Final Presentation

Creative Presence

Life's a Pitch Final Presentation

Change of Creative Presence (Tone of Voice for Business Cards ect)

I decided, for the submission of this module, to keep my proposed business cards simple. Earlier in the project I suggested making cards in the shape of vinyl sleeves with my promotional pack being in a CD case; though I still like this idea I know at this point I don't have the type of work I would want to display in that setting made yet. After a lot of thinking I know going into the next year I want to loosen up with my image making and stop striving for perfection. Though I am passionate and I believe in completing things to the best of my ability, I'm also aware that this year I have undertaken a lot of projects that don't necessarily fit the way of working I enjoy, and upon reflection that's something I want to change.

My skills in visual language, application and making my work presentable have increased a lot this year, and the projects I have finished I would like to think I've done so with a professional mindset. However a lot of the work I've completed recently has required a digital process, and though this is a necessity with most contemporary illustration work today, it is something I would like a break from.

A lot of my personal interests lie in things primarily made a bit DIY. There's something in them that feels authentic and human; something I truly admire.

Moving into third year this is something I would like to emulate. Bringing my new found abilities at application and finishing pieces with the raw DIY edge that I find I have a lot in my personal work. My main ambition for third year is to be brave.

Domain Name // Issues

It was suggested by Patrick that we look at the site wordpress as a possible online portfolio platform//website. I couldn't find any other sites that really spoke out to me, and buying a domain name ect is something that's totally new to me. I decided to sign up to wordpress and purchase the URL jazzisdrawing.com. It fit within my current online presence and seemed great that it was so easy to purchase and use!

HOWEVER, this did later become an issue. I haven't been able to find a theme that clearly and minimally shows my work in the way that I would want it to be presented. And the while I have found a custom theme that fits with the aesthetics I want my work to have I'm unable to use it without upgrading to a higher costing package, and given that I don't necessarily get along with wordpress' coding and editing features, I'm not sure this is something I want to do.

Looking at other options I finally found the site Cargo Collective. Their themes looked a lot more like what I wanted so I sent in an application to join their site; they accepted within the day and I made a site on their platform!

Though this doesn't yet have a custom URL, Cargo allows for custom URL's to be added and it's something I'll look into for the future. It also allows me to custom the website to get it as I want it with it been free, then I can pay more for my URL when I have a more concrete idea of what I want my visual identity to look like. 

Networking; Skaters @ Belgrave

I'm unsure as to whether this would count towards my progress as an individual but I think it's an event worth mentioning none the less. On Wednesday 11th May I went with a friend to go see the post punk band SKATERS. Though based in NYC one of the band members hails from sunny Hull and, through a close community, I know his dad. This is pretty cool as SKATERS have a fairly large cult following (around 14,000 instagram followers and over 200,000 likes on facebook), and they've seen my work before as I did a piece for Josh's (SKATERS guitarist and vocalist) dad's cafe Thieving Harry's. When I heard they were coming to Leeds for a gig I got tickets for me and a friend. Weirdly enough however, one of our mutual friends who works at Thieving Harry's ended up going on tour with them to sell merch, and got us onto guestlist for the gig.

Before the show we sat down with Skaters and shared in some pizza and pun appreciation. It was great hanging out with musicians I really loved, who made music in a genre I might possibly be interested in pursuing later on. As the first act came on and SKATERS went to get ready, I realised how many people in crowd I'd gotten to know over the past year through networking in this scene. By the end of the gig I'd seen the members of The Hubbards who I knew through mutual friends, as well as a few members of La Bete Blooms and Josh's dad turned up right at the end. We even helped SKATERS pack all their gear into the van at the end of the night and see all the backstage goodies; I even got a free unreleased EP for winning best pun of the night.

Though this doesn't have much to do with illustration as such, it was kind of exciting to realise that networking wise I'm starting to run with the same kinds of people I want to be working with and for. It's nice to know that real face to face socialising and meeting can play a part in my development as a practitioner, into the field I want to go in.

