Life of a Random

This post is about two days late buuut I have great excuses reasons. I promise ;) I've had school, extra events to attend for my honors program, blah blah blah. It's been great. *sarcasm* Today, though, I want to tell you about an idea I had and also what my current project is in my design class. I've just started a book cover project in that class! While it's really exciting, it's also kind of terrifying since this is what I want to do when I graduate and I would really like not sucking at it. (Also, apparently the professor raises standards quite a bit the higher the class level goes.) After a little brainstorming, I thought of a few book covers from a popular YA series that I'd love to remake (because that's what we're doing, remaking covers)-- the Mortal Instruments series. I love TMI to death, but that doesn't mean I like the covers. At all. So begins my creative process to turn in sketches at the next class. Mostly, I've researched. ...

  2014, Skylar Finn @Life of a Random. All images were created by me and may not be used without credit and permission.  I probably completely freaked you out yesterday when I went through some hardcore lists, buuut today you can relax. You've completely, totally got this. Just like I learned that I can do this.  Let me tell you a little story... when I was really little, my dad told me I had to know what I was going to do with the rest of my life by the time I was twelve. This freaked me out hugely . Looking back, I'm not sure if he was actually serious or just joking and serious little eight-year-old me couldn't tell. But it freaked me out. I didn't know what  I wanted to do! Are you kidding? That's like the hardest question in the world, or it was for me. When I turned twelve, I asked my dad if I still had to tell him what I wanted to do with my life and he said no I didn't. I was very ginormously relieved . As time went on (aka high school y...