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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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 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 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. 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, 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 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,

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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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 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 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. 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, 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 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,