The unneeded presentation

Since I worked on it anyway I'll post it. The slides help me to organise what I want to say anyway.

Slide 1: Big Ween. I've branded myself as Big Ween because it sounds silly and makes people smile. And I want to have humour in my work so I think it fits.

Slide 2: I don't want to be an animator full time but I do enjoy doing gifs and short animations. I need to  think of a way I can say this in my promotional work because I don't want people to assume I can do complicated animations that last 5 or 10 minutes.

Slide 3: Over the summer I did some fair selling my comics, I didn't do well and made a loss at every event. It kind of knocked any confidence in my work I had. But I can use it as a learning experience to better my selling ability.

Slide 4: I need a kick up the butt to get onto contacting people. I haven't really done it over the summer but that ends now.

Slide 5: Getting into illustrators heads; I'm going to work my way through my bookshelf of comics and message each author telling them I liked it and why and then ask a question. Just little questions to open up communication and so I can escape spam folders in future.

Slide 6: My fish comic is one of my favourite things that I've made and I found it really satisfying to make. I think illustrating things from my own life is a good thing to explore because I can draw my self and people I know relatively well which leaves me open to play with compositions and body positions.

Slide 7: Some Illustrators who do biographical comics; Sarah Anderson, Gemma Corell and Jeffrey Brown. I like the way they work and the style is playful and light. I think my work sty the moment fits into this selection and way of working.

Slide 8:But I would like to be more like my favourite illustrators; Michael DeForge and Jesse Jacobs. To do this I'm going to have to work on my colours and making my own narratives which is why some of my 603 briefs this year are creating narratives.

Slide 9: These are my favourite two publishing agencies but from the selection of work I've shown I think its obvious that my work would fit more into what Koyama Press are producing.

Slide 10: Promo Video. Because I struggle to straight out talk to new people I thought a good way to break the ice would be to make a self promoting video using animation and film. I want it to show that I can use humour, I work to deadlines, I can package my material and then just some stuff about myself as an illustrator. Then when it's completed I'm going to send it out on mass and put it on social media. Offering my services for a fee, and hopefully this will help me get some commissions under my belt.