Golden After
Another instance of type going up and to the right, and another example of showing how I don’t utilise the 3D tool that Illustrator provides. I’m not keen on the lighting effects one has to apply to use that tool, I much prefer for my blocks to be made of bespoke gradients.
This background was inspired by the same series of nail polish artwork that inspired Want More. I went back in to this art file recently, and for the life of me, I cannot think of how I created this background as perfectly squared off at all edges.
Did I experience a fit of OCD while making this art? Usually things get messy beyond the bounds of the artboard, but in this file - not so. Seems like a strange amount of effort to put in for no real reason, but then, I do things like that sometimes.
The Present is not Permanent and Nothing Lasts Forever were both created while I was in a particularly dark place mentally. And circumstantially, it is a place I find myself in presently - in the middle of a particularly long slog of a job search - though my mental state is not so grim this time around.
When I made these they were messages from my reptilian brain encouraging me to keep pushing, keep putting one foot in front of the other. I hope that other viewers are similarly inspired by them.
The background of this is a photograph I took of a newly finished high-rise in Fortitude Valley. I happened to be walking past on one of those gloriously clear blue winter afternoons, where the sky is so clear it’s hard to imagine clouds even exist. I thought it a good back drop for the words I would use to describe Brisbane. Though, please note this art was made pre-COVID. With the rise in population we’ve experienced following COVID, I think my home town is losing a bit of it’s sleepy charm now.