Whenever I want to produce a half-tone effect in Photoshop, I invariably have to look up how to do it. It should be more straight-forward than it is, but we don’t use half-tones in images as much as we did in the pre-digital days.
Below is a good tutorial for the halftone effect that’s been online for a number of years now. (HT Dylan M. for finding this.)
https://www.thegraphicmac.com/create-comic-book-halftone-dot-effect-your-photoshop-images/
https://medium.com/agileinsider/teach-scrum-with-minecraft-e67ff3b9bcf1
Reblogging this cool idea.
A two-year project, drawing on the collections of the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, has made 800 manuscripts from the period 700 – 1200 available online for the first time.
https://www.bl.uk/news/2018/november-2018/800-medieval-manuscripts-now-available-online#
I finally made some new ink drawings. I haven’t done this since last December. It felt good to have ink and brush in hand again. I’m pretty rusty, though.
I found this story by David Thorne about a missing cat several years ago. I always laugh out loud every time I revisit it. I love sharing it with my design students when the topic of conversing with design clients comes up. Please enjoy: Missing Missy.
I was watching this interview with singer/songwriter John Prine, which is wonderful in itself and I recommend watching it. But the host of the Prine interview was also so familiar. Who is that guy? I wondered. Then at the end of the interview, John Prine says, “Thank You, Ted Kooser.” Of course, I know who Ted Kooser is.
Years ago, I read a book by Ted Kooser about writing poetry. I even tried doing it for a while, but I didn’t keep it up. But this morning I wondered where is Ted Kooser now? In searching for the answer to that question, I found his homepage with this short documentary video about Kooser and his life and work.
Ted Kooser says a great deal about the creative process in this piece. Every day, he gets up at 4:30 am each day and works until seven. A part that really struck me is his statement,
Once or twice a month I come up with something that was worth my time—the rest of the time, I’m failing.
I was drawn to the video because I often give my students the assignment of making a mini-documentary about someone interesting. How can you introduce someone to the world through video? Do it like the video Passing Through from Straw Hat Visuals on Vimeo.
