The Low down with Luke

Today was the first day of our final year of education with UAL. Even though the thought of this time next year we would be in the, what most adults like to call ‘The Real World’ it was nice to think we had worked so hard to get where we were, and now this was the final chance to show our talents and dedication to it.

In the lesson we were taught about budgeting. Budgeting is a huge part of and artistic career. It can be the decider of whether a job is worth taking e.g if the profit out ways the expenditure for the jobs worth. Also however in contradiction sometime regarding a profit loss when the job is allowing great networking for your artistic name, thus in the future laying out a foundation for a successful career.

Budgeting is something I must consider when taking into consideration this final unit as this will now be graded. I must make sure to keep up to date with the ideas of budget, and whilst I am here making sure to use the facilities as a marker of how cheap they are to use at university.

After this talk was over, we had a great talk from our tutor Luke Best. A successful illustrator in his field, he gave advice and talk about contracting our methodology to be successful and stress free when making work. He talked about networking with fellow piers and how we should be thinking of collaborating seeing as his own business Peep Show was made through doing that himself.

After the class left i wanted to show Luke my idea (which was the brief in which is the first post of this blog). Luke gave some advice and in bullet points i will explain on here as reference for myself the things in which i believe are going to make this project successful;

1-  Strong Theme- The relationship with object and narrative.

2- Weak- The instant connection with illustration narrative and audience.

3- Strong- The use of multiple narratives into one drawing.

4- Play with all ideas, make sure to write them all down.

5- Go to see IObject Ian Hislop British Museum.

So after our discussion I left university and got cracking onto questioning objects as form of narrative. This would be great to play with in the bid to see where and why ceramic narrative has been forgotten.