tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69782600597653097132024-03-06T20:41:54.803-07:00Blog o' the Baroness 2.0marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-41668925195852634582013-01-06T20:44:00.000-07:002013-01-06T20:55:51.574-07:00walking with instagram<br />
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I signed up for <a href="http://instagram.com/marynroos">Instagram</a> a few months ago, mostly so I could see the photos my nieces were posting. I had it set to private, thinking it would just be family-related stuff, but as I've been using it more it has evolved into a fun ongoing project. I've decided to make it public and link it up to the blog.<br />
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Last September I started on a plan to work my way up to 10,000 steps a day (about 5 miles). I started at 5500 steps/day and added 500 steps a week. At first I could get there just by parking a bit further away at work and the daily workout at the gym. Then I added a daily walk during my lunch hour. I kept coming up short on the weekends and needed to do something a bit more than going to the gym Saturday mornings. So I started going on long walks around my neighborhood. I kind of hated them at first. It took so long and I could think of lots of things I'd rather be doing. But I kept at it. (Btw, I am now surpassing 10,000 steps almost every day!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was so much glare on my phone, I just aimed and hoped for the best.</td></tr>
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One Sunday morning I was out braving the cold. It had just snowed like mad so I took a photo mostly to pat myself on the back for being out there (see above). But it turned out pretty cool and I thought that would be a good little challenge: take one interesting photo per Sunday walk with my phone. The walks became a lot more exciting after that. I spent the time scoping out what I would use for my one photo. The idea has eventually expanded to my lunchtime walks and the newly added Saturday walks. I love it. I look forward to my daily walks, which amazes me because they were such a chore at first.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This walk prompted me to get some decent boots.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even going to California for the holidays did not stop the walks. Spring Lake flooding.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Spring Lake.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch walk by the office.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No longer phased going out into this for a walk. I've got some awesome boots.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Got myself an <a href="http://www.olloclip.com/">Olloclip</a>. I love the Macro Lens.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yesterday I ventured beyond the neighborhood for the first time. Rock Canyon, Provo. </td></tr>
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So that was a long-winded ramble to basically say: enjoy <a href="http://instagram.com/marynroos">these photos</a> I
take on my daily walks. :) Oh, and apologies for the occasional cat
photo that pops up. But hey, that's what the internet is for, right?<br />
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-64623695934769043392012-08-15T22:10:00.000-06:002012-08-16T12:15:58.699-06:00viva las vegas<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The M in my Living Room.</td></tr>
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Las Vegas is about a five and a half hour drive south from Orem. I usually head down a couple times a year to visit an ol' pal of mine (we've been friends since we were 5!) So last weekend was one of the bi-annual trips down, and it was a fine time. We mostly shop or go to movies and shows but sometimes Lisa earns her BFF points by allowing herself to be dragged to various kitschy Vegas attractions. We've been to places like the Liberace Museum (very sparkly!) and the Neon Sign Boneyard.<br />
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I was telling some folks about the Boneyard so thought I'd post some photos. Pretty cool place. I'm a little obsessed with taking photos of any marquee-style signs I run across. I think I have it in my head to make one someday. I have no idea why or what it would look like, but there ya go.<br />
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eta, here's their website: <a href="http://www.neonmuseum.org/">neonmuseum.org </a><br />
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-42182833759988873582012-08-07T19:07:00.000-06:002012-08-07T19:07:33.994-06:00icon dumpSometimes at work I get to do really big projects like animate a song. Or a cool online game. Or illustrate books I wrote. Sometimes there's a lot of busy-work. It's all good, it keeps life from getting dull. Lately I've been making icons of words for a game that teaches syllables. Here's a taste from the 40 I've done (40 more on the horizon).<br />
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-19836427078790819572012-08-01T21:31:00.000-06:002012-08-01T21:31:12.876-06:00the mighty nathorYet another co-worker doing a cool thing (see yesterday's <a href="http://baronesss.blogspot.com/2012/07/ukiyo-e-heroes.html">post</a> about <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1499165518/ukiyo-e-heroes?ref=card">Jed's kickstarter</a>).<br />
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<a href="http://natebaertsch.blogspot.com/">Nate Baertsch</a> is starting his own 30-day challenge. A connoisseur of toys, he'll be <a href="http://natebaertsch.tumblr.com/">posting a sketch</a> a day for August, each a potential design for a toy/action figure. Have fun Nate!<br />
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<a href="http://jedart.blogspot.com/">Jed Henry</a> just started his Kickstarter project and it has already been funded in an hour! That should tell you that it's pretty awesome. Jed has turned classic video game characters into traditional Ukiyo-e style prints.<br />
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He has also joined up with printmaker Dave Bull to print some as traditional woodblock prints. So far they have Mario cart ready to buy. The more orders, the more woodblock prints they can do.<br />
