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ANATOMY
► #anatomy (general human/animal)
► #human (specific)
► #animals (specific)
► #skin tones
CLOTHES
► #clothing
COLORS
► #colors (color theory)
► #color palettes
BACKGROUNDS
► #nature
► #decor
► #landscapes
► #architecture
ADVICE
► #advice (general)
► #comics advice (specific)
VEHICLES
► #vehicles
HISTORY
► #history
GORE
► #blood
QUITE HANDY!
► #photoshop wizardry
► #fonts
The visual linguistics of a comic book page
Inside Science recently wrote about the study by UCSD’s Neil Cohn, Navigating Comics, which looks at the underlying structure of the comics language:People who read the English written word scan text from left to right. Once our eyes hit the end of the page, we stop. Then ding!, like an old-time typewriter, our eyes shift downward and snap back to the left to start reading the next line. This is known as a “Z-path,” as our eyes whip about like the end of Zorro’s sword.
But that linear track gets derailed in comics with complex layouts and Cohn wanted to know if experienced readers had strategies to follow along.
Cohn rustled up 145 participants at the 2004 Comic-Con International, a comic book convention held in San Diego. Participants had varying experience with reading comics, ranging from “never” to “often.”
Each participant was given a booklet containing 12 pages of blank panels. Each page was independent of the rest and used different design techniques.
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Hey! So here’s some info on a few at-home acne treatments. I made this to accompany my Acne Remedies write up. I’ve also got some info on the Oil Cleansing Method, as well as a few more Tutorials.
Please feel free to share your own Acne remedies, I would love to hear them! Just keep in mind everyone’s skin is different, what works for you might not work for others and vice versa. Thanks!<3
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“…a series of free online tutorials guiding you through the basics of sewing, from setting up your machine, to understanding sewing patterns, and finishing your seams.”
Saving this for later cause I’m getting rusty as a muggerbugger
SEWCIAL JUSTICE!!!
reblogging because i need to learn and my mom has a sewing machine exactly like this one
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Lights Out: Why does it get dark at night? The answer might be more complicated than you think.
[gizmodo]
My face while watching this video:
Wat.
WHY.
STAHP.
Is it weird that this made perfect sense to me?
That was an awesome explanation. Watch the video.
MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE
I LOVE things like this, I find it so incredibly fascinating.
Amazing
I FEEL LIKE I JUST LEARNT MORE THAN IN MY UNIVERSITY CLASS OMG
physics revision = done
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I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE HDR EFFECT WAS HARD BUT IT’S ACTUALLY LIKE A 5 STEP THING BESIDES DUPLICATING AND FLATTENING SHIT HOLY FUCK I CAN DO IT. I’M SO EXCITED WOW THAT’S LOVELY and I have to share because no one every taught me this.
- Open your picture.
- Duplicate layer (Ctrl+J)
- Overlay that shit 50%
- Flatten image (Ctrl+E)
- Duplicate that one layer that you have now (Ctrl+J)
- Desaturate (Shift+Ctrl+U)
- Invert (Ctrl+I)
- Gaussian Blur it to 40
- Now overlay that B&W Blurred image
- Duplicate and sharpen if necessary
- AMAZEMENT WOW HOLY SHIT
(via cyborgsarrie)
History Meme | 2/8 Objects: 1920’s Dresses
1920’s Dresses were lighter and brighter and shorter than ever before. Fashion designers played with fabric colors, textures and patterns to create totally new styles of dress. Evening dresses, coats and jackets were often trimmed with fur. Hemlines rose for most of the decade but dropped slightly toward the end. Shoes and stockings assumed a greater prominence now that they were more visible. Silk stockings in all the colors of the rainbow, often with patterns, were designed to match the coordinated outfits of stylish women. (x)
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