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Are you new to the illustration business?
Fresh out of college, changing career or in your early years as an illustrator?
The Illustrator's Guide gives you the essentials to kick-start your professional freelance career - and make it outstanding.
Packed with expert, step-by-step guidance, top tips and exercises, this practical book shows you how to be an illustrator that stands out from the crowd:
The complete motivational toolkit, The lllustrator's Guide won't just help you create your illustration career.
It'll help you make it exceptional.
Are you new to the illustration business?
Fresh out of college, changing career or in your early years as an illustrator?
The Illustrator's Guide gives you the essentials to kick-start your professional freelance career - and make it outstanding.
Packed with expert, step-by-step guidance, top tips and exercises, this practical book shows you how to be an illustrator that stands out from the crowd:
The complete motivational toolkit, The lllustrator's Guide won't just help you create your illustration career.
It'll help you make it exceptional.
He was a king who rose to dizzying heights. An empire... renowned wisdom... breathtaking buildings... incredible wealth... Solomon had it all. And under him, God's chosen people Israel enjoyed a golden age.
But he was also a king who fell ruinously. His reputation became tarnished... his kingdom was divided... his achievements did not last. Solomon's life and rule are a fascinating study of wealth and power--and their corrupting influence.
But his rule is not primarily a morality tale. Solomon's reign, and the blessings God's people enjoyed under him, point us to a greater king, who will never fall. The king and his kingdom turn out to be just a shadow of the reality that is to come in Christ. Its rise shows us how wonderful it is when God's people live in God's land under God's king. Its fall reminds us that the best is yet to come.
The eight studies in this Good Book Guide will help ordinary Christians get to grips with the first eleven chapters of 1 Kings. They will encourage and challenge you as you seek to live as God's people today. And they will excite you as you look forward to the eternal glory of living under great Solomon's greater Son--Jesus Christ.
The concepts of reconciliation and transitional justice are inextricably linked in a new body of normative meta-theory underpinned by claims related to their effects in managing the transformation of deeply divided societies to a more stable and more democratic basis. This edited volume is dedicated to a critical re-examination of the key premises on which the debates in this field pivot. The contributions problematise core concepts, such as victimhood, accountability, justice and reconciliation itself; and provide a comparative perspective on the ethnic, ideological, racial and structural divisions to understand their rootedness in local contexts and to evaluate how they shape and constrain moving beyond conflict. With its systematic empirical analysis of a geographic and historic range of conflicts involving ethnic and racial groups, the volume furthers our grasp of contradictions often involved in transitional justice scholarship and practice and how they may undermine the very goals of peace, stability and reconciliation that they seek to promote.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Adventure Partners
By: James Hughes
My name is Mary Ellen Withers; may I borrow your text. she asked with a beautiful full-tooth grin. Was there a suggestive look from her when she grinned or was it just his hopeful imagination? The Lord had spared no expense in creating this one, some of his best work.
You may indeed
Do you want me to sign for it?
No Mary Ellen I will remember you.
Thank you, I hope you will.
When she walked out he couldn't help admiring the last of her as well. Maybe the Lord had called on Michelangelo to finish that part. At about 5 ft. 5, and 115 pounds it was properly distributed; the short blondish hair completed the portrait.
Some people go looking for adventure, but adventure seemed to find Bill Sayers and Mary Ellen Withers.
About the Author
The author, James Hughes, always enjoyed stories or mysteries that had a circuitous path to an ending. He found when he introduced more individuals in a story there were more opportunities for diversity in the tale. Each character provides his own personality with an opportunity to alter the story or to add to the mystery. As a result, sometimes the path to the original intended outcome takes a different path. As individuals and circumstances alter the path, the path drives the individual in another direction. As these circumstances occurred the author too was often led in a new direction. The story to be told was always the author's thrust not a detailed description of textured venues.
