{"id":1383,"date":"2019-01-03T06:08:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2019-01-09T23:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T04:36:19","slug":"crafty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"Crafty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We thought it would be a good exercise in thrift and also a chance to flex our crafty muscles and decided to make our own family Christmas cards this year.<\/p>\n

And of course the end product ended up costing more if we had just bought them outright as we usually do.<\/p>\n

But at least we have plenty of leftover supplies so we can make more for next year. I figure we’ll break even… eventually.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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However I really enjoyed illustrating for a small, time-restricted, product focused project. I changed up my current drawing style and finally completed a full project using Clip Studio Paint.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am still learning how to deal with tone patterns for gray scale printing, and after struggling with how to remove moire effects, I ended up giving up and just going with a water color-style effect instead. I was quite happy with our end results.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tomorrow I’ll be sharing the other crafty gift projects I completed for the holidays.

So another day of blogging done!

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