{"id":443,"date":"2011-02-27T20:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T03:11:16","slug":"what-shall-i-do-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/what-shall-i-do-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What Shall I Do Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>o I had a few ideas for today’s post. What I originally wanted to do was take this week’s free font on Veer<\/a> and make a design with it. Though the font was beautifully crafted, Organon Sans Demibold<\/a> is kind of boring in context of a design focusing on it. Not only is Organon more of a body copy typeface, but it also only comes in one style for free: demibold. Do you know how hard it is to make a typographic layout with only one font?<\/p>\n

If you are saying to yourself right now, “Man! Shelby is a little baby! I could totally make a layout with only one style of a simple sans serif,” you are right. Its not that difficult. Tons of people do it with just Helvetica all the time. I just couldn’t think of a good way to present Organon Sans in the right light.<\/p>\n

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Alice in Wonderland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After giving up on trying to figure out what to do with Organon, I started working on this web page I’ve been working on for a later blog entry again. The web page is meant to teach me how to do the awesome effect seen on Ben the Bodyguard<\/a>. Instead of going for the “crime in the big city” motif; however, I’m going with the Alice in Wonderland<\/em> theme.<\/p>\n

The sad part is though that much of the power making Ben the Bodyguard<\/em> is the illustrations. That’s why I’ve been stuck just working on illustrations so far. It’s not a bad thing but illos just take time and prevent me from the learning process. You know? Oh well. I did have a lot of fun coloring in this pen drawing I made a few weeks back.<\/p>\n

If anyone knows what the best way to scan\/edit a line drawing so to easily and quickly start coloring, please tell me. I felt like I spent so much time just masking the lines, I was wondering if there is an easier way. This is what I did:<\/p>\n

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  1. Scan drawing into Photoshop.<\/li>\n
  2. Use levels to increase contrast, remove paper texture and remaining eraser marks, and remove paint stroke marks.<\/li>\n
  3. In the Channels palette, duplicate the blue channel and load the new selection.<\/li>\n
  4. Mask the scanned image.<\/li>\n
  5. Go back in and brush\/erase the parts of the image that the mask didn’t work perfectly on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s how I did it but it took me a long time to work on the edges so if you have any advice, please share.<\/p>\n

    Anyway, seeing that this illo was for another entry, I felt I shouldn’t make it today’s so instead, I made a drop cap. Today’s S was based on some black letter S forms and then simplified. I then added the purple because I feel like I haven’t made a purple drop cap in a while.<\/p>\n

    Hope you like it.<\/p>\n

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    I had a few entry ideas today but not floated my boat. Hope you like what I eventually came up with. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29,167],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-typography","tag-drop-cap","tag-purple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}