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Jed has done an amazing job. Go get yourself a print, I got mine!marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-71371248285555691902012-07-31T08:26:00.001-06:002012-07-31T08:26:30.956-06:00day 30: the logbook<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My <a href="http://baronesss.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-1-30-day-blogging-challenge.html">self-appointed challenge</a> to blog everyday for 30 days is done. It flew by! It ended up not being too tough to sit and spend a few minutes posting some photos and links and a bit of rambling text. I maybe had to reach a bit for content, but the habit wasn't hard to set. So what did I learn from this?<br />
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1. I don't really have much to say. :) I think it didn't help that nearly everything I was spending my time doing I couldn't post. Plus, I leave all my deep thinking to the TED speakers.<br />
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2. Although I did not end up doing any personal projects over the last 30 days, having to think about what to post every day was a helpful break from deadline deadline deadline. Gathering inspiration or putting together a tutorial helped me keep invigorated for the projects I was working on.<br />
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3. I learned how to make a <a href="https://vimeo.com/46130732">screen recording</a>. That was cool.<br />
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4. Keeping a logbook is a good idea. One of the suggestions in the <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/">Steal Like an Artist </a>book is to keep a logbook and I decided to do this as an offline companion to the daily blog post. Before trying the logbook, I just had a simple calendar to keep track of deadline. But after keeping the logbook for 30 days, I definitely think I've done better with my time management and general awareness of what I do every day.<br />
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This was the first logbook. I picked up a day planner from Target and wrote bullet points about the day. The bottom section I used to keep track of exercise and what I ate. I used the top of the page to write down the one best thing about each day.<br />
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This is what I came up with. I've got sections to keep track of diet, sleep, exercise, how much time spent on project, a place to prioritize my daily To Do list. I kept the idea of writing the Best Thing for each day, plus added a spot to write down what I could have done to improve. The column that has been the biggest eye opener is writing down every penny I spend each day. D'oh.<br />
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5. Ultimately I'd say the 30 day blog post was a success. Nothing massive happened or changed because of it, but it's been good to step outside my little box and share some of what I know and what I enjoy. It probably won't be every day, but I'm planning to keep posting fairly regularly.<br />
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Thanks all who have been following me for the past 30 days!<br />
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<a href="http://baronesss.blogspot.com/2012/02/wax-show-this-weekend.html">Earlier this year</a> I got two pieces into a juried show at the Pajaro Valley Arts Council. I decided to head home to California for the weekend to go to the opening show. It was a lovely weekend spent driving down to Santa Cruz with my mom, going to the show, seeing old friends, and melting in a very very warm gallery.</div>
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I'd taken a lot of what turned out to be terrible photos of the party, and thought I'd accidentally deleted them when I uploaded them to the computer. Couldn't find them anywhere! But when I was looking for those <a href="http://baronesss.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-18-needle-felting.html">needle felting</a> photos the other day, I stumbled across the photos I took. They'd been filed into 2008. Crazy computer. So here are my photos of the show as well as some taken by my mom. Hers are the ones in focus.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is <a href="http://daniellawoolf.com/">Daniella Woolf</a>, one of the curators of the show. I've taken a few workshops from her. She is the most fabulous teacher and a delightful person. Someday I want to be in California long enough to take a class at their studio <a href="http://www.waxworkswest.com/">Wax Works West</a>.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A quick primer on encaustic. </td></tr>
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Apologies for such dreadful photographs. I think I would have been better off using my phone camera than the thing I was using. Oh well. Hope you enjoyed seeing some of the different things people are doing with encaustic. I'm getting myself inspired for my next 30 day challenge. I'll give you a hint. It has to do with encaustic painting. :)<br />
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I've been working on some big poem illustrations. When I started one of a big English garden, I thought maybe if I go back to good old-fashioned drawing with real pencil, this will go faster. I got as far as drawing the big violet when I realized that was a dumb idea. It was messier, it was going to take extra time to scan everything, piece it all together, deal with the multiple layers, clean it up, etc. etc. So I went back to my tried and true Photoshop brushes.</div>
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Here is my Brush palette. I use the basic default brushes that come in Photoshop with a little adjustment. I've never been very fancy with experimenting with lots of brushes.<br />
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A good tip: use the bracket keys [ ] to increase/decrease brush size. Also, you can right+click on the screen for the brush palette to pop up. Both efficient space saving tips I never use because I am stuck in my ways.<br />
