Monday, April 7, 2014

portfolio feedback visits-

I found this trip to London very worth while, as I have now got some very useful feedback from the agencies we went to see.
Illustration Ltd was one of the agencies we went to see and they gave me some great feedback - they mentioned my 3d work looks like I really enjoyed doing it and they said I must carry on doing if it's what I enjoy doing the most. They mentioned the plasticine images and said that they had never seen anything like that before, so to carry on doing that too.

We also visited a collective called day job, who are a group of 10 illustrators based in Peckhan, South London. They were really great to talk to and they were very helpful in giving us lots of advice for when we graduate. The main one being to keep ourselves busy in creating our own projects if we haven't got much work on.
I had also shown them my portfolio and they too mentioned my plasticine images, which they said they really liked and that I should do more of. I was very suprised that they commented on a image that I thought wasn't the best pieces of my work, but they really liked it. So it just goes to show we really are our own worse critiques.
To check out day job, you can visit their website -http://day-job.org/

I also got some feedback from Fig Taylor, who is the author of a book called How to create a portfolio and get hired. She is also a lecturer and a portfolio consultant. It was great to get feedback form someone who has a lot of experience working in this field and knowing what a good portfolio is from a bad one. She too, mentioned my plasticine images and said she would like to see more in that style. Also that, if I want to create children's stories than I should show more character's and some short narratives. This is something I will need to get around to doing when I graduate.

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