I wanted to post something everyday, unfortunately, it's harder than I imagined it to be...
Fortunately, since I had some free time during Easter, I prepared new projects which I will be posting in the upcoming days :)
Today’s project is connected with the film Blade Runner – the upper image shows the finished version and below is a sketch on which it was based.

Have you ever experienced this feeling: having an idea, an idea that you think is great. You're ready to leave anything you're doing right now and start incorporating this idea into reality. But reality refuses to cooperate – you don't have enough time, you're tired... and there is always something more important that needs to be done. Eventually, you forget the idea and that amazing feeling of excitement that comes with it.
I've experienced it more than once... and I probably will have to deal with it in the future, but right now I'm battling against this attitude. I will find time to make my ideas come to life.

“The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

I remember that when I first heard this quote, it changed a lot about the way I think about myself, my life and the world in general. The very thought of it makes life more meaningful... Just think about it – we are all stardust. This is something that a brain isn't able to comprehend and, at the same time, it's such an amazing, good, and liberating feeling.

In the first photograph you can see the first record of the idea. Although, I carry a sketchbook, I sometimes take notes on random pieces of paper. If I notice something among those scribbles that catches my eye, I cut it out and paste it into my sketchbook for further development.

This is something that Ryan Gosling would say :) but it's actually a fragment of lyrics from the song Home by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros.
I wanted the lettering to look like it was written by a teen boy in love – a bit loose, written quickly on a random piece of paper with no intention of making it fancy, but of conveying the right message instead :)

Another take on the small project I started in the previous post.

I like this idea, because it allows you to practice and make something useful, at least for yourself :) At the same, time it's a contemporary way of saying that someone is important for you. If you put actual, physical effort to create a personalized sign for him/her in your phone, it has to mean something ;) doesn't it...?

This exercise turned into a small project. The photos tell the whole story...

While practicing hand-lettering, I created this word and immediately thought it would look good as a contact photo (which, by the way, I didn't have). So I took a photo, edited it using Cymera (cropped, straighten, sharpen, increased the contrast) and saved as a contact photo.

I really like the idea :) Now I'm thinking about doing it with all of my contacts.

Trying out a different approach – more colour. I used some basic, regular markers. The effect you can achieve by making small dots is cool, but when I finished it, I immediately knew it's not my thing... But it was an interesting experiment.

A small aspiration that's on my mind lately, but, considering the weather here in Poland, I may have to postpone it...