Update!!

Hey everyone!

I hope you all are having a good October; I'm here to talk about some stuff that's been going on with me recently!

I've had an insane time with school and I've barely had any time to breathe; I'm in all 400 level design classes and taking a full load of credits so I'm struggling to stay afloat. I'm sorry for not updating you guys!

I'll have two real-time process videos up hopefully by tomorrow, and I'll be uploading all of my school work and explanation of projects!

Let's talk about meeee; the biggest thing going on at the moment is that I'm working on a book. For my publication class, our entire class project is to make a magazine. Our professor (omg she's the best) has a love for print design, so when I explained that I'd like to make an art book instead, she was wild about the idea. Because I am making an actual book (it's between a zine and a hard cover art book) that I'm going to have available in my shop, I've been working hard on it to make this beautiful. I'm writing articles, drawing, creating textures, scanning, editing, making layouts, templates, etc. AHHHH! I'm using Photoshop to edit all my scans and then importing into InDesign for my templates. I'm so proud of what I have so far, but I'm not halfway done with it and have only two more weeks until I have to send it to print. Would you like me to make a video recording one of the drawing processes? I feel like it would be so cool to post a process video on YouTube on how I made it, but I'm so bad at video editing.

So apart from that, I've been working on my advanced graphic design class creating a brand identity. This is another huge project, creating a logo and then turning it into a brand with all the elements, deliverables, and mockups. It's a cool project, but I decided to make a beauty company logo since I'm not strong in my feminine design and wanted to work on that (why did I challenge myself even more?!) For this project, I also have to make two small books that will showcase all the elements created. I also have to make digital or real mockups of products, and so that's pretty exciting! This is due this coming Tuesday, so I'm gonna have a couple of late nights finishing the book up.

A big setback this week was that my laptop's battery died, and so I couldn't bring it to class to do work and get revisions done. I pulled out my backup laptop, and it couldn't even connect to the wifi, so I freaked out a bit. I ordered a new battery which just arrived today, and I opened up my laptop and changed it up. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but I have a really big gaming laptop that I use for video editing and design, and I had to pull the whole thing apart to get to the battery (it was surgery). But now it works! I'm so happy to have it back so I can actually do my projects.

Lastly, I've made three big purchases this month (I'm going to be eating ramen until tax season); an archival printer, a Cricut, and a newww laptop (a smaller one that is easier to carry to class and for work). I am going to be making giclee prints for my shop!!!! They are going to be 13"x19" at largest, so I'm really excited to have some bigger prints available and to make some new artwork for those prints. 

Would you guys like a print reward tier in addition to postcards and stickers? I'm going to start making my own stickers for you guys, and maybe I can up the stickers in the sets that I send out each month. Let me know your thoughts!

Sketch reward tiers are going to be mailed out super soon! I've been busy with all the above and also I am going to be sending some sketches that are going to be in the art book for any sketch tier patrons!

Thank you so much for supporting me and helping me out through this season of my life! It's crazy, but I'm so grateful for allll of your support!!!