tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85045478237954150772024-03-05T21:19:52.990-05:00The DEWLiner's Art BlogThe art blog of Dwight Williams, StorytellerDwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-53637572052018980642023-10-01T19:04:00.001-05:002023-10-01T19:04:13.119-05:00Edge of Midnight Base Map - A Work in ProgressI've been working on this for fun, for mental health, for skills retention and development. It's inspired by Star Trek: Star Charts and Stellar Cartography, of course, and ties into a work of fan fiction as historical textbook: The Edge of Midnight - A Narrative of the Federation-Klingon Cold War (2256-2293). There are some *ahem* deviations from the work in those first two volumes, some of them Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-85360822898355135312022-10-04T21:21:00.002-05:002022-10-04T21:24:08.728-05:00Inspired by Inktober, Yet Apart From ItThis was inspired by Inktober. Since this was drawn using Clip Studio Paint, I cannot claim this as an Inktober activity. I still intend to use those prompts for this year's edition of Inktober to inspire some efforts at daily illustration practice. Hence this generic gargoyle design.
I've already given up on the idea of getting a sketch finished per day...and I still want to try for Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-37003589013952142812021-09-11T15:48:00.005-05:002021-09-11T15:48:44.212-05:00Anniversaries That Matter To Me Today There is more than the one. As a reminder, this link to an earlier blog entry.https://dewline.dreamwidth.org/1559387.htmlDwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-44927152559069845942021-07-13T19:58:00.007-05:002021-07-13T19:58:38.616-05:00Portfolio Progress I finally got something done for this quarter on Twitter.https://twitter.com/DewlineO/status/1415110762805276674Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-65680526968188816422021-01-14T18:53:00.004-05:002021-01-14T18:53:25.117-05:00Map Galleries Volume 2 So, I found a few more maps of interest to me, thanks to help from quite a few other people on Flickr...
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-29655393770406956472020-10-27T11:18:00.001-05:002020-10-27T11:18:22.100-05:00ComicsTech: Solved My CSP QuestionTurns out I had brushes set to "millimetres" rather than "pixels". That was my mistake.
Anyway, problem solved now. My apologies for taking so long to post an update about that!Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-21913171005477428922020-09-21T20:10:00.005-05:002020-09-21T20:10:44.181-05:00FONTS: Personal FavouritesLast week, spoke about preferred fonts for accessibility re: websites. Also, she asked this question:
Do folks have favorite fonts?
She has her own goals in mind for the answers to that question, regarding accessibility, and she's been getting useful answers from her friendlist. For myself, selfishly, I do have a list of favourites. Many - most? - of these favourites have very little to do Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-35430719024902010342020-09-10T12:45:00.004-05:002020-10-27T11:16:04.971-05:00COMICS/TECH: A Software QuestionAnyone who's using Clip Studio Paint, does this look right to you?
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-28011635112237425352020-09-07T13:11:00.003-05:002020-09-08T14:21:52.995-05:00CBC: Ideas - A Search for the Common GoodListening to this one at the moment:
Our Future Ancestors Deserve a Voice...
Food for a lot of thought for any storyteller.
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-90025801962310618102020-09-01T19:17:00.003-05:002020-09-01T19:17:52.625-05:00Noting the Russian AttentionTwenty-one page views of this blog, all from Yandex-dot-ru this past four weeks or so?
Interesting.
I really should post some sketches or photography more often to get a wider audience.Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-44429614748546959052020-09-01T18:56:00.000-05:002020-09-01T19:15:30.113-05:00If you're trying to check my home page?National Capital FreeNet's telling all of us member-users that web-hosting is temporarily down.
I'll let you know when it's back up.
Update: The website's still viewable, but apparently my ability to edit may be temporarily kaput.Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-56420864257027920732020-08-26T08:47:00.001-05:002020-08-26T08:48:25.615-05:00Getting set up on Cartographer's Guild and DeviantArt for promoting my illustration and design stuff, if you're wondering what's up lately.
Not done here yet, as there's a bunch of blogs I want to keep on watching.
More to follow...and yes, I'm watching where the visitors here are visiting from. Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-57524965587458773722020-04-15T14:27:00.000-05:002020-04-15T14:27:26.053-05:00PHOTOS: New to Me in 2014...Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-56945025903054854242020-04-10T19:07:00.000-05:002020-04-10T19:07:03.540-05:00Pericles ProjectThis is something I've been toying with off and on for a few years. Inspired by SHIELD - the Marvel Comics soldier-spy organization - and some of the work of people in comic books, movie-making and TV series adaptations of the comic books. Eliot R. Brown, Jayse Hansen, Rick Sternbach and Mike Okuda (No, those two have yet to be hired by Marvel for either TV or film work, but they ought to be!)...Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-53796377287490589502020-04-06T12:57:00.000-05:002020-04-06T13:40:27.409-05:00Repairs and Renovations Notice 2020-1Okay, I just found out now. (Yes, just now!) I can't set up publicly accessible Google Photos galleries the way I used to with G+. That's been taken away from us users as of when G+ became a paid-only option.
As a temporary fix, I'm setting up links with this posting.
Logo Experiments
Other Graphic Design Stuff
Photos
Mythical Maps
Sketches
Trek-Inspired Design Sketchery
Op-Ed Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-87139376788368093222020-04-03T14:31:00.001-05:002020-04-04T14:56:21.512-05:00PHOTOS: Seen On a Weekend WalkI'm probably not the only one who did a double-take when they saw this. Nor in uploading an image file of it.
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-58102540151342212302020-04-03T14:28:00.001-05:002020-04-03T14:28:58.594-05:00Making progress, however slow.
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-40198111475674639952020-03-29T16:17:00.001-05:002020-03-29T16:17:46.964-05:00PHOTOS: Place d'Orléans Mall in Happier DaysBack before we'd all been rudely reminded that we share the world with coronaviruses...at a mini-convention organized by the local comics shop, Entertainment Ink. They're still working on getting their new business model of delivery set up as I write this entry. If you're in Orléans and you're interested, post a comment. I'll flag this entry to the owners' attention.
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-73941201343872489332020-03-29T16:13:00.000-05:002020-03-29T16:13:11.364-05:00Creeping Along With the Inks...Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-42537553174953058022020-03-29T15:43:00.003-05:002020-03-29T15:43:35.731-05:00Looking at this past month's visitor stats......because I got curious.
Twenty visits from Turkmenistan? Not that I'm complaining, but I do wish that I spoke/read/wrote any of the languages in use there. Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-83691157325301895472020-03-29T15:40:00.000-05:002020-03-29T15:40:13.907-05:00Moving in little steps...Still working on this one.
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-60739613563787333382020-03-26T18:33:00.000-05:002020-03-26T18:33:12.792-05:00First page of practice. Work-in-progress, of course.
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-36155937615198222962020-03-25T09:29:00.002-05:002020-03-29T15:40:39.191-05:00Plans, to Tempt God(s)Still making time for sketches. Hoping to post stuff later in the week, okay?Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-54109225760698433292020-03-09T21:35:00.002-05:002020-03-09T21:35:33.301-05:00
Can you ID the font in this image file?
Dwight Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504547823795415077.post-50098963629021295522019-06-17T09:38:00.000-05:002019-06-17T09:38:14.643-05:00PHOTOS/BOOKS: Another Sample From the Personal LibraryI haven't yet read everything in this particular batch all the way through. But it seems a good idea to have all of them at hand, particularly nowadays.
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