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Picking Colors

Picking Colors

Part 3 on how I think about color

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Jacob Souva
May 10, 2024
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In keeping with my self-imposed rule of not telling you how to do something (I hate that) in favor of showing you how I do it, I asked myself this simple question:

How do I pick colors for a book project?

How indeed?

Step one is to throw some broken crayons, an old bone, and a pinch of chameleon poo into a food processor. Step two is to learn to enchant a …

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