Creative CV

Profile

Drawer of things, petter of dogs and practitioner of kindness; currently studying BA(Hons) illustration at Leeds College of Art. Image maker with a focused interest in analogue methods and pursuing briefs with a passion. Let's make something with feeling.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Illustration (Second Year) - Leeds College of Art

Foundation Diploma (2014 Graduate) - Wyke Sixth Form College

Content

Humber Street Sesh - Live Painting (Upcoming August 2016)

1999 Magazine - Dear Self Feature (Release Summer 2016)

Assemble Fest - Live Painting (Upcoming May 2016)

D&AD - Entered; Not Won (March 2016)

Colours May Vary Exhibition (February 2016)

A Happy Medium (Exhibition) - Dear Self (Feb 2016)

Gertie Harry Zine - A5 page spread (Nov 2015)

Something Entirely Different - Typography (Nov 2015) - Featured on website (Oct 2015)

Dear Self Zine (October 2015)

[W]elly Club - Mural (August 2015)

Humber Street Sesh - Live Painting (August 2015)

Skills

Highly experienced with Adobe Photoshop // knowledged on Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects and InDesign

Very good lino print skills with experience in screen and monoprint

Good communication and presentation skills

References

On request

Contact

Email; jazzisdrawing@gmail,com

Website; cargocollective.com/jazzisdrawing

Instagram // Twitter; @jazzisdrawing

Blog; jazzisdrawing.blogspot.co.uk

Where Are You Now?

Where are you now?

Starting to get a better grasp of where I want to work in the illustration field. Feeling more confident using a range of different processes and ending with more professionally finished outcomes. Still a little lost in terms of tone of voice...

Where should you be?

In a consistent, professional working frame of mind. Organised!! Blogging as I go along!!! Should I have started defining a 'style' by now?? I feel a little lost.

Where do you want to be?

More confident in a developed tone of voice. A more focused idea of where my work sits in the real world. A branding that I think reflects me well. To be working on some live briefs related to the music scene if only local // small.

How are you going to get there - what do you need to do?

Keep drawing! Keep researching the professional world. Talk to people working in the field. Ask for their opinions and advice; figure out what I want // who I am (creatively) // what I need to ask them. TALK TO EVERYONE!

Instagram Contacts

Throughout the past two academic years I've been sure to maintain and regularly update my instagram account with my illustration work. Instagram has always been an incredibly valuable social media tool to me and I've found it a way to put my work out into the world and get in contact with other creatives and possible clients. I thought it would be helpful to reassess the contacts I'd amassed up to date that will help me in exploring and getting more information about the world of music illustration.

Not only does Instagram allow me to put my work out in a way that possible buyers can find me and shop ect, but it allows me to network with people for future commissions. Getting into contact with Dan from La Bete Blooms has been great in opening up a future project that will hopefully get started later this Summer with the release of their new EP (which I would be doing an accompanying zine for). I met up with him around Christmas and spoke briefly about it to him in person at one of their gigs, and this transition from a purely online based relationship to a real world one is one I think is very important. I've spoken to Dan on and off about the project since then, and we run in a lot of the same music-sphere circles which is great for networking further with local bands.

One a slightly bigger scale I've also had contact a few times with Kate Nash about possibly doing some work for her feminist organisation Girl Gang; nothings come of it so far but that's mostly down to me not having any time! Maybe it's something I'll bring up again over Summer!

Local music venues, record labels, and publications have also followed me on Instagram, as well as Thomas Davis (luxuriousthomas) a videographer // cinematographer who has done a lot of work with recent upcoming band RATBOY.

Breakdown of Creative CV so far

I thought as part of a promo pack // creative CV it might be interesting to send it out as a CD. If I were taylorying my work to people who worked within the music industry it might be something a little different for and artist to package themselves in a way similar to the musicians. Of course I would have to make it clear in the writing // creative CV that this was a promo pack for an illustrator and not a mixtape, but it's a concept that interests me at this point; as well as being something a bit more than just a piece of paper with some qualifications and dates on. 

I've also been compiling a list of things I could include in my creative CV as previously completed work, so far I have;

Humber Street Sesh - Live Painting (August 2015)

[W]elly Club - Mural (August 2015)

Gertie Harry Zine - A5 page spread (Nov 2015)

D&AD - Entered; Not Won (March 2016)

Dear Self Zine (October 2015)

Something Entirely Different - Typography (Nov 2015) - Featured on website (Oct 2015)

Colours May Vary Exhibition (February 2016)

ADDITONAL SINCE LIST WAS MADE

A Happy Medium (Exhibition) - Dear Self (Feb 2016)

1999 Magazine - Dear Self Feature (Release Summer 2016)

Assemble Fest - Live Painting (Upcoming May 2016)

Humber Street Sesh - Live Painting (Upcoming August 2016)

Illustrator Research

I wrote down and looked into the practice of some local and non-local illustrators who've worked with the music industry in some respect. It was good to see there was a huge range in styles and methods of tackling music related briefs, and the web has opened up the opportunity for working with bands//musicians//agencies ect from across the world.

