For this blog and my bible story site, I wanted to do some logos. And I only heard of Adobe Illustrator (and not even heard of the terms bitmap images and vector graphics), so I decided to try to learn.. on my own. (I had, very long ago, attended freehand and photoshop classes, but was so lost that I learnt nothing at the end of the very expensive design class.)
To date, the following are my designs and I will post how I got to doing this from a complete dummy (and no, I did not read the Dummy series).
Continue reading ‘Adobe Illustrator - New to me’
With many excuses for not exercising (believe me, I was taught in the basic exercise class all the answers to common excuses. Obviously, theoretical answers have no foothold in reality), I decided to engage in activities that may possibly wean me off the sedentary lifestyle. Continue reading ‘Easy Fitness and Self Therapy!’
After browsing the library, I thought of browsing the web on bilingual bible stories. Well, there is none in Chinese and English! Being my systematic self, I combed through (up to 5 Google search pages) for words “bible story”, “bible stories”, “chinese bible stories” and “children bible stories”.
Confirmed NO SIMILAR PRODUCT in the e-market. Continue reading ‘Both Chinese and English - Is it worth the effort?’
Just a quick browse at the children bible stories in the library, I see some challenges in authoring bible stories.
- Tailoring to the Right Age – Preschoolers and older children have different language skill levels. I decided to focus on the preschooler age because one of the objectives of my bible stories is to teach elementary Chinese with Pinyin. Since the Chinese must match the English in any bilingual book, it follows that the English has to be elementary too. Moreover, in serving church ministry that involves storytelling, the focus is not on the language but rather on the animation and simplicity.
Continue reading ‘Biblical and Commercial Challenges’
First, I decided to head down to the library, children’s section. Then, I realized that unlike the adult section, there was no section on religion. Instead, the books were labeled in two broad categories, storybooks and information books. Storybooks were categorized according to age, preschoolers, 6-9, 9-12, 10-12. Information books were categorized into two age groups, preschoolers and 6-12.
Continue reading ‘Children Bible Stories - Get started with research’
