Comments | sanspoof: Buy. The Wendy.

sanspoof

Buy. The Wendy.

May 08, 2006 22:55

Since I ran out of legal-size paper, and therefore can't print out my type project until probably tomorrow (oh NOES), I instead made an inaugural ad for the Wendy. The copy is a little goofy, but, really, so am I ( Read more... )

the wendy, art all over you screen

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druidbreeze May 9 2006, 10:46:08 UTC

I can find no fault with the Wendy! Having enjoyed that, I was checking out your other recent uploads and wondered about your "girl and her beast/boy and his beast" paintings. I gather these are watercolor on clayboard. How do you like that support? Never tried clayboard, myself. I notice something that looks like body color or maybe scratching in the background of "boy". Just curious how this worked out for you. I love them both, possibly the "girl" best.

sanspoof May 9 2006, 14:06:57 UTC

I kind of like the clayboard. It's not good for fields (unless you want the kind of not-lying-evenly that you can see in both), but it's pretty awesome for details and being able to lift out about anything. The boards I was using on the kids and their beasts was the smooth variant; it's really completely smooth. A lot of it wants to show through, unless you go nuts with not diluting paint. The other kind is the kind from the, uh, the other beasts, like the owl and the sandworm. That stuff has a bit of tooth to it and so the paint behaves fairly differently.
I am glad you like them! The boy is trying to continue it as a series, but I will probably have to give it more time or the ones that follow will be really boring.

druidbreeze May 9 2006, 16:25:41 UTC

Wow, you've described my favorite way to paint watercolor. One of John Ruskin's classic exercises amounts to creating a gradation with brush-tip hatching instead of the traditional wash dark-to-light, and it sounds like that's the way to go on that stuff.

I'm constantly frustrated with not being able to completely lift off color. So if you scrape back, can you really then paint over the area without a color change?

sanspoof May 9 2006, 21:30:35 UTC

Hmm. Well, I don't know how perfect it'd be. I just know that little mistakes are near-aleays repairable. I repainted the boy's arm once, and knocked out a spot on the girl's chin... I daresay you COULD clean all the previous color out if you wanted.

Eee! anonymous May 9 2006, 14:16:20 UTC

What a happy christmas you can make for the kids! I think your font is spot-on. Keeping with the era is the order of the day, I think.

Still need to model one of these for ya. Wonder if I can get a render to have that grainy, 70s ad photo look? Hm.

This weekend kelli an' I were at the doctor's office, and were perusing National Geographics from the 70s. It's a fun look to emulate!

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