Fixing My Socials (Instagram)

 28/01/21

Following the careers event, I started to think about how to improve my presence on social media. I started by designing a new logo for my professional animation Instagram. 

Currently, my profile picture does suit the geometric style I was going for, as I wanted to specialise in 3D modelling. I thought a blueprint kind of style would be good. However I feel like there is a lot of Marvel branding in this, as my personal fan art account "arrow_comics3209" is based on Hawkeye and Marvel comics. So the logo for my professional account relates to that with the Hawkeye colours, targets and arrows. 

In the careers event, the social media advisor said that using a drawing of your head might be a good way on Instagram to present your art style whilst people are scrolling past. I included the rings because I liked them and behind the head, they look less like targets. I also chose blue because I feel like I just wear a lot of it and it represents me. I wear a blue jumper every time I've drawn myself in the past, such as 402 last year. 

I also always sign off my art with my Instagram handle @arrow_comics3209, but when doing this logo I realised I haven't signed any of my professional work. How would I sign this one? So I tested out a signature that I could potentially make in to a more professional looking watermark. I really like this was, even though it still relates to arrow_comics3209, it's more sleek. 3 arrows, 2, 0/C(comics), 9

The careers event also mentioned describing yourself so that an alien would know everything about you in your bio. So I want to change this too.

The link is now my most recent project being the My Inner Demon collaboration between myself, Naomi, Ayesha and Charlie. I haven't posted this as I don't feel like it's mine to post, so I think having it as a link is the best solution where everyone can be credited whilst others can still view my latest work. I do prefer this branding a lot more as it shows people who I am and where I am from if they want to collaborate. I haven't posted the profile picture yet, as I have been trying hard to spread out anything I wanted to post in to regular 1 week intervals. Every week for the last month I have posted whether that's on this account or my personal. And I feel proud having kept up with uni work and this schedule - also knowing I still have a few things back to post.