100 Exquisite Adjectives By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! 21 Responses to “100 Exquisite Adjectives” Rebecca Fantastic list!
Uberflip CALLIHOO Writing Helps--Feelings Table Character Feelings You can describe your character's feelings in more exact terms than just "happy" or "sad." Check these lists for the exact nuance to describe your character's intensity of feelings. SF Characters | SF Items | SF Descriptors | SF Places | SF EventsSF Jobs/Occupations | Random Emotions | Emotions List | Intensity of Feelings How to Create a Pop Art Avatar with Adobe Illustrator - Vectips In this tutorial we are going to learn how to recreate the illustration style used for Pop Art. This type of illustration is taken from a printing process named “Ben-Day dots“. The difference between the Ben-Day effect vs halftone effect is that for the first, the dots are always of equal size and distribution. To create this effect, we’re going to be using custom patterns and experimenting with different color combinations to achieve a truly pop art effect for our avatar. Lastly we are going to learn how to keep a pop art style consistent in your avatar no matter the image size. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS5Difficulty: IntermediateTopics Covered: Shape Tools, Custom Swatches, Pattern Fills, Pattern Coloration, Pathfinder Tools, Brushes.Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour. Final Image Step 1 We start from a line drawing of the face in close up. Next we’ll create the shadows with objects filled with solid black. Step 2 Step 3 Draw two circles with the Ellipse Tool (L). Step 4
Bookbinding 101: Your First Book Last week I gave you a fast and dirty introduction to binding your own books. This week I'm going to show you just how easy making and sewing your own book can be. The easiest book to make is a one signature book, as seen in the first image. Today, I'm going to show you how to fold the folios, make a single signature, awl punch the paper and then sew your book with a bookbinding needle and waxed thread. While I am giving instructions to create a digest (5.5" by 4.25") sized book, you are welcome to cut your paper to make your book any size you want. Before we begin, you'll need the following items from your local art store: 10 sheets of regular white office paper (this article uses 8.5 x 11 but you can make your book any size you want) Heavy cover paper (this can be construction paper, or thick handmade paper or a postcard weight paper) A bookbinding needle A Bookbinding Awl (I own a heavy duty paper awl) Wax thread or book binding thread. Instructions And that's it.
Vector Halftone Week: free Halftone tool settings Have you joined the thousands who already creatively use the Phantasm CS Halftone tool? Using this tool beyond standard halftone effects such as a CMYK rosette shown left allows for wonderful and sometime unexpected creative results as was originally demonstrated with the Halftone settings page found here: www.astutegraphics.com/products/phantasm/halftone-settings.html Now it’s time to introduce 10 new effects, all created using just the Halftone tool (Filter or live Effect variant) and offer these settings files to Phantasm CS Designer, Studio and Publisher customers. It is suggested that these settings files are seen as a basis to create new styles using the Halftone tool; the very nature of Halftones means that some settings are best suited to certain underlying artwork types. About these settings Each of the settings below were based on the same underlying photo, shown right. For information about how to use the Phantasm CS Halftone tool, please refer to one of the following: Notes:
Character Chart for Fiction Writers - EpiGuide.com If you're a fiction writer -- whether you're working on a novel, short story, screenplay, television series, play, web series, webserial, or blog-based fiction -- your characters should come alive for your reader or audience. The highly detailed chart below will help writers develop fictional characters who are believable, captivating, and unique. Print this page to complete the form for each main character you create. IMPORTANT: Note that all fields are optional and should be used simply as a guide; character charts should inspire you to think about your character in new ways, rather than constrain your writing. If this character chart is helpful, please let us know! Looking for more character questionnaires / charts? How to Create a Grunge Paper Texture Graphic Style in Illustrator I love adding texture to my illustrations, but creating a texture from nothing is always hard, so learning how to manipulate the different tools and default resources in Adobe Illustrator you already have, can work in your favor. Today I'm going to show you how to create a grunge paper texture Graphic Style, starting with a humble default Art Brush, then using the Pattern Options of CS6 and then some fun with the Appearance panel. So let's jump in! Step 1 Let's start by taking advantage of one of the Art Brushes you get by default in Adobe Illustrator. Step 2 While the line is selected, go to Object > Pattern > Make. So select the group and Object > Ungroup until you're left with the below. Step 3 Let's give the pattern a name, here I'm using the inspiring name "Texture Pattern" and then set the Tile Type to Hex by Row. Then play with the Width and Height values to bunch up the shapes so there are minimal large gaps. Step 4 Keep going until you're happy with the look of the texture. Step 5
Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again. You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. Pick a Topic The more "legally-oriented" your topic is, the better. Make a list ...of every possible outcome that this issue could cause in...the near future...the far future...of every person that this topic affects....of any instances where this topic has come in the news....what you would do about this topic if you had the chance/power/enough-sugar...any little detail you can think ofThe important thing about this is to think of ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, no matter how silly or far-fetched. Reorder everything Put your most obvious argument first. Then put weird off the wall stuff, regardless of importance. Put the strongest argument for your case next. Now list the incidents that will help argue for your point. Now, list everything that could be construed to be the answer to the question "if elected, what would you do about this issue?"
Illustrator Tutorial: Create A Grunge Effect From Scratch — The Shutterstock Blog By Shutterstock Contributor Erica Truex The beat-up, weather-worn style of "grunge" never seems to go out of style. The most authentic grunge or distressed effects often come from source photos or scanned textures. This basic tutorial shares a step-by-step method on how to create your own grunge in Illustrator. Let’s get started! 1. Page Chaser: Automatic Bookmarker by Hyeon Joo Lee Bookmark Does The Work For You The Page Chaser is a flexible bookmark that automatically marks the page as you turn them. Ordinary bookmarks can fall out and require you to correctly mark where you left off. Why waste all that precious brain power on something so mundane? Designer: Hyeon Joo Lee
Distressing Techniques in Adobe Illustrator Simon from Studio Ace of Spade here. Jeff Finley asked me to compile a list of some common distressing techniques as a supplement for his eBook “The Designer’s Guide to the Apparel Industry.” Distressing graphics is a pretty integral part of designing t-shirts. This tutorial will demonstrate three easy to understand and easy to apply techniques for adding a distressed or grunge look to a design using Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator Technique #1: The Grunge Brush For the first technique, we’ll learn how to take advantage of Illustrator’s brush tool and of some of the brushes that come bundled with it. The Step 1 is easy: open your vector file. Step 2 is easy as well: make sure your vector object or group is expanded. Once this is done, we’ll move to step 3: select the brush tool and get the brush that interests us. Make your way through the menus to pick the “Artistic – Chalk / Charcoal / Pencil” brush set. Then pick the first brush and the brush tool. Now it’s your call. No.
Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling « Aerogramme Writers' Studio These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list – When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next – is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer.