I struggled to find work experience and found a lot of dead ends or failed ventures. I sent out many emails to artists and illustrators in the hope to do Q&A's and potentially some hands-on experience but most of my efforts fell short. The same with working at a school due to conflicting holidays and term times. I did manage to do a few commissioned pieces of artwork and interview a couple of artists about their practice.
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| Project: Park Mural |
Another big project I was involved with but never amounted to the final product being made was planning and painting of a mural at Park Campus for the University. This was going to be a group effort (with 10 illustration students working on it) and we met for several weeks planning and drafting ideas and concepts, as a group and with university officials. However unfortunately with working to a deadline of an upcoming Open Day in a month the project didn't meet it's deadline and never went ahead. It was a learning experience though as artists with fighting your vision and a deadline and there needs to be room for compromise. We sent back and fourth our ideas and below are some of our developing concept ideas for the wall:
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| Rough sketch |
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| Refined and allocated rough |