Greetings, we now take you to the news~
Bad news: Time blindness is beating me with a stick. No notes 🙃
Rad news: My friend got married! She's the first of our little crew from high school to tie the knot and her wedding was the first time since high school that the four of us have all been able to get together. It was a nice little shindig, and we're seeding plans for a girls trip next year 😁
And we're back (finally). I have been meaning to pen this for weeks, but time is just slipping thru my fingers faster and faster these days. October was such a whirlwind that it ran away from me before I got to finish this (that time blindness packs a punch lemme tell ya 🥲). I feel like I ran the full gamut of human emotions. Low lows, but a decent amount of highs being that it was my birth month. I got your birthday greeting via bubble btw. Thank you for the congratulations on my sun lap. Still in my 20s but no longer mid 🤪🎉 Am I now multiple years into my quarter life crisis? Well yes! 😃 But, I will put all that aside for the time being so we can get down to business. It's time for another Art Dive 🎨✨️ I wanted to show my process for my piece in the exhibit from earlier closer to when it closed, but in the spirit of "better late than never" I bring it to you now.
First off, I must thank our illustrious project runner Leaf, curator Trish, and the lovely soul behind kevinexhibit. Couldn't have made this happen without them. And also to you for being a patron to the arts. Chat went ballistic when you mentioned it. Really made it all feel worth it 🤧 I did the piece themed around your Mars cover. I chose the theme cause I'm also a PTX enjoyer and in general I really like space.
Since we had a tight time frame I decided to try something new with my coloring approach. I have this brush set I got from True Grit that has a lot of graphite brushes that mimic pencils. Up til now I just used those for loose sketches and pose practice cause I like how it feels close to traditional drawing. I wanted to go with a sketchy feel for this. Mostly I did it for time, but it also has a nice vibe to it. It feels very "work in progress" and I really like that. To compliment that I pushed it further with coloring outside the lines. I wanted it to feel organic and messy cause that's what life is. We're not perfect people, and we don't exist to be fit neatly into categories other people have put in place. I feel that applies to you. You are relentlessly yourself in a way that is truly unique and magnetic, especially in this industry. Your boundless energy and potential. Your mind overflowing with thought and ingenuity. I wanted to visually represent that, so... you get scribbles. Super not tryna sound like the stereotypical pretentious artist, I'm just tryna share the thought processes and also it's like 1:30 in the morning as I'm typing this so 🥴
Now about the lettering. I will admit I did a lot of trials with friends while I worked on it asking them to read it and I got unintended variants of the phrase more often than not. I know more now than I did when I made that and there are some things I would tweak. However, I'm a bit stubborn and once I came up with this lockup I kinda got married to it and refused to change so I just willed it to work. If you could see the in app replay, like a third of the elapsed time is me redoing the lettering 😅 That being said, the true target audience first and foremost was you, so if you read it right the first time then we accomplished the primary objective. I'm choosing to believe that you did btw. I trust the brain waves I put into it and the influence of the chosen gallery music helped 💆🏾♀️
Speaking of music, I need to tell you about the Pentatonix concert! So like I said, I saw them 10 years ago back in 2013. I had just started my senior year of high school (literally it was the first weekend after) and my friends and I found out they were doing a free concert up in Arlington, Texas which was like 3 hours from us. So what did we do? We begged one of the staff on campus to take us (it was a boarding school and none of us had cars or anything more than a permit). She agreed and the 5 of us squeezed into her sedan and made it happen. It was a GA lawn set up and we managed to get good spots. And we had the time of our lives lemme tell you. We even managed to catch Kevin's attention at the end and got them to autograph a paper fan.
So with fond memories from that, I was excited to see them again in September. With you being a fellow pentaholic y'know we had to represent.
Thankfully the security lady at the gate I went in thru was more amazed at my lightstick than antsy to confiscate it. I just had to put the batteries in to prove that all it does is light up and that it's not a real megaphone #deobistruggles 😅
The show itself was great. I loved hearing some of the old stuff along with the new. I was shook when they pulled out Aha! and Daft Punk. The medleys were fun, Kevin got the cello out, Scott tried to get us to harmonize while he sang for a tiktok (I lost my note, but I tried), we had a little dance break. It was a fun night and I loved it ☺️
I hope this finds you on a good day and if not I hope it helps lift your spirits. I'm glad you liked everyone's art and all the letters. You deserve all the love and appreciation and then some. I don't care how many times I end up sounding like a broken record, I think you're wonderful and I hope you know we're always here for you. For as long as you're on stage, I'll be cheering in the crowd. (Using this opportunity to manifest tour dates near me and good ticketing next year 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾)
Speaking of you being on stage, the track clip and the mv trailer... bro. Man I felt like I was gonna combust. Watch It is already a banger, I'm calling it now. Not to mention my wish of seeing you in a special unit song came true. And sounds THAT GOOD? I'm having a ball in this b*tch. I need the album in my hands now ACK. I'll let you go before I just devolve into screaming lol. Wishing you and the gang nothing but good things this era. Good health, good stages, and good times ahead 🔮✨️ Love ya Kev 💛
- B ✧°•
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