When I was brainstorming a theme for this project, I wasn’t having an easy time. A lot of the art I create seems to just be a highly stylized meme of some sort or just an image I find aesthetically pleasing. I’ve never really achieved creating something I have found to be profoundly meaningful. It’s just art, it’s nice to look at or listen to. I knew I wanted to use the Vaporwave aesthetic, so I decided to just go with that as the overall theme since that left me with a lot of room to do what I wanted with it. I ended up mostly commenting on society’s fetishization of strange things (like feet or body modification) and a general vaporwave aesthetic to it. I’d never really made Vaporwave art in Illustrator, in fact, I’m really new to illustrator. I’ve been using photoshop for years, but illustrator requires creating everything from scratch, which is something I need to exercise more. Whenever I just draw, unless I’m tracing, I’ve always just drawn weird little crude characters. I ended up doing that for at least one of the pieces in this project. I don’t think I’m bad at it, but that’s the only thing I’ve drawn really, and it’s hard to incorporate that into the vaporwave aesthetic unless it’s simply an asset over a vaporwave background. I think that’s where I may have struggled a bit in this project, was the illustrator aspect. It was a challenge that I didn’t necessarily push myself too much for. I like to try and overachieve for these kinds of projects, but I didn’t for this one, which makes me sad. I want to get better at illustrator anyways, and this project definitely helped with that, but I wish I had pushed myself harder.
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