As I depart from my short lived but greatly beneficial time with msnbc.com and head for MSN to assist with the redesign of their Health & Fitness and Lifestyles sections, I leave a significant trail of greatness that I, myself am very proud of. My goals at msnbc.com had changed many times because I had constantly surpassed what I thought myself capable of. When I first started work there, I had hoped to get one of my illustrations live on the site and hopefully even on a section front. That happened with my second attempted illustration. After that, I strived for 3, then 7, then 14, and have left with 23 illustrations published live on msnbc.com, with a handful of pre-supplied illustrations to be used in the future. Every one of them, thus far has reached the section cover and two of them had reached the front cover of msnbc.com, which is extremely rare for illustrations, as it is a photo driven world we live in. What I recently found out makes this last statement seem like childs play. A couple of days ago, I was informed that one of my illustrations (my very first one, in fact) had made the FRONT COVER of MSN.com! I was told that it was live for "a long time", which I'm not sure how long that means, but sounds great nonetheless. When I had discussed with this person and researched exactly what this meant, I had found that, 1) MSN.com is the #1 WEBPAGE in the ENTIRE WORLD, mainly because it is the default home page on many internet browsers and English is the most common language. (Even still, the MSN sites of other languages/countries generally take the English homepage and customize it to suit their needs, leaving some articles and replacing others. This means that my work may have even been on foreign sites!) And #2: Ultimately, it is true that my artwork has been seen by hundreds of millions of people, worldwide! What's more, it was not simply an icon or something that only myself and a select few people know about, but it was "art", and therefore had my name credited next to it! That is well beyond anything I could have hoped for. I have had a chance to showcase a variety of different styles, as well as 2 animated using Flash!
Below is the last of my list of illustrations that have gone live on msnbc.com:
23) Posted on 11-23-07
15 festive stay-slim treats
22) Posted on 11-21-07
Perfect getaways go to the dogs
21) Posted on 11-21-07
Looking for love at the airport
20) Posted on 11-19-07
Working through a chronic illness
19) Posted on 11-15-07
Don’t be the turkey this Thanksgiving
18) Posted on 11-12-07
Honey, I was just looking! In defense of ogling
