Summertime At The Mill Poster, alt title Why I Don't Take Design Jobs (Patreon)

(Edited: the timelapse video didn't get attached, so here's a link instead!)

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Y'know how I've been barely getting two pages of ET up at a time lately? Blame this poster.

I am not a designer. Thus, I am VERY proud of this.

I'm not awful at design, but making something that looks not-bad takes me FOREVER. As evidenced by the 16-minute timelapse I'm attaching (SIXTEEN!!). I don't know who wants to watch 16 (SIXTEEN) minutes of me fumbling with a design that I changed three times and went back and forth on constantly, but in case you're that person... well, I learned a lot about my process by watching it (for SIXTEEN MINUTES!!), and it made me feel better about taking so long to finish it. So maybe you'd like to see it, too. 

And if you don't have SIXTEEN MINUTES to watch it, here are a couple screen caps of the process! This was my first sketch:

Which morphed into this when I realized I needed more space for everything (and we didn't need EVERY individual craft listed):

(Nice job, D, just VOLUNTEER to draw a truck, that'll be fun for you!)

And finally, the final design (on the right below) kinda melded the list-of-things-on-timber look while taking that three-part forest design:

Somewhere near the  middle of the video I took about an hour to cut up the top part into a teaser image (so that we'd have SOMETHING to share while I finished the poster) which became this:

And finally:

Is finished!

In case you're interested in going, this will be at the Shenandoah Planing Mill in Charles Town, WV, and I'll be there with my Studio Tour group, selling drawings and doing caricatures (which I rarely do these days!). We'll be keeping an eye on CDC recommendations, but the mill is ENORMOUS and airy, and we'll be situated outside, so it should feel safe to most people. 

ANYWAY I am REAL GLAD I didn't add that truck because I'd still be working on this, and probably crying.

Edit: the SIXTEEEEEEEN MINUTE video didn't seem to upload, so here's a link to it! Please let me know if it doesn't work for you!