Stumped

I’ve been working on a creative project the past few months.  Not really a project, more of trying to have a career path.  There are many outlets I could market these things thru, but for some reason I can’t get into a store!!  I am not saying I’m SUPERFAB or anything like that.  I think I’m pretty average, and I do 95% of the design work.  However…it makes me wonder how some other people made it into stores when their work looks like a pack of highlighters bled in the wash or something.  Not in a good way.  For good visual aesthetics you have incorporate different values into your work—something that even my ‘non-professional’ eyes can tell.  Values meaning light vs.. dark.  And texture is important too!!  How do people get into multiple stores when their work looks like cartoons, bright colored, non real cartoons?  I am completely stumped.

On the upside there are so many talented people out there that I am inspired by—want to be like them when I grow up—if I ever do.  Hopefully I can find my place in the creative world with them.