Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

It’s been a while since I have posted a little ani­mation from the steps of my sketches (that I some­times save reg­u­larly enough to give an idea of how it works), so here is an update. Other pre­vious time-lapse videos can be found at my website tagged “process”.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: cg, digital painting, process, sketch, video

Wisp — volume 2 / front cover

After having pub­lished with much sat­is­faction a few books¹ with Lulu (one of the main actors in the print-on-demand ser­vices) this post is listing some of the things that may be useful to know (or to remember after a bit of trial and errors) to design a source file that will produce the perfect PDF file.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: adobe, book, circle of eights, eps, ezine, indesign, lulu, pdf, print-on-demand, process, wisp

Ideas and inspi­ration are much like plants. Usually they don’t require our attention to grow by them­selves in nature, and some of them, like dew­berries, are even sweeter and more deli­cious when picked on their wild thorny bushes than in a neatly groomed garden. But when we want to save our­selves the hunt for the fruits, there is mutual benefit found for both the hungry human and the plant in a gar­dening coop­er­ation.
However, no matter how stubborn and greedy humans may be, nature still has its say. When the soil isn’t ade­quate, or when it isn’t time, then, no point in digging to stretch the roots, like tra­di­tional Chinese wisdom says. And in the reverse, no matter what, it’s amazing how these smallest things grow when you trust they will.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: attention, magic, photos, plant, playfulness, process, success, tomato, tree

Some­times, there are stories which are par­tic­u­larly mean­ingful to us.

Dis­cussing with Finn about her floating on a raft com­ments, and her serendip­itous dis­covery of the book Life of Pi by Canadian author Yann Martel, I was reminded of a similar period where I found great comfort in reading such an adventure of drifting on the oceans.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: book, earthsea, elikozoe, magic, process