Tag: journaling
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a gentle calm
I wanted to try my hand at some more minimalistic scenes. It’s a far cry from what I had originally planned, which is an illustration of a woman yelling – which I was going to call “Crying Wolf.” It’s a long story, but long story short: I caved and changed my Adobe plan back to…
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You Sneaker
“It’s not about the shoes, it’s about what you do in them.” -Michael Jordan So… this is a little sad. I spent an hour or so learning a new technique in Photoshop by reading a tutorial; how to turn an image into a sketch. The reason I did this is because I made a decision…
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Gone Fishing
“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.” -Benjamin Franklin. I thought I’d do something different on this image. It’s a sketch / paint blend, with a paper background, so that it looks a little old school and handmade (not digital). Looks like this man knows how to…
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Hope
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” -Thich Nhat Hanh –Before I talk about hope, let me just say that I’ve been trying one of the new free programs (which I’ll talk about another…
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Can a Zebra…
…Change its Stripes? I started working on this Zebra some time ago, and I started to enjoy the fact that all I had to spend time on was the black. The white just sort of fills itself in for you, with the help of your eyes. What a time saver. I’ve been offline for awhile,…
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Everywhere I go…
…There I am. I ran, and I ran, As far as I could.I ran from the bad,In search of the good.But wherever I went,It would always still be.The one that I ran from…Turned out to be me. I was attempting to go back to simplicity, but the darkness in this image looked a little too…
a sprinkle of faith 