Chapter 93 Let's Make Love (Eight)

• I will meet people online, talk them into patronizing my drawing service and have them do it after much conviction. At first it wasn't easy as I said earlier but with my sugar coat mouth and my profile which was enticing, inviting and catchy, I was able to get as many client's as possible in the first few months. Thanks to my ex and to Frank for their business ideas, I was really leveraging it and it was paying off, really well.
• "Hello Richard, can you tell me one reason why you'd need me to hire your service and let you make a portrait of me?" This was her message. Her name, Rita was on her profile. At first, I went through her profile. She was beautiful, not gorgeous. She was such a cute being. I quickly replied to her.
• " Hello dear, when you walk into someone’s home, one of the first things you may see is pictures or paintings on the walls. First, the standard travel photos are up, maybe some abstract pieces by an extraordinary painter, and occasionally a quote or two if it’s a millennial’s home. Next on the list are portraits. Oh sure, you’ll see some small 5x7s or 8×10” framed and placed on shelves, but you don’t see a lot of large pieces, especially of people, in that home. Most homes don’t have a ton of pictures of people in their lives. Yeah, maybe a big 30” canvas of a family with kiddos, but why not of individuals? Why not yourself? Why don’t people get portrait wall art of themselves" I started, polite and confident and convincing as I could. Lucky and fortunately for me, she was online. A blue tick indicated on her chat, she was active and she had opened the message. "One of the reasons why you'd like to own a portrait from me, Richard, is that portraits breed in memories And emotions as we always take pictures with our phones and cameras all the time of travel, dinners with friends, graduation ceremonies, of all kinds of moments that we want to remember and cherish. These are happy memories, and you feel happy every time you see those images. It takes you back to that time and place. So my dear lady, if you got a portrait of yourself doing something you love – singing, horseback riding, drawing, kayaking, coding, you name it – wouldn’t that make you happy every time you got to see that image? Now that's where I come in and what if you want a portrait of yourself dressed to the nines, looking amazing – like you’re about to walk the red carpet? Maybe even something more intimate like a boudoir shoot, where you see yourself and think, “holy crap, I’m gorgeous.” I typed.