First, there is the asset type, raster graphics, vector, print, photo, font.

Then, there is the exported master file: a TIFF, a PNG, an SVG, or a PDF.

Then come the delivery variants, made with ImageMagick, pngquant, svgo, or Ghostscript.

These delivery variants are the ones you then upload. Neat, right?

Shout out to Koschatzky. He gave me this idea by teaching me that engravers made quite a few delivery versions of their work.

Coming back to an old idea I’ve had while studying Koschatzky and old pixel art at the same time, sometime last year: I will treat a graphic file as a copper plate with etching, and a CRT as a combination press and paper, and using a camera to make prints.

I’ll use GrafX2 for this, since my setup is now better suited for these kinds of experiments. And since the nights have started to begin earlier recently, this will give me enough time to experiment with this idea.

Light as print. Light‑print photography. Something like that.

I expect me doing knock‑off Wizardry sprites for quite a while, lol

Watching the course mentioned in my post Homebrew file organization, and mindset reminded me of how drawings graphics were organized into categories according to where they were in the printing process, as described in Walter Koschatzky, Die Kunst der Graphik: Technik, Geschichte, Meisterwerke (Herrsching: Ed. Atlantis, 1990).

I think it is a thing to consider; although you could work with [Photoshop, Procreate, Sketchbook Pro] in such a way that you make multiple versions of files unnecessary: by working with layers in a smart way.

I can feel that there is a something brewing in my mind there. Maybe this time, it won’t be another glossary or another book to buy?