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I had the urge to try out a new brush pen (I love gummy, frayed brush pens that make that fibery tray texture), and realized, with my urge to draw Shivah from "Off the Beaten Path" once again, I could make some old-timey daugerrotype thing.
Those tinplate pictures they used to take, and hand tint bits on top of, and write on the negative whitespace to leave a white on black bit... I love them so much. So weatherbeaten and ancient.
I just found this book from the 1910s, "The Ways of the Indian" or some shit, while reading through my room. Patronizing as hell, but interesting to see the contemporary attitudes spelled out so plainly; and an astonishingly good resource on edible plants and wilderness survival. Indispensable should I ever need to make acorn bread. If you can overlook parts like the chapter where the guy tries to pin down "what the indian smells like." For the curious, he concludes that it's somewhere in between sassafras, honey, trail spice, and badger, but "the lack of body hair makes the scent subtler than the other races." (Wow. Just... wow. I don't know how this study would go down these days...)
And all of you are going to kill me, but I firmly imagined the story as taking place in British Columbia at least until chapter 14 or so. >.< I am not a detail-observant man...
Brush pen on paper, tinted in photoshop, about 3"x5".
Shivah and OTBP (C)
Rukis
Picture © Moi
Those tinplate pictures they used to take, and hand tint bits on top of, and write on the negative whitespace to leave a white on black bit... I love them so much. So weatherbeaten and ancient.
I just found this book from the 1910s, "The Ways of the Indian" or some shit, while reading through my room. Patronizing as hell, but interesting to see the contemporary attitudes spelled out so plainly; and an astonishingly good resource on edible plants and wilderness survival. Indispensable should I ever need to make acorn bread. If you can overlook parts like the chapter where the guy tries to pin down "what the indian smells like." For the curious, he concludes that it's somewhere in between sassafras, honey, trail spice, and badger, but "the lack of body hair makes the scent subtler than the other races." (Wow. Just... wow. I don't know how this study would go down these days...)
And all of you are going to kill me, but I firmly imagined the story as taking place in British Columbia at least until chapter 14 or so. >.< I am not a detail-observant man...
Brush pen on paper, tinted in photoshop, about 3"x5".
Shivah and OTBP (C)
RukisPicture © Moi
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
Species Lynx
Size 924 x 1280px
File Size 238 kB
I knew it was impossible, but "prohibited" is a bit iffy... I love the pictures they used to take of little kids. The kid wouldn't sit still except on his mother's lap, so they would cover her with a sheet and have her hold him down as he watched the birdie. But from a modern perspective, it looks like the kid is being squeezed by the chair. XD
Ah, shit, you're right! XD The cheektufts aren't prominent enough...
I was more concerned about the proportions. Bobcats have really teeny heads compared to their bodies, but Rukis draws her with a relatively proportional head. But from the contemporary perspective, photographs were grossly disproportionate. We're used to photographic distortions (and I'm a Bob Peak fan, I love extreme foreshortening), but they were comparing photographic distortion to the naked eye. To anyone looking at this picture in the 1800s (about a century off here), her head would look really big, because it was close to the lens. I decided to err on "big head," because we accept those better than small heads. Babies have big heads, but nobody has teeny heads.
Ah, shit, you're right! XD The cheektufts aren't prominent enough...
I was more concerned about the proportions. Bobcats have really teeny heads compared to their bodies, but Rukis draws her with a relatively proportional head. But from the contemporary perspective, photographs were grossly disproportionate. We're used to photographic distortions (and I'm a Bob Peak fan, I love extreme foreshortening), but they were comparing photographic distortion to the naked eye. To anyone looking at this picture in the 1800s (about a century off here), her head would look really big, because it was close to the lens. I decided to err on "big head," because we accept those better than small heads. Babies have big heads, but nobody has teeny heads.
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