How to design a typeface (Part 1)How to design a typeface (Part 1)Sans serif — RomanIn this article/tutorial I will show you how to design a typeface. I will cover the basics and show you how to design advanced letters as well. There is so much I can talk about though, so if people like this article I might expand on this with future articles and get more into detail. I will only cover the design though, so you will have to research how to do the spacing and programming and turn your typeface into a usable font—or wait until I might do an article on that as well, but I don’t have such an article planned anytime soon.What will we design?I will first show you how to design some basic letters for a geometric sans typeface like Futura, because it utilizes geometric shapes, which is always my starting point for every typeface regardless of style. O
Introduction to Polymer ClayPolymer clay is a modeling compound consisting mainly of polymer polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and plasticizes to make it pliable. As you can see it's easy to define polymer clay, but there's no possible way to describe all the variety of things that can be achieved with it. In this article I will recollect some of the best resources and guide you through the basics of polymer clay, if there's anything I didn't cover here please don't hesitate to leave a question, I'm sure me or other polymer clay enthusiasts will be happy to help you I will be referring to polymer clay as it's my medium of choice and expertise, but many of these resources can be used for other kinds of clay. You can even make yo
Joe Madueira-Do you really want to be an artist? OnceUponASketch is a Children’s Market Blog. Norman Grock and Wilson Williams, Jrhave come together to give insight, education and news about the manyfacets of the Children’s Illustration Market. From Children’s Books toCharacter Design, Storyboarding, Toys and Lic. Products. Find articles,interviews and resources to help fuel your education and growth. Jump onto learn more about the varied industries and what it takes to becomesuccessful and make it in them.Joe Madueira is a prominent comic artist, character designer and video game developer. Joe rose to prominence drawing the X-Men for Marvel comics and launching his creator owned title Battle Chasers. Joe then left comics to work in video game development and since then has ventured back into comics from time to time and will be penciling upcomi
Feature IJournal skin = Stargate.Thus, this feature shall take us to other worlds of art, where sci-fi, magic and fantasy take hold.Links above also offer a nice song to listen to. Not really themed, just a song stuck in my head right now. Also a link to my personal favorite super car at Geneva car show. Sorry Lambo and Ferrari.> >>~DanSlider >>> >>*TWPictures >>> >>`Rahll:thumb17424006
PE: 10 tips and tricks not very known about PS10 useful and not very known Photoshop tricks1. Saving your .psd with all layers hidden makes a smaller file compared to saving it with all layers visible.2. You can use the Crop Tool to quickly increase the canvas size of an image by holding down Ctrl + Alt whilst dragging the Crop Tool outside the current canvas.3. If you want to see only one of your layers at a time, hold down Alt whilst clicking the eye icon of the layer. (do it again to show all layers again)4. Holding down Alt while in a dialog box turns the Cancel button into a Reset button, so you can reset the values back to default.5. If you want to just quickly check a very heavy .psd file, you can hold down Shift + Alt while clicking the Open button. This way Photoshop will open a flattened version of the file.6. You can change the gray background that surrounds your image with the Paint Bucket Tool, just hold down Shift and make click on the background.7. Not a very unknown tip, but if y
10 things to ask before you draw a Children's BookArtwork copyright © Wilson Williams, Jr.With the growth in popularity of the e-book many authors are seeing a glimmer of hope and realizing that they can get their work out there without having to break into the velvet roped publishing house exclusive party. This means that you will begin to get even more solicitations from those authors looking for artists to bring visuals to their words.If you have a website or have done any degree of online advertising of your artwork, you have probably gotten an e-mail with a similar message as the title. If not, you will at some point. It's best to be prepared now. For those who have gotten it, nine times out of ten you aren’t sure how to respond to it, what should you ask, how do you respond?I was tired of retyping essentially the same letter over and over again. I finally saved a template of the letter I use in this situation
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