And so Edith followed Mother Ostrich up into the mauve mountains and their multifarious crags to find Herr Grief. It was indeed a farlong and winding road to Grief; and the crags did swallow Edith's pinafore and 12 hairpins as penance for their traversal.
As the sun was low and pinkening the wide highup sky and the clouds corralled magenta and green was seen on the horizon and excessive colour washed throughout the bowl of the sky; and the ground did pinken too and the turquoise lichens of the ground did glow in the late afternoon; as all this colour did feast the 4 eyes of Mother Ostrich and Edith: they found GRIEF.
Sorry for recent posting tardiness.
ReplyDeleteI drew this one in a state of excitement after having found [url=http://drawn.ca/2008/10/16/studies-in-pen-art-beautiful-typographic-flourishes/]this totally exciting pdf of calligraphic flourishes[/url], ideas from which which I tried to incorporate into my lettering. It looks sort of shonky and uninvitingly overwhelming I think, but this might be remedyable by more space and a border sort of thing. Which I will remember for the future!
Also on the overwhelming issue, I'm experimenting with not making the picture go all the way to the edge of the screen, to give some space and reduce the need for mad-zoomed in scrolling. Hopefully this will enable the picture to be visible as a picture which holds together more, and not just a crazed din of colours and shapes. The digital images are not of sufficiently amazing quality for lots of paper-grain detail to be visible anyway, so zooming the image in so much just means you can make out the jpeg grain, which is ugly.
You're still hitting home runs here. The text is a little hard to make out at some parts, but overall these are getting better and better! :)
ReplyDeletewow, thanks so much for commenting, and for reading! I'm starting to try and think harder about what it's like for the person reading this stuff, and also about photoshopping them so they look good and are legible onscreen. I think I should have darkened and sharpened the text more on this one - maybe I'll go over it and repost it some time this week. Thanks again for reading!
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