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Finally, the bookcover mockup is finished. The Lord be praised!
I enjoyed drawing this thing, and I was so happy to have finished it. What really irked me, however, was having to scan it. Because I had no scanner of my own, I had to use the university's scanners. They gave me so much trouble...

So, about the cover: some young people from Westminster -- Jo-Anne Rowney, James Kelliher and Paula Mendez -- are writing a book compiling memoirs on World Youth Day 2011, as well as guidelines for subsequent WYD gatherings. I was asked personally by Rowney and Kelliher to illustrate a mock-up of a book cover.

Now, whether this piece of artwork makes it into the book (or onto the book) is immaterial. I enjoyed drawing it, I loved picking up those colours and using them, and I loved recollecting the happy faces and happy moments I saw in WYD2011. Plus, learning how to draw these flags was a bit of a challenge for me, but a good one it was!

For those of you who have no idea what World Youth Day is, it's a gathering of vibrant young faithful from all over the world, either bi-annually or tri-annually. It's a walk of faith, where you and your friends brave the odds together as you meditate and try to live the life of Christ more. The last WYD was in Madrid in 2011, and close to 2 MILLION young people were there. They knew what there were living, and they were just so happy. Even I drew joy from that day. Meeting Pope Benedict XVI was awesome, but each of us — and I mean each of us had an individual lesson to draw from World Youth Day. It's as if Christ was speaking to all 2 million of us.

Drawn on white A4 card.
Sharpie markers and coloured gel pens.
Touching up done on Photoshop CS 5.1.

© Annette 'Troisnyx' Singh, 2012.

P.S. Here's a challenge: Try and spot all the flags that have made it into the drawing... even the ones that have been obscured.

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Finally, the bookcover mockup is finished. The Lord be praised!
I enjoyed drawing this thing, and I was so happy to have finished it. What really irked me, however, was having to scan it. Because I had no scanner of my own, I had to use the university's scanners. They gave me so much trouble...

So, about the cover: some young people from Westminster -- Jo-Anne Rowney, James Kelliher and Paula Mendez -- are writing a book compiling memoirs on World Youth Day 2011, as well as guidelines for subsequent WYD gatherings. I was asked personally by Rowney and Kelliher to illustrate a mock-up of a book cover.

Now, whether this piece of artwork makes it into the book (or onto the book) is immaterial. I enjoyed drawing it, I loved picking up those colours and using them, and I loved recollecting the happy faces and happy moments I saw in WYD2011. Plus, learning how to draw these flags was a bit of a challenge for me, but a good one it was!

For those of you who have no idea what World Youth Day is, it's a gathering of vibrant young faithful from all over the world, either bi-annually or tri-annually. It's a walk of faith, where you and your friends brave the odds together as you meditate and try to live the life of Christ more. The last WYD was in Madrid in 2011, and close to 2 MILLION young people were there. They knew what there were living, and they were just so happy. Even I drew joy from that day. Meeting Pope Benedict XVI was awesome, but each of us — and I mean each of us had an individual lesson to draw from World Youth Day. It's as if Christ was speaking to all 2 million of us.

Drawn on white A4 card.
Sharpie markers and coloured gel pens.
Touching up done on Photoshop CS 5.1.

© Annette 'Troisnyx' Singh, 2012.

P.S. Here's a challenge: Try and spot all the flags that have made it into the drawing... even the ones that have been obscured.