Online Presence

New email

I decided to create a professional email account, seeing as my current address 'emchappell@hotmail.co.uk' is always being flooded with spam emails, and doesn't look that professional anyway. I've had good experience with my college gmail account, which is the server I chose. I wanted to have a short and snappy address, but a lot of the 'elliechappell' or 'elchap' options had already been taken. Therefore I went for 'elliechappellillustration@gmail.com', which is a bit of a mouthful, but its a good start!

Website

I researched into setting up a wordpress website (as I have NO clue how to use code) which seemed fairly straight forward. I experienced the same problem again with domain names, as currently a middle aged woman blogging about motherhood is currently using 'elliechappell.com'. I haven't fully committed to setting up a wordpress yet as I don't have enough content that I am confident with to post online, as well as the money which would not be efficiently utilised at this point in time.

I hope to set up a behance and a linkedin account too, but going with the same principle with lack of content, I have decided to wait a few months before I set these up.

Social Media

I was debating whether or not to set up new accounts for social media, but in the end I decided to keep my instagram and twitter accounts and tidy them up a little (remove cringey photos and tweets that I posted when I was sixteen). Although I have kept my original accounts, I won't solely use them for work purposes. This may seem a little unprofessional, but I prefer following illustrators who post about their personal lives every now and then, as it re-iterates the importance of having a work/out of work life, and sharing other interests with followers.
I stayed away from making a Facebook page, purely because Facebook annoys me so much, and just reminds me of chavs and pregnant teenagers writing mis-spelt status' complaining about their lives.


Shop

I have set up an Etsy shop, which I am really excited about developing. At the moment, I have only listed one product on my shop which are my positive postcards that I produced for 505, but I hope to develop my product range over the summer and properly get some sales going.