Ask HN: How do you illustrate your books?

3 pointsguhsnamih6y ago2 comments

What tools do you recommend for illustrating a technical book on basic programming (Yes there are over 2^100 already but mine will be hard to miss :P). I am considering some master art works of arrays, and other data structures that appear drawn by the master artists. There was a link posted on HN this year if not this month. I really regret not bookmarking it.

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alufers6y ago· 1 in thread

I haven't personally written any books, but I have seen this blog article [1] written by Bob Nystrom. He talks about creating his book (about writing an interpreter) in general, but there is a part dedicated to explaining how he illustrated the book by hand and scanned the pictures to include them in the book.

Maybe such a low-tech solution will suit you.

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafti...

guhsnamihOP6y ago

Yes, this is the article I regretted notbookmarking. Thank You.

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