I attended a lecture on the signs of selflessness. It was a women's only event, so naturally, some brought their children with them. I sat next to a mother and daughter duo. To keep her daughter busy for the next hour or so, the mother took an A4 children’s colouring book out of her bag, [...]
Like every other designer, I have a favourite tool that I always turn to when I’m drawing. It's like owning a dozen pencils, while most have hardly been touched, one presents itself as being over-sharpened and overused. My overworked digital medium is Photoshop's pen tool. I've mentioned this tool numerous times in previous posts. Today, [...]
Missing the intricacy of finely detailed mandalas, I sat down with my trusted tool "the mouse" and got Photoshop up and running. Ready to begin hours of working, drinking hot chocolate and web browsing. Adding my template and guidelines to a blank page, I set the path layer and highlighted the pen tool. Zooming in [...]
The colds gradually sweeping in. Before autumn begins to take over the green vista with warm, fiery tones. I’ve chosen minted glory as Augusts colour of the month. Lately, I’ve been waking up at the break of dawn. With the assistance of my alarm clock, that needs to be set three times before it manages [...]
She’s gone missing. For a while, yes. I took a much-needed break, to catch up on my sleep and re-charge all my batteries. I did things the non-blogging way by not carrying a camera or taking pictures of everything in sight with my smartphone. Back to topic, can you smell the beautiful blooms? I have [...]
8.00am, I’m sat in my local aka City coffee shop, with my hands warmly, cupped around a hot drink. It's not cold and I don't need the extra heat but the flavour of hot chocolate with cream will do. I'm always questioned over my choice of drinks. Hot chocolate in this weather? It comes as [...]
