Illustrators are just kidding.

Doesn’t seem that any creative input I’ve had in Marie Antoinette’s business identity seems to make any difference to anyone. I did what I thought was a lovely little illustration of a pile of cupcakes, obviously symbolising Antoinette’s fabricated ignorance towards the working class of her country. But the reasons I couldn’t go ahead with my initial idea are two fold. One, if I were being employed by Antoinette to create a business identity for her, would she really want to be publicising the negative propaganda that had been spending through France all of her adult life? Would she also appreciate the reference to decapitation by me cutting her name in half at the top of the card? I can’t really imagine so, to start with, she’s not going to even know that her life ended atop a messy guillotine.

The second reason that I can’t use my hand rendered illustration on my work is because it just looks rubbish! I stated this course with the idea that I could take any project and steer it in a illustrational direction, but now it seems that I just can’t do that, Maybe I’m broken, or I’ve forgotten how to use a pencil? Does that happen?

So, in the end, I caved, as usual, and took the more graphic route, took Louis XV royal crest, and paired that with a bit of script text. Bish bash bosh, royal correspondence. Simples.