Polyrillustration: Professional Practise

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My deadline for Professional Practise is tomorrow. This is probably going to be an all-nighter - usually is the night before I'm due to turn in a unit (or, my version of an all-nighter, which is live off coffee and still crash at 3AM, gibbering nonsense). This involves a video explaining how I plan to make it in the Illustration industry, and a file full of resources that will help me along the way. I learn by example, so this unit was hard when it came to knowing what kind of things they want to be turned in - being shown examples of the videos was easy. Being shown examples of the resource files is a bit moot, as they were left behind, meaning that their owners didn't find them useful. Erk. Admittedly, although I loved the talks and symposiums this unit had to offer and it put me in touch with some amazing illustrators, I've not been a fan of composing a hard-copy file. I'm a person who collects, and often it doesn't make a lot of sense (or any sense) to someone looking in - so most of my collection of useful articles/e-mail conversations has been digitally kept.

Anyway. Introductory media!

I'm not scared you'll phone me. I just don't want to out-prank you.

This is my first business card design - I went off my Twitter/Facebook icon design, and found that the brown is a bit overpowering when it comes to this kind of composition. I love the speech bubbles and peeping-Elizabeth head, though (I'm 5ft 1, so there's plenty of peeping happening in person, and "were you looking for me?" worked a lot better than originally anticipated, given it's a business card to refer back to!).

So I changed it to blue (this is the second speech-bubble design). A personal piece I did nearly a year ago was shown to work well with a digitally-added blue background, and it suits the card a lot better. After quizzing my friends and fellow illustrators over Facebook, they agreed. Good stuff! I'm going to add a red telephone just below the speech bubble on the back, to balance things out, but then I'll have a design ready to send! Good stuff!

I'm not scared you'll contact my references - eh, maybe I am deep down inside.

And here is my CV. In the upper-right corner, it mentions a free paper doll - the template for it comes on a separate sheet of paper, with some enclosed paper fasteners. Here it is put together.