Analysis

After all this research into various career opportunity’s and course idea's, I have decided that I really want to be an Illustrator, I truly enjoy illustrating big pictures with backgrounds, it's a challenge but the finished product is worth it. I really was interested in the design for games course as although I wanted to be a character designer and the course was more general than what I wanted it still looked really fun and a great opportunity but although I enjoy drawing non-humans and backgrounds I really enjoy drawing humans and that wasn't really the focus of the course, also designing a character involves a lot of sketches and I rather work on a finished picture. As for Graphic design, I never really was interested in this, it was simply a back up plan in case I couldn't make it into illustration.

After working all this out I decided to have a talk with the leader of the BA (Hons) Illustration course, she told me all about the course and how as I have an understanding of anatomy and especially knowledge of digital art programs I would be ahead of the quite a lot of the class. After having time to think it over I came to the decision that the course would be a waste of three years. The whole purpose of the Illustration course is to experiment with every type of Illustration and make a style for yourself for people who don't already have a chosen style when I already know I want to draw stylised realism and that I have my own style I developed in my free time. This was actually quite a relief as I was worried about the debt from the £9000 course.

Instead of going onto this course I am going into full time work and improving my illustration skill in my free time and hopefully also doing some illustration jobs as well. I am confident I can continue to improve and develop without higher education as I have basically taught myself this much already from what I can perceive with my own two eyes and various tutorials on the internet and in books as well as experimentation with new ways of drawing, sketching, colouring and painting backgrounds. I wont be going into part time work and focusing more on getting Illustration jobs just yet as I want to have a stable job to live off and the illustration market is just to unpredictable, it could range from months to days between jobs and I would rather slowly ease into illustrating to give myself as much time to improve as possible.

In a few years as I get more confident with my art I will look into more challenging illustrations as I don't want to be stuck in a job that I don't like for the rest of my life. As I get more confident in my skills I will also try my very best to get my work out there, I plan to offer schools, library’s and youth centres free illustrations just to get it seen by my target audience, as my work is a bit to contemporary for older people.