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Wee. I'm just starting now to bring some of my artwork from school home, and this is one of the few, if not the only, thing I can scan due to dimension limitations of my scanner and, well, 3-d ness. My didgital camera may come in handy if I'm willing to put up with it's bitchyness one day...
Yes we work in big scales, as I'm sure all art students do.

We had to do a celtic knot on scratchboard. First we had to learn how to do a celtic knot (this is how old the piece is - I learned how to do knots from this piece, which I applied in artwork called 'queen of hearts' somewhere in my gallery, from like, september) then we had to look through books for designs that inspire us then piece them together on our own board. Some people cheated and traced, but I made up this entire thing - It's all my original work, baby. Yup, that means you can't use that boarder knot, the dragon or the one in the middle without my specific permission, because I didn't steal it from some dead ancient monk. HA!
Dragon was troublesome to make him authentic looking (there were no dragons in the books to get ideas from - lizzards, snakes, foxes, (?) but no dragons.) and trying to figure out how to fill him in with scales was a pain. You can see places where I screwed up, where the pattern breaks (my hands aren't rock steady or slow moving, and this is what scratchboard needs.)
The middle knot was a pain in the ass. Really, that's all I need to say right? First time inventing a knot, it's elaborate for a beginner, so you can understand, no? The story tells itself.

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Wee. I'm just starting now to bring some of my artwork from school home, and this is one of the few, if not the only, thing I can scan due to dimension limitations of my scanner and, well, 3-d ness. My didgital camera may come in handy if I'm willing to put up with it's bitchyness one day...
Yes we work in big scales, as I'm sure all art students do.

We had to do a celtic knot on scratchboard. First we had to learn how to do a celtic knot (this is how old the piece is - I learned how to do knots from this piece, which I applied in artwork called 'queen of hearts' somewhere in my gallery, from like, september) then we had to look through books for designs that inspire us then piece them together on our own board. Some people cheated and traced, but I made up this entire thing - It's all my original work, baby. Yup, that means you can't use that boarder knot, the dragon or the one in the middle without my specific permission, because I didn't steal it from some dead ancient monk. HA!
Dragon was troublesome to make him authentic looking (there were no dragons in the books to get ideas from - lizzards, snakes, foxes, (?) but no dragons.) and trying to figure out how to fill him in with scales was a pain. You can see places where I screwed up, where the pattern breaks (my hands aren't rock steady or slow moving, and this is what scratchboard needs.)
The middle knot was a pain in the ass. Really, that's all I need to say right? First time inventing a knot, it's elaborate for a beginner, so you can understand, no? The story tells itself.