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Published: 2004-09-10 15:44:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 5369; Favourites: 115; Downloads: 194
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8.5"x11" Pen & Ink 1984Related content
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wow, is this pointillism???? it's amazingly proportionate for being drawn with dots, let alone anything-it's so real 
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Thanks very much, Akhi; this is my own personal favorite of these animal drawings, but most people tend to walk right by it...
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i'm currently working on a piece of pointilism...but easily get bored...hahahah...
wow Samuel...i could add almost all of your works to my fave!!!
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This one took just under 2 weeks, Cecil; I'm currently working on a series of 5 oil paintings that have taken three and a half years, so far... Yikes
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wow...can't wait to see those 5...
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is this... pointilism?!!!! Holy cow!!!
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Little dragon... i Love that!!
I dont understand, though.... miss what? Pointilism?
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Yup, little dragon, and I do miss it, along with the special clarity of black and white... I'll go back to it as soon as I can...
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how do you use ink to create that effect?
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The technique is called "stippling"... you basically build up a bunch of dots; fewer where the tones are light, more where the tones are dark. I did this with a technical fountain pen called a Rapidograph; I used the finest point (0.6) available. Great for meditating...
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...ah, clever. never tried tho.
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exc work peladito
i am waiting a snake Car and a mouse Sam 
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Photorealism at its finest. Do you use rapidographs?
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Hallelujah! Yes! I've talked to people on this site who don't know what a rapidograph IS!!! My own rapidograph adventures peaked with the use of a 6-ott, the finest point they make... I drew a portrait of Marilyn Monroe [link] with one and, basically realized what I'd done was manually create an airbrush painting... so I mostly switched over to an airbrush. Thanks for your comments!
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Ah, interesting... I've been using rapidographs for over 10 years now, and some of the more detailed bits I don't think I could get done with anything else, except maybe pencil (like this [link] and [link] ). But I think I see what you mean! Still, you'll probably always have a soft spot in your heart for ol' black & white, eh?
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Oh, God, yeah-- And for rapidographs, too, my friend... I've been deep into the same 5 oil paintings for three years now... I mean, I'm actually NOSTALGIC for gouache-- trust me, don't get me STARTED on rapidographs (or on the old, truly non clogging FW drawing ink of the mid to late '70s...)
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I love this! Another favorite 
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Something called Echo Gallery One determined which animals I was to draw, but I got to determine how I'd draw them... I'd love to draw you a hippo, poop; I'd do it in this same style, if you'd like...
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You would?? That would be cool! But you don't have to.. unless you're bored and have freetime. Your avatar is different everytime I come on here!
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I know; people have been giving me a hard time about my avatar all day; I don't know why I'm so easily bored with it-- maybe I could use YOUR face for it and that'd finally satisfy me...
Definitely not bored, almost no free time; but I haven't worked with a rapidograph in so many years, and this would be my excuse to finally go in and dust it off, get back on the stipple horse...
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It's ok. Your constant avatar changes are amusing haha ..no freetime? Nevermind then! You don't have to draw me a hippo ^__^
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No of course not, but I will if you'd like... or actually, maybe you should draw a hippo; show me something that conveys how much you love hippos, Diana; I predict: instant classic.
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This is wonderful! I love all the detail you put into it. I just can't explain how great this is.
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thanks, MM! You know, something about both elephants and dolphins; if you're on THEIR side, you're one of the good guys; if not, I got no use fer you! Know what I mean...?
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This and the panda are a change from your uswal, but they're nice.
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These are both commercial illustration work, but also labors of love; thanks, moosey!
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holy jesus how long did this take you? every tiny wrinkle on the trunk and face and ears.... wow. ive never seen an elephant in person. i always wanted to. i've never been to a zoo or anything. anywho, you did a wonderful job as always. was this a project or somethin? your earlier work seems to be more direct than... lets say.. "Gardening at Night" or "Paradox" that tells a story within the lines
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I got out of art school wanting to make a living as an illustrator; the animals were done for a company that turned around and printed these things on canvass and sold them in stores... come about '91 (and Gardening At Night was the first) I started painting just for the sake of my own mental hygiene, and got a day job to know where my next cigarette was coming from... I like the animals though... hey, some time I'll show you the painting I had to do of Jesus meeting Elvis in heaven, and you'll see why the day job was a really, really good idea...
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.....jesus meeting elvis? i HAVE to see it. now im very intrigued.
....and now i want to pick up a crucifix and play air guitar with it and gyrate my hips, for some strange reason...
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OK, but how do we work this so that no one else sees it?
I'll put it in scraps, you take a look, let me know you've seen it, I'll delete it.
Deal?
Seriously, B, no one else needs to know about this, and after, we'll never speak of this again.
Whatayasay?
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it's in there now, my friend; please hurry...
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alright, well, that was certainly different... lol. i mean you did a gorgeous job on it but the subject matter.... well a little frightening and a bit cheery. lol im not sure how to describe it. its like the result of an acid trip at the rock n roll hall of fame. and why would jesus be the first one to greet elvis? shouldnt jesus be welcoming other more deserving people in heaven? (if there is a jesus, or a heaven). i mean, like mother theresa, or aunt jemima? okay scratch the last one
lol what i really want to know is..... what was going thru your head when you decided to do it
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Okay, but then i'll need one comedically painful confession from YOU in return...
Um, there's an art supply store downtown here where I used to know everyone who worked there... they'd send freelance clients my way. They sent me a psychopath who loved nothing more than Elvis, unless of course, it was the Son of God. He'd dreamed this thing up and figured it was going to net him a fortune, if not his standing as a man of great and discriminating taste, once he'd had it printed on, um, dinner plates...
I laughed him off, shared a pizza with him, and then went off on the only major trip I've ever taken, to Russia...
when I got back, all of my money had dried up (that's a seperate, art-related story) and in no position to laugh at the pychopath OR his mighty obsessions...
The things we do for money.
Long story kinda short: I got paid a third of what we'd agreed upon and ended up stuck with this silly artifact. Simple lesson, learned late in life: never sit down to paint ANYTHING you wouldn't want to be stuck with...
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lol that makes sense. i thought you just did this out of boredom. and thats really creepy that he wanted it on.... dinner plates? thats very creepy.... if i saw jesus and elvis underneith my mashed potatoes i'd be a little queasy
but i understand. and i dont know what kind of painful confession i could give you.... i've never done anything for money. well except one time when i was about 10 years old i was paid a whopping 25 dollars and 42 cents to drink a bottle of rubbing alcohol. i didnt get thru the whole bottle but i got my money for being an ass... and i have no idea what i did with it.
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Remember what I said about Love, Mean Surprises, and Humans? I gotta ask, B... who pays a 10 year old to drink rubbing alcohol?
If you don't want to talk about this, you know that's okay; but congratulations on having survived someone who I might've decided to put out of all of our misery, if I'd ever met them...
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nah i dont mind... it was someone i used to be friends with when i was younger. i dont know what's happened to him since i last saw him... when i was like, 11 years old maybe. i did stupid things like that all the time when i was younger... i never thought i'd make it passed 16 years old. but here i am. i drank rubbing alcohol once or twice by my own free will when i was really bad into drugs and i couldnt get anything else.... i knew from my previous experience with it that it was disgusting as all hell, but it worked. *shrug* i've made a lot of terrible choices in my life
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