A lot of these artists and illustrators have a set tone of voice which informs their practice, and again this a little worrying as I feel I'm nowhere near close to finding mine. 

The breadth of stylistics for different genres does make me hopefully however that if I understand my market and target demographic, once I find my tone of voice I will be able to find the work.

Business Cards

Thinking about targeting my art to the music industry would it make sense to have a business card that reflected this?

Business card that looked like a vinyl? Brief big of info on outside sleeve then main contact details on the business card inside?

Circle format is hard to work with; would square be better?

Pre-existing artwork on the front of the sleeve? Variations? Is this too specific?

Screen print actual card to have an analogue method in there? Prefer making analog work

Contacts Research

 

In response to the tutorial I had with patrick, I began looking into possible people I could contact in relation to my work and the music industry. As well as looking at independant music labels and studios, I also looked into websites // collectives, mags // zines and venues that relate to the music industry, and that were realistic for me to contact. I tried to keep my lists selective to indie//alt//underground music as that's the genre I'm currently most interested in. At this stage the list is quite large and I would need to narrow down the contracts further before making a list of those I would like to contact. It has given me hope that there are a huge number of people, companies, agencies ect out there however who I could contact in relation to my practice and work. 

Existing Self Branding

I thought it might make sense to look at my existing self branding to see where I could move on from this point. If I have an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of my practice now I should have a more indepth understanding moving forward.

Aesthetically I like the white backgrounds of my platforms, but they don't have a consistent flow // theme. The domain username @jazzisdrawing is one of the only factors that makes them work as a set, and though they link together physically, there is a lacking of consistency. 

One of the things I do like from my social media however are my short bios. I used my twitter bio to help inspire my creative CV profile, and I think I should capitalise on this as it sums up who I am and what I stand for succinctly and accurately. Maybe I should think of my profile as a short social media profile? Professional but honest.

I need a clearer visual identity moving forwards from this point. However I'm a little stuck at how to do that. My work is so varied it's hard to think of a visual representation of my practice without it being constricting; I think something simple would work best as I wouldn't feel tied down with it.

Tutorial w//Patrick

Going into this tutorial I was a little nervous. Though I've been studying illustration for almost two years now, I still feel a little overwhelmed about the industry as a whole; I'm unsure where my work would sit in the realm of reality and that's daunting. There are things I really like doing within illustration and works that I admire, but I'm unsure how I would fit into it. Or how I would market myself as a practitioner. My style is so versatile and I feel in terms of tone of voice I don't have anything near set in stone. When put on the spot however I brought up the fact that I'd enjoyed 504 creating artwork in the style of gig posters and album sleeves. Music is something I would regard just as important as illustration in my life; though illustration is more through practice and music through appreciation. I'm also incredibly passionate about the grassroot // local music industry. Independant labels and bands are something I've found myself getting more involved in and the idea of using my illustration in that field is exciting!

Notes from tutorial

Big Active - act as an agency for illustrators

Promo // merch as well as posters and album artwork

Contact

Musicians (local, festivals ect)

Genre (think about which I want to focus on)

Record Labels

Band Sites

Band management(ers)

Agencies

*Contact directly* Networking is important*

Website Notes

Website is vital!

Don't use the word 'like' be critical

Don't get involved with coding

Wordpress? Domain name?

Might be best to buy directly through wordpress?

Include bit of intro on work

Client list, competitions, dates, what who ect

Blink Art - originally adverts but now advertising, print, digital and animation

Editorial 

Contact art directors themselves

Need to be really appropriate with portfolio for magazines // newspapers

What they do & how you'll fit into that

Be brutish and bullish; be confident!

Illustrators approach agencies and vice versa

Continue work on creative CV, printed presence and website

Creative CV

Creative CV

Create a visual self – where do you want to be?

Think; Vimeo, website, print, creative CV, letterheads ect Domain Name!

