The other day a friend came over for a Doodling Session with me. Instead of calling it Visual Journaling which is what I usually call these sessions my clever friend called it "doodling". You see she was very much aware of the power of words. They have the power to intimidate or to inspire. It's as simple as that. If we change our language something which you might find daunting can take on a new look....the look which has you saying "Say! I can do that!"
Change your Language Change your Life! So by changing Visual Journaling into Doodling it made the process that much more fun and less intimidating. How clever eh? It makes sense when you really think about it. It's akin to talking to yourself in the language that motivates you. For example, you're talking to yourself about making a mistake. Your inner dialogue goes something like this, "You Stupid idiot!! You never do anything right! You may as well quit now since you'll just screw it up again!" Now imagine the difference in this inner dialogue scenario, "Well you know, you were simply trying on different ways of doing things! Did you know that Edison had many so-called failures before coming up with his inventions? Everything that you do that is not quite right in your mind gets you closer to where you want to be!" Can you imagine having a kind parent inside your head talking to you like this all the time? You would never fear attempting something new because you would not be tormented by the fear of failure. It could be summed up in one phrase that the kids say "It's all good!" Ebooks are replacing the traditional books at a fast space, owing to their easy accessibility. With the help of modern devices like smart phones, eBook readers and tablets, ebooks can be read anywhere and anytime. These are eco friendly in nature and can be availed by any of the prominent eBook stores at discounted rates. As ebooks acquire very less disc space, these can be conveniently stored in huge numbers in any of the electronic gadgets. Digital Art Ebooks like Mechanika, Decoding Design, Digital Art Wonderland, DragonWorld, Digital Expressions and The Future of Art in a Digital Age are the interesting reads for children as well as adults. Issues in Curating, Contemporary Art and Performance, Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter, Digital Visual Culture: Theory and Practice and Media Archaeology are some of the other digital art ebooks that art lovers must read. Digital Painting Tricks & Techniques, authored by Gary Tonge, is extremely popular among the art enthusiasts. Through this book, author is explaining basics like special effects, matte painting and working with layers. The book helps in learning digital painting process through progressive steps, demonstrations and illustrative art work. This digital art eBook aids in sharpening the skills of the artist at all levels. DragonWorld, written by Pamela Wissman, compiles the work of 49 international artists. In this book, the famous mythological creatures are illustrated in 120 types. This dragon art work is engrossing for children as the artists demonstrate their interpretations in an interesting manner. Digital Art Wonderland is another popular eBook depicting digital adventure. The book takes the reader into an unforgettable visual journey with interesting art works by the author Angi Sullins. The book contains unique ideas of the art lovers in the form of illustrations and design concepts. Eight tutorials are illustrated in the book along with tricks and techniques, so that an intermediate Adobe Photoshop user is able to create finest digital art work. Thus, Digital Art Wonderland is preferred and recommended by artists as well as art lovers.
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If your funny t-shirts are turning out funny-looking, the problem may be your text. No matter how awesome your cool t shirt designs are when you imagine them, if your text is poorly designed, your shirts will always look unprofessional. But don't fear! With these 5 tricks of professional graphic designers, you can quickly turn those amateur custom t shirts into perfect and polished works of t shirt art.
