The bottom two lines of Aurebesh are swapped. But they’re literally just laying on top so when I graph it all together in one page it’s easy to fix. I also don’t like how the trooper on the right abruptly ends in this layout. Makes it feel like bad clip art or old school Word Art trick.

I tried to cut the existing helmet at the half point and mirror the image.

Yuck. I had to adjust a lot and I think it looks like a dog nose print. Scrapped that. You can sort of see the next effort at the top left. That turned into

This. The shading is currently meh. But since I can’t draw and I have only ever freehand graphed once before (I put Louise Belcher bunny ears on a bear) I’d say it’s ok. I’ve gotten some positive feedback.

I moved on to cross stitch pattern designing. My newest idea is a Star Wars First Order propaganda poster. I’m using elements from someone’s perler bead project, a QR code I googled, and a few pieces I’m adapting on my own.

Where the storm troopers came from:

I don’t know how else to credit it than to post where I got it.

The First Order logo was tough to figure out how I’d do it. The math works but I couldn’t figure out how’d I’d make it into stitching. Then I remembered I have an app that makes diamond dot patterns. So I put a high resolution screenshot in, tweaked it a lot, and I have a workable pattern to integrate into my idea. I also know how to read/write Aurebesh and I previously graphed out what those would look like stitched.

I’m playing with the layout and what the Aurebesh will actually say but the stuff I have graphed out is here:

I’m thinking I’ll put the Order logo behind the troopers like the Pinterest pic was. I’ll center and align the Aurebesh better and put the QR code underneath it so it’s more squared. I

The other idea I had was to make the Order logo bigger behind the troopers and put the code within it, then put the Aurebesh to the side so it’s rectangular. I think I’ll grid the words first (after I choose what to say!) and then play cut/paste.