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Papachaz

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Now that my shinyityus for vaping has abated and I’ve settled back into my mtl style I don’t really have anything to keep me occupied since my coils and juice last much longer. Building and mixing was my way of managing ptsd symptoms. So it’s back to art therapy for me. Speed practice with a fountain pen and mechanical pencil. Set the timer for 45 minutes and go......
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Normally I would spend eight to ten hours on something like this with much more fine detail work but it’s still fun and good practice to do these. I’ve ordered several inexpensive dip pens to try out and when I finish trying those out I’ll start a real drawing.


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AndriaD

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Papachaz said:
Now that my shinyityus for vaping has abated and I’ve settled back into my mtl style I don’t really have anything to keep me occupied since my coils and juice last much longer. Building and mixing was my way of managing ptsd symptoms. So it’s back to art therapy for me. Speed practice with a fountain pen and mechanical pencil. Set the timer for 45 minutes and go......
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Normally I would spend eight to ten hours on something like this with much more fine detail work but it’s still fun and good practice to do these. I’ve ordered several inexpensive dip pens to try out and when I finish trying those out I’ll start a real drawing.


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That's awesome. I admire the hell out of anyone who can draw well with a pen of any type. I'm pretty good with a pencil, or pencils in varying hardness, but ink... yowsah, that's amazing! <3 One of my grandmothers was a pen-and-ink artist for a local dept store here in Atlanta, called Richs; she specialized in mens' wear, those GI-NORMOUS full page men's clothing ads. Drawing that well with ink just knocks me out,I don't know if I could ever learn that.

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Papachaz

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AndriaD said:
That's awesome. I admire the hell out of anyone who can draw well with a pen of any type. I'm pretty good with a pencil, or pencils in varying hardness, but ink... yowsah, that's amazing! <3 One of my grandmothers was a pen-and-ink artist for a local dept store here in Atlanta, called Richs; she specialized in mens' wear, those GI-NORMOUS full page men's clothing ads. Drawing that well with ink just knocks me out,I don't know if I could ever learn that.

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Thank you. Don’t be intimidated just because it’s ink. If you can draw with a pencil then you can draw with ink. I use a mechanical pencil to lightly sketch in my initial drawing and then go over it with the fountain pen. I’m still learning how to get the shading right by using just pen strokes instead of being able to blend with the graphite. That’s the biggest learning curve for me.


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AndriaD

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Papachaz said:
Thank you. Don’t be intimidated just because it’s ink. If you can draw with a pencil then you can draw with ink. I use a mechanical pencil to lightly sketch in my initial drawing and then go over it with the fountain pen. I’m still learning how to get the shading right by using just pen strokes instead of being able to blend with the graphite. That’s the biggest learning curve for me.


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It's not something I've really kept up with; I enjoyed it when I was young, but since discovering the wonderful world of "online," most of my artistic endeavors have gone into graphics production, and website design/coding... and home decorating. :D Furniture shopping is one of my addictions -- I may not always buy, but I always like to LOOK! When the Rooms To Go circulars come in the junkmail, they're like a little kid's "wishbook" at xmas! :giggle:

I scribbled this about 35 yrs ago or thereabouts. I think it's one of the best sketches I've done, though it's very rough:

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The sketchbook this was in nearly got destroyed in a flood; you can see the water damage on the right side, and this page has actually come loose, but fortunately I saved it in the back of the sketchbook, once it was dried out.

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Papachaz

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AndriaD said:
It's not something I've really kept up with; I enjoyed it when I was young, but since discovering the wonderful world of "online," most of my artistic endeavors have gone into graphics production, and website design/coding... and home decorating. :D Furniture shopping is one of my addictions -- I may not always buy, but I always like to LOOK! When the Rooms To Go circulars come in the junkmail, they're like a little kid's "wishbook" at xmas! :giggle:

I scribbled this about 35 yrs ago or thereabouts. I think it's one of the best sketches I've done, though it's very rough:

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The sketchbook this was in nearly got destroyed in a flood; you can see the water damage on the right side, and this page has actually come loose, but fortunately I saved it in the back of the sketchbook, once it was dried out.

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That’s very good. Profiles are difficult to get the proportions right.


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Papachaz said:
That’s very good. Profiles are difficult to get the proportions right.


