Personal And Professional Practice: STUDIO BRIEF 1

Important things I felt she said.

What is illustration?

Editorial

Business sections more literal
sometimes have to be sensitive - spoke about how she drew cancer cute to show that it is sealable and something you can overcome ( thinking about audience )

Stories & Books

You're given the outline so you can't just make it up
concept is already dictated within a story so you have to pick the right moment from it
good composition is key

Posters

Not actually a scene from the movie, but she's chose to create her own interpretation of that

How fun it is depends not he client
more money means less freedom, lots of people involved
have something small on the side to fulfil that side
if you're drawing the product, you need to draw it right
sends lots of sketches for them to say do this again, do that again
then send finished sketch
then coloured version
the characters have to attract the right audience. Had to chance ethnicity of them often.
Business side - in editorial they get the first print right and pay you if you use it again, in advertisement they sign a period of time so e.g 3 months and they can do what ever they want within that time. So they put it everywhere, billboards, packaging etc, to make the most of it
Advertisement on the internet the production cost is much lower so you have more freedom

Making client work personal

'Death is melancholy but also beautiful as it makes room for life'
Seeing shows and exhibitions, getting inspired
makes up a story from something. got told to draw a frog but she made up a story about the frog and illustrated that
if it fulfils the commission and is still something someone would want to hang on the wall then that is the most successful she feels

Style

It is important to be recognised but she struggled with having one style
she likes a lot of different styles and confused between what she likes to see and what she likes to produce herself. Ended up imitating them
Line is the skeleton other work and then builds it up with colour. Does colours and textures in a separate layer and puts linework on top.
She's a mixture of traditional and digital
Makes textures for backgrounds
struggled with colour initially
doesn't have to be realistic drawing, photos capture realism, illustration is another world interpretation
its not how good you are its how good you want to be
good artists borrow great artists steal
if you can't be wise pretend to be someone who is wise and behave like they would - blag it. Be confident and like yeah I can do that, then panic inside.

The class asked questions and this is how she responded :

make a calendar
email in the morning
break down your day
working for yourself can make you slack off
if you get stuck then go out and chill and come back to it
first few years need a part time job alongside it. If you work part time in a creative job then you won't want to come home and draw so do a job you hate so that drawing is your escapism and something you enjoy
steal colours from pieces you like if you aren't good at colour to better understand it.
be thick skinned
go out of your way
moved to new york for work cause the big publishers were there
go in and let them see your face, see you as a human rather than online
send out promos and emails
go to social events keep showing up and you start to belong
having an agent - she got one in the year she graduated cause of visa reasons, but says put it off as long as possible. Better to get one later, more bargaining power when you negotiate terms. Wait a couple of years, promote your own work in the meantime
Never miss a deadline. Ask for an extension. Be on time and do a good job so that you build up a good reputation or they won't hire you again

Personal And Professional Practice