We had a visit from professional illustrator, Marcus Walters, who has designed posters for the V&A Museum and homeware products for many shops in many countries. His style is very graphic and he likes to use collage, digitally and traditionally, as well as screen printing.
To make his collages he uses Illustrator by cutting the shapes by hand in black paper then scanning them into the program to edit further.
One tip that he gave us was to recycle old work into new products such as turning it into a pattern or as part of a new idea. In this way you can get more done for the same amount of initial work.
It is also very important to know when to stop, especially with the simple shapes he uses as it can be easy to over complicate an image.
Having an agent to find freelance jobs for you is a good idea as they promote you to clients and hand out work / examples on your behalf. You can spend your time doing your work instead of looking for jobs which is time consuming and difficult.
Making your art licensed means the artist gets a royalty fee.
Experimental work that you create can always be learnt from or re-purposed to fit another brief.
He recommends the book 'Design as Art' by Bruce Munari as it talks about graphic art and design.
This guest was very interesting to listen to as he gave me ideas that I had not thought about before such as re-purposing old work into a new design. This would work best with his style of graphic illustration and is something I would like to try in the future. I also really like his style because it is very different to what I do which made his talk more interesting. Because of this talk I was inspired to try using the Illustrator program more but I still find it very difficult as it is very different to Photoshop which I am used to.
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