"Framing Life" by @Kate_Trish<br><br> Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...

"Zodiac: Scorpio" by @Kate_Trish<br><br> Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...

I love a Concept Album. I love some music with Narrative and Lore. Ethel Cain and Sleep Token? Ohhhh hell yeah. What else do I need to be listening to? Who has the recs?

I'm tired today, folks. If you work in graphics-related AV, please consider your GFX specialists in the process. A GFX-heavy spot can't successfully be art directed by people who don't understand GFX. It's not right to ask a designer-animator to Figure It Out when presented with an unusable concept.

These two creative advertising industry conditions don't line up, in my brain: 1) Clients and agencies don't value art/design/animation (Unwillingness to pay, disrespect of specialists, pushing AI, etc.) 2) Clients and producers who don't have any related expertise want to dictate the art direction.

I'm begging everyone in social/digital creative advertising to stop defaulting to sliding panels in/out. We don't have to keep cutting panels in over a black screen, either. Hire art directors! They have far more specific and inventive ideas for dealing with difficult aspect ratios and UI overlays.

Editors. I love you, but you should never manipulate a designer/animator's graphics (unless you're forced). You don't know what you're doing, it causes a LOT of issues, and it's disrespectful to mess up our work and force us to solve the problem later.

When I'm stressed about trying to balance work with family/friend time, I remember the days when I was stuck inside a shared office for 15-16hr and couldn't visit home because of PTO limits. I worked on an extremely intense creative content finish this summer sitting on a pool deck with a Corona.

I rarely apply for jobs, but one application question hit me recently. I didn't answer it well (I downplayed my achievements big time and responded while Tired), but I liked the question: What result are you most proud of? I hadn't been asked that particular question before...

Sometimes I get frustrated with my art. Then I remember it's wild that my brain just Does This. People I love resonate with it. We're always moving the goal posts as we grow, but this one simple piece of art is now a print, a sticker set, stationery, etc. It makes people feel good. That's enough.

"The Dreamer" by @Kate_Trish<br><br> Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...

YouTube ads are torture. That guy who can't pronounce Vuori? Grammarly aggressively (VERY poorly) trying to convince students and pros to leave the writing/thinking to machines? I keep being harassed about murdered children in the middle of Smosh videos.

Look. I get why people worry about what others think of them. I don't worry much it, but plenty of people I THOUGHT didn't like me have made efforts to connect with me out of the blue. I assume they don't like me, and then I'm met with so much warmth. I really think we misjudge this stuff A LOT.

I finally feel like I’m winning social media because I don’t see 90% of the mess. Block and mute liberally, kids. It works.

#INPRNT is having a Summer Sale with up to 40% off storewide! It's a good time to shop for some prints. ;) www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...

Here's your reminder to be extremely careful with Apple Pay and the Apple Store. I just placed a $3500 order for delivery today that defaulted to an address across the country, and I can't cancel/change because I've been waiting over an hour for the order acknowledgment email. This is horrifying.

New print time! Get 'Colorway' 15% off right now via #INPRNT (Cards, mini prints, and more are available, in addition to fine art prints in multiple sizes) www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...

Do we need prints? We might need prints.

Two floors. Two full bathrooms. A separate laundry room. AND hot doors? I'm in love with the house. #DateEverything

3 pieces to get to know me

Raise your hand if you started a turn-based RPG video game on a whim (lured in by a funky art-related antagonist), then proceeded to get destroyed by a story about grief. ✋ #expedition33

I have a Best Mom Ever mug and a Daddy mug in my collection. Both of these were gifts. I don't have children. ☕

I’m her. 🔻🔺 #severance

Folks are really out there devaluing design/animation at every turn and acting like anyone can do it, but there are a lot of Experts who can hardly do the job. The work is mysterious and important!

Do we need prints? We might need prints.

Friends don't let editors add drop shadows.

The thing that frustrates me about freelancing and contract work isn’t the challenge of doing the work itself. It’s digging several thousands into my savings to pay my bills even though I’ve earned the money to keep up with them. Pay your freelancers/contractors! Pay them on time!

Sometimes I worry about money, now that I’m freelancing. Then I realize I get paid rates other folks can’t even dream of to design pitches + trailers + ads for big studio films. That doesn’t make the overdue money appear, but there’s a lot to be proud of if you’ve built a career on creative work.

