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My sketches for a series of book covers (please don't judge my lack of drawing skills):

What the book covers ended up looking like:

Some didn't end up exactly like my sketches but having sketches gave me allowed me not to stray too far from my initial ideas and to problem solve when I was finalizing my book jacket series. 

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Design Tools

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I use various tools  on a day to day basis.....since I have such a broad spectrum of my skill and abilities when it comes to design. I love creating using my Laptop & Wacom Drawing Tablet.  When that first came about in my life I took it in like an adoptive child.  I made sure those items were with me at all times.  I would post up at a restaurant every morning and go get inspired .   I would treat myself just so I can be out and about making it known this is who I am.  I would throw on my headphones, which to me is another VITAL tool in any project I do whether its drawing a logo for a client...drawing a tattoo for a client, WHATEVER....you name it music is what inflluences me as an artist.   These arent just tools for me ....their my weapons in the survival of the fittest in this concrete jungle we live in.  Some tools you just cant use when you are loyal and patient with how you want the world to take you in as, as a respected entreprenuer able to design your next best shoe.  My, charcoal, sketchpad, pencils.....ALLLLL my drawing pencils are daggers....these babies show my true talent when it comes to drawing.  My preciseness unique ideas in every piece show that I am passionate and true to what I do and what I do second best.  No its not what your thinking... although...No... its being being a mom sillies.  I am a mother of a beautiful 3 year old boy and he also uses all my tools. As a slight influence, I let him be the artist he is and let me tell you this boy is an amazing sculptor.  I would have to say that these are all my basic tools of course if you want to add digital software when creating then we can even go into using software such as Final Cut Pro, Maya AutoDesk, Adobe Photoshop, Toon Boon Animation Studio, Adobe After Effects, Processing, and your whole Microsoft Office applications. 

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Of these tools the ones I need the most and are always with me are my headphones,  pencils and charcoal, and a sketchpad.  The fact that I have these tools with me all the time in fluences me and alows me to always reach out to my inner artist and create.  Being on a train for an hour everyday gives me that much time to create.  I am launching a shoe collection the end of the summer simply from a train ride home I started sketching away my next shoe.  I had drawn over 12 designs all to the sound of my music and an hour long wait. They can never limit my outcomes if anything they open up possibilites.

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With that being said, being a freelance artist in any medium allows me to be open with the businesses I am able to become.  In the reading it says, "Entire new sectors emerged dvoted to left-brain pursuits such as design management, design strategy and innovation for business, and the design of services, and systems, including consumer experiences, whether in bricks and mortar spaces or online."This is true to everything you read so far about my tools/weapons and how ive been able to use them.  Since realizing theres no limit to my madness...i have been able to own a mobile makeup company headed soley by myself and  design firm that deals soley in cleints with design orders, and just recently my shoe design company.  The possiblities have been made endless in my case.