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Author/illustrator: the DELILAH DIRK series, LET'S GET SLEEPY, BUBBLE. Currently making an epic tale of 19th-century adventure, PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY, or #PDAP 🎨 tonycliff.com ⚔️ delilahdirk.com ✨ patreon.com/tonycliff
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Amazon's changing the way the Kindle works on Tuesday, so if you want to download and de-DRM your books, you have until the 26th to get it done. I wrote a quick how-to, for anyone who is interested: next.content.town/p/kindle-drm...

submitted 4 hours ago • 34 comments

Today the memorial service for Don Perro — who ran Capilano University’s animation program —was held at the Yaletown Roundhouse, the same venue where VanCAF is held. It was at least as packed as VanCAF, which will not surprise anyone who knew Don.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

The latest PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY Production Diary is up, and is free-as-in-beer! Topics include: - specialized tools, expensive and otherwise, - and warm your heart, revitalize your soul with Mister Rogers and some wonderful NASA scientists! www.patreon.com/posts/122584... #PDAP

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It's time for another Production Diary update for PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY ( #PDAP ), this time looking at: - Chapter Five inks! They're all done! Full pages and details on display! - Do "behind-the-scenes" materials ruin the thing? www.patreon.com/posts/122058...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

I’m looking for more children’s book illustration work! I love working on books about nature and wildlife. Here are samples from 3 books I’ve illustrated, more samples on my website (link in comments) #kidlit

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I uploaded 282 high quality scans (1200dpi, greyscale) of animal etchings on the Internet Archive. They are from the book "Éléments De Zoologie" published in 1885, so feel free to use them for your projects ! archive.org/details/elem...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

The latest PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY Production Diary is up, and is free-as-in-beer! Topics include: - specialized tools, expensive and otherwise, - and warm your heart, revitalize your soul with Mister Rogers and some wonderful NASA scientists! www.patreon.com/posts/122584... #PDAP

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Yep yep yep Everyone please encourage Will to keep on with this endeavour. We need a guide through the fetid swamp of modern software systems. 👉 next.content.town

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Possibly the most fun and interesting thing I’ve read recently about writing/story.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I watched GOOD NIGHT OPPY this week and absolutely loved it. Capable nerds striving toward a singular accomplishment. Nothing but the purest enthusiasm. Right up my alley, quietly weeping to myself the whole time. (YMMV) m.youtube.com/watch?v=W4t5...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Trying out free and open-source KRITA and its "Colorize Mask" tool. It's **pretty good!** Examples below: - The line art I used - Midway through the process, the lines I scribbled in - Krita's results, after processing

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I have GOT to get myself one of these … which they do not make anymore … what do they have in its place? … ahh, yes, it’s $4800 (CAD).

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Career success thanks to symbiotic radio-listening might be enough to endear me to the BBC's output forever, but in fact I owe my entire present life to a two-part Classic Serial in 2008. @societyofauthors.bsky.social #SADatTheBBC

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

1) This is a great thread with lots of lovely drawings and, 2) My entire life, I never identified with or desired to connect with my English heritage until I discovered BBC Radio and its many programmes. Criticize BBC all you like (it's the English way), but there's nothing like it.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know: I have a middle-grade book coming out in May! It's my first illustrated prose novel, and the title may be familiar to some of you, but I promise it's very different. (But no less weird.) I hope you like it. 😌 You can see a a lil preview here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

At our library, there are two librarians who alternate doing kids’ story time. One is gruff and sarcastic, the other is cheery and has a voice like cotton candy. They’re both absolutely perfect.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

It's time for another Production Diary update for PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY ( #PDAP ), this time looking at: - Chapter Five inks! They're all done! Full pages and details on display! - Do "behind-the-scenes" materials ruin the thing? www.patreon.com/posts/122058...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Uggghhh does anyone know why my Samsung T7 Shield is writing at 2 MB/s??? Same issue connected to multiple computers, tried different cables. Disk Utility (Mac) says it’s healthy. I haven’t used it in a while, which a Reddit post claims might be the problem, but uhhhh that would suck

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments