After leaving university she entered the Macmillan children's book competition and by coming 3rd that year introduced her to book publishers, a contact which would help her with work in the future. After this beginning in children's picture books she was offered to work on a high profile campaign for Eurostar. This high pressure, high turnaround work with ad agencies was not what how she wanted work but promoted her to a wider audience of potential clients leading to her work on book covers. These 6 covers for the 'Princess Diaries' series was 'easy money' but wasn't the direction she wanted. She became known for this pink, girly style and this influenced the work offers after. After the pink/girly style of work ran low she stopped working like that and reverted to the style she enjoyed. She began getting work that she wanted to do, not what agencies or publishers wanted her to do.
Nicola advised us to only show the work/style we want to do in our portfolios as that is the work agencies will see and ask us to do. We should be comfortable working in that way, it should be enjoyable not a chore. She warned that opportunities will come along which will make us decide between the way we would like to work and money offered to work in a way thats not right for us. She also advised us to be open to a variety of influences which will help us develop our style and improve our work.
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