Whoops sorry it seems I’m gonna be talking about that trip a little more WOW WHAT A LOSER!! (I’m sorry UnU) In this post I am going to be acting really totally uncool and still acting like I’m an artist instead of just a mediocre art student who didn’t finish her second semester.
I actually regret not taking a LOT more photos. I only took a few, but there were so, so many more amazing illustrations. It kind of made me… really, really sure that Illustration is the track I want to stay in. And hey, if art education starts falling through… I’ve started to think maybe I wouldn’t mind being an illustrator instead!?
These are all from the Society of Illustrator’s 54th Annual Exhibition, the Advertising and Industrial illustration exhibit. It was really, really overwhelmingly amazing…! It started out kind of quiet, so I got a chance to see all the pieces, but by the time the awards were handed out, it was super packed and really noisy!
I ended up having a really awesome conversation about the state of illustration with a random woman. I’d been planning on just standing around awkwardly all night, so it was super great to have someone so friendly to talk to~
When they started announcing the winners, it just kept turning out that the random people around me were in actuality SUPER TALENTED AMAZING ILLUSTRATORS AND ART DIRECTORS. Like, seriously, somehow I found the one spot to stand that was surrounded by artists. I sort of wish I’d had the courage to try talking to one of them… =v= they were all really amazing and I kind of wanted to be like “Wow you are great and I want to be like you adbashfb” so maybe it’s good that I kept quiet.
Actually, if I think back, I believe I got a chance to congratulate Sam Bosma in person… my illustration teacher had been the art director on the piece he did, so I sort of had a reason to speak up =v= God, I really hope I managed to not embarrass myself!
So, TL;DR, I’m a stupid shy idiot, the Society of Illustrators is amazing, and I really hope I can visit again and learn moooore…!