DavidDeFigueredo

Sort of an update for those who have been watching me for a while and those who are new to my work. This is going to be a little long. Where do I begin? I guess you can say from the time I could hold a crayon I've been drawing. 17 years ago I decided to take it seriously and proceeded to make every mistake possible. In the beginning I worked for free, took jobs for exposure, contracts were not clear, endless revisions on projects, etc, when there was very little money to begin with. Like I said every mistake possible and then some. Eventually things started getting better with paying jobs, interview's from magazines, and offers for my work to be featured in books, movie posters, etc. Then we moved to a different part of the state. I ended up taking a job major retailer to supplement my income which became the primary income and the art became secondary. I became a manager within a few months and hated every minute of it. Eventually I quit and we moved back to the other part of the