Career Pathways

As part of the challenge I have to think about possible career pathways. I've chosen Illustration as the overall job as that is the part I am most interested in. 

Being an Illustrator is a job and set of skills that could be applied to a large variety of industries. Here are a few of examples of the different industries and routes I think one could take with it.


You could be a fashion illustrator, drawing and creating outfits for models.
    

• You can Illustrate your own ideas and see if any fashion brands likes them.   
• You can Illustrate other people's ideas for them
• You could Illustrate jewelry
• You can Illustrate patterns out for materials
• You can Illustrate clothe magazine covers

 

You could be a comic/manga/book illustrator, using your imagination to draw pictures.

• You can Illustrate characters
• You can Illustrate  the scenes and background
• You can Illustrate  the props
• You can Illustrate the covers
• You can even Illustrate your own characters/backgrounds/props and covers and sell them to people

You can be an advertisement illustrator, creating colourful, eye catching ads.

• You can Illustrate the background
• You can Illustrate the object of which is being advertised
• You can Illustrate the font for the text
• You can Illustrate the animation
• You can Illustrate posters

You can be a business illustrator,  

• You can Illustrate the logo’s
• You can Illustrate the business website designs
• You can Illustrate the a short cartoon on the business and what they do
• You can Illustrate new business ideas

Bringing it all together

Back at Ami's today to start pulling the comic together to send to the printer. 

It's taken a really long time to get to this point with some big gaps in between sessions but after a lot of effort I'm very very close to finishing the comic. On reflection, I think if I were to do this again I would ensure that there were no big gaps in between sessions.

The very big things are done, so just lots of tweaking and bits to add such as some words today. We made some last minute changes and moved things around a bit. We went through page by page in a systematic order to ensure that I had everything covered.

I've felt very tired with this now and I just really wanted to get it finished. I felt really relieved when we had got everything covered and happy. It's now ready to go to a Printer. 

I also have some homework relating to the Silver Arts Award Challenge. Unfortunately, the comic isn't the only part of the challenge. I now have to think about possible routes forward should I want to pursue a career in illustration.

Hyper Japan Review

Yesterday I went to Hyper Japan as another part of my Silver Arts Award. Here's my review.

Hyper Japan is a Japanese Festival with games and loads of shops. Most people who came at least wore cat ears or as in Japan they call them Neko ears but some came fully dressed in anime/manga characters, Japanese school outfits, Nekos, traditional kawaii outfits, lolita dolls and many more amazing things. They mostly sold things there such as kawaii plushies and cosplay items but there were other attractions such as a dancing ring where some people danced to anime music and Japanese pop music, a place you could get yourself drawn as a manga character, and even some Japanese foods that were quite tasty.         

We tried some flavoured crushed ice mountain kind of thing but it was over priced and was pretty bad. It didn't taste of anything much - a bad slushy but in a bowl.

I think overall there was too much shopping and not enough activities going on which made it a bit disappointing. In the video game section that was full of activities there was a stand that was just too loud which made it uncomfortable to be in that zone.

Wouldn't rush back.

Me playing some kind of Anime Game in the Video Game area