Black coffee

publish Opened 2024-11-11. Related to Musings on everything else. Actually unrelated to Coffee.

Background

When you really like coffee, you start drinking it black — because you appreciate the coffee more, not the additives.

I feel like that’s a universal behavior of most hobbies. Here, I’ll document the interesting “black coffees” of various hobbies I’ve encountered.

Blends

Drumming: Arrakis (Noisia remix)

• Black coffee for drummers
• Basically just layers of drums instead of a traditional melody-harmony

Photography: (Some incredibly fancy camera. Just an example)

• Means nothing to the average person
• Means everything to an experienced photographer

Digital art: Custom brushes, like My Procreate brushes

• At least to me, “black coffee” brushes are ultra simple brushes that can be used for everything from lineart to shading and blending
• I prefer PC-based blending algorithms (PCs offer a higher draw rate and therefore smoother blends) but Procreate offers something similar with the super simple dry brush in this pack. That’s kind of like black coffee to me — having the right blending algorithm means a lot