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(If you aren't familiar with Project Lone Star, see Phase 1 here: [link] )

I'll admit it's been a while since I did any work on Project Lone Star, but it's largely been because I've had more important things on my mind, and because I couldn't come up with any good design ideas.

That said, a few weeks ago, I came up with the basic layout for a new denomination of Texas currency and it motivated me to continue work on Project Lone Star. I decided to jump to the $100 denomination for Phase 2, though if you were to ask me why I couldn't give you an answer.

My skills in Photoshop have improved in the twelve months since I last worked on Lone Star, and I think it shows in this work. I've got a poster hung up in my room of all the denominations of United States currency, and while I tried to make this as unique as possible I did borrow a few features from some of the denominations, particularly the $1 and the $10.

One of the things blatantly missing from the $1 note I designed was a set of intricate geometric patterns in the margins around the note, which appears on all US currency denominations. I have since figured out how to simulate these patterns with a number of pattern fills and filters in Photoshop, and I think it causes the note to look more authentic. I used a different typeface in the title block and the note underneath was extended to be similar to what the notice used to be on American notes (several decades ago). The offset-printed pattern in the background of the note is a red-tinted zigzag pattern, compared to the bluish diamond pattern from the $1 note.

I have updated the series for this note (since it is 2009) and I've updated the signatures to match. The current comptroller of the state of Texas is Susan Combs and it was hard finding an image of her signature, but it worked out. The issuing Texas Central Bank for this note was in El Paso, and the serial number this time is the first eight digits of Euler's constant.

Since I have to look around for intaglio images of the people I depict on these notes (to give the portrait that banknote look), it limits my choices. I was lucky to find this one of Stephen F. Austin, who you might say was a founding father of the Republic of Texas.

A feature I did borrow from American currency was the row-column indicators and the plate number, which appear in the lower left and upper right corners of the note. This note, by the information I entered, was in the first row and third column of the 32-subject sheet of notes and was printed with front plate 212.

I'm not sure when I'll get the next idea for Project Lone Star, but maybe it'll be soon. The only issue is finding time to work on it...

Description
(If you aren't familiar with Project Lone Star, see Phase 1 here: [link] )

I'll admit it's been a while since I did any work on Project Lone Star, but it's largely been because I've had more important things on my mind, and because I couldn't come up with any good design ideas.

That said, a few weeks ago, I came up with the basic layout for a new denomination of Texas currency and it motivated me to continue work on Project Lone Star. I decided to jump to the $100 denomination for Phase 2, though if you were to ask me why I couldn't give you an answer.

My skills in Photoshop have improved in the twelve months since I last worked on Lone Star, and I think it shows in this work. I've got a poster hung up in my room of all the denominations of United States currency, and while I tried to make this as unique as possible I did borrow a few features from some of the denominations, particularly the $1 and the $10.

One of the things blatantly missing from the $1 note I designed was a set of intricate geometric patterns in the margins around the note, which appears on all US currency denominations. I have since figured out how to simulate these patterns with a number of pattern fills and filters in Photoshop, and I think it causes the note to look more authentic. I used a different typeface in the title block and the note underneath was extended to be similar to what the notice used to be on American notes (several decades ago). The offset-printed pattern in the background of the note is a red-tinted zigzag pattern, compared to the bluish diamond pattern from the $1 note.

I have updated the series for this note (since it is 2009) and I've updated the signatures to match. The current comptroller of the state of Texas is Susan Combs and it was hard finding an image of her signature, but it worked out. The issuing Texas Central Bank for this note was in El Paso, and the serial number this time is the first eight digits of Euler's constant.

Since I have to look around for intaglio images of the people I depict on these notes (to give the portrait that banknote look), it limits my choices. I was lucky to find this one of Stephen F. Austin, who you might say was a founding father of the Republic of Texas.

A feature I did borrow from American currency was the row-column indicators and the plate number, which appear in the lower left and upper right corners of the note. This note, by the information I entered, was in the first row and third column of the 32-subject sheet of notes and was printed with front plate 212.

I'm not sure when I'll get the next idea for Project Lone Star, but maybe it'll be soon. The only issue is finding time to work on it...