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“I can’t possibly accept this award. And I’m very humbled and I’m very grateful and gracious but my artist of my life is Beyoncé and this album to me, the ‘Lemonade’ album, was just so monumental, Beyoncé. It was so monumental. And so well thought out, and so beautiful and soul-bearing, and we got to see another side to you that you don’t always let us see, and we appreciate that, and all us artists here who adore you.” - Beyoncé reacts as Adele accepts Album of The Year (and breaks the award in half at the end)

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Hoi!! I saw a little bit of the process on your Instagram, but could you explain how you go about making a pattern? I absolutely love how that neato cactus/desert one you did turned out!

Alrighty!

So to make a repeating pattern: 

1. Open a canvas and draw in the center WITHOUT touching any of the edges. 

2. [Below: Light cyan lines] Divide your canvas into four equal parts.

Make four guides framing the canvas, and two across the middle. 

For the ones in the middle, View > New Guide > Horizontal or Vertical for needed orientation > type in 50% to get the exact middle of your canvas. These are photoshop shortcuts, may be different on your programs. 

3. [Above: Yellow arrows] Make sureyou have ‘Snap’ checked under View > Snap, then select each quarter of your piece > layer via cut > move diagonally to the other side.  

After you’re done moving things diagonally, you can either turn off Snap so your doodling won’t stick to the center lines, or toggle the guide visibility off (Ctrl+;). Merge the layers back together. 

4. Draw in the middle without touching the borders, color the entire thing if you plan on doing that.

5. Setting your image as a pattern After your image is done, merge all layers into one > select the entire canvas (Ctrl+A) > Edit > Define Pattern

Open a new canvas bigger than the one you made the pattern on, and paint bucket it in! (Instead of the Foreground button at the top when paint bucket is active, select Pattern then your pattern)

If you aren’t using a program that lets you define patterns, merge everything into one layer and duplicate & tile them manually. 

Cheers! 

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i’m not sleepy in a cute way but in a chronic depression and insomnia way 

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When I’m about to get to the really good part of the lesson

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It bothers the fuck out of me that adults try and take away creative outlets for kids, but would never think about doing that when it comes to sports.

All little kids are actors. All little kids are story tellers. All little kids are musicians. All little kids are creative, are artists.

And to see it just slowly be torn from them so they can “grow up” and settle for whatever life the adults want for them, is heartbreaking.

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You guys, the form has been a total game changer for me this year. I was so tired of keeping track of which kids turned in assignments late, excuses, etc. so I threw together this form a few months ago and it’s been SO HELPFUL. Whenever an assignment is due I spend 10-15 minutes at the end of the day making a list of kids who did not turn it in. I fill out the top part of the form and hand it to the kid in the next class with the expectation that they fill it out and give it back to me by the end of class. If a kid comes up to me with an excuse on the day an assignment is due, I hand them a blank form and tell them to fill out their request and explanation that way. At the end of class, I glance over their proposed makeup plan, we come to an arrangement, and they go on their way. This helps in two ways: 1.) the kids are way more likely to get their butts in gear when they see how serious I am about this missing work and it holds them responsible for part of their consequences and 2.) I can easily make copies to keep as evidence for parents who are concerned/complaining about grades. I have a special folder for these forms in my desk that makes entering in/keeping track of late grades so much easier ❤

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oh man, this is beautiful to watch. 

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HOW TO GET OVER COMMON CREATIVE FEARS (MAYBE) by Adam J. Kurtz on Design*Sponge

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the ham is melting, the turkey is suspended in midair, the salami is hatching from its own egg. why did we even come to the salvador deli

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Who else is not mentally prepared for tomorrow?

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