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Published: 2006-01-07 23:21:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1474; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 55
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This is a piece from a long time ago. Unfortuately, I only have a photograph of thework as I gave it to a neighbor who always admired it. This is a combination of all
pen & ink techniques: stipple, crosshatch, ink wash, and dry brush.
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I faved this a long time ago, so let me make a comment. The combination of techniques works well, and even though it's a photo of a drawing, the realism makes the DRAWING look like a photo, as if this were a photo of a photo.
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I often regret giving this particular piece away, but my neighbor *begged* it and she did a
few favors for me. I just hope that it isn't sitting in a landfill somewhere as this was done over
20 years ago and no doubt the woman is long dead (she was in her 50's at the time and
not in the best of health).
I did this when I was in the Air Force, when I worked in Graphics. Whenever we weren't
working on presentation stuff, we were encouraged to do fine arts. I have some other stuff
I should scan in from those days as I did a lot of pen & ink as well as portraiture.
My biggest '
more 3-D that what is there and that tends to hamper what I do. A lot of it deals with that
I, unfortunately, was born with one good eye - thus no depth perception and I try to
overcompensate.
zym
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You've mentioned before that you did a lot of fine art stuff before. This one and the soldier look like period pieces almost, like they were done in World War II (it's probably the combination of techniques). And I gave away a LOT of art in the past; I used to do drawings for people in high school, for instance, and in return, I was friendly with just about everyone and didn't get beaten up on a regular basis. **chuckles**
Not to make you sound 'old' or anything, but my mother has the same problem. She recently had laser surgery to correct her REALLY bad eye, but they did such a good job on it that her old 'good' eye is paling in comparison. So now, she's set up for another appointment to get THAT one worked on... **shakes head**
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In my case it is called Strabismus or lazy eye. In my case I was born with one near sighted
and on far sighted eye. Since they were out of whack with each other, the brain suppressed
the weaker eye (the left) and the fovea never developed. So when I put my hand over my right
eye and look out the left, there are areas that are gray where one's vision should be the sharpest.
I had surgery my senior year of high school so the eyes would at least track with each other.
I tried vision therapy for awhile and the eye doctor (a specialist) said that it would only
improve if I were to loose sight (heaven forbid!) in my good eye.
Whenever I see an eye doctor (and I do on a yearly basis) I inquire if things have changed or
any new ways of mending what nature robbed me of. If I were born today, they could had
easily fixed the problem - but it has to be treated before the child is 4-6 years old, the
younger, the better.
My eldest sister also has this problem and they didn't discover it until she was 16, so
hardly has any vision in her 'lazy' eye. Mine was caught when I was 6, but back in the
'old days', they just threw a patch over the good eye and tried to get the lazy one to work.
In my case, I also needed surgery and a bit pressure to keep the patch on. Methods have
changed where a child will wear prism glasses to make it work with the other and so on.
On another note, yes, I did a lot of fine art several years ago: painting, sculpting and so on,
with the computer age and my current job, I come home and am totally uninspired to
do anything on my own.
When I met Greg and saw his work and the struggle he had in coloring it - I offered to do it
first in markers (as I did a bunch of stuff way back when). When I saw some of the line work
that we passed between our computers, I thought I would try it in Photoshop and from
there you see where we have progressed.
Thanks for looking at the gallery - what took you so long?
zym
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Yeah. My mom has a lazy eye, too. I think with hers, it was a different cause, but the effect was similar. For the last few years, she's had serious vision problems. She couldn't see the TV at my parents' place, she had problems looking at books and so stopped reading, etc. She was depressed for a while, but then had the laser surgery, and it's been much better for her. I'm sorry that yours can't be fixed (at least yet!)
I've tried to use various programs for coloring my work, but I've never managed to get the hang of it. I'm sure I could, if I spent more time working on it, but my color work is sparse, to say the least anyway. I've used Prismacolors and colored pencils, but it all ends up looking way too cartoony for me.
And I don't know why I've just now started, but I wish I had looked before!
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Well, if you like, I could select something of yours and color it?
zym
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Feel free to do so, if you wish! I'd love to see what you do with something of mine...
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The thing is I will need a hi rez version to work with. I haven't check to see if your postings are 300 dpi or not.
If not, I'll name a title and we can see what we can do.
zym
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No problem! I usually scan at 300 dpi, but some of them, I dropped the resolution to make sure the pic would be accepted. By the way, LOVE what you did with "Tasha the Rogue"!
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Thanks. I noticed that Tasha was at 300 dpi. I normally save it here at 150, but have all of our stuff also saved at 300 dpi, not to mention the original construction files.
zym
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I didn't even notice I had uploaded it that high. Like I said, when I scan my art, I ALWAYS save it at 300; my boss at Mystic Station insists on it, and they generally work from TIFFs as well, instead of JPGs or something else.
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Good man. 300 dpi is the standard. That's the minimum in what we would deal with at work.
On to something else - soon.
zym
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Gotcha. Sorry... I tend to ramble...
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