Cedar Writes

Tag: digital painting

  • Odd Prompts: MidJourney Styles

    Odd Prompts: MidJourney Styles

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    So, I’ve been slugging my way through a short story that is emotionally fraught. No place to fit in the prompt. What you’ve got instead is an exploration of styles available through the art AI tool, MidJourney. I use this heavily in my graphic design of various projects, and when something new comes out, I…

  • Review: Art Books, Part I

    Review: Art Books, Part I

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    I have a lot of books on art. Not as many as I used to, sadly, but still, more than I probably need. Books! must have books. Ok, so I hoard books like some kind of dragon librarian. And the art books are meant to learn from, which means that sitting on the shelf they…

  • Art: Taking the next step

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    This last semester I took a drawing class and enjoyed it immensely. I know that in addition to giving me some sanity time where I could create and switch from science brain to art brain, I did improve my drawing skills. Drawing 1 would more correctly have been called Observational Drawing, and it was a…

  • Artfully: Day 16

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    So… I was writing. And I had no inclination to leave the house, so I didn’t. And I figure out why I’ve been topping out at 5K words a day, which means tomorrow I’ll be experimenting with where I write, as my desk and laptop as it’s set leads to pain after about 1K words…

  • Artfully: Day 5

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    Now you will see what I can do with a digital painting, still working on the idea for my son, this is Rex, the golden retriever. Based on the Little Man’s description, he’s being bullied at school, so he looks a bit insecure. It’s the beginning of a new school year, so there are lots…

  • Art: Background

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    Working on the painting I have in my head. Hit my time limit, so here’s what I have so far. I may take another 30 min time slot for it later. What do you think should go in the foreground?

  • Beginnings

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    Everything begins somewhere. I stole an hour from my schedule yesterday to begin with Photoshop. You can follow along, too, here at the Digital Painting lessons at Ctrl Paint. They are free, and best of all for me, short. I got through the first two, and stopped to play awhile with what I’d learned. I…

  • Digital Art

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    On the art front, I haven’t had a whole lot of time. I messed around with a new painting program a little the last few days, and perhaps in time I’ll be able to do nifty stuff with it – it has huge potential – but for now, well, I’m all thumbs. Part of that…

  • Creating Art

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    It’s been a couple of weeks since I did an art blog, but today I am trying to catch up from having migraine yesterday, and I do have art to share… The first is just a doodle piece, which actually started out as half an owl. I don’t know why, I tend to be more…