Position Statement
A highly creative individual with an educational background in graphic design. I enjoy generating new and lasting memorable ideas and learning how to problem solve. I am a
self –motivated, goal-orientated and determined person with a high degree of resourcefulness and flexibility.
Currently working as a freelance illustrator between studies past projects, creating Illustrative album covers for music artists within the United Kingdom and America. Business logo designs and newly developed clothing brands along individual creative poster portraits
In the future, I hope to work as an Illustrator and pursue my passion as a Graphic novelist, creating my own series of graphic novels. I aspire to work for a company that provides me with the opportunity to explore, excel and develop my creative vision and a deeper understanding of graphic design.
From the beginning of this personal project I had no idea of what my business logo or name of my business was going to be. I was also unclear on what line of work I was going to be doing with in the art industry, deciding between Graphic illustration and Animation, I personally feel that my skills are found within animating and illustrating so I have decided to go down the route of illustration, but want to continue animating in my spare time to help promote my business. I think using both skills allows me to be diverse with my work and I can express myself through visuals and movement. I currently freelance and receive a lot of my work from Instagram, many people from the United states are interested in my work. I Specialise in creating Illustrative visuals for Album covers, posters, logos and banners, during working as a freelancer I have built many connects and friends which I now keep in contact with for work and up and coming projects.
Personally I do not want to continue freelancing because the earning of money is not very consistent or continuous because sometimes there are not many clients often. I want to find a good illustration Studio which pays me to do what I enjoy, I want to earn good amounts of money and build an experience to help start my own business because I am planning to create my own clothing brand, I have already registered my logo for 10 years and I now have money to invest in some T-shirt prints. There are already set designs that will go on the T-shirts but I have not decided to print them yet because there are decisions to be made on pricing. The plan is to release a few T-shirts this summer and have them delivered worldwide to people who are interested in my brand. My objective is to become well known like e.g. Adidas, Nike, Stussy, Supreme, Huf and many others.
Work on this brief has taught me a lot about preparing myself for working as a professional artist by pushing to work outside my comfort zone. I have been made to research and investigate important facts and bits of information to help develop me as an artist. Creating things which are symbolic to me, my logo name being Malachite which is close to my name Malachi, Over the years I struggled to come up with a name so I did researched into other brand like e.g. Lacoste, Huf and others where I found out that these logos were not only just names but had means and a strong links to the owner or the motto of the brand. So I decided to use Malachite because it is a nickname people used to give or sometimes told me it closely resembled my name because it had the same spelling and pronunciation.
