JFlah's Blunders

Did this design for some cut vinyl that will go into our new Ministry Center. Will be black vinyl on a yellowish tan wall. Will take a photo once it's up. Design went through three sketched versions before I landed on something that started to look right to me. All told, the design took more than 20 hours (including the 4 hour sketching time) and I enjoyed each second. Am so glad that I've got Adobe Illustrator to help me digitize the sketch into a vector format - that would've been a bear to do if I'd have had to do all of those points and curves by hand. As it was, I traced the cleaned up sketch scan in illustrator and then got rid of zillions of extra anchor points as I refined it. First version of the trace had girly ribbons with outlines that would've been really difficult to lay in cut vinyl but, the thickened lines aren't too terrible - we'll see how the printer does with it and how much of a monster it is to install.

Bosses decided I needed an iMac but it's been two months and I'm still having  PC to MAC OS pains - mostly in relation to the finder windows. It's been more than a little frustrating not being able to use every file dialog window as I would a typical finder window. That lack of usability is annoying and really slows down my efficiency/organization. Add to it the glitches that Adobe CC has with the Photoshop/Illustrator CC open file dialog window, the gradient swatch window, the save window, etc always opening at a the tiny default size instead of the size I closed it at and I'm pulling out my hair, wondering why I didn't insist on another PC instead of believing getting a MAC was what I needed. I have to say, though, that the "just deal with it" and "Macs aren't PCs" types of responses I typically get in apple "help" forums aren't useful. Not only so, but I can't help but think those posts were written with...

This is a calligraphy design I drew for a shirt for our women's ministry trip to the Beth Moore Living Proof Live conference in Mobile this August. They chose a bright turquoise shirt with hot pink ink - am looking forward to wearing one of them, especially since the shirts are super soft (District Made brand style DM108). I highly recommend that shirt type - though the number of available colors is tiny.