“he’s the most professional ape I have ever worked with. creative, polite, and kept the poop flinging to a minimum”
— You, a couple months from now, after working with me. Probably.
If that little piece of time-shifted testimonial didn’t get you pumped up about working with me, let me try a different approach.
I left a cushy job in Product Management to brave the jungle of for-profit scribblery because my brain had become a rather large box, overstuffed with other people's important projects, and the box was on fire.
I don't have to tell you, but that's not a good way to live. And then, the breaking point was accelerated by a global pandemic. So I embraced the storm, threw a lot of stuff overboard and decided that hey, doing what one wants (and may be marginally good at) is actually a good idea. Almost a year after, here we are.
I've done a lot of things right, some things wrong, a couple very wrong, but I also have had some successes. And along the way I have learned 2 things: first, I do like being an ape with a crayon for a living. Second, I might have something to offer to my adoring fans. Both of them. (Hi, mom!)
With the backstory out of the way, let me tell you why I think we should work together:
I have cool ideas.
I usually work with clean compositions and a limited palette. I think about my designs a lot, so they have layers of meaning and reward closer inspection. I like to think I have an interesting approach that produces cool, different posters. I'm not saying that's necessarily true, but I like thinking it. And hey, as a bonus, there's not a lot of likenesses rights to handle.
Did you see all the subtle, and not so subtle hidden details in all of these?
But I also do likenesses.
I don't do the simple-composition-with-hidden-meaning thing because I suck at drawing faces. As a matter of fact, I really enjoy doing portraits and I'm not too bad at it. Don't ask me to do feet, though. I learned a lot of my tricks from comics in the 90s, so feet are my nemesis. (Not really. If there's ever a movie thriller about a foot fetishist on the run, I'm your guy)
I joke a lot, but I am damn serious about this.
One of the lessons from my previous life is that it sucks that you have to be dry as a bone and bleak as a funeral to be taken seriously. So I want to do things differently this time around. However, I am not doing this on a whim or due to Covid-related stress. I'm in this for the long haul, and I firmly believe in building relationships and a career. And that means respect, honesty, hard work, contracts, procedures, timelines, and taking commitments very seriously. I am an Olympic-level over-preparer and I believe in delivering above all things. Yeah, I'm really fun at parties, why do you ask?
All in all, I am convinced I can add to the AMP landscape, bringing something different that looks good, engages the audience and is commercial. I hope you see at least part of that too and will like to talk more. If that's the case, just help me decide where we go from here.
Just choose from the buttons below (see? I told you I'm an over-preparer)
Thanks for reading all this. I can be a ranty guy. But I put a lot of care into this, and it's the same when I work on my pieces, so that's a good thing. Right?
Have a good one, and I hope to hear from you soon.
Julián
Also, I’ll just leave some of my scribbles down below, too. Or you can go here to see the rest of my work, along with the story behind them.
