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Michael Huber
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Dan, can you elaborate a little on the "laser monkeys"?
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Dan Avenell
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With pleasure. I had a vision a couple of years ago, of monkeys with laser-beams coming out of their eyes. I first told my friend's girlfriend, who failed to see the appeal, but I knew I was onto something. So I found whatever ape related pics I could find and added the lasers in photoshop, and posted them on another site I frequent. People started using them as avatars, and creating their own. Back stories were invented, and some became more elaborate. Eventually I formatted them into the trading card format for extra fun, and gave them their own section on my site.
A little while later there was a Saturday Night Live sketch about Laser-Cats. It seemed coincidental, but a little research showed that the writers of this piece were from a humorous website who may well have seen them on S******* P*****. But I decided not to sue Lorne Michaels.
Some people love them, some think they are stupid.
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Joel Biske
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Yeah, she was trying to find ways to reduce fumes.
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Warren, has she tried the water soluble versions? I've heard good things from friends who've used them for that very reason. The drying time isn't quite as long, but the feel is the same.
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Joel Biske
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Thanks for your responses - Joel I think you're right, I need to be
more careful when applying the paint, and not let blobs form into
raised lumps. There's not too many, but I want a smooth finish. Picking
them off with my fingernail seems to work ok, I was just wondering if
anyone had a better technique.
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Dan, I used to use the back of a #2 xacto on mine. When it's flipped around for storage. That blunt end is sharp enough to scrape, but not so much as to damage the art...
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Joel Biske
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On a related note, I got some Painter brushes out of an issue of ImagineFX magazine about a year and a half ago that are absolutely amazing. They're called Texture Acrylics. I don't know who made them... or what issue they were in, but hte DVD's usually carry all the old stuff.....
Amazing.... I highly recommend them to anyone who uses Painter.
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John Caliber
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The only downside to computer painting software I've found is achieving the same quality of hardcopy output as the original displayed on the computer screen. Unless the intent is for the artwork to be professionally printed in high resolution, I'm stuck with looking at the artwork on my monitor - or trying endlessly to recalibrate my laser printer to match the screen colours. Then, there's the reproduction problem with A3 or larger images and the task of locating a digital reprographics bureau that can accurately reproduce it.
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Joel Biske
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I'll fully admit that painting digitally isn't the same. Anything I do digitally is an illustration.... something I'm making money off of. Working digitally has its positives and negatives. Its faster, easier, and much more convenient when dealing with changes, corrections, and printing. It took me very little time to get my monitor and printer to get me an image I was happy with. NO, that doesn't solve the problem sending the file to a client who is using their own setings, proofing, etc... but, it makes the process simpler.
The biggest downside is that there is no original art. So, you have to offset the idea of "time is money" with losing the potential income of selling the original piece. Everyone has to make their own determination there.... me.... I won't be taking the laptop to be doing landscape paintings any time soon....
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