My name is Fil Dunsky and I am illustrator most of the time.
This is how I should start one year ago. Now my profession slowly shifted to something even more amazing and here is why.
I've registered on Steem one year ago 24th of July, 2017. Since then my life and working pattern gradually changed a lot. I am still illustrator drawing commercial orders sometimes but now I have much more freedom and can focus on the projects I am really interested on.
My first work special for Steem
My second post on Steem was a tutorial. I've spent few days creating it. Drawing step by step this cute squirell trying to explain everything in details. I thought it will get really huge amount of upvotes and will bring me a lot of money. Haha. This post got only 2 dollars that time. One freelance illustration in my style may cost 200 to 500 times more usually and here I got only $2! It was really painful but taught me a lot. Good things should be done easily and naturally without any expectations. Most genious thing done in few seconds. Great posts here on Steem as well in my case.
Make it yours
I started to be interested in crypto about a year ago. Found steemit.com, registered and gradually found myself contributing into this platform. If you don't like the place you can go away or transform it the way you would like it.
Steem blockchain is a social experiment. Users can influence on its future. Here I found eSteem Mobile application which was handy sending push notifications for comments and other events happening in my account but I was not satisfied with it's user interface and design. We had a short conversation with @esteemapp founder @good-karma and I've suggested some small changes to improve the look of the app.
Steem blog is a fulltime job for me now
Since that time I was contributing into eSteem project. First it was looking like freelance. I created eSteem mascot and was drawing stickers with different ocean characters you probably might seen here or in Telegram.
This become the first biggest set I ever draw. Collection of stickers which is keeping to grow. I think I've created around hundred of different illustrations with this small whale at the moment.
@good-karma was supporting all my drawings and posts and I really appreciate that. I never asked him to upvote anything but he did. He just boosted my ego and gifted me the passion to keep fishing here in the Ocean of Steem blogging daily trying to catch some food. Plus bring me very good income of course.
eSteem Product Lead
After half of a year I've realised I don't have to do any freelance jobs anymore because I have my Steem Blog and @good-karma asked me to join a team. I started to draw some preview cover images for @esteemapp posts and started to write articles and short notes for eSteem project.
This is the job of my dream. I would not even say it's a job. Imagine you are doing just anything you want and you get paid for that? This is what happening with me here on Steem right now. I am just creating posts for my own blog and for eSteem daily. Drawing whatever I want and get very good rewards for that. And I have faith that these tokens will grow a lot in future.
Blogging, wrting articles, creating characters, drawing illustrations, doing some logo designs, designing images for post covers... all the graphics for eSteem. And now the most excited part I am working on eSteem Surfer user interface redesign. We've achieved fantastic results polishing it's UI and hopefully will show you some screens soon.
YouTube Channel. When I say "our" I really feel so. I am one of the owners of the company in some sence.Now I even creating some educational videos on how to use eSteem Surfer desktop client. You can see them in @esteemapp blog or on our recent eSteem
Year Stats
The more STEEM POWER you have in your wallet the more responsibility you have. More connection to the blockchain and more you care about the future of Steem. I've powered down in the beginning actually. Don't remember how much I've taken out of here. Maybe I've exchanged 500-800 STEEM but then I've bought back a lot using resources earned here only.
Current stats
- 8 850 SP + 5 053 SP delegated by @good-karma
- Became a Dolphin few months ago (I can not even imagine it's possible in less than a year)
- Gained 3750+ followers (not really sure it means anything here)
- Went travelling with my wife to London for Crypto show with the help of eSteem (fully paid my trip with Steem from @good-karma)
I hope it was not boring to read and you have something meaningful to say in the comments rather than good post or thank you.
Posted via eSteem Surfer
eSteem SurfereSteem product lead & illustrator Fil Dunsky
portfolio at dunsky.ru
dunsky.ru
Wow great art love the style! Great to read you can make enough with Steem. Hope to get there someday with my art :)
Upvoted and following :D
Thank you and good luck in great achievments!
@dunsky, man you're good at what you do. I saw the illustrations and i had to keep on reading. Great work bro. Keep it up. We are all hoping to make sth bigger out of steemit. It's a wonderful platform
Yeah, lets hope together! We can do it and it will grow for sure!
Hi guys.. I'm your biggest fans :D
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Congratulations !!!!
Thank you :)
I hope I also be so far in one year.
Congratulations.
Thank you! Wish you to get your achievement even faster!
I’ll try it.
