Graphic Design
It's yellow inside.
*The lighting wasn't the greatest for this pic, but as it now exists in custody of another, I don't have easy access to documentation of it!
This is the kind of 'lowbrow art' stuff I personally quite dig. It's fine if a lot of people don't get the chaotic simplicity or aren't into it, but I feel like this is what it's all about, as far as I'm concerned; basically the whole ethos of art making. These remain some of the drawings I'm most happy with, lifelong to date.
Thank you for not cannibalizing us.
(Mothers in some species eat their young in situations of desperation or convenience.)
I should probably have one of these cards for only children. But I think maternal cannibalism is less widespread in species prone to bearing singletons.
In every life, there comes a moment when this is the perfect card. The question is: do you send it?
"May your baseless profits persist."
Referencing Will Ferrell & Jeff Goldblum's Harry Caray SNL sketch.
Man, I love a nice grid. I do feel pretty competent, regarding this, but I think the success of the design is the brevity of contrivance; get design out of the way and let the art speak for itself.
You've survived again.
Nothing apologizes like a Minnesotan grain silo.
It's sort of a "congratulations", isn't it?
But the ambiguity makes it quite flexible.
OVERVIEW
Once in awhile, something turns out looking really damn cool, but in terms of the 2D stuff, mostly it just looks passably "official". I'm not really innovating very much in this field, though the opportunity for innovation exists, though that's probably on me and I intend to step up my game in future projects and try to break out of my geometric comfort zone a bit more.
Why I did it
I wanted to do art but get paid for it and there is more demand for graphic design than illustration. At other times, people need help and don't have much of a budget and people who would charge them more will do worse work, so I take mercy.
What went right
I'm excellent at greeting cards and pretty solid at cool package design.
The more I deviate from the sterile templates of rigid rhomboidal elements, the more I treat it as actual art, the better it tends to go.
Challenges
The ever present tension between: What is fun? What grabs attention? What is legible? What is alienating?
Typography remains a bit of a challenge, but I've definitely improved over the years, taking typography courses online, practicing calligraphy and learning to design custom fonts.
Quality note
I'm okay at graphic design. Sometimes I think the hatred seeps through.
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