Bonus Fonts Unlocked

[rynling]

I decided to use a font called Back Issues for my Zelda comics zine, as well as a font called Hylia Serif for the front cover and title page.

Louisa Roy was kind enough to give credit for both fonts in her Into the Wild zine, and I’m happy to follow in her footsteps. I need to remember to give credit too.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to learn this; but, thanks to a very short and no-nonsense guide on Blambot (where I got the Back Issues font), I just realized that the way to install a font on Photoshop (and all programs running on your computer) is to right-click on the font file and then click “Install.” When I think about all the time I spent wandering through arcane tutorials on "how to install a font on Photoshop," I cry a little inside. Sometimes Google is not, in fact, the best way to figure out how to do something.

One day at a time, friends. One day at a time.

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[runicmagitek]

Yesterday I discovered I had been installing brushes in Photoshop to the wrong folder. You know, after doing this for 15+ years. At least I found all my old brushes from middle school LJ days and reinstalled them in the proper folder (the woes of switching from Mac to PC about 4 or so years ago). And then I got a new phone (this time going from iOS to Android) and I feel like I'm some WW1 era granny, poking my boyfriend and asking him how to make the gizmo whatchamacallit do the thing. Seriously, no amount of Google-fu can make these things better.

Love the fonts, too! Excited about your comics zine :D

[rynling]

Digital technology is such magic, honestly. I like to think that I would be a wizard if magic were real, but "magic" would probably just be a lot of knowing what files go in what folders (except with elements or alignments or phases of the moon or whatever). And of course people would talk about magic in vague terms like "becoming one with the universe," but really it would just be a matter of "right click on the icon."

(Except when it's something like "how to make the lineart of your scanned drawing transparent in Photoshop," which requires some crazy maneuvering and logic bending. I don't know what sort of wizard figured out that particular twelve-step process, but they have my gratitude.)

Anyway, I have a real question. The main brush I use in Photoshop is just the default hard round boy, but I'm interested in experimenting. Would you happen to have one or two solid recommendations for brush packs? I'm mainly interested in brushes for drawing lineart (and not textures or stamps), at least for the time being. I've tried to google this, but the results have been simultaneously overwhelming and extremely underwhelming.

Please feel free to take time answering, or not to answer at all. And thank you for the LJ nostalgia feels!

[runicmagitek]

Oh man, making lineart of a scanned with transparent... I just had flashbacks to college. Yeah, that shit isn't easy if you want to do it well.

So most of my brushes are things I've legit found anywhere between middle school and now, ranging in places from LJ, Deviantart, college friends and professors, and shit I even made myself from photographs. They're mostly stamps and textures for my graphic design stuff (like when I do stuff like this). That said, I poked one of my illustration friends about what brushes she used and she threw this at me and said to pick and choose whatever. But legit, I've become like, a dragon who hoards Photoshop fonts and brushes and textures. My oldest file dates back to February of 2000. I do hope that helps, though!