February 2012
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The Marsh (Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, translated by... →
A short story about a man who happens to find a painting of a marsh in an art gallery and is greatly moved by it despite having a professional art critic ridicule the artist, the painting and the narrator himself for declaring that he personally finds it ‘a masterpiece’.. Despite being an Akutagawa story and therefore full of a sense of hopeless, helpless doom, I found it strangely...
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Brush settings and shortcuts
Someone asked what brushes I like to use in Photoshop, I forget myself (I save them as presets under strange names like ‘Bunny Ears’) so here is a list for you and me:
Hard Elliptical 28 (under Dry Media) the ‘ink wash’ brush - you may want to fiddle with all the settings, what I like may not quite be what you like!
Hard Elliptical 20 (under Calligraphic) a bit like a nib...
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January 2012
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