Kerin Cunningham ★
@KerinCunningham
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Illustrator // Merch Designer // Art Director ★ New York ★ She/her ★ Available for Freelance. Let's work together.
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Hi! I'm Kerin Cunningham, an Illustrator & Designer working in the music industry + making my own merch. I'm available for apparel/product design, posters, album artwork, creative direction + more. Let's work together!
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💌 kerincunningham[@]gmail
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all hot girls have a slightly weird medical issue they still have no idea how to explain to people
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is anyone else violently swinging between too exhausted to create anything and sudden bursts of energy that make you feel like you could make stuff all day?
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the 9/11 to my chemical romance to twilight to oppenheimer pipeline
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how i feel about freelance work and commissions
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Fuck this. For anyone who needs it, here's the Solid Color guide as a PDF that I use to send to my clients. Download this and keep it on your desktop for easy reference.
Fun times ahead for
#Adobe
designers. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that's 20 years old) with an obscure PANTONE colour, it will remove the colour and make it black. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November.
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this is such a woefully bad take, sad to see it coming from one of my former art school professors. there’s nothing wrong with seeking out tools that make your artistic process easier, and it doesn’t make you less of a serious artist. suffering is not a requirement for success.
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the devil works fast but biden’s graphic designers work faster
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will never forget being at a convention and a fellow artist saying “my friend just bought a house with money she made from furry art” and questioning my life choices for the rest of the night
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in the interest of not contributing another long tweet thread to the art school discourse, i offer this
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“this ice skating couple” do you mean to tell me not everyone on earth knows this is tessa virtue and scott moir the greatest ice dancers of all time… were your brains not all forever altered by their moulin rouge free dance at the 2018 winter olympics
This ice skating couple has been a team together since they were kids until adults for more than 20 years (1997-2022)
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adam sandler holding a diamond encrusted furby is all i need to know that Uncut Gems is the movie of the year
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Another one for the bucket list... Official tour merch for
@MCROfficial
. This design is a tribute to that weird time where you'd find MCR in the pages of Tiger Beat– What if MCR had their own special issue in a teen heartthrob magazine?
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if adobe illustrator has a million haters i am one of them. if adobe illustrator has ten haters i am one of them. if adobe illustrator has one hater it is me. if adobe illustrator has no haters that means i am dead in the ground, because i had to use adobe illustrator, i hate thi
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the best advice i could ever give to young artists/designers is surround yourself with your peers, not just your heroes. "look around, not up"!! you can rise together, support each other and make each other better. it's invaluable and i'm so grateful for the ones in my corner.
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the uncomfortable realization that your guy friend who you fully thought was just a good friend you trusted had actually been treating you like his manic pixie dream girl the whole time
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designs on the back are a) more gender neutral, b) more body type neutral, c) provide a bigger canvas for the designer to create with. they're also just in style right now, but those are my reasons. to each their own but making merch designs accessible is never a bad thing!!
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i didn't mean to fully regress into a 16 year old emo but being trapped in your house and listening to my chemical romance for 3 months straight will do that to you
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students are getting assigned 5 pieces a week and are expected to turn in their highest caliber work to every single class. you really don’t want them to have tools that make it easier to execute their vision? why, as an educator, are you promoting suffering over working smart?
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ᴡɪʟʟ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ • we’ll carry on in gold + red
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BURN IT ALL DOWN. ABORTION ACCESS IS A HUMAN RIGHT. Permission granted to share and to print for protest signs.
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spreading the my chemical romance love today with a GIVEAWAY of a full set of my MCR enamel pins, in your choice of gold or red 🖤 just like & RT this post to enter and i'll choose 3 winners on monday, 8/24!!
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finally managed to capture the pretty rose gold hue in this metal. i love how these came out! 🌸 available now at 🌸
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ABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL. On Demand. No Question. No Apology. We Won’t Back Down.
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i wish i could talk more about the process of making this but the snipers would take me out
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i was lucky to be able to afford
#mychemicalromance
tix, so i'd like to do a giveaway of MCR pins for those who are having a harder time than i am 🖤 just like & RT this post to enter and i'll choose 3 winners on tuesday 2/4!!
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if you're a man approaching a woman creator at her table, don't fucking flirt with her. we're there to represent ourselves and our work and we don't have the option of leaving if we're uncomfortable (and i guarantee, we're uncomfortable).
Comic creators - what is the biggest lesson you have learned from tabling at conventions you'd like to pass on to others? RT this and tell us what you learned.
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happy birthday to the thing that happens when you give a punk band from new jersey a haunted mansion and a ton of money to make the batshit crazy rock opera of their dreams
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is this the comic con equivalent of live laugh love
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there are so many amazing tools out there to help artists create work effectively and quickly. why would you want to take that away from them? evaluate the final product, the same way clients will in the real world. who cares how they got there as long as they got there?
