They gave us some really good pieces of advice, for example;
- you need to have Inner confidence especially when getting in touch with agencies and contacting people in the outside world.
- Try and have a structure, make sure you keep in touch with friends whom are also illustrators and are in the same position as you when they leave Uni.
- Stop worrying about marks , just relax and DO WORK!
I have quite a lot of hopes for the future, one of them is to succeed third year with a substantial amount of work that gives the WOW factor, something that makes people stop and actually take in what's going on throughout my images. I hope I can archive a 2:1 for my degree so I can maybe consider taking a teacher course as I love working with children observing them creating images throughout there free, playful innocent nature, learning more from them. One of the key things I would love to do is to create a children's book and maybe more. All this came from the inspiration and joy from my younger sibling Crystal whom is seven years old. Another hope I would like to grow and connect with is my inner confidence, as I am quite a shy person especially when it comes to presentations and interviews.
My fears for the future surround the capability of me not achieving my hopes for instance, failing my course in illustration, not having enough confidence to contact people especially talking to people in the industry. another one of my fears is messing up my twenty minute presentation for third year reflecting my progression of work and key influences represented throughout my Journal, as I'm always mega nervous. Another fear I have is being a unsuccessful illustrator and if ever chosen by an agent will be unable to make the deadline, I hope this will never happen and I will always meet the deadline but it does make me feel quite anxious.
I have been very lucky to come across some great opportunities in my life during my degree at Stockport college, as I got to have the experience of meeting people in the industry. For example meeting Rosie Wilman at Guru night. I also have opportunities in going to lectures of those who are in the art industry and are out there making a success of themselves exploring the challenges they have faced throughout their career's. Another opportunity I have had is learning about myself more and investigating what I am capable of throughout my own practise learning new skills and techniques and learning more about my inner child that is portrayed throughout the reflection of my journal.
My aims for the future is to engage with more people in the industry, to find out about more lectures and events that are happening, I also aim to be more academic when doing my writing trying to be more professional. Another aim I wish to achieve is to maybe share a studio with other illustrators or graphic designers when I leave Stockport college and experience working together on different projects we may come across or just helping each other out.
Objectives
My objectives are to hopefully attend all seven lectures by different speakers this semester at Stockport College. Also to attend a few more events that are happening outside of college. Another objective is to research and find out how much studios cost and how much prionters, photo-shop, illustrator and indesign costs. Maybe once I've found a good group of people to work with we could split the cost between us for computers and printers.
My Plan of Action
- Email and contact people in the industry.
- Research and explore key events and be more involved.
- Research, plan and be optimistic.
- Try and save as much money as I can for the future.
Timetable of Action
Key lectures
Monday 1st July - Owt Creative, David Baily, Malcolm Garrett, Craig Oldham
Tuesday 24th September - Speaker Ian Whadcock
Tuesday 29th October - Illustrator Holly Wales
Tuesday 3rd December - Founder of Dwelle, Ric Frankland
Tuesday 14th January - Design/culture writer, Robert Urquhart
Tuesday 28th January - Manchester Holden and sons studio
Tuesday 18th February - Morton Newspaper printers, Steve Scott
Tuesday 25th March - Paper passionist, Deborah Wigglesworth
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