• Inspire and enrich community and others lives on your own life? Financially be supported. Very different endeavours. Look after yourself or others?
• Illustration is embedded within lots of industries. Not the old idea of illustrating chocolate boxes, jigsaws anymore. Illustration is everything and anything: homeware, knitted, crafts. It's a very exciting time to be an illustrator.
• It's embodied everywhere and we are very lucky to be part of that industry to shape the world
• Shift and change and adapt to the environment to earn a living. Don't be afraid. Negotiate, prove your worth
• Fangirls over Patrick making the milk carton character for Blur. An adorable character design that defined a time and became a brand for the band. Applied to many products. Became a symbol of youth. I remember seeing it even after its original time period, into the mid 2000s, on various MySpace profiles and Livejournals used as avatars and GIFs. Changed into something else but still retained youth and subculture; attaching onto emo and a different music movement.
• Questions over the next 6 to 8 weeks. Can be very simple stuff. How to write an invoice? Basic questions of getting through life
• Studio Brief 1:creative strategies. Open talk. What are you interested in? This is a good opportunity to find out where those opportunities might be
• Arts jobs UK, working in house, working freelance, working for yourself
• Skills you need and skills you want. What do you want to learn? What are you asking of yourself?
• Blog – research. Magazines and commissioning illustration. Are they commissioning the work you make? How do you get in touch? Sending out mail – Instagram – website?
• All of this leads up to the presentation
• Connect with people. Industries, professionals, agents to make that visceral connection. Doesn't have to be super formal
• If you don't connect with these people they won't see your talent. You are valued.
• What you're adding to it is a new way of thinking and working so that you can step into the industry that is productive. That becomes a career.
• The study tasks will aid this development
• If you want to do a Masters – why? To go into educational fields, curating? Academic areas? Perhaps take a few years out and then go into the MA. Research academic MA courses. There are specific areas such as children's book illustration. To really appreciate it pace your education and experience in life. Really think about and consider things.
• Studio Brief 2:portfolio – can be playful, can be a piece of work with a few comments.
• Visual identity – leave with a client or steering career towards somewhere. Think of what it is and spend your time doing it. Really thinking of what you need to do. Thinking of you and the branding. It's a digital submission in a lot of ways.
• Online presence – website. In-house. Freelance. Teaching. Show that you have social media skills. These are important now. Tailoring what you need.
• Who are you aiming at? How do you best communicate with them?
• Instagram may be easier to create and manage
• Work to submit: All research on blog for presentation
• Presentation slides
• PDF of portfolio
• Some slides of visual identity
• Link to Instagram or websites
• Intro to the world contracts. Pay as you earn.
• Contracts: legal agreement between you and a company, or you and a person. Agree on a set of terms before entering a working relationship together. Protection and security. Working agreements. Each party's expectations on an outcome. Could be a publisher, creative, agent.
• Ben has a standard contract
• The AOI has help with this on their website
• Be aware of what you want, what you are offering to protect yourself
• Payment on time and in full
• Self protection. Contract limits upfront the agreement. It can also be used to get parts of our full payment. Some kind of financial recompense at some point
• Legal advice can be given for free. What's you're offering is an extraordinary talent that no one else can offer and what you need is to protect yourself and be paid
• Illustration can be centred anywhere and the work should be under taken within a timeframe, within the contract itself, proper requirementsIt's uncomfortable but payment is the first thing that you need to talk about. They have a budget. Understand the value of the work that you are doing. Your skills. Your training. Your time. Your investments and the quality of work that you're producing. You are talented and individual. It is spun gold. Nobody else can do what you do.
• Pay for your time, the work/the product/and outcome. The usage. Advertising or editorial? More or less valuable?
• How are you going to be paid? Faxed? Cash? When? There are various strategies that people employ. 30 days is fairly standard.
• Intellectual property ownership. Who owns the rights after you have created the image? You do. Don't accept a small payment if you are selling the IP.
• Bigger companies often take longer to pay
• Consider where your images go. Are you images going to be seen in a gallery, globally? In books? What context?
• Working within a timeframe, hours. Consider the work to be undertaken and timeframe.
• Be specific as you can. Outline clearly what is to be expected and to be done. The timeframe it will be completed in. Email is usually the best way to do this. Legally binding document. From the date you pass it through. You have to be quite bullish sometimes
• Sometimes not many amendments are made in Ben's experience to the work.
• Project requirements. Make sure you are provided with all of the necessary information, assets, logos et cetera. It is important not to take on any extra costs to get the job done. Discuss the practicalities. Clients may never have done that print job before. Make sure the client provides what you need and the intangibles. Stock photos, recordings etc. That is not your job. Ensure they will foot the cost. Understanding between you and your client. Be brave.
• Look after yourself. Tax bill is horrible. 20% of everything earned. Freelance or employee?
• When undertaking the work it needs to be made clear whether you are a freelancer or an employee. It has an impact on how you are perceived and has legal/financial implications upon taxation
• You are responsible for your own tax
• Getting paid: How and when to get paid. Do you want paying on time and you can ask them for more money if not paid on time
• Intellectual property ownership is down to you and your client. You can maintain and own and license it to that partner/client. Negotiate. State whether it's one use only. Paid for one use only. If used again you should be paid again.
• Payment before giving full-size hi-res images is the best thing to do. You can show a smaller lo-res image.
• If you need to retain image rights you can put something in the contract to say you want it's on your website to Instagram and they understand that
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