Hello everyone, welcome to another designer update from yours truly. I haven't done this since I started university in 2015, it's been two years since and my dearest friend Kai asked me to do an updated version of this blog, which I thought, "Hey, why not?"

Now, I'm filled with a slight regret because looking back at my first designs, I feel the cringe setting in and consuming my insides furiously. But, seeing the current style of designing, and the progress I have made in the last four years of designing (come September), I do feel rather pleased with myself. 

When I first started designing posters, I knew that I wanted to go into graphic designing, and these posters and the want and need to become good at it only fueled my drive. I managed to get into university, doing a course in graphic design in England and honestly, there have been times where I've wondered whether I made the right decision.

The difficulty of the reality that there will always be people better than you at what you do was something I had difficulty accepting, and along with other factors slipped me into a depression difficult to pull myself out. There are days where I still struggle with this fact, but acceptance is the first step to success and that's what I have done, or am trying to do. Right now, I've been getting some jobs outside school in designing, which is great and is doing very much to boost my confidence. 

I'm saying all this because I want you to see how much that I have changed as a designer, and as an individual. There will be struggles and there will be days where you're not going to feel satisfied with your work, designing or writing or whatever you do. And that's okay, you do improve little by little because I guess it would be overwhelming to suddenly get better all at once? It's okay because with practice and time put into something, you'll surely get better at it <3

Success has different measurements, so just because you haven't achieved everything you wanted to, you're still successful in the things that you have achieved and done. It does not make you a failure! 

I hope this unexpected pep talk has helped? I was just gonna show off my posters but now I'm giving life advice at nineteen years old lmao 

Anyway, let's get right into it! 

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