New Letters, No Sales :(

Soooo... I still haven't sold a single drawing!  Business is BOOMING.  Obviously not.  I have sold a couple of sets of bottle cap magnets in the past month, but that's not all that exciting.  How hard is it to glue a magnet to a bottle cap?  Okay, I do a little more than that... I fill the cap with sealant and let it dry for a day or two and THEN glue the magnet to the hardened sealant so that the magnet's not lost down inside the cap, but seriously... anybody can do this.  Yet it's the one and only thing in my shop lately that anybody wants to purchase.  I want to sell the things that take me time and that I LOVE making.

I added a couple of new letters today: L and S.  I thought I was randomly picking letters, but it appears I've now made my four initials (first, middle, maiden, and last) without consciously meaning to.  Does that mean I'm self obsessed?  I didn't think so, but gravitating towards your own initials might possibly perhaps indicate that.  Oops.  Oh well.  Hey!  If you can't love yourself, why would anybody else want to??  Eh?  Eh?  Didn't think you had an answer to that one.  Yeah.
I'm thinking next I'll do O, H, E, I, R (in no particular order).  I would ask for requests, but nobody reads this blog!

For my ghost readers - here are my two newest letters:

Can't go wrong with Dr. Seuss

Decided on a quote/saying to go with the weather-looking design from a couple of weeks ago!  Dr. Seuss.  Always a winner.  I wish I could have done a cool freehand calligraphy-type writing of it, but I can't quite figure that out yet (who knows if I ever will)... but the happy text with balls on the end works for me! :)

What to do?

I sat down to draw a good base for a quote (which I hadn't decided on yet) and this drawing happened.  Now I have no idea what quote/saying to put in it b/c I'm a bit confused as to what the doodle is.  Is it weather?  Perhaps.  It certainly appears that way.  The "snow" at the bottom was supposed to be a happy little grouping of flowers.  What to do???

Let it Be

I'm trying my hand at drawing/sketching/doodling, whatever your preferred term is.  I find it to be easy-going and relaxing.  The huge plus to it is that I can stop at any point and not worry about paint drying, wax hardening (I also make candles, just to make that sound less weird), or anything else happening that prevents picking right back up again where I left off.

About a week ago I did my first extensive quote-drawing with "Let it Be."  It's definitely an amateur drawing, IMHO, but I have to start somewhere and hope to only improve.  I'd LOVE to figure out calligraphy, or at least some sloppy form of it.  I'm not trying to be a professional calligrapher (is that a term?) here, but it'd be cool to be able to mix up the text in my quote-drawings (apparently I'm establishing "quote-drawing" as an official term in my blog).

Here's my very FIRST quote-drawing... * drum roll*:

I've learned since doing this one that I should use black ink if I plan to scan them onto my computer to change up or add colors.  The blue just doesn't mesh well with just about anything I try to do color-change-wise.  Of course, I know a minimal amount about the software I'm using, so I'm probably just ignorant as to how to make what I want happen.  I'm not really stressing about it though... LET IT BE! :)