#learningnewthings

[jmelam]

“November Twilight”

Digital Painting (Procreate)

🍂More art on my page🍂

[susandnymm]

I finally have time to write again, but it's been hard getting started because I had to take such a long break I'm now having analysis paralysis. Similar with my efforts to learn "realistic" digital painting techniques *yay perfectionism!* So while I work through that, I'm learning new things instead, like using illustration-style tutorials to really dig into how to use different software so I'm not limiting myself to just treating it like it's paper. And it's been SUUUUPer fun!

I don't have formal training, and as fun as it sounds, I can't, like, quit my job to go to art school, haha, so I'm trying to search out ways to learn techniques on my own other than just experimenting and missing the important features. I think maybe this is a good lesson in what to do when you're in a rut and hyper-analyzing whether every effort you make is "right" or "good enough" - try something new, and give yourself permission to follow some guidelines. Is this guy a 100% original work? No, he's an adaptation of someone else's method--and he taught me a ton without stress and indecision!

This little Arondir is based on the Fjordwind character tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjFseBal2_4 and I totally <3 him! Bronwyn next, and then some WoT characters - definitely need to try a Mandarb with this method!

[editorsusan]

At work this week I've been training to learn a new task - producing dynamic digital editions. This is a process that Janice has pioneered for the company over the past couple of years, and it has grown to the point where more people on our team need to know how to do it as the need for it expands.

So far McClatchy is using these in about a dozen of its products, but we'll gradually be adding more until all of the products are using it (I think?). I don't understand all the details yet, but I'm learning.

I've enjoyed learning this because it's about the closest I'll probably be able to get anymore to doing anything remotely related to page design (which I enjoy), and it's a new software system to learn (PageSuite), and I enjoy doing that, too.

The biggest downside to working dynamic edition shifts is the late hours; I've been on 4pm to midnight for the training, and the regularly scheduled shifts can be until as late as 2am (in my time zone).

I used to work until midnight quite regularly back in the old days of the Bee copy desk, but with all the evolution of our work processes, it has been years since the last time I worked any later than about 9:30pm. So working until midnight has been an adjustment - it's an entirely different lifestyle being on swing shift versus day shift.

I never minded being on swing shift before, but it's the switching back and forth between the day/swing shift that can become a grind. We'll just have to wait and see how it goes.

Anyway, here's a thumbnail of one of the digital editions I worked on last night. These dynamic editions are made to resemble regular newspaper pages, but the biggest difference is that the stories don't have to fit the space. The stories usually are longer than the space, and when a reader is looking at these (as I understand it), they just click on the story and it opens the full story in another window. When they're done reading that, they close the story window and return to the dynamic page (or pages) to continue reading.

This is McClatchy's strategy to give newsrooms a chance to push out fresher news (they can select up to 20 of their top stories per day, but most use fewer than that) to their readers with later deadlines than the print editions have. Janice could explain all of this much better than I can. I think of the dynamic editions as kind of a hybrid between the print product and the newsroom's website. So yes, readers can still just go directly to the website for the latest news, but the dynamic edition sort of connects the latest news to the product's daily e-edition.

As you can see, we don't have to follow the same character-count standards here for headlines that we use for the print editions. And because these pages are 100% templated (we have zero ability to adjust the size of the articles), if a story is too short to fill the space, the only tools we have left to force the story to sort of fit are to make the headline extra long (we can also add deck heds, but I didn't try doing that yesterday) or else manually recrop the photos to be more vertical in the hope that those actions will push the text down far enough to fill the hole on the page.

The current software functionality is pretty limited, but I hear that we're expecting to get a software upgrade of some sort next year that might give us more tools/control.

[2dye4neisha]

Quick Guide To Making Art Photos With The Holga Film Camera – Light Stalking

Quick Guide To Making Art Photos With The Holga Film Camera

[manusart]

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[leomysticmagic]

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[sunandearth]

This actually sounds pretty cool. I've always felt this connection with mirrors but I'm not sure whether I'd be totally into scrying. Will try to search more on it and I might give it a try. Reblogging to save this to my page

Witch Crafts: How to Make A Scrying Mirror

• WHAT IS A SCRYING MIRROR? •

A scrying mirror is one of a variety of tools that can be used in the divination method that is scrying [click here for more information on scrying].

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

A photo frame with glass.

Matte black spray paint (it doesn't need to be spray paint, but I find this easier!).

Glass cleaner (if you want to use a vinegar and water solution instead, that's fine!).

