Ever since my advisor told me that I was too late to minor in graphic design, I've had to find a lot of independent motivation. This isn't easy, of course, to attempt to learn a new trade on your own time. Working on a few projects here and there last year, 2017 was exactly what I needed to kick start that motivation I was so longly looking for. I've started picking up new projects, using every aspect of my day as inspiration. So when I saw that my friend Tayo had launched his own blog, The Ghetto Flower, I jumped at the chance to create a design. Tayo was on board with the idea and wanted me to create something to test my skills. I went straight to his Instagram, grabbed a super awesome shot of him and headed to Photoshop. From there, over a few days, I used mainly the pen and brush tool to create this: To which I posted on Twitter and Instagram and received an unexpected amount of love and appraisal from it! I plan on continuing to use social media as a tool for both my graphic design and public relations career. I feel pretty lucky as an artist that I have such an efficient way to share my designs with the world. Instagram is particularly helpful because I can add dozens of hashtags like #GraphicDesign and #DigitalArt to gain more exposure. I also use Instagram as a tool for inspiration. For example, the original photo I used for Tayo's design was taken at the Milwaukee Art Museum by a guy named TJ. I've never met TJ but thanks to social media I became inspired by his art. My Instagram and Twitter will hopefully help take my designs to the next level. As for now, I have a nice list of designs I want to create along with working on revamping the logo fro The Ghetto Flower. Time to get to work!
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