My artwork is about self-discovery, inner worlds, the interplay of opposites, transformation, defiance of expectations, the complexity of femininity...If that's the kind of thing you celebrate and find inspiring, given ✨everything✨, now's a good time to get a print. www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...

Why be normal when I could spend my Saturday evening sorting my backlog of paperwork in piles all over my living room floor? (I'm not a real or interesting adult)

Plants I’ve had for years are suddenly growing, despite being mistreated (watered infrequently, left alone for 2 weeks, minimal sun, too-small pots…). It feels like they’re bullying me.

I love to toss out some fan art of cool ladyfolk in fiction when I want to make art just for me. Big thanks to everyone for the enthusiasm about this portrait of Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness. Glad we can enjoy it together. 💜 I’m putting snazzy tribute art back on KateTrish.com shortly.

While I prepare the new store for an early 2025 launch, you can shop prints via INPRNT! www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...

Y'all ever randomly think about the people you've worked with who insisted NFTs were awesome and perfect and The Future?

One beautiful thing about freelancing=the ability to batch work because I don't have ASAPHOTRUSH deadlines all day. Took a break from new-online-storefront-setup today to power through design work, and DANG the designs are good. It's a miracle what focus time can do for a designer brain.

For those of you not peeping my Patreon page: The revival of my KateTrish.com store is still underway, and a bunch of obstacles have been eliminated by the choice to pivot to Shopify. Stay tuned for updates! (Planning to launch early 2025)

Least favorite part of my Monday routine: Sending reminders about overdue invoices. #freelancedesigner

Hi, friends! I’m Kate Trish. 🎨Artist 💻Sr. motion designer 🎬Art director 💀Soft goth girly 🎮Game/TTRPG nerd On top of my art biz, I’m a social/digital AD supporting creative agencies with motion graphics for entertainment advertising. Peep my work at katetrish.com & Patreon.com/katetrish!

In my first full year as a full-time #freelancedesigner, I’ll have made about as much as I did in my first job out of college. That’s barely enough to cover rent, I made over 3x that much last year, and I’m basically LA Poor right now, but ~perspective…

I daresay it was #AgathaAllAlong. What a delightful surprise of a show. What a killer cast. What a joy to spend some time painting Our Lady Kathryn Hahn on a sea of purple. 💜 More art of cool lady-characters, I say!

The bad news: If you don't know how to deliver to spec, you are an unqualified designer. You are not prepared to build something usable that truly targets the needs of the project/client. The great news: That's teachable, trainable, learnable #graphicdesign stuff.

Uh hey kindly Patreon folks, please pledge from either an android device or from your computer. Pledging on Apple mobile devices incurs an enormous fee starting in November.

Y’all ever think about how brilliant the Twitter branding was and just want to cry a little bit? The logo, the name, Twemoji, the guidelines for formatting tweets for sharing that everyone seemed to ignore…Justice for the folks whose work was taken from us too soon. 🥲

I was prepared to give Mailchimp all my money, but I swear I cannot get it to actually integrate with Squarespace, and I have too many hurdles to jump over as a self-employed human to keep fighting with this stuff. The mailing list will happen someday.

The time has come! #DragonAge is back! Show me your Rooks, nerds.

I might have titled this one "Long Summer", but let's be so real: I think Spooky Season is all the time, and I appreciate that this has all the cozy Autumn vibes. Skulls are for always, if you're cool enough. www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate... . . . #digitalart #artprints #artoftheday #spookyseason

Happy Monday from Freelanceland! I keep forgetting it's not Sunday while I make final gfx deliveries and archive art files. Please enjoy some #TLOU #fanart from last year, feat. Bella Ramsey as Ellie.

I get frustrated with the ✨Everything✨, but today I'm sending invoices, building community, + planning freelance/contract work through February. It's a privilege, given the state of Hollywood right now. Feels like a good day to be grateful for the opportunity to keep going. #DesignCommunity

The end is nigh! Get a quick print order in to take advantage of $5 worldwide shipping via #INPRNT www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...

Don't miss it! I'm hosting a Pride-themed icon portrait giveaway on Instagram (courtesy of @maddoraptor) and randomly selecting a winner Saturday 6/8 at noon PT. It's easy to enter, and the turnaround time is quick! See this post for all the details: www.instagram.com/p/C7xbQWKyox...