Professional Studies ( Exhibitions )

Exhibitions are a big part of a illustrators career, it gets your name known to possible future clients and it is a good way on meeting other illustrators who you could make more connections through, it is also a good way on selling your products. The main thing you need to keep in mind when you host an exhibition is originality of the advertisement and the exhibition its self, because if it doesn't look original and interesting people not just from the creative industry but people from all types of work wont consider coming and that you losing less people who could be future consumers of your products.

Inky goodness are a large company who curate exhibitions and host exhibitions for the creative industry's, and their goal is helping new talent in the creative industry to get

noticed. http://inkygoodness.com/

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This is a image from one of the exhibitions that they hosted.

Festivals for illustration and other industry's are a good way to present your work at a stall or creating a piece of work onto a wall so its more unique. The difference between a festival and a exhibition is that with a festival it doesn't just try and get one persons work noticed but it aims to get everyone's work noticed through their work being sold from stalls, their is a festival of illustration happening at Hartlepool and it is a good way for the students to get noticed by people who have already made a living in the illustration industry.

http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/news/article/5381/hartlepool_to_host_national_festival_of_illustration

The most notice way on having your work is by doing a outdoor wall illustration, that is were you create a illustration onto a buildings side, with the counsels permission of course, and you can put your contact details somewhere on the image or hint your logo in the illustration so it all works together.