Work placement and portfolio

PPD
We had our first PPD session today, which was a bit pointless to be honest. It was basically just like a tutorial, that we could have had a scheduled time for, but oh well. I have been searching for a work placement for quite a while now, I keep getting responses, but I can’t seem to finalise anything, which is getting on my nerves quite a bit now. I really don’t want to end up not getting a work placement as it will make it a lot harder for me when I actually finish my degree to find a job after without experience.
I applied for a few more places today, and I think that I am just going to have to every week find a few different places to apply for and hopefully something will get sorted soon.
I have now also started some work on my portfolio, I made a list of all the pieces of work that I felt were worthy of being in my portfolio and best showed off my different skills.
I need to complete some more illustrations as the ones I have done this year I have not particularly liked and I think that it is important to have a range of different skills and techniques on display.
My last project was in a sketch book, so I have had to take photos of some of the pages, and edit them using Photoshop. I will then print them onto nice paper for my portfolio.