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DarthFar โ In His Element
Published: 2008-06-29 06:29:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1571; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 41
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's grandfather, who sounded like a darned cool guy. Happy Birthday, Knitzi.
Sorry there isn't the element of surprise this time around, but I figured it would be best to let you pick out what you wanted, LOL.
I wanted the card I was using to be rough and weathered even before I began, so I scoured it thoroughly with metal wool (the sort you use to scrub pots with) and used the same to rub brown-grey watercolour into the paper. The final product (after drawing and colouring) was then liberally Blitzed with markers for noise/grain.
This treatment of the paper gave me exactly what I wanted in terms of looks and texture. Unfortunately, it also meant that, once I put a mark down, I didn't dare make corrections lest I ruined the paper. So no accuracy points for me here.
Sorry.Media:
- brown card: 1
- metal wool: 1
- watercolours: black+white+brown (yes, that $2.70 box I'd been meaning to throw away)
- colour pencils: Faber-Castell Creative Studio (36) + Colleen (60)
- Blitzer airbrush: 1
- markers: black, brown, magenta
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Long time no see!
Thank you very much, FF. ^_^ The reference photo provided was a polaroid; I wanted it to feel *older* and more "traditional" and gritty (which is something that doesn't come across too well when you scan a picture instead of showing the real thing, alas); I'm glad it works for you.
"Courage", or "foolhardiness"? 
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" "Courage", or "foolhardiness"? Sometimes it's hard to tell."
Indeed--and sometimes it makes no difference which it really is! 
This is just wonderful--I am still in awe!
FF
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You did a fantastic job here, Far. By the way you've drawn him I can tell he was a fantastic man with a great sense of humor. Bravo!
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Thanks very much, Aunt Donut.
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I say you're welcome, I don't know who *Aunt Donut* is...
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So I'm a fungus and you're a bore, I mean boar...
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No, I'm a *burr*. I dig into people and create an annoyance.
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I'll be sure to send Dakota over, he seems to love burrs, lol.
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Sure thing. Plus I have this carrot here that he'd love to play with...
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Wouldn't that be a sight? Dakota loves noisy toys so he'd be squeaking, by the humans of course, and poor Bas wouldn't know what to do. He'd want to be with people but there's a talking carrot...
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You didn't get that quite right. It shoulda been "evil talking carrot."
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Not evil; misunderstood.
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I love you, and I am going to glomp you publicly for same and I don't care who knows:
You are the type of guy that Pa would've called a "Good Joe." He had a knack for spotting that kind of thing, don'tcha know. Didn't have much of a talent for creating a Good Joe, but we'll just blame genetics on that. Pa was definitely more of a mechanic than a chemist.
And dammit, you owe me more Kleenexยฎ.
Seeing this image, I'm now thinking that I need to build an add-on to the dollhouse and recreate Pa's workshop. 
At the very least, I need to print and frame this fabulous image in 1/12th scale, so I can hang it on the wall of the dollhouse. 
Thank you so very much, Farskaroni. From the bottom of my heart. I can't tell you how precious this is to me, but I'm hoping you know.
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Dangit Knitzi, my country's all out of Kleenexยฎ because of you.
I'm happy how much this means to you. 
And that dollhouse would totally rock with a workshop addition, although I'm guessing that making scaled models of screwdrivers would kill your eyesight!
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Aww! That's so sweet.
Steel wool (or whatever it's called) and art don't really seem to mix, but it looks really great!
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Thank you very much! I occasionally experiment with very odd objects in my creations, LOL!
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*I* don't plant people; Stephen does. Let's not get the two mixed up.
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HA! So you admit that you are a sweetheart!
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Ohh I can totally be a sweetheart when I want to be. But just because I'm nice doesn't necessarily mean I'm a *good* person.
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Wow, that turned out really well - love the "old photo" look you've created with the colours. And the paper - I didn't think you could do that with paper!
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Thank you very much!
And yeah, it does look better in "real life"... but maybe that's because you can also *touch* the roughness. LOL.
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Well, no risk no fun, never tell me the odds, etc!
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Corellians FTW!
Honestly, my philosophy concerning art-related stuff is: damn the torpedos, full speed ahead! and if it turns out crap, you can always junk it later.
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I wouldn't have tried to do this to a paper. But you certainly created something special with it 
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LOL! And I attack things without really thinking things out.
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Yes, sometimes I get a decent outcome from my experiments, too
You're welcome!
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What a wonderful looking portrait.. he looks like he was a great guy
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Thanks, David!
From what I was told, he was not only a great craftsman, but also had a mischievously crafty mind as well. So yeah, I'd say he rocked.
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Nicely done. Wouldn't have thought to use a brillo pad on card paper.
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Thanks very much! So *that's* what it is: a Brillo pad!
[is a Brillo pad a Brillo pad without the soap, though? Because I just looked it up... and mine's just a wad of steel. LOL.]
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Steel wool. And, incidentally, if you touch the steel wool to a 9-volt battery you get fire.
Perhaps I shouldn't have told you this...
*apologizes to Far's mom*
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Brillo pads are usually just metal. No soap involved with those. Now an SOS pad is the wool with soap in it, but it rusts something fierce.
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[Far receives an education in kitchen cleaners]
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[Far gains +5 to Cleaning Skill]
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Now, that would've been tremendously useful if I'd been a Sim.
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