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This today's blog to present a tribute to the graphic novel Far Sector . Original Drawing (Markers) Treatment, retouching (coming soon). In the meantime, tests presented

An awesome graphic novel, in opinion of artgraphic-db, Himawari House Novel by Harmony Becker, about 374 pages of illustrations, 1500 drawings ?, and  the real art of catching Asian characters in simple, essentials lines. Inspired by the style, and getting keen on experimenting Krita painting/drawing editor (see resources ), a special focus has been put on the two excerpts below, wishing to reproduce the play of shades and values (in fact the shown scans have passed difficultly the Black and White print quality of the book). I am pretty happy by the result. Just to say that it is NOT a copy. The process was really to sketch the faces, to take notes on how the shading were made, and to draw in Krita . It was  NOT the intent to scan the book, trace the bitmaps back to scalable paths (conversion to SVG), as Krita accepts both SVG objects and pixel layers, and improve or handle here and there the parameters or points of the SVG objects (see previous blog for more details). I hav...

artgraphic-db to set a challenge for whom interested, based on participation fees, constituting a capital to earn, based on democratic poll to choose a winner. Working on that, setting web  In the meantime, who wants to roll over ideas about some code to modify in the watercolours subroutines of painting digital tools. A question raising (interesting?), why is it not possible to reproduce the motifs, even in real? 600dpi:  watercolours-challenge-600dpi.jpg From:  The New Color Mixing Companion: Explore and Create Fresh and Vibrant Color Palettes with Paint, Collage, and Mixed Media--With Templates for Painting Your Own Color Patterns Paperback – Illustrated, December 4, 2018 by Josie Lewis (Author)

Dr. Wayne Dyer passed away in 2015, but, the website is still on, and worth to visit for whom interested in digging into mandalas stances and meditation. artgraphic-db to give some insights about the mandala journey and how to meet God (according to Wayne...). According to MacroTrends (quoted by Google), the life expectancy in the United States in 2024 is 79.25 years, which is a 0.18% increase from 2023, while another source quotes  81.7 years as a medium life expentancy. (Dr Dyer did very well!). Wayne Dyer - The Official Website of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (drwaynedyer.com) Above, a mosaic based on the pictures of Dr Wayne Dyer book, Getting in the gap, making conscious contact with God through meditation , which artgraphic-db does not know if it is still published. The book presents the concept of gap, a state that is achieved by Japa meditation and that allows to have an experience of relationship with God, Wayne says: "perhaps, the most elusive space for human beings to enter is the...

This blog about filtering effects. A selection of contributions that worth to whom would like to switch from GIMP to Photoshop, as both are relatively close. However, this article is not about the promotion of Adobe Photoshop specifically, but, they have also, if not open source minded intentions, some promotions and ways to try their apps, thus, maybe a freeware minsdsetting constrained by market economics. GO TO PHOTOSHOP TOO. Just to remind here that [artgraphic-db] aims to keep a "maker" mindset and enjoying to suggest "how to" techniques. Directions by Aneta (using Adobe Photoshop ): https://youtu.be/Vmn849qoKLA Grain by texturelab: In fact, an insight about gradient colors based on user based palette (see blog blog ) and how to color grains with gradients, (!?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1poWgZWpsiY The pictures below have been handled by applying filters proposed in the GIMP , a old photo decor filter, a desaturating "color to gray" method tha...

Link to the document Link to the calculation sheet     How to make your first image filter Scope This article is about making his/her first own image filter, with the help of a calculation sheet, as a pixel map  handling editor, based on an example as depicted by the two following snips: Left, original image, right, filtered image consisting of shading the bottom part of the image. ⇒ Zoom on a shirt fabric A 100px by 97px Vertical flip In paint editor (to match the hexadecimal editing, in my case) Unformatted Editor Shunking the file to a defined number of bytes: trial and error decoding (24 bytes bitmap). Bitmap format school: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format How to edit an unformatted file (to hexadecimal): Resource The three lines of 18 bytes are the header of the bitmap. Then, three bytes for each R, G, B coordinate in the RGB colorspace, for each bit. The first pixel has hex code #669EAB , then follows, 100 x 3 (columns)  x 97 (lines) bytes of R...

This blog about the topic of dashing the RGB pixel to the real electronic LED. Noticing that art can be also at work with LEDs !!!!!!!! Out of the canvas space. At the corner of 18th st and Kst, the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill building (1801K) shows a unique animated LED that is worth to visit. erratum: mistake of the pedestrian, above statement is not exact because, the LED panel is NOT at 1801K, but at 1800K, across the street. However, the SOM building remains at 1801K. [artgraphic-db] does NOT have the complete information about this LEDs panel, but, with no doubt the 1800K corner panel has something to see with SOM skills. Worth to mention is the format of the panel, covering an horizontal stripe around the corner, on 18th st AND Kst, over about 10ft to 15 ft, maybe, by 1 foot. Animated street walkers, parading, support a weight loss and vitality message. SOM has apparently some adroitness and interest in the field of designing original LED panels. Reproducing a webpage about an ...

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Hi, artgraphic-db about I-Ching and callygraphy (coming soon)  I-ching https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2017/02/27/making-an-i-ching-application-in-javascript/

  "Of all the odours in this world, that of opium is the least disagreeable." [coming soon] NB: sacral is a word referring to the "holy" not to the sacrum. This blog to come is directly inspired by the article to take a look : orient part 1 Indicative outlines follow: Art and Sacral Drugs in the Orient   Rudolf Gelpke  Key words: Legend and Dream; Georg Jacob; conscious dream; fantasy; drugs; "Mécanisme des drogues"; hashish and teonanacatl; metaphysical truths; inaccuracy; bridge-builder; Arabian Nights; ghazals; Kufic writing; Shekasteh writing; Persian Quadarite; Mogul princess; Ottoman sultan; Spanish Alhambra; Taj Mahal; Koran; Pantheism; wahdat al-wodschud (=”unity of the existing"); King's seed; emerald plant; weed of the poor; weed of the Fakirs; mysteries; Jamål Esfâhâni; Tugrul; poet 'Abd ar- Razzaq; Chesr; great poets Sufis (Sheik Sanâ'i, Sheik Saadi, Sheik 'Attår, Pir Jamali, Jalâl ad-Din Rumi, Fachr ad-Din 'Erâqi, Ebn ...