* Friends *

My wonderful friend Jess (and avid commenter on this blog) has an interesting and funny post today about sacrificing your own personal vision as an artist in order to make money, in whatever form that would take.

"I suppose this is what every artist struggles with; we can serve ourselves up on a silver plate, quivering and real - or we can wrap ourselves in cheap leopard print and make a couple million.

At this point, I still want to believe I'll make those millions (and I do mean millions) without totally whoring myself out...but if this goes on for much longer, don't be surprised if I'm slipping on those five inch heels and giving them a literary lap dance."

Jess always has a way of describing things that immediately puts a hilarious picture in my head. The "literary lap dance" image is still making me laugh. Check out her blog here.

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* Sunday Sketch to Final Product *

This sketch and design I created for my writer friend's blog Twenty Somethings. Her blog is a raw and honest look at the messiness of life through writing. I played with a couple ideas, but ended up going with a background of a messy desk with tea and lots of crumpled paper. I shot all the images myself to make this design more personal and unique for my friend.

* Sketch *

* Final Product *

(You can visit her blog here.)

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