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Working on a christmas card design. I love this cookie idea, but (1) I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere before (have you??) and (2) it needs something else. Maybe a plate to sit on? Hmm…
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I’ve been working on some stationery designs, and had a big aha! moment when I realized I should be making digital versions of some of the old gocco cards I used to make. This one was always a crowd pleaser, though also particularly divisive - usually people would stop to laugh, OR stop to say, wait a second, I LIKE BROCCOLI.
I think the color and texture are a big aesthetic change from the old version, which you can see here…It’s not a bad change, or a good change, necessarily, but certainly something to think about. Maybe my digital versions should be more of a faux-screenprinted aesthetic??
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I’m here!
Does this happen to everyone else? My interest in different artistic endeavors waxes and ebbs like the tide…no, just kidding, I don’t talk like that. If I did, that’d be fine and all, but I do not. Still, though. I think between all the deadlines here, plus work I did for a friend’s business, plus the illustration class over at pikaland, I overdid it. And I stopped doing illustration work for several weeks. I did/do have something cool that I’d like to work on, specifically for the blog, and a few other projects going on…I did some painting, and I’ve been working on another friend’s wedding invites, and then last night I was working on some other invites. I think it’d be cool to design a whole bunch of invites and try to sell designs on etsy. That’s what the flower above relates to.
As for my deadlines? I don’t know if/when they’re coming back! I’m on summer break right now, and trying to stay busy (read: watching Mad Men), and then in a few weeks I start a new job. I don’t know what I’ll have time for. We’ll see!
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No excuses! I get annoyed on other blogs when people apologize for not updating more often. I’ve been busy. I think I have to drop the 4-day-deadline thing while this pikaland class is going on…I just finished this assignment for class, only it’s just 1/3 of one assignment, and I have literally SIX MORE illustrations to get create. And then next week I’ll probably get 1 or more in addition to that. So I need to focus on those!
(This is 1/3 of an assignment that’s past/present/future. The story is, it was my 7th or 8th birthday, and I got this fantastic barbie dollhouse with a string-operated elevator that was unbearably cool. I was putting my barbie in her bed, and pulled up the covers, when my grandmother told me to be careful - I didn’t want her to suffocate. Since then, I have always been nervous about falling asleep with the covers over my head, convinced I’ll suffocate. People tell me it won’t happen but I can’t shake my fear!)
Meanwhile, I bought a new computer (my old one is dying, plus I need to update some programs that may or may not even work on the dying computer), and have been happy to have had a few other professional illo gigs in the past few weeks. I’m going to learn After Effects so future illustrations will be animated! Which sounds so exciting!!! We’ll see what happens!
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Pipe!
There is an Artie (from Pete and Pete) spray-painted on the sidewalk near where I live, with the word PIPE underneath, and whenever I’m walking my dog past it it makes me so happy!
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