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These are the spatter brushes that come in Photoshop. They are my favorite. I use them with their default setting to do a lot of shading. It adds a little more texture than just using the smooth airbrush brushes. I usually set them at 20% or 30% opacity (you can use the numbers on your keyboard to change brush opacity). Then I use the eyedropper tool (ALT to toggle from the brush tool) and pick neighboring colors constantly to blend them together.<br />
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To draw my lines, I still use the spatter brushes, I just adjust the angle. In the Brush palette, click on Shape Dynamics and drag the Angle Jitter all the way to 100%. It gives you a nice more pencilly-textured brush. All those yellow-highlighted brushes above are just variations of this same brush in different sizes or with variation of spacing and angle jitter.<br /><br />
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Here is where you adjust the spacing. More spacing makes a rougher brush. (Above is pre-angles adjustment.)<br />
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This is maybe too much spacing. But if you grab a normal round brush and increase the spacing like that, you've got yourself a lovely dotted line to draw with. Fun to use that with the Paths trick I explain below.<br />
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Here is the actual pencil drawing from the photo at the top. I was using a cheap
mechanical pencil because I couldn't find anything else. It looks fine,
and I'm sure if I had more time it would be a better more organic
looking illustration if I kept with the draw and scan it method. But
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Here is the sketch done with one of my modified spatter brushes. Looks pretty close to the pencil drawing above.<br />
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But I get all control freakish and have to have tidy lines. Here is the cleaned up line drawn in Photoshop.<br />
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Once I've got the flat colors filled in, I do a quick shade with a big airbrush to start getting the colors set.<br />
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One the right flower petals, I did a little shading with the default spatter brush. There is a little more texture to the brush strokes.<br />
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Here's the finished shading and cleaned up lines. Sometimes if I want to smooth the shading some more without using the airbrush tool, I will use the finger smear tool with a spatter brush selected and smooth out some streaks.<br />
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Because this is for a poster, it's pretty huge. So here is a close-up so you can see there is still some texture to the lines. There are also some texture layers to lessen the air brushiness, but I left them off for the sake of the tutorial.<br />
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And finally, a cool little trick with Paths if you are drawing straight lines.<br />
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First step, make sure you have the brush and color you want already
chosen. Also, make sure the fill is turned off. I don't know what those
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Then draw your shape with the pen tool. Go to the Paths menu and choose Stroke Path... I usually do not use the simulate pressure option, click OK.<br />
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Et viola! Your pen tool drawing has your brush texture applied. Makes drawing straight lines and smooth curves so much easier.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What an interesting book you have there Mr. Jimmy Fallon.</td></tr>
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Here's another installment of things I've been listening to. I go through phases, most of the time it's music, but sometimes I'll get on a talk show kick and listen to Jon Stewart or Letterman or Conan or Jimmy Fallon while working. I can't generally listen to plot-driven shows. I will just stop working and watch. But talk shows are great.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flavia de Luce. Great illustration by <a href="http://www.brigetteb.blogspot.com/">Brigette Barrager</a>.</td></tr>
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Sometimes I will listen to audio books or podcasts. All time best are the Ricky Gervais podcasts. Right now I've been listening to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_845857319">The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sweetness-Bottom-Pie-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/0385343493/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343482490&sr=1-1&keywords=sweetness+at+the+bottom+of+the+pie">, </a>the first of the <a href="http://www.flaviadeluce.com/">Flavia de Luce</a> books. Set in England in a big old estate in the 1950s, 11-year old Flavia loves chemistry, her passion is poisons. And of course there's a murder and she has to investigate. It's a fun book. I once saw it described as Lemony Snicket meets Nancy Drew, which is pretty accurate. I'm about halfway through, but taking a break for:<br />
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<a href="http://www.tntdrama.com/series/leverage/">Leverage</a>! Okay, so I geeky love this show. If you've not seen it, it's a higher-tech classier version of the A-Team. Former bad guys help the little guy by taking down The Man. I just got the Season 4 DVD yesterday, so I'll be listening to the audio commentaries this weekend. Audio Commentaries in general are hit and miss, but the Leverage commentaries have been universally interesting and entertaining. <a href="http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/">John Rogers</a>, the head writer, show runner, co-creator, guy in charge, is a great story teller, offers interesting insight into their process and keeps the pace going. Looking forward to getting a lot of work done.<br />
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And finally a couple Pixar-related things I listened to this week. The first was a Google interview with Brave's director Mark Andrews. It's always interesting to hear how these guys got to where they are, plus what they were thinking when they were making the movie.<br />
