Cards 2010
My card designs for the year 2010. The theme chosen was good quotes from famous people, and Chinese calligraphy mixed with drawings. I learned this style from a Taiwanese comic artist 郑问.
Chinese New Year
The Year of the Tiger.
Birthdays
Chinese character: 态 (attitude)
Quote: It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. – David Feherty
Chinese character: 建 (build / construct)
Quote: Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn
Chinese character: 变 (change / transformation)
Quote: Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James
Chinese character: 败 (failure / defeat)
Quote: I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success. – Michael Jordan
Chinese character: 心 (heart / spirit)
Quote: You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. – Bob Nelson
Chinese character: 虚 (humility)
Quote: Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
Chinese character: 痛 (pain)
Quote: Pain is temporary. Quitting is forever. – Lance Armstrong
Chinese character: 坚 (perseverence / strong)
Quote: Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another. – Walter Elliott
Chinese character: 己 (self)
Quote: Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. – Mike Wickett
Chinese character: 种 (plant / sow)
Quote: Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert L. Stevenson.
Christmas
That is supposed to be a "C", but it looks more like a small "e".