Traced

in hive-120695 •  last month  (edited)

I traced these by hand about a decade ago. Didn't take much skill besides patience. Can't find the actual photographs anymore, but I think I took the originals during a summer hike. Basically I just added an digital layer and selectively followed the outlines. I'm sure I could've accomplished this more easily, but it was fun.

The woman was spliced in from another photo, if you're wondering.

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Fun is important if we create, it shouldn't all be about frustration, so it counts.

It looks interesting and if you do it again show some steps. Not everyone is able to understand the process by reading some have to see it (different way of learning/umderstanding).

It's also good if you mention some to respond/comment.

@tezzmax @newton666
Do you join inktober?
https://steemit.com/hive-120695/@stef1/join-onktober-2024-06-10-24-trek

Fair enough. I'm going to try something later.

No I haven't joined. Been too busy offline lately.

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Thank you very much!

Even for a traced piece, this still stands out beautifully. I very much love it.

I just wish it could be done again traditionally, with some watercolors in it. That would be so slick!

Thank you :-)!

I've been trying to convert the last one into a small oil painting, with mixed results. Haven't finished it thus far because I'm not entirely sure how. It probably didn't help that I was using q-tips and a wooden stylus. I don't even know why.

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It's coming out nice though. You don't want to use brushes?

This will sound super dumb, but I'm hesistant about using brushes because I don't want to bomb my apartment with paint thinner fumes and so on. I'm really bad at properly maintaining brushes, so I started using paint knives, q-tips, and wood.

Lol.... I think you should stick with palette knives then.

Are you alright dear? I am a bit worried about you.

Perhaps you like to scribble a bit?
https://steemit.com/hive-135004/@tezzmax/how-to-draw-with-scribbles-for-beginners

Heh, don't call the police just yet! Every blue moon or so I go through this thing of mine and transform into the laziest person alive, but rest assured I always bounce back eventually. I'm getting exceedingly better at it, too.

I've been painting a little. Nothing worth bragging about, just me stalling while I'm avoiding my writer's block.

Don't call the police huh...

...I thought so. Well, you are in time to scribble a ball. You can make a tiny one like I did (hurts the eyes).

Good to see you back and bragging or not show it, please. I see it tomoorow. 😁

🍀♥️

P. S. What writer's block?

Writer's block is when you want to write but can't, or won't. It's related to this concept Steven Pressfield calls resistance. It's like when you're avoiding an assignment and the long you avoid it the harder it becomes for you to sit down and face it. Resistance is accumulative.

I know what it is and it is can't not the won't because you are lazy. That's why the freewriters have the daily prompt.

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  ·  last month (edited)

I don't think it's strictly either or. It's a paradox proportionally related to the importance of whatever needs doing. The more urgent it is the more lethargic I'll feel.

You mean the pressure is hard to deal with?

  ·  last month (edited)

It's more about my own expectations and getting overly ambitious. Like I come up with an idea and get sidetracked drawing mindmaps or whatever, which in turn either leads to new ideas or me obsessing about the technicalities of properly arranging the format. Before you know it I'm stapling a bunch of transparent envelopes to a piece of cardboard I tore from an old file folder. Fast forward to me sitting on top of a heap of crumpled mindmaps wondering about office supplies and what I was trying to do in the first place. Then I usually I just end up doing something else instead.