Jackie is a freelance artist living and working in the Los Angeles area. After finding success in a paper art class, Jackie decided to pursue an entrepreneurial career designing pop-up cards and dimensional paper illustrations! She has worked with Disney Consumer Products, American Greetings, toy companies and graphic design and packaging. Most of her interactions with clients is done via phone and email unless she is meeting with a new client or dropping off projects.
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>> My name is Jackie Wong [phonetic] and I'm a freelance artist, specifically working in paper. I create art literally using paper, and usually I work with mainly card stock, so kind of the stuff you would find in the scrapbooking aisle at Michael's and stuff. And I use that stuff to create dimensional paper illustrations. So if you imagine a flat drawing or painting, I simply take the same concepts and then just layer it into almost like a diorama, and that becomes what we call paper sculpture. Or I often do kind of pop-up work, which is the stuff you see in cards or books. So I freelance. My clients vary. I've done some stuff with Disney Consumer Products. I created a pop-up card that is now currently in their Disney Store Baby. I've also done things for American Greetings, mainly kind of concepting work for them. And then I also do stuff for toy companies, kind of like MGA graphic design and packaging. My days vary a lot since freelancing. Some days I literally sit at home and don't have to change out of my pajamas. Other days I actually wind up having to go out. I don't do a lot of meetings actually in person as a freelance artist. Usually those are all done via telephone or email. And so a busy day mainly consists of kind of having to write back a lot of emails. If I have a meeting at all, it's usually in the mornings. I have to go meet with a client or drop off a project and then I come back and kind of do more emails. If not, right afterwards I'll run errands in terms of buying supplies and then kind of working. For me I usually find that I'm most efficient at night, so I usually work between 7 until about 1 AM.
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