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Description This is Part 2 of my Final Project for my Photoshop class. It's a picture of Rincewind. I wanted to do a collage of one of the sub series in the disc world series and I was trying to decide while flipping through the pages of The Art of Discworld and I came upon the picture of Rincewind's collage of The Last Continent.

Now, it was already one of my favorite pictures. I think of it as bit of an inside joke from Paul Kirby to all of Terry Pratchett's fans. Rincewind has such a determined look, that one may see him as a man on a mission, but only the readers know that the mission is to run the hell away as fast as he can.

My original plan was to have the Discworld in the background Rincewind in the Foreground and pictures of a few of his "friends" around him slightly faded out. But upon closer inspection of the Rincewind Collage, except for the background, that's what Paul Kirby did. So, I decided to take the main item from the cover of all of Rincewind's books, 'cept for Lost Hero, and have the colors of the books radiate out towards Rincewind. That was harder then it sounds. The best I could do was create circles around each item and use a color to transparency gradient effect to kinda mimic the effect. And the Birdcage from "Eric" didn't clean up well at all. So, once I learn how to do those two things I'm probably gonna tweak this image.

The images I scanned from The Art of Discworld were gorgeous, unfortunately it scanned them in at such a size that to view them in entirety you had to zoom out to 25% on most monitors. But, the detail was just too good for me to resize it, you could even tell the paint strokes through the patterns of the industrial printer. So, I left it as is for my final project. But I did reduce the size to 50% of it's former to post on Deviant Art.

The Picture of the Discworld and the Great A'Tuin came from The Art of Discworld, pictures done by Paul Kirby, excerpts done by Terry Pratchett and Paul Kirby.
The Images from the books came for Terry Pratchett's site, [link]
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Comments: 5

CMY187 [2011-03-08 14:46:29 +0000 UTC]

He is pound-for-pound the fittest, toughest, an' most resourceful (non-)wizard there is.
Which isn't really saying much, considering the rest of the Unseen staff...

Aside from Ponder Stibbons, Rincewind is probably the only resident of the University with any sensibility whatsoever. The difference, though, is that Ponder works, researches, learns, and adapts in order to pursue knowledge to Uncover The Mysteries Of The Universe.
Rincewind, on the other hand, also works hard, learning foreign cultures, mastering languages, and training to adapt to whatever situation he might find himself in. And his reason for this is: Survival. Pure an' simple.

Thank you very much for this artpiece. Truly the Coward who saved Austral-sorry, Fourecks.

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Chaosfive-55 [2010-07-06 00:38:46 +0000 UTC]

Good ol' Rincewind...I STILL don't know how to pronounce his name!

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theflyinglight [2007-11-03 02:55:32 +0000 UTC]

WOW this is a wonderfull pricture i love rincewind's face. kinda like i dont want to be doing this, but know i am. XD i love TP's books! but the books i have read w/ rincewind in them is the color of magic, the enchanted one....wats it call nvm and i just started soucry today. anyway whats the sheep doing in his bag? aww look its luggage ^^ luggae is like a....seral killing puppy XD
anyway fav!!

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Unreal-Abstract [2007-04-17 12:24:14 +0000 UTC]

THIS IS STUNNING! I like Rincewind! I follow his philosophy of life... Not intentionally lol

Anyway - FAV!

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Negdaen [2006-12-26 07:55:33 +0000 UTC]

P.S. One thing that I found hilarious is that in this picture of Rincewind, he kinda looks like the guy that plays House on House.

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