Laying the foundations

Hi everyone

You might remember a journal I posted last year, about making plans to start my own business, with help from a foundation that assists young people in starting their businesses. I've been keeping in contact with them, and we are going to have a meeting at some time in February. I will be speaking with a mentor, who will give me a greater understanding of how to develop a business, how to operate and maintain it, and how to expand it in the future. Starting my own brand/company is an ambition I've had ever since I was very young, but now that I'm at this stage of fulfilling that dream, I feel incredibly nervous about making such a huge step.

I know what I want to distribute and what I aim to achieve: Set up my own brand and profit from my work. When making crucial decisions like this in life, my nerves can overcome me. I'm not sure if I'm making a good choice or a bad one. Whether things will go as planned or be torn to shreds. If this idea succeeds, then that would be excellent, because not only will I be able to distribute my series and other projects to a wider audience, but I will have lived up to one of my greatest goals in my life. If it doesn't, then I will continue to work as an independent illustrator, still working on my series at a lower level.

Whatever happens, I'll definitely keep drawing. That's for certain.