My High School Graduation Announcement, 1983

A good early experience with printers, back in the analog days. I did the blue level as an acetate overlay, with adhesive-backed rubylith (rubyfilm?) to indicate where the color would go. The registration was off on almost all of them, sadly. Otherwise, it turned out pretty well.

It would be quite a while before I became comfortable drawing caricatures of myself, so Floyd (the main human in my regular cast of characters) was my stand-in. I wasn't comfortable with much of the outside world, either, so "I" celebrated with the creatures and animals living in my head at that point.

The drawing itself is cute, but the composition is crowded and awkward. Tangents everywhere, and no solidity to anything. Yikes - CalArts sure helped whip me into shape!