Procrastinating with Personas

14 Mar 2010 1 Comment

by mashadutoit in Colour, Myself Tags:

I’m always finding ways to waste time online, especially when I have a lot of “real” work I’m supposed to be doing.  Creating Firefox personas fits the bill perfectly.  It involves a little bit of creativity and results in eye-candy.  Plus, I get to apply some of my patterns!

Forest Mirror

In case you dont know, a Firefox persona is a sort of “theme” you can apply to your browser.  It appears in the background to your toolbars.

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Little dead kingfisher

07 Mar 2010 Leave a comment

by mashadutoit in Inspiration Tags: ,

I’ve nearly finished writing another short story so I’m allowed to play with patterns in Photoshop again.  I used this scan I made of a little dead Kingfisher:

I found him lying on the side-walk, poor little thing.  Being a heartless artist, I plopped him on my scanner and made use of his lovely feathers: More

Patterns from Drawings

31 May 2009 2 Comments

by mashadutoit in Colour Tags: ,

I’ve still got the pattern bug bad – this time, I’ve been creating repeating patterns from my own drawings.

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These are all generated from a drawing of a rather sad looking young man in elaborate uniform: More