hello my friends. how you you. still half on half off for the holidays but i thought it would be cool to do a [RECAP] thread for what we got done this year, as we are gearing up for the craziest year at the studio yet (next year). lets do it. flashback. montage. roll the tape:
will probably just slowly continue this thread until the new year.

i think this was the first thing i dropped this year: the inverted soviet propaganda series. honestly this took forever, but im really happy with how it ultimately turned out. heres the thread:
the weird thing that happens when you have something cooking for months is that you always want more of a response, but people were really into it. i thought they turned out really well: ImageImageImageImage
i had to order a lot of test prints to make sure they had this silkscreen propaganda look. that was cool. what i think i learned from this is something im trying to actualize next year which is documenting everything better, so its easier for people to link to and share stuff ImageImageImageImage
like i kept seeing people sharing it around linking to the thread on twitter and i was like, man thats kind of unideal, i need a dedicated page for projects and stuff like that. part of the goal next year is to have a better hub + cataloging process

this was my favorite one btw:
we will continue the montage when i am back at my desk
guess ill mention a few background things here as well. one cool thing about having a whole image situation going is that you accumulate little things and store them and then use them later. for example, i just pulled up this sketchbook page from august of 2020: Image
(from my patreon, where I post such things, little plug). you can see the tulip / rose / lily seal there twice at the bottom. i had this idea because tulips to me are kind of the gene and genetics flower, I was thinking about Christ's lineage, the rose representing his passion ..
the lily as a symbol of mary, and it kind of fit together nicely in this seal, but i didn't do anything with it.

then way later, as i was finishing up these posters, i realized i needed a little logo or seal to put on them to give them that official company state propaganda look
so i ended up using it for exactly that. thats part of why i call it the lab, it really is like u have a bunch of experiments going on and you pull things from one to other, etc

small note, in the second image you can see i accidentally first sent it out saying "ethnically". lol ImageImageImage
there were a few other ones i roughly mocked up to think about, i may return to this theme at some point. here you can see one. didnt plan on this being a patreon thread but this is the kind of thing i post there, when im working on projects, sketching things out, every week. ImageImage
next up: i think this was the next big project I dropped this year. this american cryptid print. this one took forever to make happen. heres the thread:

this one took forever man. some of the files I have are from fall 2020, but i know i started it way earlier than that. actually i remember working on this in colorado so, yeah it took forever. i had to research each cryptid, decide which to include, then i hit a few obstacles. Image
one thing i realized running a creative operation is that if youre not doing something, its often because mentally you've hit a wall and havent realized it. so i sketched this one out, and then, i knew i was making it an analog print which really changes the color situation.
(last time ill mention it but since im posting images from patreon, just so u know, if ur on there, i only release images publicly from the private feed after a really long time, rarely, so, anything i post from there is from at least over a year ago, maybe a little less).
because when i do a physical print, i usually want it to read like it was made via an analog (i.e. non digital) print method. so i guess at first i was thinking silkscreen and, i was in the mountains, it was fall, and i got really into this red and grey vibe: ImageImage
but it just wasn't happening man. i kept scrapping all the color, then coming back to it, then starting over, and at first id limit myself to one or two colors, then go full color, it just wasnt working, so i put it away from a few months.
btw here are some of the sketches. maybe the second image is why i thought the spot coloring / only patches of red thing was the way to go. but then, am i letting the paper show through? i couldn't tell and got kind of stuck. you can also notice the first one is labeled. ImageImage

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