# Project Description Good Job! and Good Luck! Kaili Kandarakis Summary Final work College School of Pre-Degree Studies Course UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Graduation year 2025 Good Job and Good Luck is a retrospective on my life up to this point, a goodbye to it and good luck in the future. I employed elements of my own childhood, like character design, my experience in school and my relationship to myself now as subject matter. I targeted everything in a very colourful and nostalgic way, acknowledging the loss, but also what I will gain from the future. Final work I had drawn this during an argument with my friend. I was just kind of mindlessly drawing as we talked— something that's always kind of been a coping mechanism for me and I kind of just ended up with this. This was my initial inspiration for the project, I was just feeling really lonely and I think it kind of manifested itself on paper. I had come into the PPP wanting to do a world building project, but as I shuffled through ideas, none of them really felt satisfying. It weirdly felt like this project just kind of fell in my lap, around the same time it started setting in how much I was already grieving this chapter of my life. This project is a retrospective and an homage to this period of my life. I think I have always been an overly-sentimental person which is why this whole transition is hitting me harder than I think it would hit other people. I wanted to kind of depict how messy my brain constantly feels. I think it makes me creative, but it also makes me stew on things a lot more than I need to. Regardless, I wanted an outlet for these emotions, a way to properly address them and to move on after saying goodbye. I wanted to tell myself good job you've made it and good luck in the future. I ended up printing this title card using pink ink in the riso printer and was really happy with how it came out. I think the riso was able to really bring out the colours well and I am really happy with the product I came to with this. Though, it was more concept work than everything I have made since has stemmed from this drawing. Lazy Girl Academics have never come to me easily, sometimes I still feel like they haven't. I had always been called lazy by my family, the sentiment among teachers was I simply just didn't care, I did, a lot. School was the source of a lot of anxiety for me and I badly wanted to be able to do anything, but I just couldn't leave my bed. Issues surrounding academics have followed me up until very recently, and if I am not truly invested in something I'm just unable to force myself to do it. I'm not sure why this is, l've come to realise this may be undiagnosed ADHD, but regardless it's left me feeling incredibly disappointed in myself. I feel like a child, it's embarrassing, especially when I was in such a competitive academic environment through my time at my school previous to the one I did a-levels at. I avoid my problems and then collapse in on myself. This has culminated in a fear of the future, not that I am incapable, but that I won't be able to make myself do anything and will fall back into the same patterns l've always fallen into. Igby Zine When I was younger, back when me and my sister still used to share a room, once and awhile when my dad was back before we went to sleep he'd tell us a story. The heroine was a cat named Igby and he'd tell us stories about his adventures. I wanted to make one final story about Igby. In this story I am Igby and it's a story about him leaving his family and saying goodbye. I thought it would be really sweet to say goodbye to my childhood through Igby and in turn really say goodbye to my family. I was speaking to my dad and he told me that after you move out only ten percent of the rest of your life will be spent with your family, and though I will still be able to see them, they're moving away and l'm moving on. I wanted to depict this departure symbolically through this line of doodly flowers which follows throughout the piece up until the end where it fades away. I am really happy with how this zine came out and the nicest part of this piece was being able to give them to my family. Swamp Girl Poster When I was younger, back when me and my sister still used to share a room, once and awhile when my dad was back before we went to sleep he'd tell us a story. The heroine was a cat named Igby and he'd tell us stories about his adventures. I wanted to make one final story about Igby. In this story I am Igby and it's a story about him leaving his family and saying goodbye. I thought it would be really sweet to say goodbye to my childhood through Igby and in turn really say goodbye to my family. I was speaking to my dad and he told me that after you move out only ten percent of the rest of your life will be spent with your family, and though I will still be able to see them, they're moving away and l'm moving on. I wanted to depict this departure symbolically through this line of doodly flowers which follows throughout the piece up until the end where it fades away. I am really happy with how this zine came out and the nicest part of this piece was being able to give them to my family. Research and process Shut Up! Embroidery of Swamp Girl. Trombone Girl - Tetra Pak I think I have stressed enough throughout this project that I was terminally unpopular in middle school. This was the culmination of that. It always felt like I just had two left feet socially, I didn't understand the normal cues and had to learn them over time by observing the people around me. Even now I still sometimes feel like an alien in a human suit, which is weird, because I doubt anyone would describe me that way, but the trombone girl still lives within me. I played the trombone in band at school when I was younger, mostly because it was a reference to my favourite video game character and I thought it was funny the teacher called us the 'tromboners'. The trombone on my head signifies this kind of alienation I felt, I tried to cover it up with being loud and trying to be funny, but really inside I was constantly in a state of fight or flight at school. The little face on the side showing my anxieties within the trombone, when from the outside I just seemed like a socially unaware weird kid, on the inside I was so painfully aware. Bad interactions at school would affect me for weeks on end and I was so aware of how weird I was, but unable to do anything to change it, I felt trapped in my own brain. Again, I still feel that way sometimes, like I need to be entertaining enough or funny enough to justify being around me, but whenever I do I remember where it came from, Trombone Girl. Share this project Good Job and Good Luck is a retrospective on my life up to this point, a goodbye to it and good luck in the future. I employed elements of my own childhood, like character design, my experience in school and my relationship to myself now as subject matter. I targeted everythin... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Futures Mental Health Identity