March 2012
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Offbeat: Start / Select Buttons
So playing with my Vita, I came to a strange realization: why is there still a Start and Select button on a brand-new, modern-era console? Especially the “Select” button. I sat there looking at it thinking “wow wait, what? when was the last time I purposely hit a Select button?!” Actually, it’s not just the Vita. Nintendo has the DS and 3DS rocking a Select button...
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Skills To-Do List 2012
- Learn how to paint digitally. I don’t really know how to paint digitally, to be honest with you. That is, to straight-up just paint a picture. My work is very reliant on the technical skill of my line art. This causes my art to be colored like an animation cell, never painted. I fill my colors like flats, then apply shading over that. Never any build-up, the line art always remains in the...
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PROTIP: Making straight vector lines in Paint Tool...
Paint Tool SAI has no shift-constraints when using a linework vector layer to draw with. This my preferred workaround. Gives me great flexibility to wing my perspective.
This may already be a well-known thing among SAI users, but I thought I’d make it into a mini-tutorial anyway :) This may be the start of a new mini-series of tutorial which focuses on a single aspect of using a piece of...
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I enjoy (literally) lighter comics more.
I finally found out what it is I don’t like about the look of a good number of american comics — I used to think it was a stylistic thing, (chunky features,) but really it’s the total amount of black they use that bothers me. I know it’s supposed to be good form to spot your blacks, (lots of blacks, was taught this in school,) on your comic because it “grounds the...
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Remixes I enjoy more than the Originals
Usually I’m not a huge fan of remixes — especially ones that make up tracks 12-20 on an otherwise 11 track album. But I have to admit, sometimes there are ones I encounter which just strike me in just all the right ways, or just plain get me to hear the song in a new and even more appreciated light. Here’s a short list of the songs I’ve come to adore because of their...
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