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    <title>oh right, paper exists</title>
    <published>2026-04-04T17:28:34Z</published>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Trying to make myself a logo, and I downloaded some references off the internet. (Public domain.) I'm trying to trace parts of them to work from, because they're old scans and I want line work, but I don't have any digital art skills or tools. Tracing things with a laptop touchpad is slow and frustrating!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;...then a friend was over and reminded me that paper and pencil tracing works.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;...then I remember that I have literal translucent tracing paper, a printer, and a scanner.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So yeah, printed those images and traced them with a pencil. That was faster, easier, and *much* more pleasant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=varve&amp;ditemid=873" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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