andy singleton

We had a talk from Andy Singleton, an artist/illustrator. He talked through his journey from graduating through till now with his personal and commercial work. It was useful to see how his work has evolved since graduating - and also quite reassuring that his work in third year was quite average but he evolved his work to be very successful and impressive. The main points I got were:

• he stayed in his uni town after graduating with a bar job and picking up occasional commissions, went travelling and it was after that where he really tried to get his work out there and focus his attention mainly on his practice 
• he got a studio space and took a year out to just make work, to build up a really good portfolio, make collections of work - really important to keep practice up with a part time job, it is easy to just put it to the side
• he has managed to keep his personal work going even when he has lots of commercial work on
• he has got most of his work through the internet - so it is very important to have a strong online presence. Also make sure 3D work is photographed well - either learn yourself or get a professional to do it