#being pro

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Josh playing videogames via Michelle ig story

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Invoice template.

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Self promotion piece for Phil Cleaver. I have used some of my work to design a pocket calendar. You can tear out the month card and place it in your wallet. Convenience. I have also designed a package for the calendar book, it was fun crafting it and figuring out the template.

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AOI by pros for pros.

The Association of Illustrators came for a visit. They are an association that supports illustrators and helps them with their contracts and jobs and tricky clients. They covered multiple topics regarding the industry and career choices. 

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Collectives for pros

Once we graduate we will most likely go our separate ways, but that might be not ideal for everyone. We’ve spent 3 years building a strong community and we’ve made great connections with people we know we get along with, which can be hard to do anywhere else. The studio environment had us working together, and that is a familiar feeling that would be hard to let go off. 

But perhaps we don’t have to let go just yet. Alex Moore is a graduate from the same course, and she has shared her story with us. Once her year has graduated they have decided to make a collective known as A Drawn Chorus ( https://drawnchoruscollective.co.uk). They invited people from the course that work well together and started planning. 

Their first step was to throw an exhibition. They figured out a theme and started producing work for it, then they started to deal with organisation of the event. They had to find a venue, and find funding and etc. It was tough but they managed to pull it off and it was a huge success. 

They then moved on to the new projects of making a book, and a zine and even another exhibition.

It can be challenging to keep the people together, but it might be worth it at the end of the day.

Collectives are a good opportunity for you to get noticed but also stick with the people you like, and meet many more new people. It is all good at the end of the day.