Motivational Mondays

Let's face it, Mondays can be hard for everyone.  So I am going to try and post some of my personal motivation on those days when any form of motivation is hard to come by (which of course, means I have to find it every week, lol).  It's basically a sick, twisted, wonderfully sneaky plan that I have devised against myself.  We'll see if I win or not...

For this week, here's a poster design I found—it's a series (this being the second) that is pretty witty.  Though I don't agree with every statement entirely, I found it pretty humorous :)

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From Illustration To Cover

Here is the book cover that I've been working on (title/author is a real book that I borrowed for my idea—I thought her title was hilarious).  There are still a few color things that I might change—specifically with the author's name, I have been going back and forth with what color to make that stripe...

Anyway, this piece will be featured in my senior show! YAY
But because I"m having a senior show... I need to get back to work... NOW!

Sneak Peek

Here's a sneak peek at a book cover design that I'm working on :)

 

It's for a devotional book lamenting the struggles of living up to the standards of a Proverbs 31 ideal.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the "Proverbs 31" concept at all—I'm not exactly a feminist I confess—but, let's face it girls, it's a hard standard to live up to.  Even harder if we get mixed up in "the world's" standards and forget about what's really important: Following God fully.

Feedback welcome—it's an ink illustration that I painted in a water-color style after scanning it into the computer.

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More Typographic Play

After posting my potential Tshirt design for the Arborshire, I was asked to draw up something similar for SBC if the school ended up going with a different design.  Unfortunately, I have no idea if the admissions team will select my design, and I will not find out until the end of the month—if then.  So I started to play in a different way to at least keep the juices flowing :)

Here's the result:

 

I like it, but mostly because I had fun with it—especially adding "Fred the Buoy" and the A-frame into the mix! :)

Even if 'the boss' does not want to use this design, I should be able to use it for my Advanced portfolio, so I don't regret the time spent in the least!

Feedback welcome—readability? It's always hard for me to know for sure sometimes.  After all, I should be able to read my own writing!

The Bride Dreams

You know how when something new, big, exciting, and a little terrifying is coming up, and you start to have dreams about it?
Well, let the wedding nightmares begin!

My first wedding nightmare:
A few weeks ago I had a dream that I was back on the beach again with my ADC campers.  I remember thinking: "okay, the wedding is at 2 o'clock, so I'll have to be ready by then!"
Of course, I'm decked out in the lovely box-cut t-shirts, athletic shorts, messy ponytail and bad tan-lines of a camp counselor.  Oddly enough, this didn't phase me until I got a phone call from Todd.
He asked me where I was and if I was ready!
What?! 2:00!! ALREADY?!?
Abandoning my precious campers, I made my way to the gym where, apparently, the wedding was supposed to be held.  I started to get upset because I had not been able to design my invitations or pick out a dress or decorate or anything!  But lo-and-behold, my two bridesmaids (who I can't remember) had picked up a dress for me on their way over.  The dress itself was awful, didn't fit at all, but I couldn't tell them that I hated it!  And to top it off: I smelled like the lake and sweat, I wasn't wearing any make-up, I had abandoned my campers who were all doubtless drowning in the lake, and I had not had any part in the fun of planning my own wedding! Waah!  The last thing I remember was sobbing into the shoulder of poor Todd.
It was a relief that I woke up shortly after this disaster.

Next!
I had this dream right after the day I skipped shaving my legs—something I will doubtless not do again for a long time.
I was at the church (the real location of our wedding), getting ready in the ladies' bathroom with my bridesmaids.  This was shortly after I had purchased my dress and set up the appointment to have it altered to fit me, so in my dream, the dress still didn't fit.  It was much too large, and I kept tripping over it as I struggled to keep the massive folds of fabric on my body!  I also didn't' have shoes!  Where were they?  And HORROR OF HORRORS, I looked down to see that not only were my feet shoe-less, it appeared that I had not shaved my legs in years!
Thus, struggling with so many yards of fabric that my dress was draped over my shoulder ("toga" style, of course), I was trying to shave my hairy-man-legs with a pink razor in the sink of the ladies' bathroom at my church—all of this, just moments before I was supposed to walk down the isle!

Last Week:
At one point this past week, I had a dream that I needed to look through the formal dresses in the basement for a dress that I could wear to the wedding.  My sister was with me, and as we tried to get to the back of the room, we were halted by giant spider webs!  I'm not very fond of spiders, but when conscious, I can get past my fear.  Not so in dreams! I can't STAND them in my dreams.
And of course, I can't seem to kill a dream-spider, so they continue to haunt me until I wake.  These spiders were a little different.  Looking up at the horrid beast as I reached for some of the dresses, I noticed that this particular web was created by a Lego-turtle-spider.  Yep.  A turtle, made of Legos, that was actually a spider, spinning a web.
My wedding was over—I had Lego-turtle-spiders haunting me and I didn't have anything to wear.  Thankfully, I soon woke up and realized how silly I am.