In the five months it's been since the first post on the topic, very little has changed in terms of the nature of my hopes and fears: I still hope to succeed in accomplishing what I want and fear the opposite.
Opportunities however are cut from a different cloth; they are the pathway between the two and just like any pathway, we decide the course that we take.
As I mentioned in the last of these posts, the briefs I have had recently have been self-directed. These opportunities, together with the revelation that I am not one for the world of freelance illustration, have meant that I could steer my work in the direction I do want to take: the path toward becoming a tattooer.
My work has been influenced by the world of tattoo for a long time (a quick scroll through these pages gives testament to that) however, for an equally long time I have been trying to ram my tattoo shaped work into an illustration shaped hole.
The two are equally concerned with imagery and it's production of course, but the avenues and audiences relevant to each are very different, and it happens that I am far more interested in the bespoke, one-off production of images that comes with proper hand-made tattooing than the mass, multimedia reproduction that often comes with freelance illustration.
With this in mind, it's fairly obvious what I hope to do after I graduate. I'm not yet entirely sure of the steps available to me to take, but steps will be taken nonetheless.
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