Print & screen based visual identity + practical development of your visual identity + blog + creative CV

Anatomy of a CV

-Avoid Templates

-Flexible

-Headlines are important

Standard info

-Name

-Address

-Number

-Email

-Website // URL

Profile

-3^rd Person

-Grab people

-Short summary

-Personality

-Who you are as a young creative professional

Qualifications

-Most recent first

Content

-Employment // experience (creative)

-Competitions // live briefs

Exhibitions (most recent at top)

Skills

-Organisation

-Communication

-Presentation

-Digital

-Analogue

Additional Info

-Achievements

-Scholarships

-Sponsors

-Awards

-Responsibilities

-Exhibitions

-Competitions (indicate date, venue, title, result)

-Languages?  

References

-On request

Tone of voice! No passport photos – where how and why you want to do

Starting my profile

Words that define me; creative handyman, Leeds based, creative, illustrator, passionate, contemporary, happy, upbeat, hardworking, versatile, responsible

Practitioner of kindness, drawer of things and petter of dogs. Passionate and upbeat illustrator based in Leeds with a developed interest in analogue methods of image making. Versatile and able to work well under pressure.

Feels a bit vague and slightly awkward at the minute? May be worth looking at my pre-existing online presence and seeing what can be drawn from that?

Reflection & DIY Zine Revolution Video

I feel like the amount of work this year has pushed me a lot further than I ever thought possible. Juggling multiple briefs all of different forms, has been a task and at times a struggle. This is largely due to poor time management on my behalf; something I must and will work on into the run up and throughout level 6. And while there have been modules I have really enjoyed, there have also been a lot I didn't. It's important to recognise this just as much as it is to recognise the ones I liked.

Responsive in particular was a module I felt really didn't suit my way of working. The number of briefs ongoing at the same time made me feel as though I couldn't get invested in them to the level I wanted to be. This resulted in work that was visually pleasing, but not necessarily an accurate solution to a brief, or lacked real conceptual foundations. To me, the work felt very passive. It wasn't work I hated, but it wasn't work I loved; this kind of made me hate it. I pride myself in putting my all into projects, being passionate is something I hold in high regards so that even if I fall I learn how to stand up stronger; this module took that away from me. Getting a multitude of briefs and having to switch from one to another made me feel disconnected to the work. There were times I was passionate about aspects of each brief, but by the end I felt rushed and underwhelmed.

This time of the year is a perfect point to step back and reflect on this, and to understand that if this was something I did not enjoy, then what makes me love the things that I do enjoy.

While scooping on i-D's YouTube page this past week I found this short video. It brought back fond memories of summer and working on "Dear Self". Throughout this academic year I did make another zine in a practical response to COP, and it was again a process I enjoyed. Zine loving aside, I think what I really enjoy tackling in a project is something I can get my teeth into and put my mark on. Allowing aspects of myself to seep into the work is where I find I tend to succeed. The end of 504, the practical aspect of 501 and the recently finished 505 have all been projects I've liked, and produced work that I'm proud of. I think a large factor in what work I should produce and briefs I should take on in the future, is that it should be something I'm interested or curious about. When I enjoy the subject matter I'm dealing with or am able to interpret it, tear it apart, build it up, turn it inside out that is when I succeed. A lot of the work I'm interested in currently and want to make revolves around youth culture. Specifically at the minute I'm really interested in music illustration (album covers, gig posters, music promo ect) and professionally I'm starting to run in a lot of the local music industry circles. Making work for this demographic is definitely something I want to pursue more moving into level 6.

"Dear Self" Zine - Etsy & Promotion

When choosing a website to sell my work I took into account a number of things; who did I want to see my work, how easily could people find me, what percentage would the website // company take, where would give me the most exposure, how customizable could I make my online shop? 

After shifting through a few websites I chose the Etsy as the platform to sell my work. I like that people could search for things and find you on it, there was also an interactive element with feedback, being able to fav shops, manage your account and things like refunds, setting prices, contacting buyers ect was easy and professional. There was also an element of customization within the front of the shop and how easy it was to manage the aesthetic side of it too. I made a few posts on my blog about the release of the zine both at Thought Bubble and online; and actually made a number of sales on the launch day alone! This shows the importance of self promotion and branding, and how different social media platforms can work together to push the audience you've amassed in on to the other.

I'd like to add a few things to my shop throughout the year but this depends a lot on time. Perhaps it's something I can really get to grips with towards the end of the year as things begin to wind down. It's something I definitely would like to keep active! 