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this man is about to play ELTON FUCKING JOHN in a movie and he shows up to a CAMP THEMED
#MetGala
in THIS?!?!??!?!?!?!??!
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fun news: Pantone is removing their color libraries and color matching from Adobe CC programs so they can charge us an *extra subscription cost* to have those features. these companies truly do not care about creatives and just wanna rob us blind huh
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it's about the idea that suffering is necessary for artistic success, and how IRRESPONSIBLE it is for PROFESSORS at art schools to be promoting that mentality to their young, impressionable students.
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love to be talked to like i’m a child and not like the professional illustrator i am. “if working hard is an issue, be a sunday painter” excuse me???
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i would like to note... this isn't entirely about digital vs traditional. it's really about the idea that if you're looking for easier, convenient solutions to execute your art, that you're not working hard enough and not taking your work seriously and therefore won't succeed.
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Here it is… The MCR x HIPDOT Danger Days box set. When I saw these photos for the first time I cried. The infamous boombox brings it all together and is an exact replica on all sides (plus some hidden easter eggs). I’m so proud of this collection.
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i want to talk about why interests branded as "feminine" are considered "lesser" interests. because it's something not only woven deeply into our society, but something that affects the way men view women & often the way women view themselves. AHEM:
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uhhhh just found a box of 300 old MCR pins i forgot about???? maybe i should do a half price $6 pin sale???
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my boss, who also went to SVA thirty years before me, just told me he had the same frustration upon graduating: "they taught me how to draw, but not how to find a job in my industry." thirty years and STILL no one has figured out how to teach this. why do we go, then?
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normally i never share customer service interactions, but someone just threatened to sue me because i won't refund a $5 sticker... because... they're mad they paid shipping to the UK... and they don't have room on their bicycle for it anymore. gotta love etsy!!!!!
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BACK FROM THE DEAD: Enamel Pin + Merch Line
🖤 Launches 6/23 @ 12 PM EST 🖤
Fan-made merch to celebrate the return of
#MyChemicalRomance
#MCR
Pins • Shirts • Tote Bags • Bandanas • Banners • Stickers
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A cool thing I can finally say... Yes, I have been designing official merch for My Chemical Romance. This is one of the designs I did back in july for the Black Parade 15th anniversary!! I scanned in and cleaned up Gerard's original concept art.
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not black parade getting played through on revenge’s 20th anniversary
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG FEST 2024 🖤🥀 PERORMING THE ALBUMS & MORE 💿
Sign up for Presale that starts Friday, November 17th at 10 AM PT. All tickets start at $19.99 down.
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AND I’D DO IT AGAIN
One time someone hacked our 10 for $1 deal and bought it 100s of times then bragged about it on Twitter.
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i’m SO excited to announce the Proud & Perfect pins are HERE and that i’ll be bringing a limited supply of them to
@Flamecon
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AHH I can finally show off this My Chemical Romance satin band member jacket!! I designed this for The Black Parade's 15th anniversary with the idea: "If The Black Parade were a real marching band, what would the band wear when they weren't in uniform?"
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i will be 31 years old in the pit of the my chemical romance concert........
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AWAKE ᴀɴᴅ UNAFRAID, ASLEEP ᴏʀ DEAD • enamel pin set
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💗 NEW FOR 2019 💗 my mantra going into this year ✨
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Well, we did have an entire roll out plan for this but hey... This is my baby. My pride and joy. My life's blood for the past 6 months. I'm so proud of everything we did on this and I can't wait for you all to see it.
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some of these panic lyrics are so insane when you think about teenagers writing them. "praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety" what did ryan ross know about ANY of this
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“don’t look up, look around.” it’s not your heroes who will help you succeed, it’s your peers. they’re not the competition you believe them to be, they’re allies. support each other.
What's the best bit of creative advice you have received?
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keep your boots tight, keep your guns close and die with these lip glosses on if you’ve got to
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if anyone was wondering what corporate graphic design is like it's working with people who don't know the difference between a powerpoint and a pdf
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A bit whimsical, a little bit ironic, and a whole lot stupid in the best way. Here are some detail shots. Design by me, but it was a collaborative effort and so fun to do. Thank you Matt Erny and Gerard Way for the art direction and opportunity to bring your idea to life.
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THEY’RE HERE. my very first enamel pins ✨ STRONGER THAN YESTERDAY ✨ bringing these to C2E2 and putting the leftovers in my shop mid-april!!!
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everything goes back to revenge. happy birthday.
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before you gonna hit me with that "hating popular things doesn't make you cool!!!" that's your time to waste, but remember
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💐 RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE, OR EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE 🗡️ Through June 30, $5 from every pre-order of an enamel pin set will go towards
@RAICES
in their fight to provide aid to those at the border. find them at 💐🗡️
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same man who spent my final crit telling me i couldn’t draw and berating how i drew women— he told me if i didn’t draw women “slender with big tits” that i’d never have a career, and then drew a naked girl with huge tits on a chalkboard to demonstrate for me
Wild to see my old college department chair who vocally and obviously despised comics, considered them "low art" and made comics student's lives complete hell for decades get Eisner nominated four times over for his first graphic novel. Oh, sorry, "graphic opera".
