My aims for this week..

Sunday - Catch up with some Blogging 

Monday and Tuesday - Begin designing my website & have designs to show for the Critique

                                         Selecting which work I want to display

                                         Preparing this work e.g rescanning/photographing.

Wednesday - Day off (maybe continue a bit more research if i get bored).

Thursday - Make sure I have some well developed sketches/plans to show for tomorrows critique.

Friday & over the weekend - Begin online tutorials for dreamweaver.

Back from Christmas

It was nice to be back today, I have felt like I've been drifting a bit this last week, having a full time job for the past three weeks I have struggled to find the time to sit down and progress with my work, even get my head into design mode. After sitting at a computer screen all day all I wanted to do when I got home was relax. 

So after having a taster of the boring mundane office lifestyle, being away from the creativeness I am now very eager to get back into my work. 

I knew that unfortunately over the Christmas period my time would be limited towards my work and therefore I made sure I got most of my research done before we broke up. This has benefited me hugely as I can now start designing and building my website. Although I am very aware that I am going to have to do a few tutorials first.

Existing entries for 'The Art Of Nurture'

Here are some entries which have already been submitted for this competition. I have noticed that it seems very broad what you can produce as you can see from the following artwork.

  

SCREEN PRINTING

This has got me very excited - an email from Neil confirming that we will doing screen printing the second week of February.

I experimented with this a bit when doing my A levels and really enjoyed it. I have alway wanted the chance to develop my skills in this area, and being an Illustrator I have always admired the work of others using this method.

Selecting work for my website

I am finding this quite hard to do, as I am creating an image/style of myself as an Illustrator I have decided that I am going to include examples of my illustration work only. Looking back at the work I produced last year I am not keen on anything apart from my photography and Illustrations. 

I have been looking at:

3 x London Illustrations

Magazine layout Illustrations for Stefan Sagmeister, and then from this year my Greetings Cards.

Initially I was really worried that I don't have enough work that in my eyes is good enough/reflects me as an illustrator. But looking at the websites produced last year there are alot of people that only had 10 of less images displayed.

Even if I have minimal work being displayed on my site I would rather just show the work that I want potential clients to see, the work that is of a high quality, rather than include everything, the less successful more experimental work and lose potential clients because its not up to the standards it should be.

Not that there's anything wrong with minimal and simple.

Lloyds TSB Art Competition

After receiving an Email about this competition I thought that it would be a worthwhile competition to enter. I haven't had the time to read into it properly yet but if my greetings cards are already suitable then it seems silly to not enter them. 

After reading the background information about this competition I don't think my Greetings Cards are going to be suitable as they are fashion illustrations. However I would like to produce some further Illustrations to submit. I just need to find some extra time to do this before the deadline. 

The Chosen & Final Invite Design

This is the final design that Samantha has chosen for her birthday invitations:

So now we can get these printed on high quality paper so she can get them sent out to the guests.

Although this was a very small brief I have really enjoyed it and I love the idea that alot of people are going to see my work and ask about it. I feel that this was defiantly a worthwhile experience to do but I would like to work with a professional client next time so you don't have the closeness you have when working for a friend. A good thing that has been developed is my time keeping.  I had a very short time to get these done especially as it was over the christmas period, but everything was successfully completed on time to high standard despite this which I am very proud of.