I Never Thought Generating Art Could Get Me in Such a Good Mood

(How obvious is it that I am an art student that's been overworked with art assignments and hasn't made any art for "fun" in a long time?)

So, here goes my first blog post, but this is not my first time blogging and not my first time blogging in a setting open to the public. I want to start by sharing a little about myself... OK! Moving on. So, for the reading comfort of all (including English professors) I will most definitely be using proper grammar and spelling (as I know it. I've heard I should not use "ellipses" as I do, but this is my little corner and I am NOT backing off). Who knows? Maybe YOU will learn a new word from reading my nonsense updates on life.

That being said, I know about the dangers of "jargon" (I am a war veteran, after all, and I volunteered to go on a deployment without actually knowing what "O.I.F." stood off) so I will either try to keep it to a minimum, or I will try to render my definition for the word in question if I cannot avoid using it (and if I don't and you do not understand the word, PLEASE call me out).

(You ever write a whole BUNCH of stuff and then just backspace through it all? That just happened twice. Let's keep this short...)

So, about the purpose of this blog page. A while ago an instructor at my school, Mr. Liebman, who teaches the "Survey of media and design" course, got me to think a little harder about what the hell it is that I want to do with my education. The theme of the class was that we shouldn't limit ourselves to only doing work in the field that our majors specify. I doesn't matter if you're an animation, graphic design or game art student. In reality, we are all "illustrators", and can do whatever the hell we want with what we're learning. One idea he gave us was getting our names out there, and custom t-shirt sites was one of the routes that he went over briefly. As I was listening to this, my imagination just exploded and I have since not been able to find the time to put all of these ideas down on paper. It's obvious that I immediately fell in love with the idea by the amount of stuff I have spilling out of my mind still. The thought of wearing my own art is incentive enough...

This blog's purpose is to serve as my shop's propaganda spewing mouthpiece a design and idea journal for the designs found in my shop. Some of these designs have (wacky, interesting) stories behind them that I simply cannot fit into the product description. Y'know, in case I pick up any fans of my designs.

The title of the blog has to do with a design that I completed yesterday. It's the second design I have produced, but it's actually the first idea that came crashing into my head. I will give it it's own post later. For now, I conclude this post.

JR, out!