shop. Yeah,
I would hang it on the walls because she loves
supporting local artists, so she would let me hang all
(05:20):
my art on the walls. People would come in and
they'd be like, I love this, I want to purchase this,
or they would ask me for like little commissions that
I would be like, yeah, sure, that's great. So then
you you get this job doing graphics for slot machines,
which it's kind of funny. Whenever I or I'm sure
anyone is using a slot machine, they're just like, this
is pretty and it's mesmerizing and I don't want to
(05:42):
get up. I love playing this game. No one ever
thinks like there's a human behind these designs, whether I'm
assuming it's like the whole thing you design, right, like
the whole mission, that's what Those are some of the
craziest designs. When you're in a casino, those are the
ones that draw you in. But how do you lend
that job? You know you've got no schooling to say, Hey,
I went in this design school obviously to your portfolio,
(06:04):
but that had to be hard. Yeah, it took me
a long time to get into it. I think years.
I was pursuing getting into this because I live in
Las Vegas. I go into the casinos and I see
the slot machines. I'm like, this is amazing, Like this
is like taught to your artists. I was like, I
want to be a part of this. So I kind
of just kept using what I saw as reference to
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build a portfolio and just try my hardest to get
at the level that I saw them working at. And
it took years. Yeah, I'm sure. So how do you
find people then? Who who you want to work with
for your side? I was like, how do you market yourself? Too?
Different people? A lot of them find me, which I
really love, like with Instagram. Instagram is an insane platform,
(06:48):
Like I always have people messaging me or like I
appreciate my art or I used to do um twitch streams.
Love Twitch, Yeah, I love Twitch. To a lot of work, Yeah,
a lot of work to get on there, but Twitch
is fun. But mainly it's an Instagram. So when you
would do twitch streams. Would you live stream you actually
doing the art? Yes. I would start a piece and
(07:11):
I would only work on it when I was streaming
on Twitch. That's really cool, Like, all right, you guys,
I'll be back, we'll work on this another day. And
I did complete a few pieces and it was really
interesting because I would get like people's ideas as I
was doing, and I'm like, oh my gosh, that'd be great.
That's exciting. Yeah. That it's kind of interesting because you
don't normally, you know, when you think of an artist
(07:33):
there alone at home doing what they do or somewhere
that inspires them, you don't really think of them kind
of having thousands upon thousands of people watching them do
what they love to do, inspiring them as it's happening.
So that is definitely a different way to do it.
It's a great way to get your name out there
and get new people. We twitch stream our radio morning
show from Seattle, and today someone from Australia popped in.
(07:56):
They were like what is this and like they had
no idea, So I get it. It's smart and it's
a really cool way to get your art out there
to other people. But as an artist, especially on a
platform like Instagram. Do you find that there are either
people that copy you or do you get nervous about
people copying your artwork? Not at all. If anything, I
think it's more to inspire other people. I mean, if
(08:17):
they can do it too, that's awesome. We can all
do it, so I can always create more stuff. So
what is the process for you? Then? What are you
drawing with? Because I cannot like stick figures or what happened?
So like, what is your physical process? Are you drawing with?
Are you painting? What is it? And then the final
how does that happen? Because I have no idea how
(08:38):
any of that works. I do have a few different mediums.
I love watercolor. I think watercolor is insanely fun. It's
just kind of all over the place, and how can
I explain this? It's smooth, It's smooth. I love it.
And then for like digital pieces, it's I use my
iPad pro. I love my iPad with the pen and everything.
(08:58):
And it's even better because I can usually just like
sit on my couch and do it. Yeah, you don't
have to have this whole set up. Yeah, go anywhere. Yeah,
like the coffee shop, I'll take my iPad. I'll go
sit at the coffee shop, or I'll sit on my couch.
I'll throw on some TV and I'm like, let's draw something. Yeah,
I'm assuming you're not doing watercolors at the coffee shop.
I have you have no way? Yeah? No, they have
(09:21):
these really cool water pens that you can Yeah, and
they have their pans that squish out water while you're painting.
And people laugh at me, they're like, what what are
you doing? Or I'll like ask for a cup of
water in the middle of the coffee shop or sometimes
the bar, and it's just like a really fun conversation starter.
