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Strawberry Locket
I’ve drawn a lot of self-portraits throughout my time as an artist, but I think this one shows all that practice paying off in what I consider one of the most accurate depictions of my face and style.
My bedroom contains various half-broken objects weathered by time, and Knockoffs displays six of these. All of the items depicted are bootleg versions of merchandise, brands, or, in the case of the Nintendo Switch, items that have been broken and replaced so much they hardly resemble the original anymore. these objects come together into a portrait of myself: my fashion sense, my hobbies, my identity, and the love I feel for cheap and outcast things.
Since I was the lead branding designer for the 2022 Winter Art Show at my school, these banners were my responsibility to design. These two are the main element that are advertising the show and providing color to the bleak winter surroundings.
These cards are part of a collaborative project I had the opportunity to be a part of. Using the theme “decades” (with the 80s as all the hearts cards, 90s as spades, 00s as diamonds, and 10s as clubs), each of us designed two face cards and four number cards. My loose theme for all my number cards was “internet phenomenons,” and the face cards did not need to fit in with that.
For the hearts (80s) card I had, I used a still frame from Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video from a song that originally came out in the 80s. The video is now an iconic part of internet history, so it was only right to use it with my internet phenomenon theme.
As a team, we all decided the ace cards should represent one of the most iconic symbols from the decade in question. Thus, for the 90s, I took my inspiration from the large-scale beanie baby craze.
As a child, I was majorly into everything cat-related. Thus, with the opportunity to design a card about any internet-related phenomenon from the 2010s, it was only right that I drew Pusheen the Cat and her animal friends.
My team decided that the king and queen cards for this deck would all represent important figures from the decades in question. For the 2010s queen, I went with one of the most monumental tennis players of my generation: Serena Williams.
