One year today I wrote about my girlie ice skater greeting card design. Also in that post (which you can read here) I mentioned that “I don’t see any black ice skaters on TV”. Now 1 year on I am watching Yannick Bonheur and Vanessa James, 1st black due ice skating couple competiting in the Winter Olympics, thanks to youtube.
image from theblacksite.com
Watch it with your children, it will encourage them to see sports as a careers, while also seeing people who reflect their identity. I will say this when I watched it and they were flying fly and doing fast, twirly routines I was nervous for them. When he throw her in the air, i kept saying to myself don’t drop, don’t drop. An you know what she landed perfectly it was skillful, artistic and beautiful.
More postive images of us on the big screen, small screen and youtube screen is what i hope to continue to see.
This image came from a sketch I did a while back. I do this quite often. I get ideas and roughly sketch them down and come back to then at a later date. It helps me free my brain of all the ideas swimming around.
I wanted this image to be very girlie pink. Deciding not to place it in a specific category worked best for many occasions would work with this design. Especially if the person receiving it was actively involved in ice skating. Personally I don’t see any black ice skaters on TV, there must be black people who are into ice skating for we all are different, want different things, do different things, achieve different goals, have different goals etc.. it would be nice to see this via a media which is on 24 7 365 (TV).
If you are involved in ice skating and would like to see more designs related to this area, just drop me a comment or feedback via the website.
One year today I wrote about my girlie ice skater greeting card design. Also in that post (which you can read here) I mentioned that “I don’t see any black ice skaters on TV”. Now 1 year on I am watching Yannick Bonheur and Vanessa James, 1st black due ice skating couple competiting in the Winter Olympics, thanks to youtube.
