I recently went to London with Uni, we visited a few places when we went these were adam&eve DDB, Illustration Ltd and a collective called 'Day Job'
First we went to see Daniel Moorey at adam&eve DDB he talked to us for a bit and gave us his advice on numerous subjects such as how to go about approaching different agencies and gave useful advice on how are websites should look and the different things we should consider to make our websites efficient and effective and showed examples of what he thought works and what doesn't, I found this to be really good advice as I have not finished my website as of yet so can easily apply the advice he gave.
(portfolio review 1)
The next visit was to a collective known as 'Day Job', they discussed with us their experiences since graduating and the pro's of working within a collective, they mentioned the importance of staying focused after graduating and suggested things such as entering into competitions to help stay focused.
I was lucky enough to have my portfolio looked at, they said my animal work was really lovely, and I can obviously draw well but now I should maybe push myself into moving my drawings and prints onto different surfaces and materials to see where they work and where they don't, as my eventual goal is to start selling some work.
Our final visit was on the Wednesday, we visited Illustration Ltd, again we got really good advice about our websites and how they think is best for them to look and offered valuable advice on how best to promote ourselves within the industry and the importance of our final shows and that we should take full advantage of it.
I was able to show my portfolio to two members of the team.
(portfolio review 2)
Juliette liked my age UK work and made a comment on the style of it she liked the combination of print and sketchy ink and said It looked like something that could be used for lifestyle magazines, she also commented on my Natural World work she liked the combination of silhouette with ink drawing and liked the narrative within the image, she said that style of working is something I should stick with and develop further.
(portfolio review 3)
Victoria mostly said similar things she liked my lino prints from my more recent work of British Wildlife, and said I should apply narrative to these in the same way as my previous work. She liked my use of colour in my new work and said my style of working is really nice and to just keep going with it and develop it further.
Overall I found the trip really useful and have found it to be a big confidence boost within my work.
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