Gurus Meeting

Today we were all assigned a 'guru' for this year. These are former student of Stockport who can give us advice and guidance as we struggle to complete our final year.
I was put with the illustrator Megan Thomas, who has visited us previously last year to help with portfolios. I'm glad she is my guru as she is great at promoting and presentation, her portfolio and website are polished and professional. She had lots of initial advice for the start of third year, here are some of the key areas she spoke of:

• Try to grow/develop a style, work on making it my own.
• Set up a website early on in the year as it takes a lot of maintenance and upkeep.
• Buy a dairy, schedule in time through the week to make work.
• Don't be scared to ask advice from working designers/illustrators
• Email potential clients with examples of my work and a link to my site. 
• The London trip later in the year is important for building new contacts