More umbrella spazzing/STORY TIME (which idk if you need to know but that’s fine):

Like sure. You all know about me and skulls and jester hats. No brainer. At face value that’s enough for me to spaz right? Right.

So I’m an artist (no, really?) and recently I have been thinking about branding and logos and the concept of I guess multi logo branding.
Because I have a lot of different styles of art and I don’t want to give up any of them for another. On top of this I could think of no single icon to cover or represent all of my art and I like the idea of non traditional marketing and image based branding.
So I had this idea of using multiple icons from across my styles and creating I guess a portfolio of images that can be used interchangeably in branding depending on what it is I’m selling.
I am aware this goes against what everyone “says” branding should be, and how one should sell yourself or your work online, but uhm I’m me, and I don’t want to compromise my artistic integrity for the sake of an algorithm and all the best ideas break the rules anyway.

All this is to say that my intent is to use the below picture as one of the chosen icons for my art “brand”, or a variant of it.
Mostly due to the fact that I want to actually take the Jester version of myself you have all seen me draw in my shitposts and turn that into a comic character almost, and have a series of illustrations etc set in and around it and its world and adventures (aka… me… In my imagination…)
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And then this show comes along with a sociopathic female lead who likes knives, wears killer heels, earrings AND sunglasses, rocks a swanky purple dress and has a frakking harlequin skull umbrella.
I feel like I’m losing my mind for the fifth time this week. First purple Melonas, now this?
It was only the other day I was looking up cane swords and customised heirloom heraldry handles.
And now there’s an Italian company that makes umbrellas with one of my chosen signature icons as the handle?? Excuse me?????
I need a matching umbrella and cane sword stat, si vous plais. For… Business reasons. Of course.
*Wishing I had $800 NZD to drop rn*

So if I can’t get over this stupid umbrella, you know why. Oh and I really wanna know what stylist found this thing and decided to … buy it? Get… Sponsored by an Italian Parasol Company? What? How. Why. Look I’m not complaining but I NEED ANSWERS.


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    Can I ask something? How different are these styles? I mean plenty of companies have different names and logos if they are selling different products, you can’t sell cheese and shoes using the same name, well, you can, but it won’t inspire much trust. Even selling the same kind of thing is sometimes split into two brands if the market they aim is different. If the styles are indeed very different it’s actually better if you use different names and logos. Anyway, I don’t even know if you wanted an opinion. ๐Ÿ˜›

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      Agree.
      And hoping we can goad/encourage you to post examples of the other logos/brands/styles ๐Ÿ™‚

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      Uhm quite different. At least to me. And at the same time… all me. Although I’d be interested to see if you thought they were all that different.
      The easiest way is just to stalk me on insta to be honest- and make a verdict for yourself: https://www.instagram.com/ingleweiss/?hl=en
      And actually no, I appreciate this feedback. A lot of how “internet creators” say artists especially can get a following (on insta for example) is by saying they should stick to one style or niche market so that you’re recognisable and so that you draw a certain audience to a certain niche. I personally hate the idea of … conforming ahem and thrive of my somewhat chaotic and eclectic style in many areas of my lyfe, art included. I also know that what leetle followers I do have appreciate the weirdness that comes from that. So this was actually reassuring, that just cos some people say otherwise, doesn’t mean they’re right.

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        Thanks! I’ve always liked your illustrations and part of the reason was because you seem to know your own style. It was nice to know more of them. I’ve tried to understand why you think there is a big difference between them but I confess to me it feels like the same person is behind it which is a very good thing. You should explore different areas of interest but if you have found your true voice, forgive me the corniness, its so early in the morning, chances are, you will express yourself in ways that people will still know something it’s yours.

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