Lil' Asian Inspirations
Some photos from the Dream Valley (Dolina Marzeń) park in Toruń.
The round sculpture is supposed to be a clock and was built in celebration of Copernicus’ 500th B-day.
On the pond, there is a duck house (there was only one duck today, sleeping on the roof)
No flying jesters spotted. Guess our clock tower is too short to attract them.
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My hands have always been a bit shaky, but lately I’ve noticed that even with the stylus held completely still, I get cursor jitters. So, since I pride myself on my nice lines, I decided to find something to fix that.
LazyNezumi is a noise/interference reduction and smoothing tool that works with most Wacom tablets, and can be bound to nearly all drawing software. It doesn’t stop the jitters, but it predicts the amount of noise behind them and smooths your lines to match. I’ve tested it here in Photoshop CS6, and it works frigging wonders.
If you have this problem, I suggest you go download it. It’s simple and elegant as heck, and it makes your lines as smooth as buttered silk.
so, like, the stabilizer in SAI only ALL THE TIME.
Awesome for those of us with tinier/lower DPI tablets. GET ON IT!
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One year ago a great visionary woman left our world.
Eiko Ishioka was a Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for her Gothic designs for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Copola’s 1992 opera of sex and violence.
Her collaboration with director Tarsem Singh spanned 4 of his films and it is a legacy that will amaze for many years to come.
In Singh’s first feature, The Cell, (2000) Jennifer Lopez plays a psychologist trapped by a serial killer. Ishioka encased her into a rigid neck-brace, equally stylized and darkly erotic. “Jennifer asked me if I could make it more comfortable, but I said: ‘No you are supposed to be tortured’” Ishioka explained in 2000.
Her visual craft can be seen on three more of Singh’s pictures, the otherworldly costumes for The Fall (2006), mythological fantasy for the Greek Immortals (2011) and finally Mirror Mirror (2012) that won her a final posthumous Oscar nomination.
This is my little tribute to her genius with examples from her work from those five films in chronological order.
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ZsaZsa Bellagio on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/39289081
Givenchy Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1997 (by Alexander McQueen).
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Trakoclock asked:
Hey, if you don’t mind sharing, I’ve always wondered how you got that soft celling look on your characters in your comic. Any tips? I’m currently working on my own comic and I kind of want to go for a less harsh form of cell shading. Thanks!A couple people have asked about the way I color things and I’ve been meaning to post a tutorial on it :]. I’ve never been too good at describing my process, but I hope this helps!
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You write so
beautifully, the
inside of your
mind must be a
terrifying place
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Guys.
he just reminds me of Chen.
cRIES. okay?
I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ANYMORE ABOUT THIS!
SO NOT FUCKING OK
STAHP IT YOU
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Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen’s death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography.
She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. The photographic series began as a small summer project but grew into an inspirational creative journey.
‘Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,’ said the artist. (read the rest here).
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