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Here’s an in-progress view\u00a0for a St. Patrick’s Day illustration I’m making this year. Inset below is the basic thumbnail I began from and the first larger sized plan I put together for the next set. I definitely wanted to keep the diagonal direction in there but wasn’t sure yet how to handle the lettering. There were a lot of ways to go with the type.<\/p>\n
In the next version I have more of a plan for the composition and the diagonal the lettering is resting on. I have a couple of things left to puzzle out but I’m far enough along to bring it into the computer to process and adjust.<\/p>\n
Since this is so complicated I will think about using limited colors and sticking with richer shades of green, red, gold, and brown. In ornate illustrations – like in illuminated manuscripts – I notice that some level of order helps to balance organic elements. I think the same idea can help here.<\/p>\n Here’s an in-progress view\u00a0for a St. Patrick’s Day illustration I’m making this year. Inset below is the basic thumbnail I began from and the first larger sized plan I put together for the next set. I definitely wanted to keep … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"sliante-v1\"](\"http:\/\/johnmoorehead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sliante-v1.jpg\")