Poster Design.

I am designing a poster fo a charity ( in my language). Images above are reference images. I like how each posters use several typeface and they look amazing and professional. . White colour type and dark background colour will make the type stand out. 

Having an illustrative background and a limited colour pallet are good as well but I don't think I will have enough time for it. I just want to create  simple poster, maximum 2 hours. 

Image above is my outcome. I used one of scanned texture from my texture folder that I saved.I like the subtle textured background which make my typography bolder. I had had to download few new fonts for example 'EverAfter' and 'Tall Dark and Handsome'.

I really enjoy making posters for events especially it allow me to use different fonts. 

Animation skill.

Animation Icon Pack from Miguel D'Errico on Vimeo.

This animation is so cool !! I bet I can make something like this either for my cop or 603. I like the smoothness of each thing that appear on the animation. I also like the colour scheme.

Improving my animation skills is one of the thing that I really need to work on and excite me a lot ! Okay I'm going to go back to my research for 603.

Scholarship.

I just submitted a Commonwealth scholarship application yesterday. I don't think I did it so well because I was rushing as the deadline was approaching but anyway, I submitted anyway. I was long for  another scholarship, and I found this :-

Turkey International Scholarship - Website
The applications open from 25th February to the 31th March. I will probably going to apply this for sure as I went to Turkey and I love their arts and culture. It informed my practice a lot. I already put a reminder on my phone so i won't miss this! I will do my best to not rush when I apply this scholarship like I did for Commonwealth.

K-Arts Art Major Asian Scholarship Program in Korea, 2016 - Website  and Okazaki Kaheita International Scholarship for Master’s Students in Japan, 2016 - Website. I will miss this two applications because they academic year for Japan and Korea is in April and June. So, I might try to apply the 2017 academic year because April and June 2016, I will still be in the UK.

I might look at other scholarships so back up.

Basically I am not ready to go back to my country, so I need to find something to allow me to stay abroad either working or studying abroad. I prefer to work rather than studying because I think I am ready for it but doing an MA is my 2nd choice. I need an MA anyway if I want to be a lecturer. 

Internship at Hallmark

I sent an email to Laura, a lady that wring at Hallmark (I met her before) but she haven't replied. I attached my portfolio and CV as well.

My email to her :-

"Hi Laura!

My name is Zatul, final year BA(Hons) in illustration. Two weeks ago, Kelly Jones and you ( I believe) visited my college, Leeds College of Art. She talked about internship and I would like to intern at your company.

I did some internships at two companies before so I have some experience in working at real company but it will be amazing if I can intern at a card company as I bet the atmosphere will be different. 

I have been selling my artwork across events in the UK but recently I got a table at Thought Bubble festival, the biggest comic art festival in the UK and based in Leeds which have gained my confidence on my work and my communication skill. 

Here are link online links:- https://www.behance.net/ZatulArts, https://www.instagram.com/zatul_iffah/ and here I attached my CV and my portfolio.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Zatul."

I bet I got some grammatical errors, if so I think it is my fault because I was rushing with this internship thing. Okay, next time, I need to calm down,stop rushing and think about stuff that I want to include on the email.

My Portfolio and CV that I attached:-

http://issuu.com/zf94759/docs/zatul_iffah_portfolio1_cc3339fd0b926c

I hope I do everything right, Well I included some of my work on the pdf and reduced the size so it less that 2M.

Next plan : I might trying to talk to a girl from BBC on my Linkedin, asking about the internship. But how shall I start the conversation?

Owen Davey.

Last year Owen Davey added me on LinkedIn. Owen Davey is a well known illustrator and he did BigHeads with us last year. He is one busy illustrator as sometimes he really took his time to reply my message, but I don't mind since his work is amazing.

There are a lot of good advices that he gave me. Such as :-

• Keep making GOOD work
• Contact a lot of people that I want to work with such as Art directors.
• Start with Editorial work is a good idea
• Email and add some images on the emil with a low resolution (but not attached)

I like it when he advised me that 'No need to be scared though. People are mostly friendly'. 

