Adding some color to my beloved pocket brushes

I used Lamy fountain pen ink — the same kind of black ink I use to refill my black brush pen. I like that it’s a little bit watery and doesn’t bleed as much as the super thick black Pilot ink that comes with the brush pens.

#abstractart #gelliplate #artjournal #mixedmedia #printmaking

My top 10 techniques for mark making on the gel plate. Some of these are adapted printmaking techniques.

I’ve also given a summary of costs involved for techniques which require equipment.

I hope you enjoy this introduction to printmaking techniques with the gel plate.

Kirsten 🌻

A comprehensive set of useful and semi-universal UX copywriting and style guidelines and examples to reference while designing and building products and interfaces.

Time

When writing about a time of the day, use numerals and lowercase am or pm, with a space in between. Use 12- or 24-hour time according to the locale. When writing in 24-hour time, show a 0 before single-digit hours.

Garden is the design system by Zendesk. It’s where we grow the components, standards, and tools that product designers use every day.

I've talked a good bit about SVG's around here and using it to build an icon system. The beauty of is that you can reference just a part of some SVG defined

The CSS border-image property is one of those properties you undoubtedly know exists but may not have ever reached for. In this article, Temani Afif demonstrates different approaches for using border-image to create clever decorative accents and shapes.

Used for overlay images
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opHu7HvFM60

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-Forms

Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation is a theosophical book compiled by the members of the Theosophical Society A. Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. It was originally published in 1905 in London.[1][note 1] From the standpoint of Theosophy, it tells opinions regarding the visualization of thoughts, experiences, emotions and music. Drawings of the "thought-forms" were performed by John Varley Jr. (grandson of the painter John Varley), Prince, and McFarlane.

Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers do to ensure small bugs don't take down systems.

There were no warnings or red lights, because the process simply hadn’t run in the first place. And so a new, time-consuming activity was added to the data analytics stack: manually checking the database each morning to make sure everything had functioned properly.

Negative engineering is “insurance as code”

Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives.

I thought I was strong when I first started Gymnastics Strength Training (GST). I'd been lifting weights in the gym for years and increasing my squat, deadlift, chin-up, overhead press and bench numbers. But it didn't prepare me for GST, especially Straight-Arm Scapular Strength (SASS) movements.

As humans, we like to push and pull objects with bent-arm strength. The default motor pattern is to use our biceps and triceps.

Most of us have very little awareness of straight-arm strength because we have poor scapular motor control regarding protraction, retraction, elevation and depression.

Without awareness, how can we train it?

If we don't train it, how do we strengthen it?

Google Arts & Culture’s new initiative Inside a Genius Mind offers an interactive experience of the codices in which Da Vinci made his sketches, diagrams, and notes.

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/TAEPZtXK2s139g

The Internet Archive maintains an enormous Live Music Archive of concert recordings, not all of them by the Grateful Dead.

https://archive.org/details/etree?tab=collection

In addition to Rusted Root and the Grateful Dead, you can stream or download a wealth of recorded live shows from bands like Little Feat, Blues Traveler, My Morning Jacket, Los Lobos, and the Smashing Pumpkins, as well as singer-songwriters like Warren Zevon, Elliott Smith, Jack Johnson, Robyn Hitchcock, and John Mayer.

#adobeillustrator #graphicdesign #digitalillustration

How to draw vector portrait easily in adobe illustrator cc 2023.

In this video tutorial I will teach you tools like the shapes, shape builder, the pen tool, creating and organizing layers, curvature tool, and more to create stunning illustrations in Adobe Illustrator CC. This step by step illustrator tutorial is perfect is you're a beginner or an advanced designer looking to polish some techniques. You will be able to create this cool looking Lebron James vector portrait.

Note* This is my personal way of working and by no means the best nor the only way to create illustrations. If you don't understand certain parts of the video, let me know in the comments below and I'll glady help you out!

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Every year I ask myself these 40 questions. I’ve shared this list with my family and closest friends, and always enjoy discussing answers as we reflect on th...

These questions are available in Markdown format

See also my 40 questions to ask yourself every decade.

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.

Up until now, text editors have been focused on input. The next evolution of text editors will make it easy to alter, summarize and lengthen text. You’ll be able to do this for entire documents, not just individual sentences or paragraphs. The filters will be instantaneous and as good as if you wrote the text yourself. You will also be able to do this with local files, on your device, without relying on remote servers.

In a “A camera for ideas”, I coined the term synthography to describe synthetic images created with generative models.

Text generator is a handy plugin for Obsidian that helps you generate text content using GPT-3 (OpenAI). - GitHub - nhaouari/obsidian-textgenerator-plugin: Text generator is a handy plugin for Obsidian that helps you generate text content using GPT-3 (OpenAI).

Use Text Generator to generate ideas, attractive titles, summaries, outlines, and whole paragraphs based on your knowledge database.

Cleaning your walls doesn't often make your to-do list. Did you know you should be cleaning your walls regularly? Here's why, and how often.

Benefits To Cleaning Your Walls With a Mop

You don’t need much to effectively clean your walls:

• Microfiber flat mop with telescoping handle;
• Household mop bucket;
• Dishwashing liquid, such as Dawn,
• Neutral-pH floor cleaner like Mr. Clean;
• Microfiber cloth or sponge for spot cleaning.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this simple idea: The person who aligns themselves with the general principles of the world goes further and faster than the person who doesn't.

Here’s the trick to seeing things differently: put your energy into being right, not feeling right. While that sounds simple, it’s far from easy.

Feeling right, on the other hand, often requires you to believe you are an exception.

rather than tell yourself you made a mistake you chalk it up to the world not working as it should. It’s as if that little voice in your head says, “You’re not wrong; the world is.”

Each year I do an updated rundown of the cheapest places to live in the world, from the perspective of someone who wrote the book on this subject and regularly travels to the countries featured.

There are a few countries that are similarly priced to the above that you could consider that show up on some lists such as Laos, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru and—depending on the current exchange rate—Mexico.