Years ago I created and posted a handful of stereograms, and then I started a series of tutorials to share how I made them. Part I described how to create a background pattern or texture, and Part II described how to create a distance mask render or depth map. But I never finished the series of tutorials and completely left out this part, Part III. I didn’t get into it because by that time I was on a new computer…
Long, long ago, I “liked” a page called Drawing Club on Facebook, and today, Drawing Club posted a link to a page of 3D animated GIFs made with ballpoint pen drawings. At the bottom of the page, a graphic designer named Sydnee Davidson made a guess that it was made with the Liquify tool in Photoshop. My immediate response? No way. I know my Photoshop. That’s Distort and Displace. So I set out to prove to myself that I was…
This is just a quickie, as I don’t really have the time to compose anything meaningful. I’m over at the Creative Direction Workshop with Anne Cain, CrocoDesigns, and Christine M. Griffin, where we’re teaching cover design and all that jazz. My classes focus more on the tools and the techniques, since vision and inspiration aren’t really as teachable. Either you have an eye, or you don’t. I’m also busy working on covers and various other things, getting over my second…
Want to look like a pen and ink wizard of an artist? Okay, this one’s for you. Here is our “Before” shot, a photo I took at some landscaping shop: First, we will duplicate the image to another layer above it, like so: Make sure you’re working on the top layer before proceeding, and make sure you have the foreground and background colors set to the default black and white (hit the D key if they aren’t). We’ll be using…
Seriously. I really don’t have the time or the inclination to write the third tutorial any time soon, and I really don’t feel like fielding any more notes about it or responding to slightly flawed reasoning about why I should write the tutorial. It’s bad enough that H.E. has been on me for years now to redesign my work site, and if I write that stupid tutorial before I do that, then I’m clearly a foolish girl who doesn’t deserve…