The Answer

A couple posts back I showed a social poster designed during one of my classes for a contest in France (We've gotten confirmation that they made it, and they'll be judging the posters in late march. So around the beginning of April I'll find out if mine made the cut. And yes, Katie, your ring is on a poster in France.) I've actually been rather suprised by the answers I've gotten, both from those of you that commented here, and from classmates and friends I've showed it to. Meanings from "Marriage is timeless" to "Time is running out before marriage" to commenting on the "biological clock" to family values and things like marriage and family needing time in order to be successful.

The meaning I was trying to get across is that anymore it doesn't seem like our culture takes marriage seriously. Girls are given advice about what to look for for their first husband, their second husband, and it doesn't seem to be something that's sacred anymore, and I see this as a bad thing.

That being said, I like "Marriage is Timeless" better.

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In other news, the semester has been steadily marching on, and so we've been going through a lot in my classes. This week I show you three ink drawings that I did for my Illustration class. We were to read Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and do one cover illustration, and two inside illustrations. Unfortunately, two of these are getting scrapped because they weren't quite successful enough for the goal of the assignment.

This is actually something that happens a lot for my classes. I may
be productive and produce a lot that gets rejected before I finally achieve what I'm going for. This happens to most (if not every) artists, designers, and illustrators, a common malady, you could say. And while it is kind of tragic and seems like a waste, many of these illustrations or designs that didn't work for one thing might come in awfully handy in a later project or assignment.

Maybe this is why I'm such a packrat.