The thought bubble festival has opened my eyes to a whole new world. I wasn't exactly bored of graphic design but it has been puzzling me for a while now how exactly am I going to make a career out of this practice. My comic and all things to do with illustration and comic arts has excited me for a number of years but I have always found it hard to get started so because of that I have always put off the idea. After visiting this festival I have finally found new inspiration and feel happier about my practice as a whole, while I haven't chosen the wrong subject to study I can now see what I need to look into in the area that I am studying to get closer to my goal.
At the festival I met lots of amazing creatives, some I spoke to on a one on one basis and even managed to take some contact details for future projects or questions I might have. One person in particular helped me with my work, I showed some of my rough sketches for my comic and told him that I was struggling to move on, that I had so many ideas it was just about getting there. I think he had been in a similar situation he told me that this rang true to him and that there are people who make comics and people who say they make comics and at the moment I seem to be the latter, he said my work was a lot better than his at this stage but that he actually went out and did something with it to prove what he could do to others. P M Buchan or Bucky for short was the man who helped me with this and luckily one of his associated John Pearson works at LCA and told me to come for a chat whenever I need.
Overall the festival has helped me understand my practice better in knowing what direction I am heading in and has made me feel happier that it can actually be achieved if I go out and try.
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