I really needed a picture of this house for the front cover. But taking the photo is only the first part of the job. Next was turning this rather old looking piece into something one might consider haunted. The house, […]
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Cooper Alley Ghost Cover – Pt 3
In the story, it is winter. It is cold. It is snowing. The problem I faced is that this photograph is in Melbourne, in Summer, when it’s hot and definitely does not snow. I could think about, say, grabbing a […]
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Judging a Book by its Cover
When I first started out writing, I was busy with the whole ‘writing’ part of the deal, you know, putting words together to make sentences and all that jazz. Then, when it got time to get real, I slammed into […]
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KDP – The Cover
In the previous post, I spoke about how to get the cover to play ball. By downloading the template you will save yourself a lot of trouble, but how does one use it? GIMP I like GIMP. A lot. I […]
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Presenting – Grosvenor Lane Ghost
Wow! I’m bushed. I thoroughly gave a Synfig, Audacity, Anvil Studio, Gimp, Corel and good ol’ Microsoft Movie Maker a workout. I haven’t got a lot to say except that the promotional animation for Grosvenor Lane Ghost is now up […]
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Thank you… You’re Wacom.
One of my biggest bugbears when it comes to digitizing pencil scratchings is that I have to do my sketching on paper, get my phone out, take a photo – with a black piece of paper underneath to hide the […]
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Lulu – The Cover
Pushing the digital version of your book to hardcopy requires a revision of your front cover. You’ve knocked your cover up. You are pretty chuffed with it because, hey, everything is just as it should be. Pixels are, after all, […]
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Let’s Animate… something.
I’ve spent some time on the music. I’ll need to spend some more time on it, of course, but I’ve had my fun and I should get back to the animations and whatnot. Looking at my plan, I’ve made a […]
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Darker Sketches
The first batch came up sweet. I’m still learning from my mistakes even from the last few drawings. For one, I really need to take the photo with a black backing sheet to get rid of the text showing through. […]
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Colour me Happy
Sketches are nice enough, but add a dash of colour and, boom! They come to life. A Different Approach In the Bullet Animation, I rendered all of my sketches in Inkscape to vectors. This made them look flat, however I […]
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