Stickers are used as a way to express ourselves. We find them on laptop cases, water bottles, and even on car windows. Most of these stickers are funny or bright and bubbly. I wanted to go deeper and express other feelings that are harder for us. The concept I choses to base my stickers on is feeling uninspired, unmotivated, and feeling burnt out. These designs resonate with those people who have ever felt drained, experienced emotional illness such as depression or anxiety, feeling like you have no ideas, or feeling like nothing is working in life. 

These stickers showcase impactful moments of life and so many people can relate to those feelings. 

I went through so many different ideas and concepts before selecting this one. I tried creating animal stickers, travel stickers but nothing seemed to stick. I thought about a concept I wanted to portray, the feeling uninspired and exhausted. I started with a word list and then sketched concepts based on the feelings. 

My original compositions started off very simple. As I continued to add more detail I received good feedback about making the brain rounder, adding different cracks into the lightbulb, and slouching the person over even more. The majority of my improvements was increasing the detail in texture and lines. 

Color

I chose to keep these designs very minimal. When you are feeling uninspired or burned out usually things do not look very bright. In these designs black and white communicate that feeling of emptiness.  

Disconnected Lines

To enhance the concept of feeling incomplete I intentionally left some lines disconnected. This helps to make it feel like there are things missing and unfulfilled. 

Outlines

The additional outlines on the inside help to emphasize that stressful feeling. The outside lines have some more texture to them to make them feel gritty and the ones on the inside are smooth to show that conflict inside of us. This helps to make it feel more stressful and impactful. 

Broken Idea 

The lightbulb sticker represents when you feel like you have no more ideas. Your ideas just feel broken and not worth it anymore. There are parts of you that are missing but you can't put it together again. 

Brain Out of Order 

The brain sticker represents those times where we just feel like our mind is not working. This could be due to having a rough day, not being able to process information, or just not feeling like yourself. 

Low Battery

The person with low battery sticker represents when we feel emotionally and physically drained. We feel like there is very little that is keeping us going and we are just doing our best to put one foot in front of the other.