TEN YEAR PROJECT UPDATE! ha

For clarity, I haven’t been working on this for ten years. ha I was poking around Skillshare this morning and saw my post here with comments from 10 years ago. (The time has gone by so fast.) A lot has changed, I live stream art three times a week on Twitch now and continue to own/run several businesses but now under my LLC. My style has changed a bit, partially to deal with hand tremors, so I thought I’d update it. I just created this in Procreate and will export it to Illustrator for vector.

The final won’t have my chop/signature on it like this.

You can watch me draw the updated version on my TikTok where I sometimes post my Procreate timelapses. The thumbnail sometimes updates to unrelated videos so ignore that.

- - - the original project below - - -

My Project

"Live Kindness. Practice Gratitude."

This has been my mantra for quite some time now. I had thought to do something more personal, more individual, like "Someday is now." or "Finish." which are words that have inspired my forward momentum. I wanted to create something that I can put out into the world, though, so I have chosen the word "gratitude" which I will use for thank you cards but can eventually expand into the full phrase.

Brushing Up

I am left-handed, so calligraphy has never been an easy thing for me to pick up. I enjoy drawing the letters more than writing them, but hope to improve on that skill. 

Having been an illustrator for 28 years now, I have specific tools that I prefer using. My tools of choice for this project will be a blue lead .5mm mechanical pencil, a black .5mm Pentel Energel, and a black .2mm Micron.