Kanye West portrait (work in progress)

I started working on a portrait of Kanye West back in 2017, but I never got around to finishing it. Now, I haven’t finished it quite yet, but I did make some progress that I wanted to share:

Kanye West, illustration © copyright 2021 Peter Skirko, all rights reserved.

Big thanks to Serif for making a very nice Illustrator alternative in Affinity Designer. I found it quite intuitive to use, which is not an easy feat for a vector illustration app.

The work so far needs various technical fixes, but the vibe is there. Now, he just needs an upper body and a nice background.

Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a Turnaround

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company.

I recently read the article Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a Turnaround. It’s online, so read it yourself too. It was originally published August 2019, so it’s not exactly new.

The tl;dr of the article is summarized in this chart:

From https://fortune.com/longform/target-retail-big-box-turnaround/
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