A new abstract hymn print for As Sisters in Zion:
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New artwork: I Give unto you Power. This takes the idea from Principles and Ordinances II and By the Laying on of Hands II and applies it to Christ ordaining Nephi. Also similar to Father’s Blessing.
New artwork: No Tongue Can Speak.
Scripture prints
Another new project. I wanted to do something with the words of the scriptures and came up with this style, where it’s intended to be more decorative/evocative (so legibility isn’t at the top of the priority list). It’s also a fun way to play with textures in ways that I don’t always get to with my other art.
1 Nephi 3
Luke 2
Mosiah 2
Abstract hymn prints
Me being me, I went ahead and explored what abstract hymn prints might look like.
I Stand All Amazed
In Humility, Our Savior
Press Forward, Saints
The Spirit of God
I also played around with making one in Blender via depth maps:
High on the Mountain Top
Hymn prints
A new experimental nerdy thing, for people who like hymns, sheet music, and textures:
How I make these hymn prints (as I’m calling them):
- Typeset the first phrase (or so) in MuseScore using the Bravura font, with the spacing trimmed to within an inch of its life
- Play it out loud to make sure I entered it right (cough) and export an SVG
- Drag the SVG into a frame in Figma and use the SkewDat plugin to skew it -4°, center it, then export a 4,000px-wide PNG
- Use ImageMagick to do some erosion and dilation (to simulate age and ink spread):
convert input.png -morphology erode disk:18 -morphology dilate disk:16 output.png - Texture the image in Affinity Photo and export the PNG
- Upscale with Real-ESRGAN to 12,000px-wide
- Downscale a little in Affinity Photo, add 8% monochrome noise, and export the final PNG
I’m still figuring out how I want to do these (full bleed or not, barlines, clefs and key signatures or not, etc.). Also thinking about possibly doing some abstract versions as well, to avoid all these music typesetting issues entirely.
Four new pieces tonight.
Heart, Might, Mind, and Strength III:
New story: Saying Goodbye. About eight pages long, science fiction.
This one came from wanting to write a story with virtual reality involved (which admittedly ended up being more of a bystander in the finished piece) and then my recent experience with my dad took over and became the main driver, though the details in the story are all quite different.
Two new pieces:
Together Forever II. This one came out of losing my father. (That said, it isn’t actually a depiction of my own family — my parents were divorced and I have more siblings than this.)
Abide with Me II. This has felt applicable to me a decent number of times these past few months.
In the Image of Our Heavenly Parents: A Couple’s Guide to Creating a More Divine Marriage, released today, edited by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, with illustrations by yours truly.