🤣🤣 I was also going to say, good post, thanks for sharing. 😆. But luckily I read it before commenting. Congratulations, 1 years in steemit. First I see you, remembering the typical character that you do. And second, i was reject your entry when your contributing in utopian. 😅. Sorry. 😅. yes, maybe it's a skill you have that no one else has. ehehe. btw, why do not follow me back on instagram. 🤣🤣
I am very choosy on other platforms. While I'm trying to support here anyone related to art/design/photography who is more or less good, in other platforms I am more strict and prefer close to premium content, polished and professional. Sorry, no offense 😅
Hhh. No, it will not. 😅
I'm still new here and I haven't tried other platform, i tried posting on dtube and dlive. But I wanted to try posting on esteem as well, the user interface really looks cool (base on the images) but I can't wait for the surfer redesign update you'll be sharing.. and your collection of stickers are really cute XD
I'm glad you have found the esteem family, you seem very happy and enjoying the work!
I also wanted to thank you for supporting my works, I am truly grateful!
Have a great day always!Woooooow! This is very inspiring @dunsky
Glad to inspire you :) we are supporting our users with the curation trail (if the post is good). So posting via eSteem Mobile or eSteem Surfer could be even more profitable sometimes :)
I've installed it and ready to rock XD hihihi
Thanks for your hard work! (and everyone on the team) :)
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Great post. I've just found you recently and I've been enjoying your works a lot. You have some serious skills. Great working on collecting that much STEEM.
I'm only halfway on the path to my initial goal of 500 SP... but my ultimate goal in here is to reach 1500 SP. I have a few SBD waiting to be exchanged for STEEM, but it seems dumb to do it at this point, so I wait... and I wait... and I wait some more. I just hope there's another day where we can exchange 1 SBD for 8 STEEM, like it happened last year!!! 😂
I remember those times I was thinking in such numbers as well :) it's nice Steem has such a gamification thing making you feel you achieve more powering up your wallet. For me next achievement is 10K Steem Power. I hope to earn it in 1-2 months here.
I'm glad I decided to invest a bit on Steem, cause the rest of my investments are all in the gutter, now.
I've read now so much of your text, which I rarely do (want to say that it's interesting). I voted already by my first voting for Witness for @good-karma - just because I liked the name :-) Best wishes, cheers!
Thank you very much! I apologize writing a lot, really :) But glad you read it. You've made very good choice on Witness voting for @good-karma. He is really good person!
Congratulations! This is a major vision achieved.....
STEEM for Life! ;)
I believe we're in the beginning of something even more magnificent!
Absolutely!
Wow! I hope to have the same fortune as you. You deserve where you are now because you are an amazing illustrator. Your illustrations are fun to watch. I have not downloaded esteem yet but after this post ill try looking at it.
Thank you! Let us know your eSteem Surfer experience once you will try it. We do really care!
Surely!
It's not a boring read at all, I enjoyed reading especially since you put a lot of your artworks as well. Your journey and success are inspirational, I hope my first year on Steemit would be as fun as yours did :).
Great, thanks a lot! Glad it was inspiring for you!
It is Your skill and talent and with the support of great @good-karma you have become a dolphin within a short duration. You have written a very nice post depicting the pain you faced in your early days in this platform. I congratulate you for your successful journey and wish you remain in this platform as a star illustrator of esteem project. Thank you for your nice post.
Thank you!
Good job! Nice you have success here. I even do not get there but I am trying...
Congratulations @dunsky for completing one year on steem and a lots of achievements.. Keep steeming !
Cheers
Thanks!
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Wow @arcange thanks a lot! This is real present!
Congrats man, you have great artwork for it. I will have to look into esteem more as well.
Thanks a lot! I am sure you will love eSteem Surfer, but anyway please do let us know your experience once you will try it. We are working on a huge update right know. It will be even much better soon.
Well deserved and wonderful what you have done in a year. I'd love it if my job was steemit, but I'm still pretty happy sharing and being here and my own art has changed and been made more special by my time here. It is such a great place for artists!
Absolutely agree with you, Donna! This place is really unique for artists. I believe it can even compete or change the Patreon one day.
Thank you for support, Fil and good luck to eSteem! :)
Спасибо :)
Happy birthday on steemit my brother @dunsky ;)
I also thank you for all the support that you've given me the last couple of months. Can't even express it with words. ^.^To say "good post" will be a waste of space and time, but to say GREAT post, inspiring and a dream come true fits perfectly. Thank you, @dunsky that you are here, for providing such great content and help improving the Steem community. Congratulations on your 1st year, I'm really really happy for you!
Thans a lot, Katalina!
Впечатляющие результаты за впечатляюще короткий промежуток времени! Поздравляю! :)
Спасибо, да, сам впечатлён не меньше :))
Bravo for you dedication to the platform, and your understanding of it. I enjoy posting about my art work, and communicating with other artists on steemit, but spend most of my time just painting pictures. I like the community of artists here, and that they support and encourage each other.
