martinekenblog:

Illustration by Mads Peitersen

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soldieronpond:

The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin

I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.

One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down.  Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face. 

It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me.

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Available to purchase here

Wow, this is amazing! Wish there were things like this where I live. I’m in this proyect which consists in creating our own audiobooks for blind students, so we make audiobooks with books from school (like a Science or Maths book). But it’s also our idea to read books just for fun, so that they can enjoy them too. Something like this would be just completely amazing.

Tu n’es encore pour moi qu’un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garçons. Et je n’ai pas besoin de toi. Et tu n’as pas besoin de moi non plus. Je ne suis pour toi qu’un renard semblable à cent mille renards. Mais, si tu m’apprivoises, nous aurons besoin l’un de l’autre. Tu seras pour moi unique au monde. Je serai pour toi unique au monde…

dit le renard (Le petit Prince - Antoin de Saint-Exupéry) —

Viva la Vic! - That’s one of my babies oh yeah. I haven’t drawn her in a while, still need to develop her desing a bit cause her eyes make her look tired all the time 

Leslie Burke is right. Mind like yours wide open, you could create a whole new world. 

(Source: hawthorny)

betterbooktitles:

The best of Children’s Literature on Better Book Titles.

literarybinge:

ilovecharts:

How A Book Is Born

TOP RIGHT LEFT

GOAT FARMING!!!!!! 

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belovedlights:

(tutorial)

i just did a cool thing that i think would be useful if you’re like me and sometimes have a hard time picking colours / a colour scheme for an image

basically i just took a brush with moderate spacing, turned on colour dynamics and set all the hue/sat/brightness to a low (~10%-30%) jitter, picked a base colour, and drew a line down the side of the canvas

it’s sort of like when some people save colour swatches so they can keep their shading consistent, but more for playing around with different tones and lighting on a single surface. it’ll probably be pretty good for skin which is very multi-tonal by nature.

a lot of colours came out that i probably wouldn’t have picked manually, but they still looked pretty cool. and it saves a lot of time because now i have a broad range of colours without having to browse through my pantone swatches or open up the colour picker.

Paint Some Life into Your Skin Tones

dredsina:

[From DaniDraws.com]

One of the biggest challenges a beginning painter will face is learning to paint flesh tones. The skin is highly complex, made up of varying colors and textures; if you get one thing wrong, you could end up with some pretty scary results.

Here’s a few simple tips to help you conquer this problem.

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WIP - it’s so weird, having a social life 

overly too much inspired by http://starsandpolkadots’ work . I guess. I did this two months ago. I haven’t done anything properly in a while

Hayley Williams

I, rock. you, don’t. by ~le moi

the girl with the books .

9 favorite personal pictures of Logan Lerman — Requested by Anonymous.

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