The Best Kept Secret

Lydell Jenkins
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

Developing a love for art at a very young age. Designing shirt layouts and graphics to sell at events or even when the band was out at a night club. Design was always I fell back on when I felt down, or even when I didn’t have hope. It was a safety blanket for me that made me feel like I could do whatever I put my mind to. With design I was in control of everything.

As I got older I continued to design for other people. I still created Shirt Graphics, Logos, Stationary, and Character concepts for Dungeons and Dragons Character Sheets. I still did not see it as a way that I could make money for the long term.

Life for me changed when I got injured and needed a way to care for my children. I was unable to do physical tasks like I wanted to, and now with the responsibility of caring for my children, I knew that I needed to do something. That is when they're mother suggested going to art school or getting a degree in the graphic arts. I said even then, “That will not make me any money.” Okay I know I’m stubborn but that took the cake. That month I enrolled in school and earned my B.S. in Graphic Design. When I made my first dollar working for someone, I knew that I could make it.

Currently, I am working to sharpen my skills so that I could become an asset to any company that I would have the honor of working for. This is why I am designing a new items, or making concept art. From a young age I had been called into design.I fought it as long as I could. Now I am going full steam ahead to “Assist others in breathing life into ideas, images, or brands.”

The only problem I have is that no one knows I exist in the design world.