Freelance illustrator Anna Steinburg came in to give us a presentation on how to set up and work as professional freelance illustrator and also to have a look through our portfolio's to give advice and guidance as to what clients will be looking for.

I really enjoyed the presentation, it made freelance work seem attainable which was so refreshing in a world full of recession and pessimism.

Here is the final poster in print ready form. The clients loved it which I was very pleased with and hopefully I can get more work with them.

If I had more time I would have had another stab at the typography which in my opinion is not as strong as I could have made it. I suppose if the client is happy with it, it has answered the brief and the job is done. but I will always strive to better what I've done, which I guess I could do by producing more posters for them, in turn getting better as I sharpen my skills.

It has been sent to the printers. great!

Focusing on the craft side of stitch, I came up with this background as a starting point. I am pleased with it, I think it captures the main reason behind the club night so that definitely works as a background.

I sent these two roughs through to see what the girls at stitch thought of my preliminary ideas.

They really liked the style but were not so sure about the two characters. they wanted it to be more raw and maybe not as close up.

I had a meeting with them and we brainstormed a few ideas that could work and that they were happy with and I took it all on board ready to create the poster.

Stitch

Following on from the Christmas poster I produced for the club night Stitch, they have asked me to illustrate and design their residency poster!

This is a great opportunity for people to see my work as the club night is in Sixty Million Postcards which is an already well established club/bar in Bournemouth and could really help to get some publicity and interest in my work.

I was really pleased to be asked to do this again for them as it means the first poster was a success and building a strong relationship with a client can open other opportunities up (like this one) in the future.

Here is some contact i received to kick off the start of the designs. They left it very open ended for me which is great because they want me for my way of working so I can really get stuck in and enjoy producing it.

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Single sided A6 flyer and A3 poster would be AWESOME!

The poster text is.....

stitch! At 60 million postcards

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you can put these how ever you like, we've done them so you separate them up!
if you want anymore images or any help just give me a shout!
Hope this is cool x

They also put this mood board together to help me with the vision they had for the poster.

PPRD presentations.

I recently had a presentation to prepare for the class which I felt went really well. I usually buckle under the pressure of having to stand up in front the class and talk about my work and this might be because I am unconfident about my ideas and things I create. This in turn puts me under more pressure as before I show my work to people I am already trying to justify why parts of it are 'wrong' or 'not quite there yet'!

This presentation however felt better. I was showing live briefs I have worked on for clients and I had things to say. I talked about discussions with clients or lack of discussions with clients and other topics within the briefs. I spoke clearly and informatively and was actually proud of myself afterwards!

Here are two parts of James Marriot's and my screen prints. The bottom image is just a preview of how we would like the final prints to come out and the top image is one of the layers we made for the screen printing process.