Played a bit last night with some character sketches. It's an interesting task to add character to the letters without adding so much that the letter is not obvious. Also will be a challenge to vary the pose and keep the letter recognizable.

excerpt from a Facebook post yesterday: What if people could download free source code to 3D print their own alphabet figurines? It's an idea I've had that began to have me last weekend going to Mini-Maker Faire. A series of random connections led me to meeting with the friendly folks at Talus Design Inc. We talked about how I could build my 3D models (which I sometimes do for charater consistency) and then have them scan them in. I could then fine tune in a 3Dmodeler and o

I have had the idea of little figurines of each of the letter characters. As is the way when you're in the flow, I met some folks this weekend that may be the head of one of the tributaries of the project stream. I was at a book signing Sunday for a local author, Kevin Byrne. I'd done the illustrations for his book, "MS & E". One of the people I met had just come from the Mini-Maker's Faire. I LOVE mini-maker's faire!! That's the spirit I like to see and be a part of. I wrote

Wow! 7 days and almost halfway. Pretty incredible. I'm very grateful. The Kickstarter campaign has spurred my energy and I'm in full creative motion. Here are some of the working images. I start with a doodle I gather reference. Lately, I've been flexing my Photoshop muscle and working to arrange and size just how I might like the elements compositionally. I can explore ideas much faster. Having the reference images adds detail I might not just come up with from my head. I'