Yeah, it's better to do something rather than speak about it :) Great that you are more doer :) Me too, slowly find some friends here. I remember how my friends feed looked a year ago! Was a mess! I was trying to follow almost everyone who are more or less "successfull" or better to say lucky. But had noone I really liked. And these days I got a lot of interesting artists, some good designers and photographers in my feed. Always searching for new gems.
And it's really nice to get some extra rewards for the job you've already done by posting some old projects telling the stories about it.
There is some real artistic talent on steemit - that's what I like about it.
WOW @dunsky, this is so inspiring! Gets me all pumped up haha. You're living the dream man. Congrats on your success on the platform and thanks for taking the time to share your journey! :)
Haha! Keep posting, man. You have really good works!
Congrats! I actually just passed the one year mark too!
Your register date is 13th of July, 2017 so you're a bit older than me here! But anyway happy birthday to you too :)
Upvoted and am now following you and your steem adventures.
x0xNice article and extremely encouraging to us new minnows! They really should have a hashtag #introduceyourself2.0. It's kind of sad when you are first starting out by introducing yourself and only a handful of people ever see it. At least when you get to write it again more people will get to see it. Very happy that you are doing exactly what you are doing AND getting paid for it.
Thanks a lot!
Introduceyourself 2.0:) Haha :) Yeah, I think no one will be against if one posts in #introduceyourself few times if it's relevant. You can do it again and again. I've posted there for 3 times in one year already. Once it was my fresh interview. It's introducing me so why not?Beautiful insight
It's amazing reading how your art got you a fulltime passion and self sustainable lifestyle here on Steem. And I'm also happy to hear and see how Esteem is getting a redesign. I also liked the concept, but the inital UI was not great. But glad! And good work on the mascot.
Keep it up, it's artists like you that give me hope to keep it real and keep the art and social networking valuable.
Thanks! That UI concept is in past. Now we are working on something really cool :)
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You know I wanted to write that it was so easy and interesting to read, and it was a ... and then I read till the end:)
Happy anniversary! It's great to read how everything is working out for you.
That picture is awesome by the way, you look so happy and content :)
Thank you! Yes, content is the right word here... I believe this was shot right after giving away Sri Sri Yoga class in the morning.
Really interesting to know how was your start and your experience in steemit. I am a graphic designer and digital illustrator and I am iniciate i this community from 4 month ago, so your succes here motivate me to keep working and develop my art. Thank you.
You're welcome! The main thing I've understood here is that Steem more like a co-working place actually. Whenever you do anything for the community it would be more rewarding. But it takes time and needs some luck as well...
nice your buddy post is very good my tolog me new in steemit. @adit123
Hey i have written my Introduceyourself post but there is no one to read it :( Check out my post here https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@content.creator/amigos-your-new-fellow-steemian-is-here-here-s-my-life-summed-up-in-an-article-be-careful-this-life-s-a-beauty
This is not the right place to leave links
Maybe. Can you tell me or paste any link in reply which shows how i can divert readers to my content because If my content is good and have created it by spending hours and hours then it isn't wrong to post any comment on an article that is somehow similar to my content in nature.
You just read the Steemit FAQ Spam section and also check your email spam folder to understand it further.
P. S. Okay, just imagine if everyone will send links instead of comments on the article. Then comments section would be junk and we will beg programmers to switch the comments off.
welcome to steemit platform.
Superb post.......
Welcome to the spammers blacklist!
Thank you so much for your valuable comment.
😂 You're welcome! Seems you don't mind to be flagged heavily?
Would you tell me why you flagged me? My ID blacklist, that is steemit technical problem and several time I post their discord group but they do not remove from blacklist. What can I do?
First one was because your comment is meaningless. I've checked and saw you are writing this to many people by just copy pasting. This is very spam alike. Second time was because your answer was looking as if you are a robot answering without thinking. You thanked me for a "valuable" comment but you even didn't realized what I was trying to tell you.
You seems not understanding what is the spam and what's the meaning of copyright and plagiarism. Steem don't need any copies of others aritcles. You have to create it by yourself.
You are still in blacklist because you are stealing content from others. Look at your recent posts. It's a copy-paste which does not belong to you, right?
Now I understand, please remove my ID from flagged. I will never do it and saying Apology for it.
This was a funny and healthy conversations.. 😂😂😂😂
our buddy didn't realized that he had been shot dead & was celebrating innocently ! 😂😂😂
Seems he had apologize to his deed.. Consider him to get a life again
Cheers..