JFlah's Blunders

For those who know me, you're aware that I like anything crafty. I crochet and knit and sew little things, and I love learning new stitches. Have been thinking I want to start a new knitting project so I've been looking around to see what I might should do. I have yarn enough for an afghan, but keep thinking that I want to make a sweater - something I think may not take quite as long as an afghan. Not long ago, I fell in love with Katniss' victor sweater from Hunger Games Catching Fire movie. In looking around for who created it, I ran across Alice Lemoine 's work. I hoped for a pattern that I could use to make one for myself vs having to figure out how to do it myself and found a free pattern for a version of it on yarnspirations , but it's doesn't have the character that the original does - although it gives me enough of an idea of what I may need supply wise and might give me an idea of what size to make each piece. Really love the tail in the back and ...

Loved doing this! Love the shapes and the expression. Sculpture - Marguerite by Rose-Aimee Belenger

sketched and inked on paper, colored in photoshop... Inspiration Source

Inspiration from Unsplash

I really have trouble with perspective - but this still turned out cute - should've cleaned up my pencil work... Source: Unsplash,

Almost caught up on the challenge...

My version of the funny unicorn vector below...

Sketch/Calligraphy - This is only part of the great verse - Needs some work [that "u" and "n" look too much alike for my taste and that weird ligature between then "R" and "g" doesn't work well] and better ink job, but I like the flow and arrangement so may eventually create a vector of this. Sow for yourselves righteousness;      reap steadfast love;      break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord ,      that he may come and rain righteousness upon you. Hosea 10:12 [ESV]

Inktober sketch #3 Sketch - inked... Boy!  I need to work on my inking skills! Probably need better tools too... Inspiration - I couldn't find original artist but saw it first on pintrest

Not my most successful drawing to date, but still fun to look at - might try it again so I can get the angles right. Inktober #2 Prompt: Tranquil Sketch - pencil on paper Reference - pic by Lydz Leow

Probably not going to make it all month, but I'm going to try for at least one every other day. Don't plan to ink them - my goal is to sharpen my drawing skills some - have really let them atrophy. Without more adieu, here's #1 for Jake Parker's Inktober challenge . Prompt: Poison Sketch - pencil on paper reference photo

American Gothic image from wikipedia - bubble image from a YouTube video - Digitally painted new lips, shadows, and buck-teeth in Photoshop, comped the images together & added filters.  I can hear him now. "Now, Ethel. I told ya we was gonna set for tha camera. If'n ya don' spit that out now, I'm'a gonna pop it with this here fork!" Inspiration Image is the one of the Mona Lisa blowing a bubble .

Pastor requested a logo for our version of d-groups last week. A google search turned up several goodies. The one I guess is one of the original d-group logos was this one: which I thought was kinda interesting and modern-ish. I love their color combination - especially that rich gray, though I would probably need to use the blue and light gray we have in our logo instead [for consistency sake]. Wasn't sure about the sharp speech bubble idea or the text layout in the bubble there... I considered how the speech bubble one might could be altered to better serve our purposes. Then I ran across Northstar Church in Knoxville . Their discipleship pathway had symbols that represented each thing. Here's the d-group one I stalled on: Northstar Church Knoxville's d-group icon Ok - so, that's really cool. Love the shadow too, but it wasn't active enough for me. Later that afternoon, while I was listening to my Amazon music, I saw the "share" icon and a light...

James McAvoy - cf Victor Frankenstein - sketch 2018 You can tell I didn't take as much time with this portrait as I did with the one of Baker... You can tell what I was going for and that I didn't quite get there. Boy! I need practice.

Simon Baker - cf. The Mentalist - brown pencil on paper - 2018

John 3:16 sketch John 3:16   -  digitized sketches in Illustrator then did a mockup in Photoshop Do you dream and remember it? I've always had an over-active dream life... nightmare life, more like, and I often remember what I dream. At least I remember enough snippets of dreams to put them together - probably because I don't have kids or family that forces me to pop out of the bed like a daisy and go to running... [I have too much quiet time... is that even a thing?] Sometimes these dreams become the genesis of a short story, but other times I know they are helping me work out the scary stuff that's happening in my life. Why am I talking about dreaming? It's because I had a weird one that woke me at 4am this morning. A dream that woke me because I died in it - little unusual for me. There's usually danger in my dreams, but I don't usually die in them. Well, thankfully it was an accidental death vs any other sort of terror - the car I was riding ...