Over my second year of studying animation at LCA I've become more and more aware of the differences between engaging within the industry and self employment when working as an artist. I've also become more aware of the 'business sides' of being an artist and how these artists manage to keep their creative heads above the water of self employment. Although I'm leading towards getting employment within some form of creative study in the future, right now, I'm still open minded to the idea of self publishing my own work online and advertising myself online for possible freelance work. As a freelance artist, I'd have to maintain self advertisment online on social media and attend a number of advents to promote myself and my work; all this can be ricky, as I'll most likely have a month to earn enough to pay rent. However, selling my work online and advertising online for commissions seems rather simple to 'set up'.
Starting this summer I'm planning on developing developing several prints and posters, to then post on sites such as RedBubble (which is an online store where artists upload their illustrations/art and consumers can purchase in a number of forms, such as posters and cups) . I'm also planning on entering the 2016 November Manchester Animation Festival student film contest, with an animation I'm currently developing. Although this idea is very vague and hasn't appeared on my blog yet, I'm planning on finishing the storyboard for the animation before the start of 3rd year in September. I'm planning on making the animation roughly 1-2 minutes long.
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