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New page added to the emerging sketch gallery tonight: a pretty varied handful of old self-portrait sketches.
posted by paul bowman @ 1:30 AM
11/20/2006
'Quare id faciam' is a bit I snagged, without much thought, from 2 lines of verse likely known to anyone who's had a little Latin in school. I borrowed it years ago, looking for a username no one else would want.
And it grew on me. Taken out of its context, it's altered — the tense blurs & its sense may allow, Why will I do it, or, Why will I make it? — suggestive and intertwining questions, as I take them.
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That last one's 100% digital?! Oooh, I've got repetitive strain just looking at it!
Come again?
Someone might say you were being clever. Not sure what to say myself, man. : )
— Maybe you allude to something, film or book, that I'm missing?
You say your last self-portrait is 100% digital; I assumed the "etching" required time with a mouse and mouse-pad. I had to do some colour touch-ups for my book cover using the Gimp image manipulator - small-potatoes stuff, but I could certainly sense the potential for carpal tunnel syndrome were I to get serious about computer graphics.
But based on your response, my assumption was a tad off the mark?
Ah, this makes sense — and I have the same immediate reaction, if I picture drawing w/ a mouse. Hadn't thought of that. Fortunately, the mouse isn't needed for working by hand in image-making/editing environments of the Photoshop genre. (Maybe though there are some out there who've learned to draw 'naturally' using a mouse — I wonder.) The standard input tool is a pressure-responsive tablet. They've been common for quite a while in graphics work. But if you don't find yourself in studio-type settings, as many of course don't, there's no particular reason you'd know about them. My bad.
My worse, I think, for suggesting (though the truth is I couldn't really believe it) you might have some silly pun on 'digits' in mind. I didn't actually come out & say it, but I do humbly beg your pardon even so.
Drawing this way in Photoshop (or similar) can feel like a bit of a cheat, I should say. Pen-&-ink- or engraving-look results without any mastery of those traditional tools that yield permanent blemishes with every minor mistake. That's sort of why I felt it necessary to acknowledge the fact there. Nevertheless, a fairly interesting drawing in the end, even if I didn't have to sweat much for it.
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