Event
Make Art Work: Building better portfolios
The previous series helped you to identify routes into the industry and this follow up series takes a more collaborative approach to looking at your own work and how to best tailor your own portfolio and respond to briefs. Working alongside other likeminded creatives, we will offer a safe space for discussion and feedback on what is working in your portfolio, how to curate it to get the best out of your creative voice and how to apply the outcomes to opportunities such as commissions and competitions. The sessions are designed to allow you to engage with all three and take the full creative journey to transform and enhance your portfolio or can be taken individually. The delivery will be tailored to suit each individual learner.
September 25th
Make Art Work: Portfolio Party
October 16th
Make Art Work: Transforming good ideas into good illustrations
November 6th
Make Art Work: Transforming good illustrations into great illustrations
This collaborative workshop is part of the Make Art Work series by The School of Illustration at the Barbican Creative Hub. It’s all about helping artists and creatives find their voice in the world of commercial illustration and recognising their own individual pathway into this exciting and vast area of the creative arts.
You will receive focussed feedback on a piece of work created in response to a set brief, which will be supplied before the session*. In a safe and supportive environment, critical, industry focussed support and feedback will be given to help elevate your work and get it ready to be sent out into the world with the aim of getting you a commission. Competitions are a great way to get your work in front of a wider audience as well as receive recognition for your practice. This session will also cover how to prepare your work for competitions, and we will look at the various Illustration competitions available and discuss how to make sure your work has the potential to win.
*If you have taken part in the Make Art Work: Transforming good ideas into good illustrations we will continue to work on the brief covered there.
About The School of Illustration
The School of Illustration is run by Nick Moffatt, a freelance illustrator with an MA in Illustration currently working in the industry. Nick has been a commercial illustrator for over 25 years, working for clients such as Google, Microsoft and the BBC. He has created illustrations for film, TV, animation, children’s books, comics and everything in between. Nick also has over 10 years of experience in lecturing at various UK universities across the disciplines of illustration, graphic design, concept art and comics. Passionate about empowering creatives to be able to make a career from their creativity, Make Art Work is part of his ‘The School of Illustration’ project which allows people to do this by providing the right tools and the right mindset.
What We’ll Cover
What To Expect
Who It’s For
Anyone who wants to start working in illustration – from children’s books to album covers.
What You’ll Leave With
You’ll walk away with the skills, confidence and tools to create an industry facing creative identity and portfolio unique to you that will allow you to approach clients and get work.
Price per workshop:
£11.50 for Barbican Creative Hub members
£16.50 for non-members