Clean cloth.

Microfibre cloth (optional).

HOW TO:

Firstly, remove the glass from the photo frame and set the frame aside as you'll be popping the glass back inside later.

Using your glass cleaner and cloth, thoroughly clean both sides of the glass and try to avoid leaving smears or smudges. You can use another clean, dry cloth (microfibre for best results) once the mirror is dry, to go over the glass and buff it/remove any dust.

Allow the glass to dry completely, then take it to a ventilated area, lay the glass on a piece of paper or fabric you're not too attached to, and use the spray paint to coat one side of the glass. Allow the first coat to dry, then add a few more layers ensuring that the coverage is as even as possible, and opaque.

Leave the glass to dry in a safe place.

Once the paint is dry, reinsert the glass into the picture frame with the unpainted side facing you.

*OPTIONAL: you can embellish your frame, or the edges of the glass if you wish. It's your scrying mirror, so make it yours!

You are now ready to scry your heart out! Make sure the glass is smudge and mark free before you scry, as to not skew anything you may divine from the mirror.

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[stevedigitalw0rld]

Digital vs. Affiliate

What’s The Difference?

We discuss what I have learned about the differences through the Roadmap course and what my interpretation is on the two.

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[beckydoyon]

Playing around with a new app

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[clarymeadowsalpacas]

Dominic , one of last years cria - halter training and doing very well - have a great weekend from @clarymeadowsalpacas #alpacas #alpaca #alpacababy #cria #babyboy #training #alpacafarm #alpacawalking #derby #derbyshire #peakdistrict #southderbyshire #alpacalove #trainingday #newskills #leadtraining #halter #workinghard #learning #learn #listening #farm #farming #farmlife #visitourwebsite #alpacatrekking #readyforspring #learningnewthings #learningnewskills #alpacaofinstagram (at Derbyshire, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnrP6Sft4wR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jmelam]

My first art vending event is at the Interstellar Night Market on June 30th!

I feel both excited and nervous. I'm sure I’ll make plenty of mistakes as a first-time vendor, but I’ll learn a lot too!

[theimprobabledreamersworld]

Eyestrain warning in place.

🎶There! Now you see. Everybody goes wrong and we put it in song so it's easier, to hear it. This puzzle's tough, I admit but in time we'll find where everything fits 🎶

This litograph was fun to make! Based on the episode 'Learning New Things About Ourselves' Another one that I adore! 💜 The puppets, the song, the character development... I could go on forever, it was so well done! 😊💜

Think my confidence is back now, and I'm really excited to get back into Litographs properly again now 😁

[thechaoticbookwyrm]

I can hardly believe it. . I made it to 200-days on Duolingo! . . #Duolingo #Learning #LearningALanguage #LearningNewThings #LearningGerman #sprechensiedeutsch #deutschland #AuthorsLearning #AuthorsWhoLearn #AuthorInProgress (at Fox Lake, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW7L2f7rcSZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[daniellepioli]

My very first embroidery. Learning the stitches and everything, so I made this. I have no idea what I’m doing but I guess I managed to make something! I was hoping to rest my hand yesterday, and I decided to experiment and see how my hand feels. It is a different sensation than drawing. It doesn’t hurt the same. Not completely comfortable, but they are different movements, which is good. I’m still going to experiment with other techniques to at least have a plan B if I need to stay away from drawing for a while 😓 Wish me luck! . . [Image description: Simple embroidery of a young woman with her eyes closed wearing a red witch hat, red lipstick, outlined in black and brown yarn. All slides show her in different angle photos.] . . . #embroidering #EmbroideryWork #LearningNewThings #ArtExperiment #CreativityArt #DaniellePioli #IllustrationEmbroidery #ArtEmbroidery https://www.instagram.com/p/CWLhLRUAK5r/?utm_medium=tumblr

[afrikartworx]

Experimenting with lettering based on a tutorial by @nebenzu ,great fun to try🧡🐡🧡#artexperiment #learningnewthings #digitalart #redbubble/sana90 #instagramartist #afrikartworx (at Afrikartworx) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVdPnuEK6A5/?utm_medium=tumblr

[stevedigitalw0rld]

How Good Is The Roadmap?

The amount of information packed into this course is overwhelming at times. You could literally be a janitor with zero experience outside of janitorial duties and start an online business with this course. (No shade at the janitors, one of my first jobs was a janitor 😉)

#digitalmarketingforbeginners #onlinebusinessforbeginners #roadmap #getstarted #learningnewthings