PPP SUMMARY ? / STRATEGY?

The points from the slideshow ....

A summary of your personal and professional aims as an illustrator, practitioner or ……you tell us.
Evidence of research into professional practice and progression opportunities undertaken over the summer
A summary of further professional research activities to be undertaken as part of Level 6 (including timescales)
A proposal of what you intend to produce as self promotion material.

• I am looking to work as a freelance illustrator, with a main eye for working on editorial, publishing and children's books.
• As part of my practice I may also be looking towards self-initiated projects, such as prints, publications and maybe even looking to galleries.
• Over the summer I took on a few poster commissions and entered the AOI Prize for Illustration, as well as regularly updating my creative social media
• I vaguely began to question post graduate education, but do not think I can really consider it without talking to people who are doing it / have done it, and whether it is worth it (at this point of my career)
• My thoughts at this moment are to promote myself with the traditional materials: a portfolio website, a physical portfolio, creative CV, a business card or two. Social media: instagram and tumblr, and maybe a twitter of professional usage but I'm not so sure on that one.

You will also need to produce an outline strategy plan including specific studios, practitioners, agencies and events that will form the basis of your research. This will form the basis of your first group workshop/tutorial.

¿STRATEGY?

• Working on a self-initiated editorial project throughout the length of the year to fill my portfolio with those types of projects.
• Doing publishing competitions like Folio Society, Penguin and The Macmillan Prize to get book type projects into my portfolio, with the added bonus of the possibility of winning and getting the work out there! (I believe these have deadlines largely in 2017)
• Doing a self-published zine/ publication for Thoughtbubble (November 2016)
• Figure out the benefits, the whys the whens the hows about masters degrees and artists residencies... both things I really don't understand and will only figure out through talking to people who have done them! I'm sharing a spot on Wai Wai Pang's table so I'll use some of that time to bother her about her work with MK Arts Centre, on her residency and how she got to teach there. (Autumn 2016)
• Think about New Blood/ other graduate shows and whether that would be a good thing to do (summer 2017)
• Make work that is portfolio worthy! And start to figure out how to contact people, and how to do it appropriately!! Polish it off. Online portfolios can be changed regularly, but physical portfolios less easily so, so I think the physical portfolio will be made towards the end of the year.

Overall keep my head up and realise that drawing is something I would be doing anyway, in a **professional** context or not :-)