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cumpantry posted:a creatives' chat room shouldnt be dead
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HungryMedusa posted:What do you want to talk about? Extremely  down to the wondering if I have a touch of ADHD too. I've been tackling it by getting rid of half finished projects and a lot of "found objects" material that I cannot think of a concievable use for. Because of course I fell into that trap in college jewelry making. Trying to just keep the bare minimum required, in case I go back to some type of crafts/art I did before.
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Jan 31, 2025 14:54
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HungryMedusa posted:What do you want to talk about? why get rid of anything? my interests are diversified as well though not as specialized as yours, just casual bouncing between drawing, writing, producing, programming, djing, guitar, etc. but yea not trying to encourage hoarder tendacies but id hate to want to work with leather again or something but not have the means to so so a strange fowl posted:actual chat between creatives as happens offline would turn into a politics thread immediately and/or walls of cat photos hah... lets do our best to avoid both fates
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Jan 31, 2025 19:22
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I also have a lot of interests but I don't think its necessarily a bad thing. You get exposed to a lot of different art making techniques and ideas and sometimes you can even get ideas you can bring to other media. As well as doing multi-media stuff which can be worthwhile as well. I absolutely understand the desire to focus on just one thing, i just don't think it's necessarily a negative to branch out. Other than the extra cost and having to keep a lot of supplies around. Which can definitely be a valid concern. But exploring a lot of different hobbies will broaden your influences, so that's kinda nice. And If you're enjoying the time you're spending with leatherworking or whatever then I wouldn't say that time spent is a waste.
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art is about creative expression but also mechanical skills. i find i pick up some sort of art, work on it for a while until i'm kind of technically proficient, and then my interest and progress both plateau and i move onto something else. a few months or years later i'll suddenly be drawn back to the old medium, and will work on it a few more months, get a bit better at it, then plateau again, move on again. and so on. i don't think this is a neurological problem, it's just the brain deciding what it wants to learn for its own mysterious reasons and when it's time to go learn something else.
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cumpantry posted:why get rid of anything? my interests are diversified as well though not as specialized as yours, just casual bouncing between drawing, writing, producing, programming, djing, guitar, etc. but yea not trying to encourage hoarder tendacies but id hate to want to work with leather again or something but not have the means to so so This is true. I do have a lot of fun stuff, maybe instead I just have to make a point to remember what I have and use it. Except for the spinning wheel - it is from the 60s and someone should really have it. Maybe I will look into if the Textile Center here would want it
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Hey creagoons, I'm not sure where to ask, but I'm about to finish a sourcebook for a roleplaying game that is going to be published, and that means I have to git gud at layout. Im pretty close to springing the (imo hefty) one-time fee for Affinity Publisher 2, because it has a rep for being very user friendly and good for letting relatively unskilled designers get going. Am I about to make a mistake? Are there better options? I don't mind the price, I just want to spend it right.
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Tias posted:Hey creagoons, I'm not sure where to ask, but I'm about to finish a sourcebook for a roleplaying game that is going to be published, and that means I have to git gud at layout. Affinity Publisher is a good layout program that's reliable, easy to understand and powerful. £70 is a steal compared to InDesign's monthly fee. I haven't used Scribus (a free and open source desktop publisher) for a few years, but when I did it didn't work very well for me. There's a few esoteric things in InDesign that Affinity doesn't have, but it nails the fundamentals well. I like the way you can access Designer and Photo (if you have them ) from the Publisher interface, but that might not be relevant to you. I will say (as someone who has typeset a few books) that a little bit of prep goes a long way. It's really worth going through your original text in Word (or whatever) and making sure styles are applied properly. This means using things like Header 1, Header 2, Body text, Caption, etc, instead of just manually making text larger or changing fonts. This means making artistic choices in Affinity (or whatever you use for layout) will be much easier, as changing one style typographically (changing the Header 1 style from Times to Helvetica for example) will update all uses of that style. Affinity's online manual is pretty good at explaining some layout stuff as well as how the programme works and the forums are pretty friendly.
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