T-Shirt Design Secret #1: Choosing the Right Font When choosing a font for your t shirt text, make sure to pick one that supports your message. For example, if you're designing a funny t shirt, choose a font that has a funny feel to it. If you're designing a sexy t shirt, choose a font that has a sexy feel to it. And if you're designing a t shirt for a serious, professional law firm, you probably don't want to use that font with letters shaped like kittens. While this may sound like common sense, many new t shirt designers and would-be t shirt entrepreneurs skip this step and just pick any standard font they might have lying around. Unfortunately, it's obvious in their results; what could have been a fun t shirt design ends up being boring and amateur-looking. If you're careful to choose a font that represents the content of your words, however, you can avoid this fate and your shirts will always be one step ahead of your competition. T-Shirt Design Secret #2: Tracking and Kerning Most of the time, when font text is typed into a computer program, the spaces between the letters and words are a little uneven, and often a little too wide. This extra and uneven space not only makes your text look a bit awkward and unprofessional, it also makes it slightly more difficult to read because the words don't visually hold together as units. Even if the viewer doesn't notice it, the eye and the brain have to work a bit harder and that extra bit of difficulty gives the viewer a subconscious feeling of unease. Fortunately for the novice t shirt designer, this problem can be addressed by a combination of tracking and kerning, which are simply two methods of adjusting the spacing between letters. Tracking has to do with adjusting the average spacing of letters across entire words, sentences, or selected ranges of letters. By adjusting the tracking, the t shirt artist can either decrease the average spacing between all the letters in the selected range (making the spacing "tighter"), or else increase the average spacing ("opening up" the text), depending on what's needed. Since the raw, unadjusted spacing varies from font to font, you'll have to decide which one is needed for your particular t shirt design. But a good trick used by professional t shirt designers is to start out by tightening the font too much (so the letters are too close together) and then slowly increasing the tracking until the words look right. Kerning is very similar to tracking, but with one important difference: instead of adjusting the average spacing across an entire range of letters, kerning only adjusts the spacing between two letters at a time. This allows a greater degree of control than tracking, and allows a t shirt artist to fine tune the spacing between single letter pairs that still don't look quite right, even after the text has been tracked. In general, the best practice is to use tracking to get the entire range of letters in a t shirt slogan to look pretty good, and then use kerning to fine tune the spacing between letter pairs until your t shirt text looks perfect. T-Shirt Design Secret #3: Word Spacing Once the letters of a t shirt slogan have been properly tracked and kerned, the next important step is to adjust the spacing between the words. Adjusting word spacing is very similar to tracking and kerning -- in fact, it's done exactly the same way as kerning and is really just kerning the spaces between words rather than letters -- but the rule of thumb for proper spacing between words is a little different, and so word spacing is a whole step unto itself. In general, the best practice when adjusting spacing between words is to visualize the width of a lowercase "L" in the font that's being used, and then make the space between each word that wide. This means that the width of the spaces between words will be different from font to font (because the size of the lowercase "L" is different from font to font), but it also means that the spacing will be custom designed for the font in question. Creating the proper amount of space between words will support the effects of your tracking and kerning, thus helping your words to hold together better as separate visual units and improving readability. Doodles are an unconscious expression of our mind through the art of scribbling and putting pen to paper. We are usually doing or thinking about something else when we doodle. On the phone, daydreaming in school, we are not concentrating on what we are drawing. As a consequence doodles are free of any conscious thought. Doodles are a fantastic way to unleash your creativity. These days as children we are not encouraged to draw or to be artistic unless we are "good at it". Only those that are obviously talented are encouraged to draw. You will often see people draw geometric shapes when they doodle. They feel comfortable drawing these shapes {which they learnt to draw in school usually in Maths class} but they will not really let themselves go and try other shapes and styles. There is still that worry that someone may see their doodle and it will not be "good". Doodles do not have to look like anything. There is no one standing over your shoulder saying that it is not good enough. When you realize this you can relax and just let you mind wander as your pen creates. You can change any part of the doodle at any time simply by going over what your have already done. The sky is the limit. Doodles are a great way to let your mind relax and to let your creativity (which is in all of us) take over. If you have a problem that needs solving, let your mind dwell on the problem while you let your hand scribble on a piece of blank paper. You may be surprised to find that the answer to your problem becomes apparent while you are doodling.
Not only will your drawing skills improve when you doodle but you will not believe the stress relief that doodling can give you. It is only just being acknowledged that doodling is a great way to relax. If you start to seriously doodle then you will really notice how calm and stress free you feel when you have finished a doodle. As your doodles become more elaborate your feeling of satisfaction will grow and your doodles will develop into works of art. So when your feeling really stressed do not discount the relaxing power of doodles. Dianne Maher is someone who enjoys doodling and is trying to let the creative side of herself surface after many years of not having time to dabble in that area. Doodles http://www.my-doodles.com/doodles/doodles Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Dianne_Maher/413088 |
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