Misguided Retribution
By: James Hughes
On the third date, Marlene and the seemingly charming Sheldon Wilson go back to her home for coffee after dinner. Marlene finishes making coffee when he grabs Marlene, kisses her, and says they belong together. When Marlene says it's much too early to commit to a lasting relationship, he is quick to anger and accuses Marlene of leading him on. Finally, Marlene convinces him to leave, telling him she needed time to think, but really, she just needed to get him to leave.
Was Sheldon Wilson in his car or still prowling around outside looking for a way to get in? He had pounded first on her front door begging to come in and talk. All they needed to do was talk. He could explain his actions the previous night was his plea. Next he pounded on the back kitchen door and Marleen hurried to make sure it was locked. The same pleading when she refused to open the door had become a threat. I will make you sorry for this. She called the police.
Bill Sayers and Mary Ellen Withers would be fascinated by Marleen Hilton's night of terror and the strange set of events that follow in Misguided Retribution.
About the Author
As a retired engineer, James Hughes had been limited in his work writing technical papers and analyses. Unnecessary filler or texture was discouraged in those writings. Now free to expand his writing, he could add as much descriptive material as he felt necessary to advance the story. He always strives to limit narrative that was not relative, just tell the story. He particularly enjoyed writing dialogue, creating the back and forth between individuals. If the characters were properly described, then the dialog that flowed between them would proceed logically. As a fan of O'Henrys writing, he liked to interject twists or surprises in a story and always attempted to do so.
Twisted
By: James Hughes
Putting on a hoodie and grabbing her purse and the briefcase, Alina (one of her names) went into the hall and to the exit stairs. She waited listening before proceeding down. Were they going to take the stairs or the elevator? Hearing no sound in the stairway, she went down one level and listened, still no sound. She proceeded all the way to the basement. Exiting the stairway, she found a door that led to a trash loading zone in the rear. Exiting slowly, she looked for the car in front. It was still there. A short walk parallel to the street led to an alley back to the main street. If she could get to the all-night drug store on the corner, she would call a taxi. The taxi ride would take her to a destination fraught with complications, but it seemed the only alternative.
About the Author
While professional authors write for a living and to gain recognition, the author, James Hughes, writes for his personal enjoyment. It is a form of mental gymnastics that fills a need to express himself in the guise of a story. When the kernel of an idea surfaces in his mind he ponders the idea for some time, writing it first in his mind. If it gets traction cerebrally, then he begins to think of story structure and how it should begin. The imagined ending that prompted the story initially now requires him to proceed in order to achieve the desired ending. The beginning of the story initiates the path he will follow, always with an eye on reaching the destination. A chance online meeting prompted this story.
Many of the problems in our churches today are the same things that the Corinthians struggled with. Problems with pride and arrogance, with misunderstanding the gospel, with thinking that the Christian life is more about health, wealth and happiness than about suffering, wrestling and persevering through difficulties to reach glory.
Just like the Corinthians, we get stuck in the here and now, and forget about eternity. Like them, we are more impressed by fame and fortune than by faithfulness to Jesus Christ. We too struggle when life gets hard, and would love life to be a prosperous bed of roses. We would love to be strong, but know that we are weak - fragile clay pots that are filled with the immense treasure of God's grace.
So Paul's letter speaks to us as it spoke to them - about the way of true discipleship. And the reality he paints is not for the faint-hearted. Because it involves suffering as well as comfort. It means listening to hard truth as well as receiving and enjoying forgiveness. It involves dying to ourselves and the world, as well as living for the Lord.
Use this lively guide to get to grips with what it means to live as God's 'new creation' in the old creation that is passing away.
Like us, the Corinthian Christians struggled to struggle and preferred to prosper. Ungrateful and arrogant, they needed to hear the sometimes-hard truths that Paul sets out in the second half of this deeply personal letter. But he also reveals here his heart for Christ's people--one filled with the true love of Christ for wayward children with all their familiar failings.
These seven studies in 2 Corinthians 8 - 13 follow on from the Good Book Guide on chapters 1-7 and are perfect for small groups studying this New Testament letter.
