Are you recent illustration graduate, or in your final year of university?

The AOI have a community events programme just for you!

Leaving university and entering the illustration industry is an exciting and challenging time. It can be tricky to know how to get started and where to go for advice.

We reached out to a number of recent graduates to ask them what they feel they need to know, now that they’re starting out on their illustration career. They highlighted worries such as graduating during a recession, feeling lost, not knowing how to get going as a business, pricing, not knowing how to find clients or how to improve as an illustrator.

Do any of these concerns feel familiar?

We are answering these questions (and many more!) across a series of fun networking events.

Join us for practical business advice, confidence boosting tips and access to supportive community of other recent graduates.

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Session 2 / Finding your niche

Advice on career paths, where you fit in, and finding your way to particular areas of the illustration and wider creative industry.

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Future sessions:

Wed 24 Jan / Session 3 / Portfolio guidance: Learn how to maximise value from your portfolio projects and how to present them to clients in an online world. Sign up here.

Wed 6 Mar / Session 4 / Building career endurance: Kick off your new career with advice on longevity via productivity, focus, learning and confidence, while staying sane and energised. Sign up here.

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Please note: The Illo Grad Network online events won’t be visually recorded.

banner illustration: Tania Yakunova