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Okay, Comicraft is holding a 30th Anniversary promotion right now. They're the first big comic book design-oriented font design house in the world that I know of, started by Richard Starkings and John Roshell. They decided to kick off with thirty days of releasing remasters of their offerings, starting with their first font family, Comicrazy.

They're already set up for most European languages using Latin script, and back in 2015 added Cyrillic support. This year, they've added support for Vietnamese adaptations of Latin, as well as Hebrew script, which marks a first for that font family.

If you already own a license for Comicrazy, you'll get the update as part of your long-term support arrangements. Just check your "My Account - Order History" files if you bought a license after 2010.

(I bought a license back around 2015, hence my downloading.)

If you haven't got Comicrazy yet, my advice would be to wait for Comicraft's annual New Year Font Sale. I expect every family in the catalogue to be on offer during that sale at US$20.22 per next New Year's. Unless you've suddenly hit it big in the local lottery, or are otherwise highly fortunate, in which case, I would recommend you splurge now.
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Things that got done today:
  • Kept up the job search.
  • Tried to push onward with CPAP acquisition paperwork.
  • Mowed the front lawn.
  • Got some sketchbook time in.
  • Got walking exercise.
  • Updated my Affinity design software.
  • Returned an overdue book to the library without drama.
  • Stayed in touch with family.
  • Stayed in touch with friends.

Adding tonight:

  • Watching an interview of a respected author of political satire (Terry Fallis).
dewline: Quotation: "I grieve with thee" (Grief)
Just got announced on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/cinefexNOW/status/1364282780490682369

If there's no rescue for this publication, it will indeed be a sad day for movie makers and the people learning those arts.
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
Space nerd wants to revisit this site later. You might end up having fun too.

http://scifleet.esa.int/#/
dewline: Education, Noun: 1. Necessity 2. Entertainment (Education-TwoGoals)
TED Talks are an ongoing, constant, small-scale version of Massey Lectures. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
dewline: Logo: Open comic book with Cdn. Leaf Symbol (comic books)
I need to re-read these later as I'm able to make time for it...

Design pricing:
https://www.jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughtsaboutpricing

Portraits in Clip Studio Paint:
https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/3937

Line work in Clip Studio Paint:
https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/3904

Import and export of SVG assets between Clip Studio Paint and other design-'ware:
https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/3714

(The last uses Adobe Illustrator as an example, but it'll work with any vector-based software that can work with SVG files.)
dewline: "Not Fail" (not fail)
Just found out about what looks like an online convention/conference about type as artform, as business, as technology...if you can spare the time. Apparently, it's a free event series to sign up for?

https://typewknd.com/
dewline: Logo: Open comic book with Cdn. Leaf Symbol (comic books)
While all this world-shaking American political history is in progress right now, I am distracted by one thing as an artist:

There is a spine brush set for use with Clip Studio Paint. Someone went to the trouble of designing and uploading a brush set to automate the process of drawing human spines.
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I'm the last person to denounce this, and maybe after yesterday's instance of practicing my Hockey Night fandom I shouldn't even admit to noticing this. But this compartment design for 3D animation-ware looks familiar. Am I wrong?

https://www.daz3d.com/optronic-computer-core

Back to the job search...
dewline: Quotation: "Don't Yield, Back SHIELD" (SHIELD)
...in fits and starts.

Click on the image to find out what I mean.

Pericles-Deck5-LayoutRough-1

At least I managed to stay home all day.
dewline: Text: Trekkish Chatter Underway (TrekChatter)
Referring to the second book in this item:

https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2020/03/eaglemoss-reveal-latest-starship-books.html

I'd be interested to know if they've managed to square the circle of the Habitat ring. The illustrations and text about the contents of the Hab ring from the DS9 Tech Manual struck me as mutually contradictory. Especially when the top deck is for the six runabout hangar spaces. Eight decks minimum, not five, right?
dewline: Three question marks representing puzzlement (Puzzlement 2)
Looking for opinions rather than hard'n'fast answers here?

How difficult would any of you say Visio is to work with for someone already somewhat familiar with any program like MS PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Canvas, Affinity Designer, Inkscape or other competing software?

Yes, this is how March 2020 begins for me. I've got competing temp companies looking to fill an opening...
dewline: "Not Fail" (not fail)
I am impressed.

Again, spoiler warnings in effect if you read this before watching the episode...

Co-executive producer, and director of the two-part second-season finale for Star Trek: Discovery, Olatunde Osunsamni discusses the processes of making this episode in the link below:

https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-finale-olatunde-osunsanmi-bts

To everyone who worked on that story, my thanks for work well done.
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As in "hardcopy print editions"?
  • ImagineFX
  • International Designers Network
  • Briar Patch
  • The New Republic
  • Harpers
  • Quill & Quire
  • Wired
  • Carto: le Monde en Cartes


I'm not done with print. Even if "market forces" want it to be done with me.
dewline: Musical note symbol ending in a maple leaf (canadian music)
Had a tough time picking the icon for this one.

On Chris Hadfield's cover of "Space Oddity".

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/video-chris-hadfield-on-the-complexities-of-music-in-microgravity/

Much gratitude to Cdr. Hadfield, the Estate of David Bowie, the people at Ars Technica, NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and probably a lot of other people I don't know about.
dewline: Text: Education Equals Entertainment (edutainment)

The Pelling Lab is based out of the University of Ottawa, and they may be able to save you some grief in terms of downsizing when it comes to stuff that uses electricity if you live in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Details here:

http://www.pellinglab.net/we-want-your-junk/

dewline: Doctor Who quote: Books. Best Weapons in the World (Books)
When you’re doing a review for a book that’s mainly about the artwork of a movie, things become a bit difficult. Not impossible, mind you. Just difficult. The reason for this is partly because you may not know how much of your audience has seen the movie in question at the point your review is expected to see print or “go live”. It’s an unavoidable issue.

So before I continue, good manners require this question: is there anyone in this audience who (a) hasn’t seen Star Wars VII yet, and (b) cares to see it without being spoiled about plot details?

(((waits for audience to respond to these questions)))
Possibly Spoilers After the Cut )
dewline: self-portrait, taken while drawing (Sketching)
Pericles-MSD-Prototype-4a

Started laying down function areas by colour code. Green for commissaries, blue for gravity field projector arrays, orange for lifts, and purple for the IRBM silo for on-board satellite launch capability.

"IRBM, you say?"

It was Eliot Brown's idea per the first Marvel Universe Handbook of the early 1980's, designed as an "in case of nuclear war on Earth and the planet still needs defensive comms" satellite-launching feature and the regular Nick Fury series - starring Nick Sr. at the time - took that idea and ran with it as a plot point about a decade or so later. So, it's in this drawing.

Colour-coding is subject to change, of course...

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