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The only "training" I've had was from an uncle, who was a painter, particularly after he retired from banking; he did some portraits, but he was really best at landscapes. He taught me about perspective, and to always "draw what you SEE, not what you know is there" -- which is much harder than it sounds!

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AndriaD said:
The only "training" I've had was from an uncle, who was a painter, particularly after he retired from banking; he did some portraits, but he was really best at landscapes. He taught me about perspective, and to always "draw what you SEE, not what you know is there" -- which is much harder than it sounds!

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Reminds me of in art class in Jr High, we an exercise where we couldn't look down at the paper. Only could look at the subject and literally draw it that way.

Quite the right/left brain experience and test of eye-hand co-ordination. I'm a visual person, so I enjoyed it.
 
CaFF

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A tasty 'lil burrito I just made. It's pretty, simple, and in my tummeh!! :cool:

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(Soft-taco size flour tort, jasmine rice, seasoned beef, Columbian-style beans, and a MX 4-cheese blend. Drizzled with a great garlic-habanero sauce.)
 
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DonBaldy

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Well, that I can agree on...lol..

You really should shoot more though, you are quite good at it. :)
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IT's really been a matter of time and finding my drive again. I spent the last 6 years working in our office and since resigning that position and going back into the field I'm still finding a groove.
 
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IT's really been a matter of time and finding my drive again. I spent the last 6 years working in our office and since resigning that position and going back into the field I'm still finding a groove.
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Well, IMO, great pictures find you.
You just have to be there. Even Alsel got tired at one point, eh?

My dad taught me film photography 40yrs ago, but I inherited his visual/scientific mentality too.
The camera is just a way of capturing a static moment in the fluidity of time. It's immortality.

My mum died in 2006 at 87, but in my Dad's photos, I'm still a baby and she will never age. :)

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DonBaldy

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CaFF said:
Well, IMO, great pictures find you.
You just have to be there. Even Alsel got tired at one point, eh?

My dad taught me film photography 40yrs ago, but I inherited his visual mentality too.
The camera is just a way of capturing a static moment in the fluidity of time. It's immortality.

My mum died in 2006 at 87, but in my Dad's photos, I'm still a baby and she will never age. :)

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And that my friend is the essence of photography. Capturing memories such as this. I've been blessed to have captured a large part of my son's scouting journey.
 
CaFF

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Those are great, good memories.

I've taken over 6,000 photos of Tiki...I learned the hard way about that.
I have none of my previous cat who was a gorgeous tortoiseshell I'd weened and raised from a abandoned kitten. She actually likely saved my life once, not letting a guy who turned out to be a pedo/felon into my Apt. at the time. She knew he was wrong.

I wish I had.
 
DonBaldy

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CaFF said:
Those are great, good memories.

I've taken over 6,000 photos of Tiki...I learned the hard way about that.
I have none of my previous cat who was a gorgeous tortoiseshell I'd weened and raised from a abandoned kitten.

I wish I had.
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The landscapes and wild life are all well and good and fun to shoot, but it's getting that shot of those in out lives (human and animal) and creating the lasting memory that makes the $1000's of dollars spent worth every penny.
 
CaFF

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My adopted Gramma, she's 93, has dementia now and barely knows the world exists.
But, she was happy here playing along with Santa, my adoptive Dad..

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I'm the only person in the fam with a real camera, so it matters to me to take these. Nobody else did. :)

(getting exposure/color right on that was a bitch..red sucks)
 
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DonBaldy

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My adopted Gramma, she's 93, has dementia now and barely knows the world exists.
But, she was happy here playing along with Santa, my adoptive Dad..

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I'm the only person in the fam with a real camera, so it matters to me to take these. Nobody else did. :)

(getting exposure/color right on that was a bitch..red sucks)
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Shooting reds is a bitch for me.

About 10 years ago I went to a birthday party for my best friends daughter. I took a picture of the daughter's mother and her mother giving each other a kiss. It turned out to be the last photo ever taken of her mother. It wasn't a really good shot, but she treasures that picture more than almost any other.
 
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Now I love doing shots like these for Instagram Stories, like a variant of "Where's Waldo"....This and other things are the reason I love the P900. That radio tower is 38 Miles out on the tippy tops of the snow capped mountains.

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Hey guys !!! Help me our ,how do you put a.picture on here with an Samsung android phone,I have messed around and had it uploading but no pic came through??? Kinda stumped:(
 
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