Creative CV

I've been making my cv! finally. I made a board on pinterest

https://uk.pinterest.com/rs108841/creative-cv/

its filled with other examples of cvs. I most liked the ones that folded up and i think they are appropriate to me as one of my skills is book binding and i think i'd really be missing out if i didn't find a way to include that in my cv. I came up with a folding technique so that i could easily print it on A3. I need to be economical, i think part of considering your practice is understanding your budget and what you can afford. It kind of sucks to put money limits on my creativity but i am most definitely not a person with a bank balance positive enough to make whimsical decisions on printing cost.
I think my budget has been a big part of my practice all year because it effects the work i make, how i make it and how ambitious i am with my project. I try to avoid really large scale things because i know i can't afford to print it. I get very little loan and that has made me extremely stingy.
I think this is a big reason i'm just excited to get out there and start working because once i'm earning i don't have to worry about money (or at least not as much as i do now).

The design of the cv leaves a little pocket, i did this so that i can put work in there to give away. but also so that the work i put in can keep evolving and be put into the same pack without changing the original design. At the moment there are eight square post cards within which i chose because i thought that they gave a good breadth of my practice.

It includes work that is old like last years cop book work but it also has stuff that i only completed last week (say no to crack). I wanted there to be a big range. And although i think my practice comes along in leaps and bounds there is still a certain consistency in my style that makes them work as a set.

I used some current reference for my colour scheme when i was first trying to colour in my newest work. I think i got carried away with thinking it had to look amazing like work already out there. I didn't trust myself to colour it. Which is stupid because  i ended up picking the colours anyway in the end as i can't get my head around other peoples colour schemes. I guess i found this mildly reassuring that maybe its not my choices that are making me struggle but just the fact that i don't consider colour during the drawing process. I think i need to do some drawing where i do roughs first and only use colour so i am forced to make pallets.

these are the main pages. I chose a limited colour scheme which i think works best for me. At first i was working in orange and blue but it was all getting a bit too gaudy and i needed to reduce. I think sometimes i spend too long trying to find the perfect complimentary colour when i should just use a very dark or light monotone next to out to draw out the vibrancy and just get the best from my images.