About Creativity

Pantone autumn Comments Off

I’m home from turkey day, and this is the stuff I’ve found.

PMS matching for your coffee Comments Off

MyCuppa – ensuring the perfect coffee to cream ratio. Personally, I’m ok judgging *my* cuppa by eye, but the concept is cute.

Editors are important Comments Off

Whenever the topic of editing sf comes up, I think of Frank Herbert. Dune is a great book, in part because of all the stuff that (I have heard it said that) John Campbell made him take out of the body of the book and stuff into the appendices where it belongs. (Cf. LotR.) And [...]

Yay creativity Comments Off

One of the ways I know I’m really getting my artistic groove on? I’ll randomly stop work to dance around the house for a few minutes, then pick back up where I left off. (I used to do this all the time when I was a kid – don’t know how my grandparents put up [...]

Aw frack Comments Off

When it comes to graphics apps, Painter has always come in a distant second to Photoshop for me, but now that I’m doing more line art and coloring (as opposed to photomanipulation) I’m finding myself…. constrained by my beloved PS. I’m dicking around with Painter Essentials 3 (came free with my tablet) and damn but [...]