One of my common fears in relation to anything in life is the unknown. Not knowing if I am going to financially stable or what my work day is going to be like after graduation is scary. My worst case scenario is to work from home and be isolated in my practice, as I know I am most happy and productive when my work is separate from my social life.
What are the comfort zones in your practice?
The primary comfort zone in my practice is simplicity. I prefer my illustrations to be simple in their composition, form and colour; however I think if I were to push these boundaries and produce a more complex image this could potentially achieve something greater than my current work.
What are the strengths of your practice?
I think a strength of my practice is that I communicate content conceptually using motifs or symbols. My technical abilities across both handmade and digital processes are also to a high standard.
What is holding you back? What are you bored with?
Currently, my aspirations to be like other working illustrators is holding back the progress within my own practice. I need to focus and allow myself to develop a way of working that can become my own USP.
Thought Experiment illustration:
For this illustration I choose to portray my biggest fear in relation to being a freelance illustrator - which is to be isolated in my practice working within the four walls of my room.
To generate the idea for this image, instead of mind-mapping, I worked visually making a series of exhaustive thumbnails - returning to this process of idea generation made me realise that it may be more effective in producing visually appealing outcomes, as it forces me to focus on both the conceptual and visual aspects of image-making.
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