Tonight I chose to design something new to share. It has been a while since I have exercised my artistic fingertips, and I could feel them tingling with unique insights.
The goal this time was to make a little decorative image that will highlight historical information about my steemit account. It needs to be designed in an appealing way to fit on the bottom of my future posts. On the image, I'll leave spaces for text to be inserted to list useful data such as the price of steem, my current SP, account value, voting value, price of BTC, price of gold, weekly curation/author rewards, and various other key details.
Since I don't know how to query the blockchain easily, and I'm not keen on learning how to do all the technical stuff like that, I thought that making this footer image would be convenient for me to revise my list of these key data points, so they may be stored on the blockchain sequentially along with all of my future posts.
It will be helpful whenever I look back at my posts and I can quickly discover what the price of steem was, or how much SP I had, and what my votes used to be worth on that day. And I can view this information in a visual format that I prefer.
This was my first #sketch. I drifted away from my original doodle design, because I thought a less symmetrical shape would look more natural and flowing. The s-curves of the steem logo started to appear as the leaves on this willow bonsai. This is what my imagination came up with, so I let it happen on its own.
The design of the tree looked very sad and depressing to me, and not very charming. Willow trees tend evoke sadness because their leaves and branches weep downward. Eventually, I scratched this idea, and decided to start fresh and new.
Here we are with the finished sketch. Much closer to my original doodled concept.
In the background a mighty gong has the words "In this day in time" engraved into it, because every time I upload this footer image, it will have a different date and information associated with it.
Next steps will be to re-create this sketch in Photoshop, and turn it into a nice looking image. Hopefully it looks better than the current name logo I use in my footer. I love watching the creations made by the talented #steem-cartoon #teammalaysia cartoonists, and I would be very pleased if some of that talent could rub off on me. I don't even have a stylus or a tablet, so I'm going to use my mouse to trace it out from my sketch photo.
Don't worry, I'm not scrapping the old 
After digging through my art supplies, I found this super nostalgic pencil. Looking at it takes me down memory lane...
Not many born after the 90's will know what this is. Skipper's was a seafood fast food restaurant. They used to have crayons and pencils like this one for kids to draw on a coloring sheet that came with every meal. My parents always wanted to take us there to eat, but I hated seafood.
I always wanted to go to the fast food joint across the street from Skipper's, called Rax Roast Beef.
Before Arby's took over this franchise, Rax was the ultimate cheap thrill for kids, and got me hooked on breaded chicken tenders and french fries. I could have had the same thing at Skipper's, but it just wasn't the same for a young kiddo. Uncle Alligator was the only fast food mascot I liked for some reason. To this day I am still remembered as the spoiled brat of the family because I always insisted that we go out to Rax instead of Skippers.
Still, I think I'll keep the pencil. It might come in handy again.
Photos in this post are all #originalworks by
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