Tag: sketching

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Keeping up

The beauty of this project is that I was worried I’d run out of ideas (I’m SO not a crafty person), but instead I find I run out of time!

Tonight I spent about 3 hours writing our marketing newsletter, but since it’s a corporate document, I can hardly post that. I then spent just a bit of time drawing out our two visual activities from last night’s mentoring meeting. Having the visuals will help me remember what they are in the future — I also found them annoyingly powerful — even in their quickly sketched state.

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Icons, Part II

Continuing to play with OmniGraffle, icons, and how to show motion and movement in simple drawings. I made a couple of variations on my basketball from two days ago and made a first attempt at tennis. Right now I have a body-less racquet, but it’s a start.

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Super Day

The football season is officially over (although as a Packer fan, my season ended two weeks ago). Can’t say I’m disappointed with today’s outcome. :-)

I was originally going to work on another icon for today, but decided to take inspiration from “current events” instead.

The trophy is the Vince Lombardi trophy, named after the great Packer coach, Vince Lombardi. One of his notable quotes, which I must keep in mind during thing-a-day this month is, “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”

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Feb 01

Well, Valentine’s Day is in 13 days so today I thought that I better start thinking of a nice thing to make for my boyfriend (in a cute small size that can be shipped by airmail, without being expensive!).

So I started sketching and came up with this idea of making a puzzle of a heart. It’s still a concept, but I think it’s a really nice idea. I’m going to make the puzzle pieces and put them in a tiny plastic bag; it’ll be based on a valentine’s card [that I’ll also provide] and he’ll amuse himself [briefly - not too hard of a puzzle! hehe] while putting all the pieces together.

By this I’m trying to represent the uniqueness of our love and how I think that we were really made for each other :)

and now… the sketch: [photo taken with my mobile!]

a nice valentine’s puzzle