Personal Sigils

Kitsu Tails wrote: Somehow though....it looked nicer when I was a kid :laugh:

Aint that always the way?

lol...

Ok, here's my embarassing story...

In looking for my own as well, I tried to combine my first and last initials, J&F..

It looked like this:





I was in night school, and a teacher saw me drawing this... She ask if it was a 'gang sign' and I was so embarassed, I couldnt tell her, anything, except to say it wasnt, lol...

She wanted to let me know that she was available for me to come to if I needed someone to talk to, or needed help...

She was really sweet, but, I was so embarrassed, lol...

I dont need a gang, I am a gang (of one!), :lol:...

Just another update, I'm currently working on the refinement process for Adi Vas, and will soon begin Jestor's 1st draft. One thing to keep in mind is that as of this writing, I do not have a Wacom tablet (will be getting one soon) so the refinement process - converting the drawing into a clean vector image - is slow and arduous using a mouse in inkscape. As such, it's something I have to do in a series of short sessions to prevent burnout.

This is currently the only thing aside from studies that may hold a design up longer than anticipated. Please bear with me, the refinement process can be a pain, but the design process is one of my truest ways of "following my bliss", so I take the good with the bad.

CryojenX wrote: Just another update, I'm currently working on the refinement process for Adi Vas, and will soon begin Jestor's 1st draft. One thing to keep in mind is that as of this writing, I do not have a Wacom tablet (will be getting one soon) so the refinement process - converting the drawing into a clean vector image - is slow and arduous using a mouse in inkscape. As such, it's something I have to do in a series of short sessions to prevent burnout.

This is currently the only thing aside from studies that may hold a design up longer than anticipated. Please bear with me, the refinement process can be a pain, but the design process is one of my truest ways of "following my bliss", so I take the good with the bad.

Never a rush...

All things in their time...

I dont think I even ask, lol, so, I will be infinitely patient cause I am very interested to see what you see...

I doodle when I need to think. I came up with this. My name and all the stuff in my signature graphic, minus vowels, minus recurring letters, a bit of flipping and flopping.



Thoughts? Is this the general idea?

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My Sigil,

May sound a little bit traditional, but I used three words were put together in a sentence with words to connect my feelings. Did removed the vowels and repeatable letters.. and shaped the letters in a figure, after that I made it more compact..

Ok, Adi's is finished. Next up on the slate will be Jestor's first draft and refinement for Kamizu.

A little background on my concept for Adi's sigil. I sense in Adi a soul of great untapped potential, grace and beauty of spirit, but there is also strength there as well. Given that Adi is Episcopalian as well as Jedi, I made sure to evoke cross imagery. To represent grace, I chose to eschew my usual very tribal style in favor of a visual that was evocative of flowing ribbons. Also, when I think of grace and beauty, and also coming out of a difficult part into a more optimistic new period in life, I can't help but be reminded of the French Belle Epoch. And nothing I know of from that era so succinctly sums up combined beauty and strength as does the silhouette of the Eiffel Tower.

So that was my thought process going into this. I humbly present to you, Adi Vas' personal sigil:


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CryojenX wrote: A little background on my concept for Adi's sigil. I sense in Adi a soul of great untapped potential, grace and beauty of spirit, but there is also strength there as well. Given that Adi is Episcopalian as well as Jedi, I made sure to evoke cross imagery. To represent grace, I chose to eschew my usual very tribal style in favor of a visual that was evocative of flowing ribbons. Also, when I think of grace and beauty, and also coming out of a difficult part into a more optimistic new period in life, I can't help but be reminded of the French Belle Epoch. And nothing I know of from that era so succinctly sums up combined beauty and strength as does the silhouette of the Eiffel Tower.

So that was my thought process going into this. I humbly present to you, Adi Vas' personal sigil:


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I wonder how you can make those lines so smooth.. It is really an impressive skill. :blush:

Aqua wrote: I wonder how you can make those lines so smooth.. It is really an impressive skill. :blush:

After scanning in the rough pencil draft, I recreate in a vector format in Adobe Illustrator. I haven't gotten the hang of the bezier curves yet, so in the large file (I export a super high res png file) you might still see some angled areas, but they all smooth out and disappear when you scale it down to normal size. And thanks!