It’s been over a month since I last wrote a blog post, and a busy month it has been! In this time I’ve handed in my last ever project as a NUA Illustration student, discovered that I’ve achieved a First Class Honours in BA Illustration and achieved a place on MA Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art! On top of this I’ve been setting up for our degree show, updating my website and have been moving out of my house and back home for the summer which thankfully is over now. On Tuesday I officially graduate so I thought now would be a good time to reflect back on my experiences at NUA, good and bad, before I start working on new projects for next year. Hopefully this post will provide a brief overview of what the course involved when I was a student.
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This week and last week has been an incredibly stressful week in pushing to get my final piece perfect for the fabric printing deadline which was this Tuesday. I spent a long time making sure the piece was right and it went through a lot of changes but now I think it is up to my standard and it has been sent to print. Unfortunately and very annoyingly, it’s highly likely that my print won’t be ready for hand in (next Friday) even though the Tuesday print deadline was a guarantee for getting the fabric back for next Thursday, so I have sent the print to be printed digitally also at a0 as a guide, even though I think the final thing will be bigger than that.
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With less than 3 weeks to go I am certainly feeling the pressure of deadline: mainly because of the added pressure of preparing everything I’d want to be printed on fabric and other materials. The fabric printing deadline for hand-in is next Tuesday the 12th May which I discovered today and the textiles technician at uni isn’t accepting any more files to print until Thursday so Thursday is my target to have my fabric printed imagery sorted by and Tuesday at the very latest if I want to receive it by the actual day of hand in which is quite scary…
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