Lately I’ve been monkeying around with tutorials and such, mostly adapting stuff from Photoshop (damn, how I envy you!) and I had this new brush and a cobbled together from various sources idea of how to work bokeh into my scribblings.

Bokeh is:

The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means “blur” or “haze”, or boke-aji, the “blur quality”. The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility…In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” [Wikipedia]

Ever been out at night, say at Christmastime when the little fairy lights are up and, when you kind of squint a little, everything goes into those lovely big soft blobs of light? Yeah, like that, but this time I’m doing it with a brush and a lot of cursing and muttering.

Anyway, to start playing, I looked through some old pics that I had kicking around and started to play, getting different results that, while I’m not super excited about, I think are fairly cool anyway:

These are some handmade chocolates I made when I was in college…damn, now I want chocolate. It’s just not fair…