I wish I could start off with a great announcement saying I won an incredible amount of money because of my illustration skills, but I can’t. Whether my abilities are optimal or not will forever be in question.

Here’s something I’m working on for class:

Our final for the product design class I’m in is to create a body of five products to go in our “line”. My fictional company is Criminal Skateboards, and my products feature weird characters and vibrant colors with a focus on design. Right now my color palette seems to be staying with greens and pinks with black and white as strong elements in the design. Patterning is also a strong part of my company’s aesthetic; from plaid to polkadots and argyle to graph paper. I have two decks designed and the shirt is done, but I still need to design the jacket, skateboard wheels, and lastly a pattern to go on Vans slip-ons (which I am for reals going to somehow transfer my design onto the shoes). My instructor, Lindsay, says that I should take this seriously and possibly create a small line of products to sell in local shops. She has a lot of contacts and knows where I can get t-shirts printed and even a place that will print my designs to be placed on skateboard decks. If all goes well you might be seeing someone skating on my decks. Hence the title of this post, I’m so corporate.