Change of idea

I have decided to no longer use acetate overlays and instead do paper overlays as I feel that this would make the images flow better together. I will test how they look in different positions before i decide on a final design. I will experiment with the positioning of the cut out image.

Mock book

I made a mock book to see what my final idea could possibly look like. It was bound using the japanese stab stitch and ended up as a success

Website Link

Here is the link to my website:


www.vickykempillustration.co.uk

Peter Ainsworth Feedback

Here is the feedback on my work I got from the art director of Esquire Magazine:

Hello vicky,

The work looks really good. Its impressive to see someone still cutting things and making images the old fashioned way.

As for Esquire. Im not sure at this point its a great fit. But that’s not to say in the future we wont have a project the needs a more hand made element. Keep building your folio and making as many variations in style and subject and maybe get back to me in a year when you have a bit more to show.

Good luck and look forward from hearing from you or of work in the future.

P

BBC Wildlife Magazine Feedback

Before the study trip to London, I secured a portfolio visit with the art editor of bbc wildlife magazine . During the visit he told me that he liked my style, in particular the animal portraits . He gave me  his email address and told me to get back to him when I had built up my portfolio.

Guru Feedback

Here is the feedback I got from my guru on my portfolio:

Hi Vicky,
Terribly sorry for the late reply, hope you’re enjoying for the last few weeks of uni!
Anyway, onto the important stuff: I love your portfolio! You seem to have mastered the lino cut medium and developed a strong sense of style to go with it.  I really admire this, when I was at uni I was also a big fan of printmaking, but I never got close to the high standard that you’ve achieved here!
My favourite pieces are from the ‘Endangered Animals’ project. I think that these pieces best show your skills at printmaking, with your strong sense of colour and good composition (I like the gorilla print in particular, he’s awesome!).
To have such a professional and unique portfolio at this stage is a real achievement, so well done! The best advice I can offer is: to keep up the good work. Your illustrations are of a high standard already and if you keep on producing work regularly and continue to develop your craft, you’ll only go from strength to strength.
There are couple of Stockport graduates whose work I would recommend checking out. The first is Ben Jones, who like you is a master of printmaking. The other is Alan Dalby, whose illustrations of wild animals, I think you’d really like.
Hope all this helps, best of luck for the future.
Cheers,

Matt

Hopes, Fears and Opportunities pt 2

I hope that I will get all my work done by the deadline and that I will make it as an illustrator.  I also hope that I will be able to motivate my self to produce work after I have left uni.  I will most likely have to make myself a schedule to keep on top of things.   I fear that I won't be successful as an illustrator and that I will fail the course/not get a decent grade.  I also am worried about my future expenses in terms of materials needed to produce my work.  I will need to plan out the best way of getting lino cheaply to ease this worry. I will probably have to get a part time job to fund me at first, and hopefully if I do well enough in my first year as an illustrator, I will no longer have to have a part time job and can work as an illustrator full time. In order to be successful I will need to promote my work as much as possible, via social media for example. I plan on becoming a member of the Association of Illustrators, for at least a year after I finish uni, to help with the promotion side of things.  I am planning on buying a printing press after I finish uni so I will be able to make prints from my own work space.