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If the fashion shows are any indication, platform soles made a comeback this summer in the form of towering wedge-soled sandals. I'm pretty sure their designers never intended them to be used this way though. It appears that Cynthia didn't get enough of tromping through wet cement on a sidewalk. Now she's found an even bigger expanse of the stuff in the middle of a street, slipping around the barricades to leave a trail of deep footprints in the fresh cement. Now she's not even trying to look innocent while doing it.
Incidentally, she's taking a bigger risk then simply getting caught doing it. While looking on Google for photographs of street-poured wet cement (with the broom marks) to use in this pic I ran across numerous warnings about skin contact with wet cement, complete with photos of nasty-looking burns suffered by construction workers who let the stuff sit on their skin for extended periods of time. Turns out that wet cement is quite caustic. So, our Miss Mischief is being even more daring, depending only on her exceptionally thick-soled platform wedges to keep her feet above the hazardous substance she's walking through. No wishing for her to lose her shoes folks--that wouldn't be right given all the dire warnings.
As I completed this, I thought of having her do one more pose standing out in the middle of the same street, a line of deep footprints behind her, as she gives someone the finger. Haven't decided whether to pursue this, though.
Technical: This turned out to be an even bigger pic than the first. Obviously it's more detailed, but I tried to do more in terms of lighting, giving a overall slight yellow tint and shadows suggesting a sunny afternoon effect, not to mention the multiple swatches of one wet-cement photo that I had to twist, turn, stretch, blend and contort to give them a reasonably correct orientation. Experimentally, I also gave Cynthia an 'outine layer' for a heavier outline (as opposed to the rest of her linework) to help her stand out from the other 2-pixel linework in the backdrop.The combination of all the various fore and background layers gave this pic a hefty data footprint in it's uncompressed, full-size state, listed below.
Digitally inked (polyline) pencils and color in Micrografx Picture Publisher. approximately 30 layers, 336 megabytes uncompressed)
Incidentally, she's taking a bigger risk then simply getting caught doing it. While looking on Google for photographs of street-poured wet cement (with the broom marks) to use in this pic I ran across numerous warnings about skin contact with wet cement, complete with photos of nasty-looking burns suffered by construction workers who let the stuff sit on their skin for extended periods of time. Turns out that wet cement is quite caustic. So, our Miss Mischief is being even more daring, depending only on her exceptionally thick-soled platform wedges to keep her feet above the hazardous substance she's walking through. No wishing for her to lose her shoes folks--that wouldn't be right given all the dire warnings.
As I completed this, I thought of having her do one more pose standing out in the middle of the same street, a line of deep footprints behind her, as she gives someone the finger. Haven't decided whether to pursue this, though.
Technical: This turned out to be an even bigger pic than the first. Obviously it's more detailed, but I tried to do more in terms of lighting, giving a overall slight yellow tint and shadows suggesting a sunny afternoon effect, not to mention the multiple swatches of one wet-cement photo that I had to twist, turn, stretch, blend and contort to give them a reasonably correct orientation. Experimentally, I also gave Cynthia an 'outine layer' for a heavier outline (as opposed to the rest of her linework) to help her stand out from the other 2-pixel linework in the backdrop.The combination of all the various fore and background layers gave this pic a hefty data footprint in it's uncompressed, full-size state, listed below.
Digitally inked (polyline) pencils and color in Micrografx Picture Publisher. approximately 30 layers, 336 megabytes uncompressed)
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Housecat
Size 750 x 1031px
File Size 134.8 kB
Very nice work as always. The detail is fantastic and clear. Looks like she enjoyes such mischeif.
Question though, does she know the dangers of such substance that she's trudging through? Makes me think that if someone was told of it in mid process of doing this, they'd hesitate for a moment in thought, then possibly get out of it asap. heh. CX
Question though, does she know the dangers of such substance that she's trudging through? Makes me think that if someone was told of it in mid process of doing this, they'd hesitate for a moment in thought, then possibly get out of it asap. heh. CX
Tee hee, mischievous little Cynthia is at it again! ;) Beautiful work, RR!
I never knew that about cement, but thinking about it I suppose it would be because of the limestone that's used in the mix, right? Anywho, I feel like I learnt something today. ^_^
Those cute sandals of hers must get pretty heavy with all that wet cement clinging to their soles....and how does she get the stuff offf once it's hardened?
I never knew that about cement, but thinking about it I suppose it would be because of the limestone that's used in the mix, right? Anywho, I feel like I learnt something today. ^_^
Those cute sandals of hers must get pretty heavy with all that wet cement clinging to their soles....and how does she get the stuff offf once it's hardened?
If you look closely at her feet, you'll see the raised foot has the straps digging into it. Yup, I'd say that stuff is heavy :D She'd probably have to break the accumulation off with a hammer or something, assuming it hardened before she got to, say a hose or open hydrant.
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