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Friday Diversion

Because I have very little room in my brain for these kinds of things, I didn’t realize that I’d poached on Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter blog by titling these occasional posts “Friday Distraction.” What a maroon. So, Diversion it is.
Today, check out this post from Carl Potts (from way back in May 2009): Twenty Or [...]

August 13th, 2010
Topic: art, comics, design, diversion, found, illustration, reference, technique, work, www

The Benefits of the Process

Post-processing is essential in digital photography, and the bundled software that comes with the camera usually has all the tools one needs to enhance what would otherwise be a meh picture, but sometimes overenhancement can kill a subtle image. While looking into astrophotography techniques, I found a simple math trick that takes advantage of noisy [...]

July 29th, 2010
Topic: media, photography, reference, technique, www

Friday Distraction

I’ve been reading the Urban Sketchers blog for a few months now, and while I don’t care for everything posted, there’s still a lot that tickles my muse, and makes me wish I had a little more time in the day to people-watch. I did buy a pair of Moleskine Volant sketchbooks at Aboveground with [...]

June 4th, 2010
Topic: art, diversion, illustration, personal, reference, sketchwork, travel, www