What I need to say
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2) WHAT AM I GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT ( READ BULLET POINTS)
3) WHAT HAS GONE RIGHT THIS YEAR -- This is me listening intently to fred in class. Come a long way this year in terms of being a presence in class, attending, punctuality and taking part. This is reflected in my submissions, solid submissions with final outcomes
4) Staying behind more but I finally have a mac which means I can now work from home taking the pressure off and been a great help with blogging
5) Producing more polished and finished outcomes I am proud of spending more time colouring and ensuring they are ready for print
6) Establishing myself more as an illustrator on social media sites
7) Selling my work doing commissions and taking part in competitions some of which went well such as wrapped collective and filmdoo some of which I hated such as SpiceUk
8) Digital experience touching on animation seeing my images in movement was a big step for me and a new way of thinking. Other formats that my images have been taken across onto such as product
9) Concepts driven by passions for subjects - been watching the news more, getting clued up on politics which is not like me at all! But I care more now. COP allowing me to become passionate about subjects such as equality which often drives my work
10) Become comfortable with my way of working and knowing how long it takes me to do things means I plan better and I am less stressed with deadlines, been creepily calm about them.
11) Looking back on first year and the kind of work I was producing it makes me cringe how bad it was but its nice to see how far I have come and the skills I have acquired along the way and I hope I can look back onto this year, this time next year, and cringe and think of how much I’ve learnt then.
12) One thing remains the same though, I have the same aim within my work and what I want it to be, just with a little more social and political awareness now. Looking back at last years work I was creating work for the sake of it or for just fulfilling briefs and when it came to the end of year show I wasn't proud of any of my work, whereas this year any of my work could be put in the show because I feel i've pushed it as far as possible
13) Collaborating, first with Hannah on YCN, then pairing up with 3rd year graphics student to design my logo got along well with both and gave me a great insight into how other people work, producing work we were both proud of at the end of it
14) Communicating, Emailing companies and illustrators even if I didn't get any replies, sometimes i did and got freebies!
15) Logo has been successful I feel it looks slick and has been taken across onto social media sites, as well as on products, cvs, business cards.
16) Personal branding Succesfuly branded myself and I think my pack is sufficient in highlighting this
17) image of my pack
18) I've become more professional. Seeing my craft as more of a business now
19) Colours may vary in charge of the drinks, went well, planned far too many drinks but we needed them in the end. Successful exhibition. Wasn't really proud of my final outcomes for it but I'd really battled with them as etching was a pain in the...
20) Tackled new challenges such as collage, etching, animation, pdf'ing, burning disks, making cvs and business cards, stickers, products. Learning constantly mostly through other people around me, asking more questions.
21) What’s gone a little wrong - Etching! What a module that was, extreme hard work because it kept going wrong. Plates in the acid weren't taking and I was losing months worth of work, close to tears. Pulled it around in the end and had lots of prints for the exhibition
22) Animation. Wasn't a huge fan of this couldn't really get my head around it but I learnt the basics which I later got a commission out of.
Some ideas not coming across perhaps how id of liked them to like My idea of a fun pack for my promotion material didn't come out because it was going to be far too expensive, scratch cards etc cost hundreds unfortunately
23) Lifes a pitch presentation went wrong despite being practised we didn't pull it off on the day which was a shame because it would have been funny but ended up being funny for the wrong reasons
24) Initial ideas for 505 ended up being far too offensive got carried away and that didn't reflect my views well as a person or as an illustrator so had to reign that in and create something more sensitive
Earlier modules perhaps too research heavy and not enough focus on the final products whereas the later modules were more based on creating products that could actually sell.
25) Since a part of this is personal then Ill add that I had a Breakdown mode. Had a little meltdown half way through the year and was diagnosed with stress, exhaustion, insomnia etc from the doctors so had to re evaluate my life and figure out where I needed to take a step back. Something had to give, but it wasn't going to be uni. Had to cut my hours down at work and other stresses at home. – Time management
26) What kind of things I’ve been looking at
27) Watching the news. I never used to want to do this because it depressed me, but now I know I was just being ignorant. This has really influenced my work and I can't stress that enough, I am becoming passionate about things, about the world.
28) Speeches and reading up on equality gender rights
Books, but Illustrators are something I really need to look more at. The summer is going to be all about pushing my line work and experimenting.
29) Politics. First time this year I actually voted which considering im 25 is pretty shocking
30) Looking at businesses online such as Paperchase, Scribbler, Jolly Awesome and Brainbox Candy and realising I can do that! I want to do that.
31) What I feel my practice is becoming
32) Drawings that are digitally painted, that can be animated, that can also be taken across onto products and packaging. They can be transformed into pattern.
Character design, light hearted and humorous but some are serious at the same time ‘ seriously funny ‘
33) professional, slick, ready to sell, marketable
Presented well, looking at typography more, I can make presentation boards! Finally!
34) A representation of what I care about
35) What I want to achieve next year : More business focused, creating an online presence
36) social media master, going to turn into one of those idiots with the hands free sets all over me, have a website set up
37) More competitions and commissions
Making work backed up by COP and my dissertation that will be intelligent and will make a statement, but also become a trend and try change modern culture
38) Get involved in more events and opportunities , local events, see what there is to offer around leeds
39) Master of printing onto products. Kind of cheated this year buying stuff in from wholesalers but I want to learn to print onto bags etc. Make things myself.
40) I want to talk to more people, show them my work, hand out my business cards. Need to start making money, as much as I like fooling around, I wanna have a range rover like Daniel Craig
41) Attend more exhibitions and take part in more. Better linework, draw funny. Paul Davis
42) What do I want to do when I leave? Helppppppp. I still don't know. I need to know, need to attend career talks.
43) Ideally I want to be abroad so If I have a website set up and a good online presence going on I can sell things on the side but I need to be looking for work, creating a relationship with clients. I think knowing where the work is the most important thing, knowing where to look for it. Do I want to be a freelance illustrator? I don't know. Do I want to be an illustrator? I don't know. Sometimes I have ideas that don't necessarily come across in the way I work, I see myself being some sort of director in the future. Working alongside other people bouncing my ideas off of them. Kind of like telling people what to do in a weird way, I'm used to being a manager so I don't like people telling me what to do which is why I should have my own business. It's in my blood too all my family have their own business.
Will being an illustrator be enough? If you hit it and
hit the big time you're rolling, but do you need a sideline job?
44) if all else fails I'll become a female rapper
45) And that’s my year summed up in a nutshell
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