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Ok, so I've decided to let everyone else know what Evil Eye Candy is and how it started.

I've been doing graphic design for a living for about 9 years, professionally and freelancing, and I've worked for some nice people...and I've also worked for some real assholes, who to this day, are no doubt still assholes. I watched, I learned and I took notes on how everything was done so that I'd do things the exact opposite...the right way.

Companies I've worked for have charged a ridiculous amount of money for graphics. Didn't matter if it was for a t-shirt design, a logo, a business card, whatever. They charged waaaaaay too much for all their services. I bothered me. I always wanted to make a difference, but was waiting for the right time to do so. The time is now.

I can't in good faith charge a client $80 to design a logo that took me 15 minutes tops to design and have them like it. Dead serious. I can't charge someone an arm and a leg to design a t-shirt graphic that maybe only took me an hour to spit out, and most of the time, I spend less time than that and they love it. So, Evil Eye Candy was born. The name comes from a combination of two things. The first being a reference to one of the coolest cartoons ever made...The Tick. The opening credits would show the sign on the side of a building called The Evil Eye Cafe. The second part comes from eye candy, which is actually two sources. The first being the name of a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, which I use extensively, and the second for the meaning "attractiveness", because over the years, everyone I've designed for has always come back for more because they loved the look of my work, which made me very happy.

Over the past few months, I've had more and more clients sending me requests than I've ever had, and I couldn't be happier. Knowing that all these people are coming to me because I'm giving a better price for designing all of their artwork at a better price than all the shops around town. Am I cheap? Well, I don't charge much mainly because it doesn't take me long to do...well...any of what I do, and I want people to continue coming to me for their art needs. Will my prices ever go up? Doubtful. They've been the same for years before I even gave myself the name, and I always do what I can to work out deals with people who just don't have the means to do a lot. I'm like...that guy in the small town that has a general store, and you come to pick up some bread and are a few bucks short and I tell you not to worry about it. It's worked all these years, so I see no need to change my ways.

Anyway, yeah, that's all it is. After I get some more artwork finalized, I'm gonna start implementing it into the content of the actual Evil Eye Candy website. Till, then, I've got to get back to work.

--!CHRiS!