Tuesday, 23 April 2013

1,2,3 Advice

Another post at the request of the course gods at Stockport ,... 3 pearls of wisdom that I have heard since I started my course, besides, Mark...put the pencil down!

Well the first pearl is somewhere along those lines, Experiment and embrace accidents instead of screwing up yr page and binning it in a sulky rage.
Thats exactly what I would have usually done, instead of using the mistake as a learning curve,
that advice has to be accredited it to my course leader, Joanne Spicer, and probably one of the most important lessons that I have learned in my two years, and one Im glad i learned so early on.

The second pearl of Illustration wisdom, comes from Ben Wachenje (I know I sound like a fan boy, but so what, sue me), after asking him how he balances life between his work and family, something that I had spent so much time sweating over for the first 14-18 months of the course, he told me, he does not balance at all. 
This gave me so much relief and confidence that I began to work freely of the shackles that the predicament had caused me since I started the course. 
If a very established Illustrator cant find a balance and still produce work to the level he does then its most certainly not something that I should be sweating over.

And since my post up to now has been a lot of reading my third pearl comes in the form of a video, 
and I'll leave you to decide wether you agree or not, but personally I think its brilliant.
Its a young poet from London Named Suli Breaks,... Enjoy.





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