I think the final bullet point is interesting. I think what he meant is something like this:-

At the end of my email contain this little image (as a signature) that contain my contact detail and some example of my work. I think I need to explore more bout this as I am not so sure how to do this thing on gmail.

My lovely wish list.

My wishes before Christmas holiday:-

1. To apply some internships at a card companies/tv stations 
2. To get a secure place to intern after I submit my COP which is after the 15th January 2016.
3. Come out with a set of questions that I want to as professionals
4. Build some strong body of work so I can build my website after new year. 
5. Email images to illustrators that I took pictures with at Thought Bubble
6. Email other designers that I bought their stuff from Thought Bubble. 

Katy Halford

I've been following Katy Halford on Instagram. I like the fact that she doodle a lot using a black fine-liner which I do that a lot. Her work are really colourful and charming. 

Then I decided to add her on linked in, I thought she going to ignore my request but she accepted which did made my day. Within a second, I sent her a message saying that how much I love her work and she replied 'Thank you very much :) I hope your final year of studies goes well!'

Okay, I haven't not reply anything ever since and I don't know what to ask. I don't feel like myself whenever I am contacting professionals. I feel awkward and dishonest. Maybe I need to make a list of questions that I need (extremely) want to know then ask he/she/them?

Being apart of Thought Bubble festival was amazing yet hectic. I had to force myself to do fan art which is completely outside my comfort zone. I was enjoy the money but not making itself.  I made £170 during the festival which have covered my printing and table cost.

I don't think fan art is my sort of thing that I want to do for the rest of my life. Having Thought Bubble visitors saying that they love my work have slowly increase my confident which is good. talking to strangers also slowly decreased my stress that I was having for the pass weeks and weeks before the festival.


Next year, if I'm still in the UK I would like to have a table again, but this time I would like to do more about my stuff instead of fan art.  I was amazed that some designers that I met last year during the festival remembered me and we managed to take photos together. They keep telling me to keep in touch and wish me luck.

Overall, I would like to join some other festival if there are more opportunities.

Thursday After School Club

I am thinking that my long term career is to be a lecturer. So since last year, I decided to do a weekly student ambassador with the Progression Team at LCA. This weekly ambassador work is called 'Thursday After School Club'.

Recently, Thursday After School Club have contributed with making probe for Thought Bubble. Well overall I really enjoy working with them. This work helping me to gain a lot of my skills such as communication, confidence, working in a group skills. But the most skill that this ambassador work teaching me is patience skill. I realised that I need a lot of patient working with younger people. But they are alway make me happy. 

I hope by doing this ambassador work will slowly shape my personality to be a good lecturer. 

CV Updated !

Ok I updated my CV, I will show to John tomorrow for his feedback then will send this to Hallmark. Hopefully I'll get a chance to do an internship for 2 weeks.

I still need to choose some of my work to them and some of my online present.

Oh god god god, my dear god. I am applying scholarship for my master. I started last week then I want to finish it off today then I went to the website then this appeared

Hmm. no comment.

Career Track Tuesday workshop

I went to Career Track Tuesday workshop, and there was three different speakers talking about internship, volunteering etc. One of the speaker caught my eyes, she's from Hallmark her name is Kelly Jones, the card company. After the talk, I ask her how do I apply for it then she told me to go on the Hallmark blog.

At the end of the session, I went at the back to ask her more question. But you know what ! I realised that I always talk very super duper fast whenever I'm nervous ! Arghh. I need to calm down more. I also forgotten to introduce myself !!!!! god.

I asked if I can do a studio, but then she said, I need to send an email to them first then they'll keep in touch.

So now, First, I want to edit my Cv. Second, I want to add her at Linkedin but I need to complete my profile and finally send an email to them so I can do two weeks internship at Hallmark.

Let's do this thing !!!!!!