Archive for April 2009

Week In Review: 13th – 19th April

Another busy week on the Graphic Design front, but managed to get through most of my list – here’s a run down of how the week went…

1. Re-formulate Objective, Goals and Strategies based on the new niche direction

Nailed the Objective and Goals but still finalising the strategies. The main action that I’ll be working on in the next 2-3 weeks based on the outcome of this exercise will be beefing up my portfolio. Read more

Weekly To Do: For 20th April 2009

This week I plan to:

  1. Create 2 new portfolio pieces (mythical beasts – traditional or digital collage, not decided yet)
  2. Add finishing touches to the zero2illo blog design
  3. Write the zero2illo blog articles for the next 2 weeks

13 Super Useful Resources For Aspiring Illustrators

After scouring my list of favourites and trawling my feed reader, here’s a list of 13 super useful resources to inspire, inform and advise the aspiring (and experienced) illustrator.

I hope you find them as useful as I have and if you have any additions, please do comment and share your resources with everyone.

Resources For Advice & Industry Info:

Sterling Hundley Advice Blog

Experienced & accomplished illustrator Sterling Hundley runs a great little advice blog with info about the business and practicalities of illustration.

Illustration Mundo ‘Ask A Pro’

Aside from being a great all round resource for Illustration, the Nate Williams run site Illustration Mundo, has a great section called ‘Ask a pro’ where he poses questions to experienced illustrators who then weigh in with their answers. Lots to learn here from the experienced professionals taking part. Read more

Week In Review: 6th – 12th April 2009

The first thing I should mention is that you’ll probably notice that there are a number of items on my to-do list this week that appeared on last weeks list – this is for a couple of reasons:

  1. I had a really busy week with design work
  2. My consumption to output ratio is way off – meaning that I spend way too much time looking at my favourite illustrators websites rather than producing my own illustrations. This is a hard cycle to break and something I need to work harder on if I’m going to make this illustration dream a reality.

Here’s a run down of how the week went…

1. Re-formulate Objective, Goals and Strategies based on the new niche direction

Although this is one of the most important tasks on my list as it’s the foundation for all of my actions, I’ve really struggled to find time to sit down and work on it (see item 3 on the list!)

2. Experiment with Corel Painter 11 free trial download to produce new portfolio piece

The piece is underway, but it has turned into a bit of a Painter/Photoshop hybrid so far – only about 45 minutes into the piece and plan to finish it mostly in Painter – here’s a progress shot (still tons to do on it)…

polar illo Week In Review: 6th   12th April 2009

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Weekly To Do: For 13th April 2009

This week I plan to:

  1. Re-formulate Objective, Goals and Strategies based on the new niche direction
  2. Edit and narrate Photoshop digital painting tutorial Quicktime movies using Camtasia
  3. Further style/medium experiments for animal themed ‘abc’ book
  4. Finish Polar Bear portfolio illustration using Corel Painter 11 trial download

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