Fail!

Well we had our self promotion crit today - which for those who don’t know; it was where my entire course got together with the tutors and an art director, and had to sit through each tutor and the art director looking at each students self promotion piece one by one and basically picking it apart.
The tutors had a ‘good’ bin/bucket and an actual rubbish bin which they put on the table for everyone to see, and if they liked your self promotion piece it went into the ‘good’ bin/bucket and if they didn’t like it went into the rubbish bin (yes an actual rubbish bin).
A little harsh maybe but I guess it gets the point across of how harsh the real world can be. However, I did think that some of the tutors could have took a little more time looking at the piece, especially how some pieces were meant to be opened. They just ripped some of the packages open and then moaned about them being fiddly to open, but if they took a little more care/time in looking at the item before opening it then they probably would have seen the correct way to open it - but hey! art directors don’t have anytime.

What happened to mine? Well it went into the rubbish bin (simple as), yes it wasn’t a nice thing to sit through in front of all your course mates, but for want of a better sentence, I didn’t care. I’m not being moody or arrogant or disrespectful to the tutors or the art director - it’s just that, I know I wont be going into that area of work in the future, I know I don’t want to belong, and wont belong to that world. It’s not how I plan on spending my life; sending little gifts off to art directors hoping that they will throw some work my way. That’s not my dream, so today just confirmed everything again for me, I’m not a freelance illustrator, I am a artist/tattoo artist.

The above picture is me doing my first tattoo (on my mom) and I’ve never looked back! :)

Peace.