the scroll

[baronessekat]

I've been working for months on a scroll layout. Tracing, transferring to work paper, tweeking, more tracing and transferring.

I'm to the point of finally transferring it onto the good paper and I can't stand it. I hate it so much.

I am so seriously fighting the urge to pull out my kneadable eraser and erase the whole thing, scrap the idea and do something else entirely.

I just don't have the time come up with a new idea.

And it feels like a cop out if all I do illumination wise is a stylized version of the Order Badge.

The wording is beautiful and simple and by someone else. Can I just fill a 12x16 piece of goatskin vellum with 128 words and the order badge?

Gods I hate second guessing myself.

Comments

[svan-1004.livejournal.com]

Just remember that the recipient knows that a lot of work was put in for them. Many cherish that effort. It may not be what You want for a reason.
Maybe it will be perfect for the one who receives it.

[baronessekat.livejournal.com]

thank you. It helps hearing that from non-scribes.

I did sleep on it and have decided to do a different layout. I might be able to use the other layout for someone else. But the original just wasn't speaking to me for the recipient and I can't force it.

I did find something else that has more of the right feel for me and should not take nearly as long to do the scrap mock up before I can transfer it to the vellum.

[svan-1004.livejournal.com]

excellent. I used to do scrolls.. only Baronial and AOA level. nothing to your degree. and i "get it" about having the right thing for the right person.