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Here's Andrew Stanton's Ted talk about story. And finally since I'm at the Ted site, if you haven't listened to Elizabeth Gilbert's talk about the creative genius, please do. Here, I'll embed it for your convenience!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Balinaka Baroness</td></tr>
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Story time! Are you wondering why this blog is called Blog o' the Baroness? The easy answer is that I am a Baroness. But how did that happen? Regardless of your sincerity of interest, I am going to tell you. Also, this will wrap up the little walk down Lucas Learning memory lane.<br />
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Back in 2002, life was a little crazy. We (at Lucas Learning) were still reeling from the economic fallout of September 11. The CD-Rom market had dried up; we were exploring what sort of business models would work online for educational software. We discovered we couldn't use our ace-in-the-hole: the Star Wars property. That was the domain of starwarskids.com. So where did that leave us? Nowhere, actually. After going from a 65+ employee company down to 30ish and then to 14, we finally got the word in the spring of 2002 that Lucas Learning would go into "hibernation." Those that still remained were laid off. This actually left me in a great position to barrel full-steam into pursuing a freelance career, which I did. <br />
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I jumped into working on a children's book portfolio since all I really had was game art and concept art. But sitting at home alone all day, I kind of started to go into Star Wars and co-worker withdrawal. So I signed up on one of the Star Wars Fan Forums. But first, I needed a name. I'm terrible at names.<br />
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Backtrack to Anakin's Speedway, my first project. We had three planets for the podraces. I had been looking through any and all Star Wars reference books looking for characters for the planets. It was in some obscure Star Wars role playing book that I found these crazy polar bear people things that lived in the snow called the Balinaka. We put them on our ice planet. They would pop out of the snow when you flew by and do a Snoopy dance. They were one of my favorite things in the game.<br />
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So I thought a name with Balinaka would be good. And cool character Lando Calrissian was a Baron, so The Balinaka Baroness was born. See image at the top of this post.<br />
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That was all well and good, and I enjoyed hanging out on the boards and meeting people and chatting Star Wars. After a while I was referred to as just Baroness. I don't think anyone else had a clue what a Balinaka was, plus that was maybe a mouthful and a pain to type. (Remember: bad at names.) Then one day I stumbled across (no idea how other than I spent way too much time online) one of those Buy a Real British Title sites. I immediately needed to buy one. But I held off, cause really, what a super silly thing to waste money on. But the idea wouldn't leave me alone, and late in the middle of the night, like all good impulse buys, I bought myself the title of Baroness. Now I was officially a fake Baroness instead of just a fake fake Baroness!<br />
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This certificate currently sits in a lovely velvet-matted gilded frame on my fireplace mantle. It came with a booklet of how to use the Title to my advantage: better seats at restaurants and other perks of fine living. I think there even was a card I could keep in my wallet. Because that would surely convince people I was part of the gentry. heh. I choose to use it to claim my little Barony of a blog, my tiny little corner of the internet: the Blog o' the Baroness.<br />
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Very sincerely yours,<br />
The Baroness.marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-13308325659225861272012-07-26T08:13:00.000-06:002012-07-26T08:13:03.229-06:00day 25: podracer popsicles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I mentioned yesterday that I used to work at Lucas Learning. I started there in the fall of 1998 when everyone was in the thick of working on Episode One. I was the Lead Artist for the 4-6 year old podracing game that ended up being called Anakin's Speedway (working title was LLLCoolJ).<br />
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One of the things we did early on was a lot of kid testing. I made these puppets and we took them to a school to let the kids play with them. All the kids liked Anakin the best, mostly because he was the only human. They didn't love Ben Quadrinaros as much as I thought they would. They did like Sebulba as he was obviously a bad guy and cool. I thought they'd like Mawhonic. He was super friendly waving "Hi." But the kids all hated him. Like really really hated him. We finally worked it out that they found it super creepy that he had three eyes. <br />
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And since I know you're dying of curiosity, we picked Anakin, Sebulba, Gasgano and Ben Quadrinaros as the main characters for our game. I think Ratts Tyerell and Teemto Pagalies were runners up but cut for time. Btw, Boles Roor is a big fan of the karaoke. No lie.<br />
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-25500794745788763732012-07-25T07:41:00.000-06:002012-07-25T07:41:41.955-06:00day 24: old-school 3d illustration<br />
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Look what I found! This is the kind of stuff I was doing when I graduated from BYU. I love the constellations, well...the mythology of them. I actually took Astronomy at University thinking we would learn the stories and how to identify the constellations. Luckily I did alright with the physics, but all that math was definitely not what I was envisioning. I sometimes have these weird lapses of logic.<br />
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On a side note, I also just found the sketches I did of a revised more accurate constellation sky. I had started building a second more elaborate version of the above but never finished. Hmmmm. <br />