It's interesting because I've been seeing a lot of people
(09:41):
now during quarantine. Obviously, coloring books were a great way
to relieve stress. For a while, we've been seeing adult
coloring books pop up. But now I'm starting to see
people do like paint by numbers or some sort of
watercolor kit. Obviously for people like me, not people like
you who know what they're doing. But what you're saying,
like how it's smooth, I can imagine that it's very
relaxing for you. It is. It's a little tedious sometimes
(10:03):
because you have to kind of understand how to work
with the water but that's what's fun with it. When you,
or at least when I play with watercolor, I kind
of just let it do its thing and then I
have like an idea where I'm going, and I hope
it's just like working with me and like this is
what we're doing. Does any of it ever, whether it's
your day job or side hustle, does it ever actually
feel like work for you? I don't know, not really.
(10:25):
I mean I love what I do and I chose
to pursue it, So I like to think of it
as I am having fun and if anything, if it's hard,
I'm learning. So you're like the best. I hope that
everyone in the world listens to you with this podcast
because you, like you just said, I chose what I
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do and even if it's hard, you're learning. Like a
lot of people look at something that's hard and they
do not have that outlook. I know I don't always
have that outlook. So thank you for that. Thank you
for that nugget. I'm going to think of you. I'm
like brit Brittany said this, when I'm having a bad
day and mad about something being difficult, so I appreciate
that very positive person. Thank you, we all need it.
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If you went back to being a kid, did you
ever think you'd actually be doing this as your job?
Sometimes as a kid, I always imagined I wanted to
be a cartoonist. I mean, there was a few weird
careers like a bio who are the water I'm like,
I'm like, bioengineered. I can't even say. But for the
(11:31):
most part, I always knew I wanted to be like
drawing or creating something because I loved all my cartoons.
I always watched I was always mimicking what I saw
on TV. I'm like, I'm gonna draw this now. Is
that something you're still interested in doing? Like, would you
want to do artwork for cartoons? Oh? Absolutely? I have
lots of artists that inspire me, and I'm like, that
(11:51):
would be so cool and people get to enjoy it. Yeah,
and you actually get to see it literally come to life,
which I'm sure as an artist has got to be
such a wild feeling. Oh. Absolutely. So when you're doing
like the physical art, not the graphic for the slot machines,
like maybe it's your side hustle and you're doing watercolor,
are you selling those anywhere? Is that like at a market, Like,
(12:12):
can someone order of watercolor piece of art from you,
like physically and have it mailed to them? Yes, I
I posted on my Etsy or if it's on Instagram,
I usually say it's up for sale, or if somebody
messages me and they're interested, I'll give him a quote.
So that's kind of how I just go about doing that.
If people were to reach out and they're interested, then
(12:33):
I'm like, let's do this. So what I'm gonna do
for this episode? Anyone right now who is like, well,
I want her Etsy, I want her Instagram. All of
the links are actually in the description of this podcast,
so you can just go down there and check it out.
So on side hustlers, I always like talking about how
the guests and I got connected and you when I
never communicated before the very moment that we started to record,
(12:53):
and my producer Houston found you because he listens to
Mad Scientists Party our podcast. I hadn't heard of it
until he told me about it, and you did artwork
for them. So how did you let's let's figure out
this whole trail, how did you get in touch with
that podcast and do artwork for them. He actually contacted me.
Matt signed his party, Hour contacted you. Yeah, Kevin Craft
(13:16):
actually contacted me, and I'm like, I have to ask
him how he found me actually, because I have no idea.
I was just so excited because I've heard of his
podcast and a few other ones he's been on. I
was like, oh, heck, yeah, this will be so fun.
Let's do it. That's cool. So the art I saw
the artwork you did for them. It's incredible. So my
producer Houston heard it. I guess he reached out to you,
(13:37):
and then he surprised me with artwork that you did
for this podcast for Sidehouse. I haven't seen it yet.
It's in my email. I haven't opened. I'm excited to
open it as we're doing this. Some where is it?
It literally says do not open. So I was gonna killaking.
Oh how freaking. So it's me, it's art, my producer Houston,
(13:58):
and my two cats I aunt, and it's me doing
the podcast with my actual signature. This is wild. This
is so cool. Oh I just realized it. That's the
green shirt that I wore to my live episode. It
was such a cute shirt. Thank you. This is so incredible.
How do you like? How do you like everything? I mean,
(14:19):
the cats look just like the cats Houston, You've got everything,
got his nose ring in there. It's just like, what
is the process of making this? Like when you sit down,
like what did you do first? In this one? It's
actually funny. He gave me both of your Instagram So
I went and found like a ton of pictures. I
probably had like four or five pictures just lined up,
and I'm just like drawing your face until I feel
(14:41):
like I get pictures correct. It's crazy to me knowing
that there was a woman that not only did I
not know, but I didn't even know existence with pictures
of me drawing now that I think about it. So
that's really funny process. I like when I'm sitting in
a public place and I just like have a bunch
of rain photos of somebody's face, They're like, oh, that's interesting,
(15:03):
Like just happy what I paid program are you using?
