{"id":15124,"date":"2016-08-22T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2016\/08\/22\/random-effects\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:35","slug":"random-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2016\/08\/22\/random-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I finished the final illustration for the next <a href=\"http:\/\/strategiccoach.com\/\">Strategic Coach<\/a> book.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m learning more techniques and principles with each of these projects, but there&#8217;s a point with each of these panels where I&#8217;m just applying effects and shapes and layers by guess and by gosh until it feels right.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if other artist\/designers\u00a0do this, too, or if they actually have a plan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11079\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1476\/MindsetScorecard.gif\" alt=\"MindsetScorecard\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m extremely grateful for the people who developed the program I use to do my work, <a href=\"http:\/\/my.smithmicro.com\/manga-studio-5.html\">Clip Studio Paint<\/a>. The more I use it, the more I discover &#8212; and I feel like I&#8217;ll never\u00a0run out of new things to learn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I usually learn software by just flailing around in it, trying to reach an outcome, but CSP is so involved and there&#8217;s such a steep learning curve to it that I watched a whole series of tutorials to get started &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/mangastudioguide\">a brilliant series by Doug Hills<\/a> &#8212; and I&#8217;m really glad I did. I would never have understood or found these great features on my own.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I finished the final illustration for the next Strategic Coach book. I&#8217;m learning more techniques and principles with each of these projects, but there&#8217;s a point with each of these panels where I&#8217;m just applying effects and shapes and layers by guess and by gosh until it feels right. I wonder if other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}