January 2008

How to Deal With and Prevent Creative Burnout

Posted by User ImageAywren on January 30, 2008 in Artist Inspiration, Blogging, Writing

Welcome to Wayfarer Wings! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!**This is a revised post that was originally written for webcomic artists.
I decided to expand it to include creators of all large creative projects, including blogging, as a whole.**
Long-term projects take on many forms: [...]

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Screenshots

Posted by User ImageAywren on January 29, 2008 in Gaming

New Final Fantasy XIII Character Designs Revealed

Picture cropped from Magic Box.
Hey! Look! It’s Tai! I mean… new character screens from Final Fantasy Versus XIII for the PS3 (what’s up with the “Versus” tag?).
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Celtus @ Tune-in Tuesday

Posted by User ImageAywren on January 29, 2008 in Music

“Free-falling morning star, like the leaves upon the wind, Silvery moon above I follow you…”
I first heard the band Celtus while listening to one of the Celtic/Irish radio stations on Live 365. The song I fell in love with was the wonderful and inspiring tune, The Pilgrim. Once I managed to get the name of [...]

Online Color Wheel Tool

Posted by User ImageAywren on January 26, 2008 in Art Tutorials

Find A Color’s Name, Hexadecimal and RGB Value
Name that Color is a great tool for website designers and graphic artists who need to know a a color’s Hexadecimal or RGB value on the fly. If you’re anything like me, you want to know a color code fast… and there’s no way to have the values [...]

Project Wonderful: Tips to Get the Most Out of the Virtual Advertising Auction

Posted by User ImageAywren on January 24, 2008 in Internet & Website

Be a Smart Bidder on Project Wonderful
In the past, I’ve used a number of advertising methods in the past to get the word out about my webcomic Wayrift. I spent more money than I would have liked with less results and very little control and information on where my banner was being placed, how often [...]

Create Original Word Art Posters With TypoGenerator

Posted by User ImageAywren on January 23, 2008 in Art Tutorials

Need something different for blog, website or banner graphics? You might want to think of giving the typoGenerator a try.
This website creates word art, called a typo poster, out of words that you type into their online form. From the site: “typoGenerator searches images.google for the text and creates a background from the found images, [...]

Moody Blues @ Tune-in Tuesday

Posted by User ImageAywren on January 22, 2008 in Music

“Just what you want to be, you will be in the end…”

I’ve decided to start a weekly focus for this blog on the topic of musicians and groups that have inspired me over the years. I’m going to try to post about it every Tuesday… and I figured I’d kick off the series featuring [...]