I used charcoal, black and white pastel, pencil to draw a dried bunch of flowers. Was a great fun!
I seldom re-blog other people’s work over here but hey!—this is love!
There’s a new artist coming to the town.
Caslon.
Beyond the geek or further…
“Each hexadecimal digit represents four binary digits (bits), and the primary use of hexadecimal notation is a human-friendly representation of binary-coded values in computing and digital electronics. One hexadecimal digit represents a nibble, which is half of an octet or byte (8 bits). For example, byte values can range from 0 to 255 (decimal), but may be more conveniently represented as two hexadecimal digits in the range 00 to FF. Hexadecimal is also commonly used to represent computer memory addresses.”
My journey in font engineering leads me further into the debts of tables and bytecode. As a consequence I might grow into a geek. Bah.
More master tests this weekend and despite some buggy behaviour sometimes, Glyphs is really intuitive and easy to use. As I don’t own Fontlab in my home office I am trying to make the most out of this app and report how it goes from time to time.
The type (warning—euphemism!) has three weight masters and six instances for now. Only ‘n’ and ‘o’ has been defined (more or less—I would say sketchy).
Glyphs App is just too awesome.
1.) Real-time master compatibility view in glyph window.
“The colored segments indicate the compatibility of the segments. Red means that there is a line in one master and a curve in the other. These masters will not interpolate at all. Yellow means that the paths are of the same type but have a di”erent angle. They will interpolate but may yield an unexpected result: di”erences in angles can turn smooth connections into so-called ‘kinks’, i.e., corners. Green segments are fully compatible.”
Btw, there is a brand new manual to Glyphs online.
2.) In the same place you can type in text and set glyphs’s master versions next to each other as well.
Needed a break badly after had been handling bytecode and other technical issues last week—and before starting all over again.
This was drawn in charcoal in size A3—a sketch, really.
After weeks in hinting and stuffing—otherwise so interesting—technical information into my head, this weekend I need something different. Sketch on.
First time I ever tried linocut being inspired by and teamed up with the lovely Miss M E.
Thought I didn’t necessarily need a dedicated block-printing ink—I was so wrong, boy! Acrylics just don’t do the job.
Update—got some proper linoprint colour and pulled it one more time. Not perfect but getting better.
Sketching away spare time
Late night session
Chill-out, sketching
