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Came across this on the Net. Wondering how the artist executed this. I cant figure out the grain on the underlying surface and the modeling of it.
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If it was a 3D model or drawing done digitally it could be as simple as a filter. If it was done by hand it could be surface texture that is dry brushed or the artist had a lot of patience.
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My guess is that the image is digital, but here's an experiment I did that's somewhat on topic; it's colored varnish on bare wood. It has the look of stain, but I thinned alkyd paint with varnish instead of solvent, so that the edges of the shapes I was painting wouldn't be fuzzy. It's like painting with stain, sort of. The idea being to have artwork with wood grain showing through. Then comes the off black outlines, another coat of clear varnish, then the lettering.
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That effect can also be achieved by holding a Popsicle stick in front of your airbrush which causes the paint to splatter. By using transparent colors and masks, this would not be extremely difficult. I could not enlarge the image on my phone, but if the image texture had a 3d look they could have done the oil based paint sprayed on water droplets trick. Once the water evaporates, the paint left behind looks like a tiny dome
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Thanks Rusty, I think I'll be doing more of it. I'll try to remember to post it here. Dave funny you should mention artists that way. I've long struggled with defining art and beauty, and whether it applies to this world at all; with all the terrible events. Below is the bulk of my latest blog post, from a few days ago. For helpful context, bear in mind that prior to this, I didn't know why Esau showed up with 400 armed men; and, that Jesus talked scant little about Heaven. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ So it was tonight, I was reading in Genesis chapter 32. The end of verse 16, Jacob sent the gifts to his brother in separate groups, a little at a time. Is this a lesson about human nature? That one large presentation isn't as good as a series of smaller ones? Jacob instructs his servants to give a verbal message with each gift, this might be more effective than the wow factor of one huge gift. That would start to wear off, plus there would be a whole lot of busyness brought onto the scene.
So...maybe Esau's huge company of armed men was a similar thing; in that he didn't intend to attack his brother, but this show of force would turn into a show of mercy. Now to contemplate this some, one could say that when it comes to force and violence, the only effective way to make the presentation is to show it all together; whereas the presentation of good things has more flexibility in how it's presented. There is plenty of room for contemplation of how this idea might be used for persuading people in the places that we present our viewpoints or pitches; but that's another discussion.
Right now, I offer this related contemplation: I often wonder about beauty and art in our world. Sometimes I think it's just remnants of the time before sin entered the world, and now we just cobble together bits of beauty to make life better; but it's like using an alternator from a car that's not running any more to make a windmill generator. The car as a whole was made for something else; and the true nature of this world is in the horrific things people do to each other. We patch it up and try to feel better, but beauty is just leftover stuff from an entirely different world.
I don't always see things that way, but my life isn't always easy, besides true empathy would be to relate to people in awful circumstances, regardless of how posh mine were. That's brutal honesty for me, to let my day to day contemplations go negative when it's time to. Maybe you can't appreciate the light until you know the dark? This is starting to sound trite, mushy, corny, something overused, but bear with me. Put these two methods of presentation into the context of Heaven and Hell. Jesus made an awful presentation of Hell; it was like all the 400 armed men coming at once. But think about Heaven; how much detail was given about that? So what if...every time you see a cute puppy, an awesome sunset, your wife dressed in striking attire (looking you in the eye), and every other neat beautiful thing; what if that's God's incremental presentation of Heaven?
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