February 2008

Stand Above the Rest with Professional Website and Blog Templates

Posted by User Image Aywren on February 13, 2008 in Internet & Website

Welcome to Wayfarer Wings! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Stand up! Stand out! A template solution that doesn’t cost big bux!
The Internet is a booming and often crowded place — every blogger and webmaster who wants to monetize knows this all too well. [...]

Tutorial: Cleaning Up Line Art for Digital Painting in Photoshop (Pt2)

Posted by User Image Aywren on February 12, 2008 in Art Tutorials

From Roughs to Inks
This is Part 2 of 2 of my tutorial on how to take a picture from rough, scanned pencils and turn it into a clean inked drawing, suitable for Photoshop painting. If you’re just tuning in, you may want to check out Part 1 of this tutorial!
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Tutorial: Cleaning Up Line Art for Digital Painting in Photoshop (Pt1)

Posted by User Image Aywren on February 11, 2008 in Art Tutorials

From Roughs to Inks
INTRODUCTION
I get questions from time to time about what techniques I use to create my artwork and online manga. Currently, I use Flash to ink my scanned artwork. But I know that on top of Photoshop, not everyone has Flash… or a tablet to work in Flash. I wrote this tutorial back [...]

Excellent Award!

Posted by User Image Aywren on February 11, 2008 in Blogging

Many thanks to Designer’s Depot for nominating Wayfarer Wings for the blog Excellent Award! I believe that part of the rules to this blog is to nominate ten other blogs for it as well. But it’s almost midnight, so I may have to hold off until tomorrow. Hope you don’t mind.
Thanks again! ^_^
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Guild Wars Canthan New Years Festival… Disapointment

Posted by User Image Aywren on February 10, 2008 in Gaming

Year of the Rat… Sans Rat. Pretty Much.

I’ve been a Guild Wars gamer for going close to three years this coming May. At one point, I owned and kept up with two separate accounts (until expansions made it too costly for me to do so). And I have loved and been thankful for all of [...]

Character Development — Writing Realistic Relationships

Posted by User Image Aywren on February 8, 2008 in Character Development

Character development tips for creative writing –
create new interesting,
original and memorable characters…
or give established characters a breath of fresh air.
One of the most important aspects of a character’s life is the relationships that character forms with other characters. Just like real people, a living character may be ruled by emotion and connections to those around [...]

Character Development — How to Build a Relationship With Your Character

Posted by User Image Aywren on February 7, 2008 in Character Development

Character development tips for creative writing –
create new interesting,
original and memorable characters…
or give established characters a breath of fresh air.
In past articles, I’ve talked about the importance of having a relationship with your character as well as the way to destroy a hard-earned connection to your creations. In this article, I want to focus on [...]