Fonts, Fonts and More Fonts

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FREE FONTS…this is one of my guilty pleasures. I love going online looking for free fonts. Better yet, free fonts that I can use personally or professionally. There are so many fonts out there that you can literally spend hours just looking for new fonts. I have to say I’ve had many a stiff neck from staring endlessly into my computer screen perusing serif, sans-serif, hand written, fancy scripts, medieval, basic, dingbats…I could go on forever. So I am going to share all my favourite go to sites for free fonts.bbgHeader01

Have fun perusing! I know I will.

Dafont   UrbanFonts   Font Squirrel   Font Stock   and my favorite for not only finding unique fonts but building your own as well, FontStruct.

There are plenty more sites out there who have free fonts but there’s only so much time in the day to look for them and frankly I’m bushed from looking. Enjoy!

Until next time.

Remember  “Imagination is more important than knowledge” ~ Albert Einstein.

Fairy Book in Progress

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You’ll remember that I had several different methods that I was looking at for the art work to be used in my new fairy book; well I have finally decided how I want to proceed. I started with my usual pencil drawing, but instead of re-drawing it on to a canvas or water-colour paper I scanned it into the computer and started adding colour using Photoshop. For me it showed the best results for what I imagined this book to look like.

Here are samples of how I did this and what a two page spread will look like.The first photo is of the drawing without anything done to it. In the second one I’ve used levels in Photoshop to bring out the contrast a bit. The colour is added to the next one and the last is with the border and background colours as well as the description page with the lower flowers added for the text to fall between and the fairy wings on either side of the heading.

There is still a ton of work to be done on the project and I will probably make changes to backgrounds and maybe even colours but this is the general layout. Also I just want to mention that the words on the page are not necessarily how it will be in the final. I just thought it up while I was putting the page together. My process will be to draw all of the characters and scenes first then add the story to each illustration.

Let me know what you think. I’d love to know.

Having Fun With Fonts 2

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“Fun With Fonts” was so popular last time I thought I’d do it again. This time though, I’ve taken one phrase and used the same font for each example but a different effect. The font I used is “Americano” and the phrase is “A Rose”. I had a lot of fun working on each effect using both Illustrator and Photoshop to make each of the changes. Mainly I use Photoshop and some of the filters I have like Filter Forge and some of the filters that come with the program like drop shadows and bevels. Let me know which is your favorite.

Macro & Close-up Photography

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I decided to share a few more of my photos with you this post. I’ve been taking so many photos I just have to show them off. So with not so much ado, here they are. Enjoy.

Canadian Photographer of the Month – Robin Hindle

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OK, so I’m not a professional photographer but I have had many jobs taking photos for pay over the past 30 years. I mainly took photos of show suites and building sites for real estate developments and product photography for an electrical wholesaler to use in the catalogues that I designed. I also did a few weddings in my younger days of photography.

My passion though has always been close-up or macro photography. I had a 35mm camera with a few lenses including a nice macro lens, but it broke. I now have a new digital back for my old lenses and have started taking  photos again. So I thought I’d share with you some of the close-up/macro photos that I have taken lately. It’s been quite a while since using these lenses and I’m still learning  about the new body but I think these are some of my best photos.I hope you enjoy them.