For this meme I was inspired by Agatha from the TV show Wandavision. The brief only allowed for the use of vector art and type. I wanted to give it a personal twist and also did not want to pass up the opportunity to render a demon baby. I tried to keep the expression as similar as possible and used a reference for the child. The background was also made from a reference image of the interior of a church with the baptism bird bath in it. I wanted to carry out the green background so I made a simple rectangle to reflect the original meme. The most difficult part of working in Illustrator was making sure that each format looked the same as the original document.
For the next meme I chose the evil looking girl in front of a house on fire. For this instance I had to work in Photoshop, using images and type. I like this meme because living in New York with loud neighbors inspire these thoughts often. I also have a very particular taste in music and cannot stand certain “artists”. I went with a more intense fire and after creating a layer mask I placed the evil girl in the left corner to mimic the original meme. Type was specially difficult to manipulate in Photoshop.
For the last meme I had to work in InDesign using type and images only. I went with a rebellion against the worst type of them all, while also torturing the viewer with the actual horrors of comic sans. This meme also works if someone shows you something really evil or ugly, like a picture of Taylor Swift. The first ‘holy water as eyedrops’ meme I saw was about an extra spicy episode of American Horror Story.