Is it photos illustrator? What are you procreate? Didn't even
know that was the thing. So for any artist or
someone wants to be an artist, you recommend that. But
the first step for you are you kind of penciling
what you're doing. Are you immediately going to my green
shirt with a green color? Oh goodness, No. Everything is
(15:24):
penciled first, and it's reworked tons of times, like I'll
go over over and over again. I'm a little bit
of a perfectionist, so it's like I won't be happy
with the first ten noses that I draw, especially because
noses are hard, I can't imagine. So after I get
like a good pencil lines out, I will go over
an ink it. And once I ink it, there's layers
(15:47):
and I can throw colors underneath, and I can change
the colors without ruining anything else. It's a really fun process.
It's incredible, Like I just keep staring at it. It's
wild how you are able to do this. It's just
it is really cool and I can't wait to share
with everyone. You mentioned earlier that it took you a
few years to lend that job doing graphics for slot machines.
(16:08):
What was happening during those few years and what was
that process like? Because I'm assuming kind of getting regretting
is not obviously the easiest, especially because it's your personal work,
it's you showing, it's you're being very vulnerable as an artist.
So for anyone who is in that process right now,
feeling that failure moment even though they're not really failing.
What advice do you have for them? Just keep trying,
(16:28):
don't let it get you down. Like there's always an opportunity,
and if you don't make one, they'll always be another.
I mean, the best you can do is look at
what you're doing and see how you can make it better.
What you did wasn't at the standards, so you're like,
just keep improving. Do you think that you're gonna ever
make your side hustle your full time job? Because what
(16:50):
you do, I mean you could get land a big project,
like you said, doing artwork for a cartoon. Do you
think that is your goal to just continue doing big projects?
Or do you want to always have this day job
of doing slot machines and continue doing this as a
side hustle. I would love to do what I'm doing
for a while, Like I really enjoy it and I
am just like really starting to learn, So I don't
(17:12):
really have any plans to do for a while, but
at some point I love trying other things, So who knows,
maybe down the road, I'll want to create a cartoon
or I would love to make, like a side scrolling
video game or something cool like that. Just like I
like big projects. I like learning and being able to
(17:32):
experience different types of art. How does it work as
an artist? As your day job know that you or
do they have to know that you do something like this?
On the side, they know that we do like commissions.
On this side, I don't think they really mind. I mean,
I go in, I do my job really good, so
they can't complain everything else on the side. Yeah, everything
else on this side doesn't interrupt what I do at work.
(17:55):
It's my own thing. Have you ever walked into a
casino and seen something that you've designed to come to life? No?
Not yet. I can't wait for that to happen. That
would be cool. That's gonna be the craziest thing. You're
gonna have to somehow tell us. Next time I go
to Vegas, I'm gonna check in with you to see
what designs you've done and where they are so I
can go find them, because that would be I want
(18:15):
to have everybody give me picture proof. Yeah, I want
to see you at the machine. I want to see
the ticket when you're done, and maybe you'll have some
lucky machines that will be great people want to go.
I hope that happens well. Brittany, thank you so much
for being in side House. Thank you for this amazing
piece of art. I can't wait to share it. You're
incredible what you do. I'm excited to see what's next.
(18:37):
I can't wait to play the video games you create
and then watch the cartoons that you create. Thank you
so so much. Okay, thank you. It was so nice
talking to you. I really had fun. Thank you so
much for being here, for listening to side Hustlers, for
supporting the people on this podcast. You can always go
to the links in the description of this podcast to
learn everything about Brittany, and then you can also go
(18:57):
to my Instagram. It's at the Carle Marie. You can
click the link in my bio and almost everything I
mentioned is always there in that link tree or whatever
I've got set up, and then you'll be able to
click around and see previous guests as well. Thank you
again for being here. Please rate and review this podcast.
That helps so much. I know it sounds so dumb
and so stupid, but really it does. It's a freeway
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to support this podcast because it helps other people find
out about it and it helps me know what you
actually think about this podcast, so feel free to reach
out to me. Also, it's at the Carl Marie on
Instagram until next week, Keep hustling,
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