Tag: I didn’t know about that
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Beautiful Champion
I wrote a letter a few weeks ago, to myself in the future. It’s not something I do out of habit, but one of my friends – a kindred soul – inspired me to try a few weeks ago. What I thought was going to be something I saved and read to myself 10 years…
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Rambling
I get lost in my own little world sometimes. Thoughts jump from one topic and phrase to the next in a high speed chase while I keep my hands busy and let my brain work itself out. I did that today, while deep cleaning my kitchen in a race against the two loads of laundry…
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Two Jameses #artistictuesday
I’m facing a dilemma. I’m working on re-illustrating and I finally have all the drafts done. The problem is, the new James looks much different than the old James (two very different styles) and I’m not sure which style to go with. Obviously, James 2.0 will still be different from 1.0, but I’m wondering if…
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Erasers
I ran out of eraser last week, so I couldn’t work on drafting my illustrations until I got more. So I got some on Saturday, and I picked up some colored pens, and a super-fine tip pen, and a 7 pack of canvases. ^.^ I realized something the other day – In film and in…
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Psychadelic, Baby!
I’m going to say right now, that the title has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m writing about, I just wanted to say it. In a bit here I’m going to start working on illustrations and stuff, but I wanted to take a sec to post something I discovered today. Van Gogh is similar…
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Fireworks v. Illustrator
in pictures. Last night using Fireworks and a picture of myself sitting: Tuesday night using Illustrator: I did try to use illustrator again last night, but after spending a long time trying to just extract myself from the background and make a half-decent mesh, I decided to switch over to Fireworks – which I need…
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Learning
I spent all of last night experimenting with Illustrator – I’m a fireworks girl and I think I won’t mind taking a few extra steps to get basically the same result with a program I like better. But it was still good to try, I might try to do some more things with the 30…
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Gesso.
I can’t believe that I haven’t used it before now. It makes painting so much better and is definitely worth the extra time. I did a layer or two of just gesso, and then I mixed it with black to make a light grey so there’d be less glare under the lights. Also, I used…
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Crash Course Challenge day 8
I took a well deserved break yesterday and spent the day playing the xbox and hit the books again today. I read some more about perspective (and how to draw it) in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and internalized more of the Everyday Work of Art. Most of that I’m still mulling…
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Crash Course Challenge day 7
With isms finished I devoted my afternoon to reading a few more chapters in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and the Everyday Work of Art. In DRSB I learned about using negative space to see objects and force myself (in a way) into using my right brain. I did most of the…