SHOP                                              BLOG

"Dear Self" Zine - ThoughtBubble

 Over summer we were set the brief of drawing everyday so that when we came back, we would have enough material together to collate, organise and print a zine to sell at the LCA stall at 2015 Thought Bubble. Throughout the summer months, this was a task I truly relished and enjoyed, then openness of the brief allowed me to explore my own visual language and the sorts of work I want to make. It allowed me to be open in myself and my image making, resulting in a body of work I felt proud of.

When we first got back after the summer break, I was overwhelmed with how much people liked the material I'd put together, especially the juxtaposition of writing and images within my sketchbooks, though I hadn't really thought about a specific theme while drawing over summer, the pieces tended to have an overarching personal element to them. I chose to call the zine "Dear Self". 

The actual production of the zine was a process I really enjoyed. Getting DIY with the photocopier to make artwork wasn't something I'd done before, and the results I got were something I was really happy with. I hadn't really explored the notion of putting my work into underground zine culture, but it was somewhere I found that it sat rather well.

This may however have been a drawback when our zines were taken to Thought Bubble. Perhaps my work didn't resonate with the seemingly large narrative // comic book work that populated a lot of the stalls this year. Compared with previous years, I felt a lot of the Thought Bubble content this year was very 'fan art'. Though this is in no way a disrespect to that form of illustration, its not somewhere I see my own work sitting. I sold one zine at Thought Bubble, which of course went to fund our show at Colours May Vary later in the year, however I do feel that the marketing and promotion of our zines was a little on the poor side. Not much hype was created around our works being sold there, and it was actually something I feel I could have marketed better myself.

Before selling at Thought Bubble, I had already decided due to high demand and positive feedback both from friends, peers and online, through my instagram, that I would sell the zine on my own after the festival. Using my blog and instagram together I managed to draw up enough hype around the release of my own zine that I had a number of people interested in buying it online; I chose to do this through the online retailer Etsy.

Humber Street Sesh Video

http://www.theseshhull.co.uk/news/humber-street-sesh-2015-official-video/

The Sesh is a live music night that's been going for 10+ years in Hull. With its tenth anniversary, the genius man Mak Page, who started it, set up a little festival putting on local musicians, artists and creatives of all kinds. It had over 40,000 people in attendance in its first year, and has since been capped at around 32,000 for health and safety, with wristbands available to buy both before hand and on the gates each year. This summer just passed I was lucky enough to play a small part in this wonderful festival. I did a lot of flyering before the event and on the day did some live painting. The atmosphere and community spirit is really something I relish, and working with people that really champion creative industries is fantastic.

Around January the official HSS2015 video was released and I can be seen drawing in it for a few seconds (top screen at around 0:44 seconds in)! During the day I was allowed to sell my own merchandise where I was painting, and made sure to tag my work with my social media @jazzisdrawing, and though the video isn't a lot in terms of publicity, it's so wonderful to feel involved in a project like this!

EDIT:

 Since this post I've also had it confirmed that I'll be involved with live painting again at the festival this year (Summer 2016) as well as doing some other live painting in Hull on the 27th May. It's funny how live painting // drawing isn't something I'd ever thought about doing before, but since doing last summer is something I would (and have agreed to) do again. Though I wasn't necessarily happy with my final image last Summer, I got a lot from it in how to better prepare this year, and the atmosphere around you as you're painting is great. Getting that immediate reaction to your artwork is great, and being able to talk to people about it is even better. This whole experience has reaffirmed my love for networking. Talking to people face to face is invaluable and the results as so much more positive and worthwhile than purely internet based communication. 

Something Entirely Different Feature & Header

 http://somethingentirelydifferent.com/2015/10/26/spotlight-on-jazzisdrawing/

Recently I was asked if it would be okay if my work was featured on the Hull based creative site Something Entirely Different. I'm quite involved with the evolving Hull art scene and Alan who runs the website is someone I've known for a little while now. As well as getting me involved in doing some live painting for Humber Street Sesh and painting a mural for [W]elly club over Summer, Alan had also asked me to create some hand rendered type for the new SED webpage. With a relatively strong knowledge of my work at this point, he asked if it would be okay if he posted this; my answer, of course!

It's nice to be involved in local ground-route projects and communities that I come from and I feel very lucky in the respect that I honestly love where I come from. Hull's upcoming City of Culture 2017 will hopefully bring in more creative opportunities to the area, and it makes me proud to be a part of that. This is also my first online artist feature which is lovely! As well as appearing on the website itself, the article was shared on the groups facebook to an audience of over 1,500 - a plus for gaining artistic exposure. 

