My Practice
- Specialty: Illustration and concept art
- Digital painting illustrations for the visual development of projects (potentially involving film or games in the future).
- I want to focus on developing my painting skills. I have dedicated this year to strengthening my portfolio, gearing all my briefs towards my chosen speciality practice since Christmas. I might branch back into animation in the future but, right now, still image is what I know I want to pursue.
- It interests me because its where my artistic strengths lie and I have found it more rewarding than when I have completed animated shorts. I enjoy the process more and know that the end product is finished to a higher standard than I have been able to achieve through animation. I love to paint and spend time on the details of a piece too. I’m more excited about the prospects of this career path.
- I will make my work through the use of my iPad and procreate - this is cost effective as it’s cheaper than to maintain the adobe subscriptions I have. I am also super comfortable with this equipment after spending the last year practicing.
Skills
- Academic: writing (formal and informal), public speaking and presentation, critical thinking, reflective practice.
- Practical: a good visual library to draw reference from, artistic skills such as: deciphering shadows, lights and highlights, sense of form, composition.
- Technical:softwares (Procreate, premiere pro, photoshop), budgeting, 2D animation.
- Throughout uni, I have been a multi-disciplinary artist but I have honed in on the type of work I hope to create in the future.
Plans
- After graduation, I’m staying in Leeds for at least a year.
- I have been working part time as a waitress -To continue to support myself, I will be upping my hours a little.
- I will keep my hours reasonable though as I try to establish myself as a freelancer. I will attempt to build up a clientele and use these commission opportunities to bulk up my portfolio.
Online Presence
- I need to completely revise my approach to social media.
- I want to separate my work accounts from my personal - the name ‘Laura Durham’ already belongs to two writers so googling it leads to their websites and I don’t like the idea of work connections I don’t know seeing personal things. I will use a pseudonym to fix both of those problems. ‘Laura Westley’ will work fine.
- Best platforms for promoting artwork and create industry connections seem to be linkedin, instagram and maybe twitter.
- All social media should link back to a portfolio website that archives all significant work and has a contact page.
- I should make it professional and keep a continuity between platform. I think I could use some to show sketches and unfinished pieces while others should be to show more refined pieces.
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