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Butterball and the Troll Hag. One of those gruesome old tales where cherubic children get eaten for wandering into the forest. For some reason the Troll Hag would carry her head under her arm and stuff her neck with twigs. Why? Who knows why Troll Hags do the troll hag things they do.<br />
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From 1998 to 2002 I worked at <a href="http://www.lucaslearning.com/">Lucas Learning</a>. Such a great little place to work, I loved it. One of our producers was expecting her first baby and ended up on bedrest for a good portion of her pregnancy. I was charged with making a we-miss-you-best-wishes-etc gift. Since Julie was a Shoe-a-holic and we were working on an Episode One game, this is what I came up with.<br />
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So there are some samples of my old illustration style before totally switching to digital. I'm happy to have found these, it's reminding me of ideas I still want to execute. They are definitely back on the To-Do list... after the latest batch of deadlines is done. And maybe a trip to Vegas.<br />
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This is Mitzi, the nearly toothless wonder. She is my cat.<br />
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Way back in the early dawn of time, I had an internship in New York City. I worked for illustrator Steven Guarnaccia and went on many studio visits to illustrators and designers all over the city. It was an amazing summer.<br />
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By the end of the internship, I took away two important characteristics of the successful illustrator. One: have a collection of folk/primitive art masks hung in your studio. Two: own a cat.<br />
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The first item, I've had no problem with. I've got some lovely ceramic masks from Mexico, as well as lots of collections of folk art and toys and things. Collections are very important for an illustrator to have and in the words of Steven Guarnaccia: "One or two of something are just knick knacks. But once you have three it's a collection!"<br />
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The second item, the cat, was a little more of a problem. It wasn't even an option until last March when I took the plunge and finally bought my first home. Then it took me another year to be certain I really truly wanted a cat.<br />
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After a lot of dithering, last February I went to the local shelter and got Miss Mitzi. She is a fantastic cat. She's a little older, very mellow and very sweet. She's got some sort of crazy auto-immune disease (best guess by the vet) that makes her allergic to her own teeth! So far she's had three pulled. They thought they were going to take the rest, but after a few weeks of antibiotics, she seems to be okay. I just get to brush her teeth and give her kitty mouthwash forever-more. Yes. She is spoiled.<br />
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But Mitzi has embraced her role as Studio Cat. One of her favorite spots is to sit up on the shelf in my studio by my paints and brushes. Now maybe I will finally be a real illustrator. Work your Studio Cat Magic, Mitzi!<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/46171549">toro photoshop painting</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/mrosie">Maryn Roos</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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It's tutorial Sunday! And since yesterday's<a href="http://baronesss.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-20-tucan.html"> toucan video</a> worked out so well I decided to make another. I have to paint these icons for work anyway, so may as well record it.<br />
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This is mostly about Channels. When I first learned how to use them, it was the best thing I'd ever learned in Photoshop. It's still useful even though I don't scan in my drawings anymore.<br />
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To better understand what Channels are, think of them like a silk screen. Where there is black, no paint can get through. Where it's white, you get full color. Shades of gray equal the amount of transparency, so 50% gray means 50% of your color bleeds through.<br />
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Here is a pencil drawing of a bull. I actually found a pencil! Couldn't find a pencil sharpener though so had to use a pocket knife.<br />
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Once the drawing is scanned, I first make the drawing grayscale by opening the Hue/Saturation dialog box: Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation... or cmd+U. I then slide the saturation bar all the way to gray. Next I open the Levels box: Image>Adjustments>Levels... or cmd+L. I adjust the sliders until I get a decent black line.<br />
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Next, I click on the Channels tab. It is up by Layers tab. I click on the dotted circle at the bottom of the Channels palette. This selects the WHITE area.<br />
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Next I go back to the Layers tab. I create a new layer then invert the selection: cmd+Shift+I. Now the drawing is selected rather than the space around it. I pick a color (I'm using black) and fill the selection: alt+delete. And finally I turn on the Preserve Transparency button. That is the first box at the top of the layers palette after the word Lock. With this on, I can paint where ever I like, but if a pixel is 100% transparent it will stay 100% transparent, 50% transparent stays 50% transparent. It is a great way to color your lines. I've turned off the scanned drawing layer so you can see the pencil drawing is now on a transparent background. <br />