Hope Gangloff

 

http://www.hopegangloff.com/drawings.html

Gangloff's biro work is something I came across on pinterest and immediately took a likening too. To use such a simple media in such a beautiful way really got me excited. The consideration of composition and selective colour with an eye for mark making and line quality makes each of his pieces absolutely astounding. It was also interesting to see the differences and similarities in his painting work and how he translated his tone of voice consistently over the different media.

I'd like to develop my practical line skills and more accurate anatomy. Tone of voice is something I find myself struggling with a lot as I work in very versatile ways. This is good as it allows me to tackle a range of briefs in different ways, but developing a consistent tone of voice that feels right for me is something I definitely want to do throughout level 5 and 6. A lot of the work I made last year felt, stylistically, a little overdone and exploring my own way of drawing is something I want to capitalise on. I felt over summer, drawing a lot from reference and life allowed me to start getting a grip on how I want the visual aesthetic of my work to look, building from this I'd like to do more life based drawing going into the future. 

 

Izziyana Suhaimi

http://www.izziyanasuhaimi.com

Although not an illustrator by trade, Suhaimi's work really spoke out to me on an emotional level. Her use of type with imagery is works in a way similar to my sketchbooks, and that raw honesty gives it a strong sense of authenticity and appeal.

Her work also got me thinking about media; the application of the illustrations I create and how that affects the impact // what they communicate. I'm happy to say that more regularly illustrators are starting to hold their own exhibitions and showing their work in a gallery format. So often Fine Artist's will do this and it's only really recently that galleries have begun taking on illustration work in the same light.

Putting my work into exhibition spaces is something I really want to pursue, however it does make me think about illustration as a whole. As a relatively new creative discipline, illustration is rather undefined by theoretical analysis and previous practitioners. Would taking my illustration work into new medias and putting it in a gallery format change it from being illustration to fine art?

Personally, I enjoy the term 'illustrator' as it feels like something fluid, and that should be liberating. It would be fun to push the boundaries of what an illustrator is, as I personally believe it's a lot more than just problem solving for clients. It can be a form of expression and communication just as much as fine art, and that is something I would like to champion. 

Personal Blogs Over Summer

jazzisdrawing.blogspot.com

Over the summer I thought it best that I found a way to keep myself busy and regularly reflective // involved with my illustration work. Seeing as blogger worked for my uni work, I decided to try it out for my personal keeping also. I started the blog around early July and updated it a few times over the summer months and was pleasantly surprised with the attention the blog got! I tried to keep the content illustration // creative based, though did delve into lifestyle and 'personal' themes.

Though illustration is what I study as a profession, I think it's important to remember that as a person, I'm an awful lot more than just that. My work always feels very personal, and being able to articulate and communicate emotion through my work is something I've become rather good at. It's a skill I wouldn't have been able to develop without the integral link with illustration and my personal life. One has always fed into the other and this has allowed my work to open up into more complex and deep conceptual and emotionally evocative levels. I ended my PPP presentation last year highlighting that one of my strengths was "being really good at feeling things". Being passionate, driven and caring have been things that as a person have evolved my practice, and this blog was a nice joining of those things.

Though I know the academic year will probably not allow for much time in updating this blog, it's certainly something I would like to keep active. It forces me to make time for personal projects and allows people to understand more about me as a human practitioner and not just a series of illustrations on the web. 

Titas Vilkaitis

http://t-vk.tumblr.com/ - https://swords.itch.io/

Visual language is very interesting, started using coloured pencils in my own work a lot so is interesting to see how another illustrator utilizes this media

Ongoing on consistent exploration of sketchbook work is something I would like to incorporate into my own practice > self initiated projects and pushing self just as important as commissions // briefs

Slight differences however in how I would want to present my work in comparison to Vilkaitis. Personally not a big fan of tumblr as it feels a little 'hobbist' and unprofessional. If I wanted somewhere to put my sketches other than my main website I would chose another browser like blogger or wordpress. Tumblr feels very anonymous in the way that it's so easy for others to take credit for you work // reblog it without keeping the source ect.

Vilkaitis does have a main site which links to 'pay as much as you feel' digital downloads of his comics. However it does feel a little bare and could do with regular updating.

But Milk Is Important - Short Film

But Milk Is Important from Eirik gb on Vimeo.

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