PPP: Artist Appreciation: Tillie Walden

When I started following Tillie Walden last summer on instagram, it didn't strike me that she was such a young artist (almost 20 now). In some ways i felt intimidated by her success but in other ways I felt empowered, if someone can do so well with comics at a young age without having much experience in the industry then surely that gives hope for the rest of us

an article I read about her -- http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/tillie_walden

http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/comics-phenom-tillie-walden-on-i-love-this-part.html

Now I'm a third year I've started looking more into how each of my favourite instagrammers (or tumblr blogs) promote themselves. Tillie Walden has a portfolio blog and a tumblr and an instagram which seems to a reccurring theme with the artists I like (this is perhaps.. because I like character designers and comic book artists and tumblr is a good platform for this).

I like how encorporated her work is to her blog headers, you instantly see her work when logging into the site at the header and it gives it more of a personal feel. 

Part of the reason I'm so into Tillie Walden's work is that it ALL feels like a personal feel. She too has a very considered colour palette, I think that starting to experiment with resticting my colours is something I will start to do (maybe for FMP??? who knows???) I also think that her work is very considered.. in a whole range of ways. 

It is considered from a composition point of view, her comic panels consider how to take the reader on a journey with that character or story. It flows well and isn't flat if that makes sense? A lot of comics I read when i first started this course were very 2D and offered little in the ways of communicating a background. Tillie Walden's work communicates negative space confidently and is something I will try to put more into my work. 

I especially like that Tillie has a page on her tumblr for sketchbook practice, it sounds dumb but I really enjoy looking at peoples thought process just as much as I love looking at the final thing. It takes you through their journey of creation so that when you do see the final product you think, oh yeah damn she drew that couch or whatever 15 times before she picked that one.

It highlights that noone picks up a pen and is this amazing draw-er straight away, it also adds to consideration of the overall piece.

PPP: Elevator Pitch

In today's session we spoke about how having an elevator pitch was important as when we are out and about at exhibitions or in public places we need to be able to sum up who we are in a very short space of time. 
It also helps with what to put out on social media's, having something that consistently addresses who we are as professionals is very helpful for those looking at portfolios. 

M Y  P I T C H 

I am an illustrator by trade but a creative thinker and a story teller at heart. A lot of my work is based around my love for narrative and character design, I like to tell a story within my work whether it ends up being a still image or a short animation because I want people to feel a connection to what they are viewing. I think in this day and age it's important to be making work that says something. I create a range of work for clients because of this I use a lot of different mediums to get the right atmosphere and feel for each project I undertake. As a creative thinker, I'm always outside the box, I'm taking runs around the box daily. I keep a notebook on hand wherever I am and once I get a brief, I'll keep firing concepts until I find one that's right for the project. 


-- Only thoughts on my pitch is that I'm not sure how you end them?? Do people interrupt or do you just get to the end and do some jazz hands?? Maybe I should get business cards that come out of my sleeves at a high speed like a magician??