So since I've been and still am sick (perfect timing right?) and couldn't make it to the M meeting on Tuesday, I will respond to the first round of Dynamic Duo covers on Thursday.
Honestly....I was kind of peeved. I'm usually pretty level headed when it comes to critiques because I know that everyone else can make my work better with a fresh set of eyes. However, I spent a lot of time on coming up with a fresh concept/way to illustrate the idea of "dynamic duos" and I feel like they were received like they were lazily done. Obviously my execution wasn't complete, but I feel like my ideas were there and represented. Maybe they weren't the best ideas, but they also weren't my first ideas slapped on a page. And this is not meant to play down the other designers' pieces, it's just about how mine were received.
I was always told that your first ideas are your first because they're the most generic ones. Unless you're recreating them in a whole new way, just get them out of your head and go forward. I'm not saying that my ideas were profound or anything, but at least I tried to go beyond the 5 minute thought process. I figured since it's kind of an abstract thing to represent and you can't represent a whole group of people with one photo, I'd try to go abstract with the design. We'll see how it improves tomorrow. If I can stop coughing at my computer.
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