JFlah's Blunders

Sketch of Merida from Disnye's Brave - water color pencil & graphite on paper. It's been a while since I sketched anything with a real attempt at getting everything right... I'm sorely out of practice. This is reminiscent of Merida from Disney's Brave but she looks older and I didn't even try to draw the back hand - just put in a few lines to indicate where it was. I used the image that was on the DVD insert as reference while I was listening to a movie. Enjoyed working on it.

I'm not much for arranging greenery - never have been, but our maintenance guy has a great eye for that kind of thing so he and I put the grasses up and mounted the critters. Now all that's left is to patch where the screws are and paint the words on the fence. Here's the logo again:

Stayed late at work this evening to finally paint the alligator part of that Preschool logo. All credit goes to God, who somehow made each brush stroke work. There were a few moments... ok, lots of moments when I wasn't sure this was going to turn out. Could've probably added more shadow to the left side of the face, but in general, I think it turned out ok and I'm looking forward to seeing it installed. Here is the final and a few progress pictures.

Pastor Terry Young - First Baptist West Monroe Been working on gathering my pieces for this year's design for Mondays for the Master. Came across a video of Terry Young preaching. He's a pastor at First Baptist in West Monroe and will be our guest speaker on the last day of our Monday's for the Master (Aug 2). Was looking specifically for a screenshot or picture I could use in our promos and came across this video. Its message was timely encouragement so I wanted to share.

This week's sermon title slide was a lot of fun to put together. Pulled images from several places to make the box work and then I pulled images to create the environment for the box before working on the text and such. Will probably work on the text layout a bit more - am not fully satisfied with the font choice or layout just yet, but it's very close. Started with this image and a title earlier this afternoon: Just a squashed old box photo. Ended with this: This is the "almost" final rendering. Will be working a bit more on the text layout, but the background is pretty much done. Was fun to find the box, choose a pattern for the wrapping paper, warp that paper to fit. Most difficult part was deciding on the color scheme. The most fun was making the bow fit and putting the shadows on there in a believable manner. Not really satisfied with how the box doesn't quite seem grounded on the wood, but it's not so obvious that I am overly concerned about...

Can't believe that Walmart.com is still selling the infant bedding set I designed while at Crown Craft/NoJo . I was there for only a few months and they granted the the great honor to of allowing me to take this project and run with it. They even let me name it - Dreamland Teddy. It's done well enough that they have since made a pink version and I couldn't be happier about that. I've seen some of the reviews online and have to say that they're encouraging. When I'm feeling like what I design or draw isn't good enough or that what I'm doing looks juvenile or when I have any kind of negative thought about what I'm doing, I consider what a great success Dreamland Teddy continues to be even 5 years after I designed it and how uncertain I was about it even then. It's surprising how emotions so often prove to be unfounded in truth. Here're my mechanicals: