Creative Pact 2010

Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Drew a few things about the kitchen…

… while I cooked dinner. I’ve been meaning to start practising drawing directly with a pen, rather than using a pencil underdrawing, so I can loosen up and just practise getting used to judging angles correctly, so I just pulled out the pen and a spare moleskine cahier and did rough sketches of some plates, the pork grilling over the gas and some zucchini in their tray, spending about 2-3 minutes on each (and interspersed with dinnery type activity). They came out OK and once some coloured pencil was added, actually looked pretty convincing. Going to try to do more of this.

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Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Still working on the Psalm I layout *sigh*

Having printing problems – if I save as TIFF or other bitmap then I get jaggies on my hairpins; if I save as EPS I get nice smooth hairpins, but slightly fuzzy staves (not to mention having to review every inch of text to check it retained its font and still looks the same once printed from Windows). Still trying to fix this one. I don’t quite understand it because previous Finale versions always managed to export a nice smooth hairpin to TIFF, so it’s either a Mac thing (unlikely) or a Fin 2006 thing (pathetic). Grr.

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