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Achievements and Goals

By |2023-02-01T17:49:52+00:00February 1st, 2023|Art, Blog, Business, Commercial, Education | Learning, Illustration, Licensed, Uncategorized|

In a moment of madness I thought I'd look back on what I'd achieved in 2022. It didn't really seem like much but then last year was all about exploring new things and educating myself to be better at my job. So I created two lists I'm calling 7 x 7. Here are some of [...]

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The Year In Review – 2022

By |2023-01-06T17:15:01+00:00December 31st, 2022|Art, Blog, Business, Commercial, Education | Learning, Illustration, Uncategorized|

At the start of 2022 I decided that it would be the year of learning and stepping out of my comfort zone.  Back in January I started with Redrawing Black History, a four week course with art agent Lilla Rogers’ company Make Art That Sells. I had nothing like this in my portfolio and it [...]

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It’s Not All Sell Sell Sell

By |2022-11-04T18:36:58+00:00November 4th, 2022|Art, Blog, Business, Commercial, Illustration|

"Hey" *taps me on the shoulder*. "It is actually". I’m not good at selling myself. I’m rubbish in fact. I show and tell people what I do but I never really say ‘if you love what I do, get in touch. Maybe we can can work together’. This weekend I’m having an Etsy sale and [...]

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Should I enter competitions?

By |2021-12-03T15:46:50+00:00December 3rd, 2021|Art, Blog, Business, Commercial, Education | Learning, Illustration, Uncategorized|

Well that’s entirely up to you really but there are a few things you should check first. More of that later. In the summer of 2020 (a year we’ll never forget), I took part in my very first art competition. Well, as a business anyway. Obviously I can't forget about all those colouring, egg decorating [...]

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10 Tips for Budding Freelance Illustrators

By |2021-11-19T18:16:17+00:00November 19th, 2021|Art, Blog, Business, Commercial, Education | Learning, Illustration, Licensed, Uncategorized|

1    You need patience and bucketloads of it. You will wait. A lot. For emails. For feedback. For the green light on a project. For approvals. For the final say from everyone involved that the job is complete. For your invoice to be paid. The last one is usually the biggest wait of all. 2    [...]

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Dick Bruna – Simply Genius

By |2018-02-07T16:22:35+00:00February 7th, 2018|Animation, Art, Blog, Character Development, Commercial, Illustration, Licensed|

While I was clearing some stuff out from my office today, I stumbled upon an old License Europe magazine. Aside from seeing how much the licensing industry has moved on since 2003, there was a lovely interview with the incredibly talented illustrator Dick Bruna from the Netherlands. Some of you may already have heard of [...]

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Fifty Shades of Christmas

By |2018-02-06T17:02:13+00:00December 12th, 2012|Art, Blog, Character Development, Commercial, Illustration, Licensed|

© Slinkeee Working together with Dylan Moore from Aqua Design Group, we came up with the idea of creating an Ann Summers themed illustration to send as a Christmas card to Ann Summers & Knickerbox chief executive Jacqueline Gold. With myself doing the illustration and Dylan putting together and printing the card, collating all the [...]

#WOW! An award from Jacqueline Gold

By |2018-02-06T16:34:07+00:00September 6th, 2012|Art, Blog, Character Development, Commercial, Illustration, Uncategorized|

I am stunned to have received another award exactly a month after winning the Theo Paphitis #SBS (Small Business Sunday) award. Yesterday, I tweeted the very talented and beautiful Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox, about Slinkeee Illustration with the #WOW hashtag. Every Wednesday, Jacqueline chooses her favourite 3 women's businesses to [...]

David Dennett – award winning License Creative Manager available for new exciting opportunities

By |2012-08-31T16:13:04+00:00August 31st, 2012|Animation, Art, Blog, Character Development, Commercial, Illustration, Licensed|

I stumbled upon The Total Licensing Report yesterday and having worked in the licensed character industry, thought I'd catch up on what's new as you can sometimes fall behind the times when you're not able to take time out and don't have children. I came across an advert for a License Creative Manager called David [...]

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