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That was basically the tutorial. The rest is just to show you the steps you see in the video. Here the bull is still in three layers. Two layers of color and the line layer, all with Preserve transparency on for easy coloring. To fill in the area of the bull, I selected outside the bull lines, then expanded the selection by 2 pixels, then inverted the selection, then alt+del on a new layer to fill it in. It's not perfect, but faster than using the lasso tool around all the edges or painting it in with a brush.<br />
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Here is with the lines colored. Maybe not the best example since it's mostly dark so it doesn't look that different from the black lines. Once the lines are colored, I merge the layers and start adding the details.<br />
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Lines and color cleaned up. It's essentially done.<br />
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But I wanted to add a little texture and a little more color. The quickest way to do that was to command+click the layer thumbnail to select the bull and then make a new layer. I can shade and add texture without going outside the edges. The reason I didn't put it on the same layer as the bull was so I could adjust the layer properties: change the opacity, set it to Overlay or Soft Light, etc. Sometimes I do some of the painting on a new layer because I'm not sure what I'm doing. If the experiment fails I don't have to revert or undo, I just delete the layer.<br />
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So that was a quick painting of a bull in Photoshop. I don't spend too much time on these little icons since they are meant to be about an inch tall on a monitor. Let me know if you have questions about Channels or anything else I mentioned. Happy to clarify and answer!<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/46130732">toucan drawing2</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/mrosie">Maryn Roos</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Just a little test to try recording a painting in Photoshop. Here's the same image as in the video so you can see a close-up of the finished icon.<br />
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Here's a blast from the past. That's me in the blue dress looking diabolical. When I was little, my mom worked at a flower shop. I remember spending a lot of time there: sleeping in the back office when I'd stay home sick from school, decorating the Christmas trees for the holiday season, making my own flower arrangements and corsages from the scraps on the floor. I've always thought there was something in those memories that would make a fun children's book. And maybe there is. I got as far as a rough draft and some character sketches. I even talked with publisher about it. I think they told me to cut the story back to taking place on one day rather than going through the seasons.<br />
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Anyway, found these while looking for something to post instead of the exciting icons I've been working on (table! lime! lightbulb!). These are from June 2002 (crazy) which means I would have just been starting out doing freelance full-time. That probably also explains why this never went any further. Shortly thereafter I got busy and stayed busy. <br />
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Kind of fun to find this. Maybe someday I'll rework the idea, redesign the characters, who knows. I think it still has potential.<br />
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-33257294391137893422012-07-19T07:22:00.000-06:002012-07-19T07:22:56.372-06:00day 18: needle feltingI keep not blogging about what I am actually working on. Mostly there isn't anything to show. At Imagine I've been working on bug fixes or game art. I don't think it's appropriate to show my in-progress freelance work until after it's published. And I've been too busy with that to do any personal work. I do have a little snippet of something I will show in a couple days, but in the meantime, more random things from me!<br />
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A favorite TV show: <a href="http://www.hgtv.com/thats-clever/show/index.html">That's Clever</a>. Not on anymore which makes me sad. Each episode shows three craftspeople making a project. They show the gamut from glass blowers, metal workers, ceramic artists, scrapbookers, to woodworkers, bookbinders, soap makers, etc, and etc. (This is where I discovered encaustic painting.) I love watching people be skilled at their craft. I learned about needle felting from this show and had to give it a try. So I made some Christmas gifts a couple years back.<br />
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A deer for Jim, an avid bow hunter:</div>
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Kringer for Nate, fan of fans of He-Man*:</div>
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And an "envelope" to hold a gift card for my mom to get herself a new coat:</div>
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It's a pretty fun craft. The instructions are essentially: take a loose wad of wool and keep poking at it with a needle until it turns into something cute! </div>
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Here are some beautiful skeins of natural wool roving.</div>
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Felting needles. The little barbs catch the the wool fibers and lock them together.</div>
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*PS - Nate posted some <a href="http://natebaertsch.blogspot.com/2012/07/add-to-resume-castle-grayskull.html">epic news</a> for himself yesterday. Congrats Nate, the ol' castle never looked better!</div>
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-3600575310432884592012-07-18T08:00:00.000-06:002012-07-18T08:00:09.747-06:00day 17: early influencesYesterday at Imagine Learning we had our first group discussion of <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/">Steal Like an Artist</a>. I hate to be so evangelical about it, but it really is an inspiring little book. At the end of the discussion we went around and each named some of our biggest artistic influences, who we admired, and who we "stole" from the most when starting out. Here's my list:<br />
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<a href="http://magicofmaryblair.com/mary-gallery.htm">Mary Blair</a><br />
