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Psdtuts+: Typography, the Art of Text – Basix

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Typography and how to adjust typography from within Photoshop was brought up during our weekly meeting Tuesday. Almost if on cue, Psdtuts+ (http://psd NULL.tutsplus NULL.com/) as part of their Photoshop Basix (http://psd NULL.tutsplus NULL.com/sessions/photoshop-basix/) series released a video tutorial on this very subject. The tutorial focuses more on the keyboard shortcuts than the panel commands, but I think you’ll find the keyboard shortcuts to be far more intuitive. If you need to know how to properly set leading and kerning, or have no idea what the hell that means, be sure to check this video out.

[ Psdtuts+: Typography, the Art of Text (http://psd NULL.tutsplus NULL.com/tutorials/tools-tips/type-tool-photoshop/) ]

Merry Xmas from WSG!

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Enjoy your week off, and be ready to return January 4th with New Year’s resolutions in hand!

In other news, and some of us have been busy creating secret santa gifts for our fellow artists. They are downright awesome so they just have to be shared to the whole world!

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The Minimalist Guide to Leaving Your Soul-Crushing Day Job

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This article was found by one of my daily reads, Lifehacker (http://lifehacker NULL.com).

As budding artists a lot of us know first hand (myself included) that our biggest roadblock to taking our projects to the next level is often our day job. The start up time for a comic to start earning a livable income, if it indeed happens at all, can be considerable. In the meantime you still have bills to pay. This usually entails a very considerate and gainfully employed significant other, or you’re working a job you have to take in order to support the job you want to take. Read the rest of this entry »

Attention NEWW Peeps!

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First of all, thanks for coming to check us out! We’re still having a great time at NEWW and hope to run into you Sunday. I just wanted to clarify the meeting times. We’re always looking for ways to improve WSG and make it more effective for the community, and in the last 2 weeks leading up to this weekend we’ve been discussing changing the schedule and adding new features to take effect after NEWW. So in case there is any confusion, our weekly meetings are being combined into one longer meeting starting at 10pm EST/7pm PST, with people on the eastern coast or those with other schedule restrictions going first. Don’t worry, if you’re not sure what you need, just show up with yourself, a mic and/or webcam if you have one and we’ll be happy to fill you in.

Also, in place of our Thursday Atlantic meetings we will host themed Art Jams, so we can break out of our routines a bit and explore our art a bit. Also, it’s just plain awesome to draw together. Details forthcoming!

So anyways, thanks for checking in and we hope to see you there Tuesday. And when we’re not meeting for WSG there’s a great chance you’ll catch at least some of us drawing at Lets Draw Stuff (http://www NULL.letsdrawstuff NULL.com/draw) throughout the week, so feel free to stop in there too.

Webcomic Authors Strike a Blow Against Glen Beck

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Machine of DeathOk, that headline may be slightly sensationalist, but what is completely accurate is the fact that a particular group of webcomic artists and authors have pissed FOX News golden boy Glen Beck right the hell off. And if that doesn’t make you positively giddy inside, it should. Read the rest of this entry »