One person she has told me to check out is Emily Carroll, I've briefly looked at her and I really like what i've seen so later on im going to pop into waterstones and see whether they stock her work (and if they do.. buy it and build up my waterstones stamps ha)
We spoke about how I've progressed with my work and how gouache painting is definitely the way to go with this, I have done digital work for this but it really doesn't pack the same punch as my gouache work does.
Teresa said that for the FMP i need to pick a way that I work best, now is not the time for new things. I only really started gouache painting things again recently but I feel more comfortable with it than I do digital painting because I've only recently invested in a laptop that can handle it now. It's something to improve on in the future.. but not right now.
We spoke about how best to present this in the show, I am currently thinking about printing the front covers for the comic's out in big A3/A2 formats and having 5 hung up, then a computer screen showing the progress work and *potentially* a moving product there? Most of all I would like to have at least one of the comics finished for the show and continue to make all 5 before D&AD in July and have it documented on my portfolio in time for thoughtbubble in September.
It's looking unlikely that I will have the whole comic finished in time for the hand in, but that's okay. At this point I think a selection of presentation boards for this, aimed in a way that would pitch it to potential clients is the way to move forward for submission.
I also spoke to Ben afterwards who recommended getting the 5 front covers finished so that I will have something to pitch.
It is ambitious but at this point I have to be, after months and months of making work for other people and semi-liking it, this is the first project I've worked on where I can actually see my skillset and how far it has advanced over this year, through knowledge of paper stock right down to colours to use in work.
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