{"id":62,"date":"2005-09-11T17:28:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T01:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-10-10T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T23:45:30","slug":"bronze-belle-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Bronze Belle (artwork)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Current mood: more cowbell!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/gallery\/Bronze-Belle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Bronze-Belle\/Bronze_Belle_01_scan.thumb.png\" style=\"margin: 1em\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Bronze-Belle\/Bronze_Belle_03_trace.thumb.png\" style=\"margin: 1em\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Bronze-Belle\/Bronze_Belle_05_detail_repair.thumb.png\" style=\"margin: 1em\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Bronze-Belle\/Bronze_Belle_06_color.thumb.png\" style=\"margin: 1em\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI used again the same raster-to-vector-to-raster method that I was experimenting on with the <a href=\"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=57\">Sexy Pirate<\/a>. Again I am amazed at how much detail is lost in the process, but the finished result looks better than what I would have ended up with if I had tried to leave in all the detail&#8211; most of the detail that was lost was scratches, smudges, and paper texture.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Bronze-Belle\/Bronze_Belle_09_finish.sized.png\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nWhat I did differently this time was to add back a bit of that texture afterwards. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/gimp.org\/\">The Gimp<\/a>&#8216;s image transfer brush, I copied over the texture on the bell. The light sketches on the bell were obliterated by the 1-bit pixelation step, but I liked them too much to lose them.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Sketch\/Belle_Pirate_comparison.png\" style=\"margin: 1em; clear: right; float: right\" \/><br \/>\nNow you want to know something interesting? I didn&#8217;t realize I was doing it, but just now as I was posting these pictures, I noticed that Belle&#8217;s pose here is highly similar to the pose of the Sexy Pirate.Here they are side-by-side with lines drawn over the major axises of aestetic balance. The shapes are very similar. I wonder why I did that? At the time when I drew the pencil-art for this, I had no awareness at all of the similarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current mood: more cowbell! I used again the same raster-to-vector-to-raster method that I was experimenting on with the Sexy Pirate. Again I am amazed at how much detail is lost in the process, but the finished result looks better than what I would have ended up with if I had tried to leave in all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pin-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}