Blog – Page 2 – Katie Moore

04/04/2015

March Hand Lettering, Week 4 + the end

: 22. Natasha Romanov (Black Widow), The Avengers. Another one I wasn’t totally sure about, but I’m glad I didn’t ink it because I have an idea stewing for a new and improved version.

: 23. Why are so many of these bittersweet tributes?? RIP Mr. Pratchett.

: 24. 30 Rock. To be more accurate, this is actually Jack Doneghy’s throw pillow.

: 25. What we should all aspire to.

: 26. This is another one that should probably get revisited and redone.

: 27. No longer the catchphrase of my favorite podcast, Comedy Bang Bang.

: 28. Meek Mill, “Dreams and Nightmares”.

: 29. This is one that totally changed between pencil and ink, which strangely didn’t happen often throughout these. Maybe it should have happened more?

: 30. Gaslight Anthem, “Boxer”. The Bruce Springsteen for my generation of Monmouth County angst.

Concise end of the month thoughts: I'm so glad I followed through on this. I need a break from doing this. I can't wait to more fully realize some of these. Overall: I call it a success.

03/22/2015

March Hand Lettering, Week 3

: 15. Just something I need to keep in mind. And I need even more practice drawing effortless looking decorative swashes.

: 16. It’s San Fermin again. The same song even!

: 17. This was a suggestion from a friend, and might be my favorite of all of them??

: 18. Liz Lemon. I can’t even think about rating my 30 Rock fave quotes.

: 19. Christina Yang (Grey’s Anatomy)

: 20. Death Cab for Cutie. I thought about finishing this, but I don’t love it, and it would have probably meant finding a ruler and using it. We’ll see.

: 21. The question mark is because this doesn’t seem like Nathaniel Hawthorne, but I couldn’t find a source for who else may have actually said it.

03/15/2015

March Hand Lettering, Week 2

: 08. from “Sonsick” by San Fermin

: 09. In honor of Biggie Smalls

: 10. What did I say about decade old song lyrics?

: 11. From the Shawshank Redemption

: 12. “Never tickle sleeping dragons,” which is of course the motto of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

: 13. A phrase that’s stuck with me from a beautiful poster I cannot afford.

: 14. Liz Lemon. This will not be the last 30 Rock quote, but it IS one of my favorites.

I should stop being so wordy and let these stand on their own more, right???

Haha, just kidding. They all have captions!

03/08/2015

March Hand Lettering, Week 1

: 01. In case you thought this was going to be deep and meaningful quotes: NOPE. (RIP Harris.)

: 02. I love this quote so much I actually have it as a cross-stitch sampler (which I sewed myself).

: 03. OK, so some of them might be sorta more along the lines of normal quotes.

: 04. The overwhelming majority will probably be “lyrics from songs I loved as a high school sophomore” though.

: 05. See previous caption.

: 06. See, I wasn’t joking.

: 07. You’ve read Yes, Please by now, right?

So I've read about a million different inspirational, motivational articles or blogs or Instagram photos about creativity and habit-building - all boiling down, basically, to "Just do it." I'm trying to remember that not everything that results from a pencil touching paper needs to be perfect and precious - just that it needs to be finished before it can be anything. Trying to come back to the art of sketching or doodling and just letting that be where a bigger, more formed idea comes from. And that I need to be doing all that waaaay more often than I have been lately.

So for the month of March, I'm hand lettering one quote, or phrase, or song lyric, etc, each day. Nothing precious, nothing precise - just taking something that I like or that sticks with me, and transforming it by putting it on paper in my own way. So we'll see how that goes, though I'm really dedicated to sticking with it, because follow-through has always been my biggest hurdle.

These are just tidied up - upping the contrast and removing some of the more egregious smudges (the lefty struggle is real). Otherwise, they'll be just how they are in my sketchbook, for all intents and purposes "finished" but maybe a few could act as thumbnails for more labor-intensive pieces down the road. We'll see!

08/04/2014

How I Mostly Use My Skills

Obviously it's not to blog. I am the worst at regular blogging. I'm going to try again now, though! Because I'm revamping my website for the twelve billionth time.

So, at work I do keep busy, doing the designin' thing, making all sorts of posters and whatnot. And I've even been drawing lately (more on that soon)! But sometimes, outside of work, when life gets busy, those extraneous creative pursuits fall by the wayside in favor of Ben & Jerry's and consuming entirely too many episodes of television in one sitting.

Luckily for me, I have good friends who love coming up with ridiculous things for me to Photoshop for them. These creative excursions are the subject of this post.