One of my favorite illustrators ever. I love her sense of design and rhythm. It's whimsical and colorful and of course it's freaking cute!<br />
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<a href="http://www.williamjoyce.com/">William Joyce</a><br />
Admittedly, this was the illustrator I flat out copied while in school. I was especially drawn to the pre-WW2 and 1940's aesthetic and he has the best robot and vehicle design. I also admire his use of space in his illustrations. He paints scenes like they are from the epic golden age of hollywood movies and I learned a lot about space and using foreground elements from him.<br />
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If you haven't seen <a href="http://morrislessmore.com/">The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore</a> (won Best Animated Short Academy Award earlier this year) at least watch<a href="http://vimeo.com/17164728"> this trailer.</a><br />
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<a href="http://dianasamazingbookadventures.blogspot.com/2011/06/richard-hull-illustrator.html">Richard Hull</a><br />
This is the guy who taught me how to paint. I think everyone in class copied his technique. Richard's paintings are full of fun little details, beautiful color and intricate composition. I got really good at noodling tiny details because of Richard.<br />
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<a href="http://www.drewstruzan.com/">Drew Struzan</a><br />
I always kept trying to figure out how to copy his technique. I used to paint with acrylics, then I tried combining that with colored pencils once I researched how he worked. I never quite got his technique down exactly, but I came up with my own thing by trying to learn it. Which is entirely the point.<br />
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<a href="http://www.americanartarchives.com/leyendecker,jc.htm">JC Leyendecker</a><br />
The predecessor to Drew Struzan, this is the guy Struzan tried to copy when he started out. Leyendecker's illustrations are luxurious and shiny and elegant. I love the sharp angles and bold brush strokes. I could never come close to imitating him, but he was my favorite of the old school illustrators.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ncwyeth.org/ncbio.htm">NC Wyeth</a><br />
Favorite of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandywine_School">Brandywine</a> illustrators (<a href="http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/howard_pyle_18531911/">Howard Pyle's</a> school). Great composition, great drama, beautiful color.<br />
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A few other artists I love:<a href="http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/smith_bio.html"> Jessie Wilcox Smith</a> and <a href="http://www.roseoneill.org/mainpage.html#/">Rose O'Neill</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=minerva+teichert+paintings&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=B71&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=vDYGUKvxHdKDqgHIuOC3CA&ved=0CEMQ_AUoATgK&biw=1200&bih=886">Minerva Teichert</a><br />
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Entirely random doodle I did last night while taking a break from painting English gardens. Have no idea what these guys are on about, but it's probably a fascinating conversation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Plum-Ballerinas-Dancing-Diva/dp/0786852658/ref=la_B000APBFGS_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1342504603&sr=1-2">Dancing Divas</a>, the sixth and final book of the Sugar Plum Ballerinas Series. This one is told from the point of view of Epatha: half Italian, half Puerto Rican, all fabulous!<br />
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So, this maybe has been out since May 8. Super slacking on the promotion bandwagon, sorry bout that book. Epatha is my favorite of the sugar plums. She is very dramatic in everything she does, so she was fun to add flair to all of her gestures. All the girls are great little characters in these books, Whoopi and Deborah did such a great job with them. Congratulations to them on a wonderful series! Thanks for having me!marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-11033690016113046392012-07-15T14:43:00.000-06:002012-07-15T14:43:46.619-06:00day 14: bevelsI think Sundays will be good to do some kind of tip or tutorial or some such thing like that. Make it a weekly thing. That being said, today I think I'll talk about the Bevel Blending Option in Photoshop. I used to avoid it like the plague. It always made me think of bad logos and ugly UI buttons. But I've been using it more and more lately. Maybe I shouldn't, but I'm kind of liking it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puppets made in Photoshop for animating in After Effects</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right click on your layer and click Blending Options... or just double click on the layer's thumbnail.</td></tr>
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If you've never used the bevel tool, you can find it in the Blending Options palette for a layer. I try to keep it on the subtle side so it's not too obnoxious. It's usually in the 1 or 2 pixel range. In addition to adjusting Size and Soften, don't forget to try Depth as well. <br />
