I recently discovered the work of Ana Zaja Petrak and love it! She mainly does food illustration and has a similar process to me - focusing on texture and shape. She has worked for lots of big clients like BBC, Fairtrade, Ikea so I emailed her asking about getting into food based illustration and where a good place is to start for a soon-to-be graduate and she replied really quickly with a great in-depth reply!
She suggested putting my work out there on every possible platform - which I have started doing but need to update more. She got her work picked up through this way so I guess she must have been pretty relentless with it. Also being very clear on what I want to do is important - what areas I want to work in and start planning how to approach people in those areas. I think it helps to present yourself to work with a particular thing - like her whole website is food so people go to her for food based illustration, maybe having a website which shows lots of different things could be confusing for clients. I definitely love doing food illustration, so will try build up that side of my portfolio as well as publishing work.
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