{"id":19,"date":"2022-01-04T19:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pichettl\/?p=19"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:51:03","slug":"the-power-of-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pichettl\/2022\/01\/04\/the-power-of-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of “Difficult”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over winter break I felt a lot of the word “difficult”. It’s not a pleasant feeling, but I’m not here to complain, I’m here to appreciate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You hear this kind of blanket-statement so often that it really isn’t something you<\/em> believe, rather, something you just acknowledge is<\/em> believed. At least, this was the case for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Difficulty of a Stick-Figure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I own a website development business (technically it’s Digital Agency since we make more than just websites, but the only things we’ve made to-date are website), Gold Fox Dev<\/a>. Since I make websites, I’ve had clients ask me if I could make their logos as well. Sadly, I have about as much illustrative ability as someone’s 7-year old child… I take that back, they still have more talent than I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told myself that I wanted to make an Emblem, which is the actual art-bit in the logo (consider the “swoosh” is the Emblem in the Nike logo), and I wanted this Emblem to be for a fake organization that gives art supplies to impoverished families. I had the idea of wanting it to include a stick-figure, since that’s always one of the first things we draw as kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boy. That stick figure kicked my *ss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Infamous Stick-Figure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here’s some initial phases I documented as I went about creating this stick figure. Quit a large time gap between the third and fourth (final) image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n