Paul Farrell

In one lecture we had Paul Farrell visit to talk to us about his work and how we could get our work out there and what we could do to help us in the business. He made some really good point about the illustration business and how we can survive in it. One of the points I really liked was when we was talking about starting a project and to get a good inspiration and idea for the project you mainly have to focus on what was on the brief and was our own style could help us for this idea. I really liked this part because it was very nice to hear that you should not break out of your on style for a particular project but instead use your style and try your best with the brief to make a piece that resembles your art instead of someone else's.

Another point I really liked of his was when he talked about money and how to spend it wisely in the business by saying you have to make sure you can spend only what you can afford because you do not know what the public will like that if you spend a large amount of money on a project that doesn't become popular it could cause a major problem for money situations. I know this feeling as bit too well from the Comic book festival since I spent a large amount of money and was unfortunately unable to get any back. What he has described here by saying to get minimum orders and have trial runs could help me much more in future so if that same thing would happen again I would have not made as much of a loss as I did in the last convention.

Finally another point I really agree with was when he gave us some tips for this business by saying to keep creating because if we do it would make sure we are busy and it would interest businesses and customers because it will show we will have a variety of work. I really needed that advice because at the time I was more focusing on the same form of story-telling and art, however thank to that it has given me a much larger idea of what to do by making me think of what I can do differently than I normally do in my art. 

Overall I really enjoyed this lecture because it gave me multiple ideas of what I can do in the future to sell myself more to the industry of illustration and gave me much needed advice of what I had been doing wrong for this time and how I could fix my mistakes.