Transformation Tuesday: Reimagining one of my earliest pieces
For a recent #GoodTypeTuesday challenge, I decided to reimagine one of my earliest pieces. The original was done in August of 2014, only a week or two into my lettering foray. In fact, the piece had won a sketch contest over at Creative Market.
At times when I look back to my older work, it's hard not to cringe, but somehow this piece doesn't do that (as much, at least.) Nonetheless, it's easy to wonder what this piece might look like after 5 years of honing my craft.
The reimagined piece represents the practice and improvement that my work has seen over the past 5 years. My work has evolved from being done mostly in monotone ink and pencil to introducing color and going mostly digital. The scripts have gotten more uniform as I've learned more about letterforms; the flourishes have gotten more mathematical. I've even dabbled in realism a little bit since then, remembering the high school drawing and painting classes I enjoyed so much, and the violin shows my enthusiastic attempts at trompe de l'oeil on Procreate.
Here's a little timelapse of the new work:
I think Lady Catherine de Bourgh, who was waxing eloquent of music the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice, would approve of my “constant practice” but continue to admonish me not to neglect it on any account. No doubt she would have been a great proficient if she had ever learned.
In the meantime, I'll keep practicing too.
