Position Statment

I’ve not left myself in the best position initially, however towards this last month I have put myself in a much better position for my practice and as long as I keep it up the better I will be. It’s turning my words into action now. I want to get into this mind set of doing what I say. Because I know that most of the time I am all talk and 20 percent action. 

As a practitioner I’m learning to categorising my strengths and weakness. Choosing what is a priority to improve for the development and advancement of my practice. I know the importance of honing my skill, as printmaking has be come a major tool in my compartment. As a result I’ve also had to become more aware of the kind of jobs and turnover rates I need to be looking at. I’m always looking to improve and develop my skills.

The reason I refers to myself as a person whose themes work within the triple H sphere is that my work does reside within History horror and humour and sometimes more than one of them. If some pieces don’t thats ok as this ideal shapes my practice and clientele but does not limit me. It allows those who wish to hire me a quick idea of what I and my work are like.

I am a Image maker who uses Printmaking with digital to create narrative and atmospheric images. I am a narrative artist. I use a mixture of traditional and digital to create something that communicates a tale. 

The next few months and years are a focus of building work up around the thematic areas I’ve described. I don’t go by type of illustration, rather theme for this reason. it allows me to go from editorial to publishing to comics to packaging while still congaing a constancy to my work. I’m hoping that building up a repertoire of more work will show this. 

Summative Evaluation

Overall i think PPP has gone quite well. Personally I don’t think that I took as much advantage over it as a should have done. However I do recognise the importance of it and how it’s shaping my career as I head to leave this course. I’m communicating with more companies and people now and I find myself less put of if people don’t answer back or reject em. It’s all about the grind at the end of the day. It’s about getting yourself out there’ putting in the work and developing, your brand to suit the section of clients your going for. I’ve learnt the impotence of separating your practice as a way to not let multiple ambitions clog up my practice and lead to no development in either work or contacts. 

Everything becomes priorities in importance now. i choose what I view as appropriate for My practice. whether it is the branding merchandise I create or the social media outlets I use to promote myself. I look for opportunities in all ventures I pick up. It’s Not just about getting work for now, it’s about having work later and seeing your practice as something you aim to maintain throughout your life. 

Honestly It felt like for the first 2 years PPP was irrelevant for me. However  don’t think this is the case, as I believe that it has given me the critical thinking skills need to be able to evaluate myself and my prate fairly and develop a sense if where my work fits into the grand creative scheme of things. 

I’ve enjoyed working out where my work first within the creative industry. It’s taken some time and i know that it’s going to evolve. However i feel more assured in myself and my practice once I leave this course. I know what I want and what I’m good at are not always the same thing however they can become similar and find common ground within your practice. 

I find valuing my work in the sense of a bigger picture difficult. Contacting museums that could help further my projects as well as other agencies, companies and professionals a bit awkward as I become self doubtful and don’t see my self as worthy of good opportunities. But by bitting the bullet and simply emailing people I’ve gained more confidence within my practice. The worst thing they can do is tell you to fuck off so, it’s really not as bad as you thing. 

I got into my own head a lot during this module which is why I only seemed to start to find myself when the stress of completing this module finally started to kick in. It’s through this last month that I’ve actually been able to see myself as a practitioner not just a student and slowly get opportunities come in that I otherwise would have just assumed I wouldn’t get. 

PPP is a module that everyone grows around differently. And even though I haven’t bloomed around it as fast as other people have. I do think I’ve gained a lot more from PPP on a personal and professional Level. 

PPP Literally Became my Personal Professions Practice.

Presentation

Creative Presence

Here It Is.

Portfolio

Here is my portfolio. If I'm going to be honest there are a lot more finished and what i deem acceptable pieces of work in here that I initially thought. However I do know I'll need more than this in future. However I believe this is a good start.

Buisness Booklet

This is my Business Booklet. Instead of a Business Card. As you can see my details are on every page so that if they take a liking to any picture they know who did it.  I've not name which illustration follows which theme as it should be either obvious or clear enough that if misinterpretation does happen the images are subjective enough to fall into one of the three categories.

What I'm Doing post submission

So Post-Submission I'll Still be doing PPP things. It doesn't stop here. As A result I aim to contact a lot more people as well as contact a few people for a one to one chat or portfolio meetup when I'm down in London in July. Also going to be contacting the Wizards of the coast people when I get a more Character design centric portfolio of them made up.