After our lecture with Lloyd-Scott Tylor we had Dan Mumford come in and talk to us about his experiences as a freelance illustrator. It was so interesting to see the contrast between someone who works on their own and someone who works as part of a team all the time.
He said that he was always trying to get his work out there, even through his degree he was doing album artwork for bands he knew and logos for people but his work only developed into a certain style throughout his third year. I am always worrying that my work isn’t very cohesive, it’s all a bit scatty. You can see his work is a little gruesome and although he said on Wednesday that he has moved on from that, he has been doing it since he started, therefore it’s now what he’s known for. It will be hard for him to try and break out of this rut.
He gave us quite a lot of useful advice about promoting yourself but also about having to get yourself a workspace away from home to separate those parts of your lives. He looked like a very visual person and used a lot of images to portray his working life.
Then when he finished talking there were loads of questions, one of which was about taking that leap and moving into London straight after your degree without a steady job. he said that in his experience, those who moved back home aftr uni found themselves loosing their connexion with the creative world.
But i have definitely decided that my end of year exhibition is going to be in London as opposed to just in the Uni classrooms.
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