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Kind of a tangent, but I thought I'd show the steps of how I made those animals above. These were made to animate, and the bevel, along with a little drop shadow, gives them just enough dimension to seem more like actual little paper cutout puppets. Sort of. Anyway...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original sketch. I was looking at Oaxacan folk art when designing these guys.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I brought the sketch into Flash and made all the separate pieces on different layers. Then I exploded them out so nothing overlapped, and exported the pieces as a png. I reassembled in Photoshop, lining up all the pieces on separate layers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have folders full of textures and fabrics. <a href="http://mayang.com/textures/">Mayang Textures</a> is a great resource.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a piece of tweed I found and then played with different colors and layer properties until I got something I liked.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I want to add the texture to the top shell. When I hold down the Command key and click on the shell layer thumbnail, it selects the shell. (The shell layer doesn't have to be selected to do this.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making sure you have the texture layer selected, click on the little gray box with the white circle at the bottom of the layers palette. This makes a mask from your earlier selection. If you click on the chain between the mask and the layer thumbnail, then make sure the layer thumbnail is selected, you can move the texture around beneath the mask to position it just how you'd like. Then add your blending options, and you're done!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's another example of using the bevel tool. The illustrations in
this project were meant to be those chipboard type stickers in
scrapbooks. So after making the characters in Flash, I brought them into
Photoshop. I Command clicked on the layer thumbnail to select the image
and then in Select>Modify>Expand... I expanded the
selection about 10 pixels or so, then on a separate layer filled it that
cream color. I then added the Bevel to the cream layer.</td></tr>
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And one final little step-by-step with bevels. Sometimes the bevel tool isn't enough and I have to paint in my own bevel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished illustration for three rhyming words in Russian: Picture, Car and Tire (or was it Wheel? don't remember.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Character imported from Flash.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standard Bevel and Drop Shadow applied to the layer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Because this guy wasn't in lots of pieces like the armadillo, the standard bevel wouldn't cut it. I had to go in and paint some of my own bevels and shadows. Then I added a little bit of shading and accents to finish him off.</td></tr>
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And thus, there is how I use the Bevel tool.<br />
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-69971415239733742562012-07-14T11:55:00.001-06:002012-07-14T11:56:17.994-06:00day 13: ghost bees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Misadventures of Dr. John H. Watson</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nobody hates Holmes like Sir Arthur hates Holmes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cabin Pressure Crew</td></tr>
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A sort of companion post to <a href="http://baronesss.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-12-cabin-pressure.html">yesterday's entry</a>: some fabulous Sherlock Holmes and Cabin Pressure illustrations by a chap named <a href="http://ghostbees.tumblr.com/about">Basil</a> with a tumblr named<a href="http://ghostbees.tumblr.com/"> Ghost Bees & Consulting Detectives</a>. (I'm kind of jealous of the awesome name.) It's delightful stuff, and if you are a Sherlock Holmes nerd like I've recently become, so funny. I really like the style, his clean linework, the little cropped heads at the bottom of the space, and his watercolors are quite fun. They remind me of the old <a href="http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Wodehouse%2C+P.+G.+%28Cover+illustration+by+Steven+Guarnaccia.%29">Jeeves & Wooster* book covers</a> that Steven Guarnaccia did. Also, I really enjoy that occasionally he draws little pictures of what he wore that week. Dapper fellow!<br />
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*Drive by rec for anything written by P.G. Wodehouse. Or if reading is not your thing, watch the old tv series starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. And thus ends my weekend of overt Anglophilic gushing. Apologies.<br />
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-13027019329972940242012-07-13T22:17:00.000-06:002012-07-13T22:51:39.046-06:00day 12: cabin pressure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Super exciting party girl me is partying it up this Friday night. Yep, I'm sittin' at my computer working on some freelance. Shake it up woot woot! Actually, I have a silly grin on my face while working because I am listening to some <a href="http://johnfinnemore.blogspot.com/">John Finnemore</a>. I can't always listen to audiobooks or tv shows while I am working. It depends on what I'm doing. If it's just straight-up painting without too much brainwork, I like to mix it up and listen to something besides music.<br />
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So earlier this year I maybe got a little obsessed with the whole BBC Sherlock show. Which introduced me to a BBC radio show called <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lmcxj">Cabin Pressure</a>. It's an old-school style radio sitcom about a small crew of a charter jet airline. Or rather as they only have one plane, it's more of an air-dot.<br />
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It's written by John Finnemore, who also plays the resident idiot Arthur (see photo above) and it is HI-larious. Basically go to YouTube and type in his name, and listen to anything that comes up. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5E15CEF740228BC6&feature=plcp">link to YouTube channel that has all the Cabin Pressure episodes</a>) His <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1570122A3E6FE991&feature=plcp">Souvenir Programme</a> is also quite entertaining.<br />
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Alrighty! Back to Qikiqtarjuaq and painting! Happy weekend to you!<br />
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<br />marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978260059765309713.post-89719918387099663212012-07-12T21:46:00.001-06:002012-07-12T21:46:58.163-06:00day 11: quackers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From today's Vision Conference event...marynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15294834997240172522noreply@blogger.com0