Post 7: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Showing people my art. Showing people my art feels akin to stripping down in public and being like, “what do you think?” It’s scary it’s vulnerable, but I’m going to do it anyway. My idea for this post was to think outside the box, what hasn’t been done? (Well, nothing, but maybe I can find a new way to do something.) I had a number of ideas and I challenged myself to draw all of them. Some of them suck, some might be cool if someone else did something with them but either way, here they are:

So the ideas themselves aren’t bad but none of them are done. This is sort of just a visual list of things related to the project that have been rattling around in my head for a while now. I definitely want to explore some of them, maybe I’ll actually make the flip-book thing. My problem with these though is how opposed the whole class is to “getting ‘commercially’.” Like it’s the one thing no one is allowed to do with their ideas. I’LL MAKE A COMMERCIAL IF I WANT TO DAMMIT, STOP STIFLING MY CREATIVITY.
If you look at the picture, I’ve actually started censoring myself and abandoning ideas that might be great because I have the fear that I might be too close to making an advertisement. I need to remember that it is OK if I chose to express my idea as an ad. If it’s a good idea, it doesn’t really matter how I present it. Sooo, I’m going to present my commercial idea:

I kind of love the idea with the punchline being that the narrator of a commercial is the car itself and that it has something as ridiculous as false eyelashes on. Not many car commercials have female voice-overs so I think that would make it more interesting, and obviously it can focus on any (or all three) of the aspects of the VW brand. She can talk about her great gas milage (which is what’s in the storyboard) or her spacious trunk (insert junk-in-the-trunk joke here) or how you can’t tell her age by looking at her (enduring value and quality) or whatever. Regardless of what the commercial is about, and there are a lot of things it could be about, it would be funny and fresh and interesting so THERE. It’s a commercial. AND a good idea.