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Spent an hour or so playing around with the defocus node in Blender, getting a grasp on how it worked. It took me a while to realize that "Preview" was what was making the noisy artifacts in the bokeh. :) Anyway, the node is really cool, and ...

Everyone has been interested in seeing A New Perspective, but eventually my dad's birthday rolled around, so I no longer have it. Since it's really nice to have it around to show people, I decided to revise it a bit and republish it....

Decided to spend some more time doing digital painting, so I did: Working from references is quite important, I think. (It's something I didn't do here. It shows. :)) Anyway, this is mainly just a doodle. [tags]digital painting, Photoshop[/tags]

I came across the Marshal Insect Album over at BibliOdyssey this morning and decided to see if I could generate similar kinds of backgrounds in Photoshop. (Digital art that is clearly digital doesn't have as anywhere near as much appeal to me as digital art that looks like ...

Last week I put together a Blurb book with some of my photos for my dad's birthday. It only took about half an hour, most of which was spent in deciding which pictures to use. And it arrived yesterday afternoon. :)...

Back in August I posted some drafts of the work I was doing for New Symbols, a Mormon Artists Group book project on Mormon iconography. Well, a few days ago the project got scrapped because there weren't enough submissions. 'Tis a pity, but that's life. Anyway, here's the ...

My mom wanted me to finish up my new edition of Adventures in Thailand (my mission letters home -- the ones I wrote for public consumption, which you can read right now at Blank Slate), so I decided to finish it up today. I hadn't realized it was ...

I've been rather busy with school, but if I can keep on top of my homework, Riverglen Press work should continue to go forward. In theory. :) So, my two projects right now are Grimm's Hausmärchen (as I've mentioned a few times) and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (which I ...

From Creative Think: Designer Christopher Williams tells a story about an architect who built a cluster of large office buildings that were set on a central green. When construction was completed, the landscape crew asked him where he wanted the pathways between the buildings. "Not yet," the architect said. "Just plant ...

It did indeed take around an hour longer. :) Here's the student edition of Beowulf I mentioned yesterday: I do wonder about the quality of the text, but from a cursory skim it looked like all was in ...