The Action Plan

I always find short term goals easier to start with, long term goals I struggle with cause I never really know what could happen (such as coronavirus) in a years time. I would have really liked to have to goals like finding places to put work on display/sell but these kind of things aren’t fully possible in the current climate. So I am looking at illustration competitions and personal development at the moment for goals. Also there is the project for next year which we get to set our own brief, which for me is something to look forward too as I enjoy being able to come up with my own ideas!

Short Term Goals

​​​Goals to achieve by the end of this year.

​General University Goals
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Complete Illustration Application module :

• Brief One - Eden River Brew Co. can design, Wednesday 28th October = present ideas
• Brief Two - Unknown at this point
• Compile Portfolio 

Complete Professional Context module :

• Write up Project Rationale - due Thursday 29th October 
• Write up Dissertation - due Friday 18th December 
• Exploration of printmaking/drawing techniques discussed in dissertation and applying them to a story

​Complete Professional Practice module :

• ​Write up blog here on the website 

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Personal/Professional Goals

• Look into illustration competitions, such as the Penguin book cover design competition and similar 
• Get my website all up to date and giving a sense of my ‘style’ throughout it
• Try to be more active on Instagram, i.e post more, not a set schedule but just when I can
• Fill another sketchbook 
• Look into internships maybe?
• Figure out what I want to be as an illustrator at this time, and how to get there

Medium Term Goals

Goals to be achieved by around this time next year.

General University Goals
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Complete Professional Practice module:

• Write up blog on here
• More info in future 

Complete Illustration Practice module:

• It is work/ idea in progress but I think I want to do a book looking into 

           important women in Scotland throughout history or on Scottish folktales?

​Graduate!! 
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Personal/ Professional Goals

• Maybe have entered some illustration competitions 
• Have my website all ‘professional’ looking and projecting my work in a 

           way that represents me as an illustrator 

• Filled another sketchbook or two​​

Long Term Goals

These are lifelong goals or goals that may or may not happen at some point

​When I think of what would be the perfect way for my life to go without any limitations it would be this:

• Being fully freelance and my own boss
• Illustrating books others or myself have written
• Having a whole art studio to myself with space for

          printmaking, ceramics and drawing

• ​Also having animals is a must!
• Being part of exhibitions

​With that out of the way I now need to think realistically, because money doesn’t  grow on trees and it is needed to live.

It hard for me to know what will happen and I have never been good about planning for long term goals, because life changes all the time and I have learnt it is not one path to one destination, it is so many that can come to a dead end. Yet with saying that I will put some goals that I think I could achieve by the end of 5-10 years from now.

Goals For The Future
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• Work towards becoming a freelance illustrator 

           working part-time more than likely to start

• ​Maybe join an illustration agency if possible 
• Take part in any mentoring that may benefit myself
• Be able to establish myself as an illustrator in the region
• Possibly doing a Masters degree or equivalent 

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How am I going to achieve these goals? Through time and persistence, using this blog to learn and find sources that can help me achieve my goals. Constantly striving to improve and growing from any ‘failures’ or let downs that will hopefully not happen too much.