I was looking at a blog that I just recently added to my "reading material" called "Once Wed" which is a venue to buy and sell once used wedding dresses as well as a blog about weddings. (How I stumbled upon it is another long story in itself so I won't go into it.) I saw a picture of a hankie that was sent out as a save the date.
So cute! So I was looking for how to print on fabric (which I had found on another website previously). But I wanted to make a hankie that was just for me, not a save the date, just something pretty that looked like the vintage ones but with the organic cotton sheeting from NearSea Naturals. But I couldn't figure out where to find an image like those florals that I could just print straight to the fabric. And I thought "well, Illustrator has watercolor brushes and I remember seeing a tutorial on vectortuts on how to make a line drawing from a photo so I thought that might work. Then I remembered the cute little artist manikins that I also saw on Once Wed. So I decided that it would be really cute to have manikins dancing around the border of the hankie. I'm quite excited about this idea. I've already made a quick doodle of one but I soon rediscovered that drawing with a finger on a trackpad sucks and that to do it right I need a tablet (especially in my profession; why I didn't get one earlier I have no clue). So that's my new mission. To go to the apple store (or maybe eBay) and buy a wacom tablet. Because once I get used to it, illustrations will flow much easier.
Here's my doodle. Please don't try to steal it.
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