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watching
#ThisIsUs
like
9:00: ok i'm ready!!
9:32: halfway there!! bring on the feelings!!
9:58: i'm actually doing ok this epis--
9:59:
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i miss being bound to 6ft tables in the glorified warehouses we call convention centers and physically feeling the light inside me die when a man i don't know talks to me for 15 minutes straight and blocks me from making sales just so he can tell me about his shitty comic
God I miss artist alleys I even miss being held hostage by really adamant hagglers at my table and repeating the same answers 72 hours straight and chugging 9 bobas and sleeping on my suitcases under the table and smiling through the aching emptiness of my soul
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put 3oh!3 in the rock n’ roll hall of fame for “tell your boyfriend if he says he’s got beef that i’m a vegetarian and i ain’t fuckin scared of him”
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it’s sad to know that professors in positions of power think this about their students. in my experience for most it’s not a work ethic problem, but a “i’m tired of fighting a system that is designed to overwork me and leave me ill-prepared to have a career as an artist.”
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New for
@danielhowell
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happy pride everyone!! in honor of
#PrideMonth
on Monday, June 4th i'll be launching my very first Kickstarter, PROUD & PERFECT, a collection of LGBTQ+ self-love enamel pins!! stay tuned for more info & for the official launch ✨
#PrideBoost
#Pride
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💗 NEW FOR 2019 💗 My Loneliness is Killing Me and Not That Innocent (v2) are joining my first ever pin, Stronger Than Yesterday, to officially complete the trilogy ✨
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hi everyone! my name is kerin, i'm a merch designer and this is my og post about making the boy zone shirt! i also have a deep dive on the design process up on my patr3on ✨
Another one for the bucket list... Official tour merch for
@MCROfficial
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i'll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake // final fall out boy pin set for 2022
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this is the kind of attitude that’s so prevalent amount art school professors. instead of belittling, i challenge them to ask: “why is it that my students are seeking easier solutions? what about my curriculum and this system requires them to do that to finish projects?”
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this has been said so many times that i'm not sure if it matters // new design for 2022
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i did what had to be done
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Cultural impact:
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█ ＿ The opening G The Beatles’
note of Welcome discography
to the Black Parade
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i hate the entitlement in pro-AI bullshit. no one is entitled to artistic skill. if you can't draw then learn, or don't draw and find other ways to execute your ideas. it's taking too long? it's too hard?? damn that sucks, maybe you should pay someone who's good at it to do it
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Heaven Help Us. New enamel pins available June 13. More to come 🖤
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when my dog was a puppy i taught him american sign language. he’s 14 now & has since gone deaf, but we can still communicate because he remembers it from all those years ago 😭😭😭
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the american healthcare system sucks & it royally screwed me over this month during a time where i was already REALLY tightly budgeting. i haven't promoted my store in a few weeks but if you like my work, i'd love if you took a peek 🖤
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a LICENSE AGREEMENT!!! for a FLAG!!! that represents a SEXUALITY!!!!! i didn't know the circus was in town but this sure was a way to find out
Going forward we ask community to help us out and DM us anytime you see
#biprideflags
being sold, so we can reach out and establish a license agreement with the seller. If you’re wholly non-profit? We support your use of the flag to share
#bivisibility
and you have our thanks.
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If you've been following MCR's world tour this year, you've probably been following the work of
@The_MCR_Archive
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@JennRavenna
i have to wonder if she and her teacher friend are being willfully obtuse, bc the students they're talking about aren't saying ART is easy, they're saying using the iPad is EASIER for them. educators should be trying to help students, regardless of medium. not belittling them.
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some of my OG notes, i really fought tooth and nail for it to be boy division (big L on my part but i’m cool with boy zone having its own thing)
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now talking's just a waste of breath, and living's just a waste of death... // new fall out boy pin set for 2022
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Happy 15th Birthday to The Black Parade 🖤 This weekend only take 15% off in my store with code 15YEARS 🖤 Re-stocked a bunch of sold out pins PLUS the Mystery Packs that sold out last time. Sale ends tomorrow at midnight EST!!
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no shade to the furry community but realizing you spent $100k on art school hoping to have a viable arts career when all i needed to be doing was drawing some probably blue anthropomorphic wolves the whole time....... that���s a hard L to take
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currently wearing an official MCR hoodie that i designed… oh my god
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🖤⚡️ MCR SHIRT GIVEAWAY ⚡️🖤
Enter to win a My Chemical Romance shirt of your choosing OR an enamel pin of your choosing for two runners up! Rules:
🖤 Must be following me!
🖤 Like/RT this post!
Entries open to all countries, must enter by 12/13 at 11:59 EST. Good luck!!
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