JFlah's Blunders

Ok, so I didn't follow the rules this year. I did my sketches but didn't post them all. Here are ones I failed to post: Source: https://imgur.com/9fK6vcW Loved this one so much I did a digital painting too. Source: https://imgur.com/9fK6vcW Source Source Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/WecIqruEZfo Don't remember where this one came from. It's kinda wonky so probably an original - LOL I think it was inspired by RizzyFig's cute mermaid, but don't remember. Sources: https://unsplash.com/photos/DziZIYOGAHc https://unsplash.com/photos/oWTW-jNGl9I  

Almost caught up on the challenge...

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.

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.

Ok, so the ladies' ministry wants a tshirt design and I was wondering if I might could do some typography/calligraphy for the back - this is their verse: Mark 12:30 Used this one as inspiration: And ended up with this: Here's the final photoshopped on top of some stock paper. Has some successful bits and some not so great bits and isn't particularly pretty... I've still got a lot to learn, but am enjoying the process