Hey Justin, welcome in!
Hand-painted work rooted in street culture and music hits different when it's got real personal stories woven through. You're coming in with a clear point of view.
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🏆 I gave your portfolio an honest critique
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🎯 I found your ideal collector, and it's not who you'd guess
🖼 I curated your first solo show
📰 I wrote a magazine feature about your work
🎨 I found the piece you haven't made yet
💡 I found the one direction you've never tried
🏛 I found galleries near you that would love your art
🪞 I looked at your profile the way a collector does
✍ I made you social posts for the next 7 days
🛍 I wrote a product description for your art
🖋 I wrote you an artist statement
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I hope this helps take some of the load off of promoting your art!
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Hey hey! Raw and hand-painted with street culture running through it is exactly the kind of work that lands here. The dark humor instinct especially, that edge keeps things honest. What pulled you toward that combination specifically, the street and the personal stories together?
Hey Justin! That mix of street culture and dark humor hits different when it's actually hand-painted versus digital. I'm curious what mediums you're working with, because there's something about physical paint that changes how rawness reads. Like, ballpoint and graphite are my daily tools but whenever I mess around with acrylic or gouache the mark-making gets this whole other energy I can't get from a pen line.
Chicago's got such a rich tradition of that street-influenced work. Are you pulling from the older mural scene there or more recent stuff? I grew up sketching in notebooks but started paying way more attention to public art once I realized how much gesture and movement those pieces carry, even from across the street.
What kind of scale are you usually working at? I ask because I notice my own line confidence totally shifts depending on whether I'm in a sketchbook versus something bigger, and I'm always trying to figure out how to keep that loose energy consistent across sizes.