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This was as much fun as it looked like. I got some nice paper, a nice pen, and made neat boxes for steps, rough columns, etc. I also converted the final RGB to hex for fun, and made a rough representation of it via colored pencil combinations. Total time was about an hour, I think, but the time wasn’t important to me. This was enjoyable.

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It’s funny that “This was as much fun as it looked like,” could be interpreted accurately in either direction, depending on your personal predilections.

Ambiguity makes for interesting thoughts.

I used to think this way but I have become frustrated at my inability to intentionally convey interesting thoughts. I now strive to minimize ambiguity.

Yeah, this was a tad flippant. At work, I’ve often had something I write be received in a wholly different manner than I intended. My coping strategy for now is to preface anything that I think might be viewed differently with a “this does not mean…” warning. But of course, if I knew all of the sentences that might be received differently, I wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with.

In other words, relative point of view.

So you converted the RGB to CMYK to get a subtractive color space for colored pencils?

Nothing that advanced I’m afraid - I eyeballed layering different colors until it looked right.

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