kill this design: Mardi Gras 2024
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- sarahfailin1
I appreciate you all taking time to give me your opinions, even if I totally disagree with some of them! ha.
to answer some of your questions:
1) this illustrator's style is just generally sloppy/folk arty. for what I'm paying him, I can't ask him to do a lot more. but he doesn't seem to mind me cleaning up his crap for him. His sailor jerry letters are all over Sacramento, kind of like Dr. Bob is in New Orleans (the "be nice or leave" guy if you know what i'm talking about).
2) this isn't new orleans mardi gras, this is Sacramento Mardi Gras! and the things depicted make sense for here. I totally understand if y'all don't understand what they are.
2b) Just an additional note, when New Orleans does Mardi Gras, it celebrates itself. It doesn't try to be anything else. And we're not trying to be New Orleans, even if we use some of the tropes. We're trying to make the core concept of MG live here, which means celebrating our place, our culture and our things.
3) I'm interested in what you all think I can do to make the jester more prominent in the design without changing the ink/lines of him. I kind of dislike his black-and-white bits, but if I change those colors, he blends in even more... any thoughts?
4) obvs adding the informational text at the top and bottom does a lot to inform you. I can see here that my spacing needs some work. Got any other notes for me on it?