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19 January 2007

Re Photo Friday today, youngergirl44 says, "Since we scanned things last week, how about drawing something in Paint or whatever..." Shall we go for it?
M'kay, here's mine. The St. John River meeting the Atlantic, near Mayport, FL:≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by paulsc 19 January | 09:47
paulsc, your drawing is great, so pretty. Here's mine, a lady:

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posted by LoriFLA 19 January | 10:02
Woot! MeCha Topiaries
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posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 10:22
I don't know how to use Paint.

*sobs*
posted by essexjan 19 January | 10:23
Can you use a pen and a scanner?

*hugs essexjan*
posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 10:27
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Can you use a pen and a scanner?

*hugs essexjan*


Of course! I always forget to add all kinds of "Do whatever you want" disclaimors to these...
posted by shane 19 January | 10:30
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A forest
posted by arse_hat 19 January | 10:31
"Do whatever you want"

Awesome.
Crayons here I come.
posted by CitrusFreak12 19 January | 10:35
oooh, I like that, arse_hat.
posted by gaspode 19 January | 10:39
Don't feel bad, essexjan. I don't know how to use Paint either.

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posted by box 19 January | 10:43
*hugs essexjan just because she's fun to hug. It's a 'me' thing.*
posted by taz 19 January | 10:44
i will have to wait until much later
so here is an all natural recipe for thin mints to tide you over.
posted by ethylene 19 January | 10:48
I have no artistic talent either however here is one of the houses I'm working on.
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posted by Mitheral 19 January | 11:08
This is me playing with Paint for the first time. I don't dare use the spraypainty thing yet :) And I wouldn't be able to do anything vaguely artistic anyways.
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posted by gaspode 19 January | 11:15
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posted by LoriFLA 19 January | 11:34
Wow, LoriFLA, that's great! And the MeCha Topiaries were a great Paint idea, youngergirl44.
posted by paulsc 19 January | 11:42
I don't have Paint, so I used Photoshop.

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posted by interrobang 19 January | 11:51
I love it! We're all pretty good at this.
posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 12:02
today's Paint effort, yargh. ≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by mygothlaundry 19 January | 12:27
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I did this one a while back on ArtRage (which is free & awesome, boo yeah) and I like it better.
posted by mygothlaundry 19 January | 12:35
≡ Click to see image ≡ I think I just got booted off of emcee team 1.
posted by danostuporstar 19 January | 12:35
Damn nice, interrobang.
*looks forward to seeing it on mecha sidebar*
posted by danostuporstar 19 January | 12:41
dano, does that bunny love pork or porn? I'm not sure which is more disturbing.
posted by mygothlaundry 19 January | 12:42
This drawing of a paramecium took me way too long.
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posted by agropyron 19 January | 12:45
I just downloaded Art Rage - it looks awesome. Here's another Paint creation I made a while back.

Crab Pot≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 12:45
Porn, pork woulda been better though.

The "brush strokes" in the sky on your ArtRage thing are very cool.
posted by danostuporstar 19 January | 12:45
interrobang! Awwwww!

These are great fun. I love the paramecium, and mgl has slain me with her dragon and her blues-guy. LoriFLA... you should see the first thing I ever did in Paint - I was immediately smitten, and it would make a great companion to your sunflowers.

And box's "tippytoes cat" will have me smiling for the rest of the evening.
posted by taz 19 January | 12:54
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It's a person fishing.
posted by bigblueroom 19 January | 13:40
Agh. It won't let me post because flickr's URLs are so dang long and it keeps telling me theres a parsing error!
posted by CitrusFreak12 19 January | 13:55
Citrus - are you using the image button below the comment box? I think most of us use flickr. What about photobucket?
posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 14:01
Bah, no I wasn't using that. I wrote the post in notepad so it would be easier to work with and just pasted it into this. I'll redo it and give it a shot. Thanks
posted by CitrusFreak12 19 January | 14:02
Haha these are so great!
I'm glad I'm not the only person to have heard of ArtRage. It's the main reason I'm going to be buying a wacom Intuos tablet!
I used ArtRage to create three Abe Lincoln themed drawings last year, just for fun. It was a pain to have to use only my mouse to create them, so I decided I should buy a tablet (which would also come in handy for editing my photos).

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Jesus and Abe Lincoln. In a band.

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Back when Tokyo Drift was in theaters. Never saw it. But the trailers on TV for it ticked me off.

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Emo/Punk Abe! (My favorite)

I want to just let you know I sort of traced over photos to make these drawings, so I kinda cheated. But I think it makes a nice end product so I consider it more my "style."

I worked on today's drawing on my breaks, and I have to say it looked better in just pencil. I forgot how much detail you lose when you try and draw smaller things in crayon. So I drew the messed up parts larger on different pieces of paper, and when I get home I'm scanning it all and arranging it all in photoshop.

Would turning mine in late(r) tonight be too late?
posted by CitrusFreak12 19 January | 14:05
Holy crap I love your forest, arse_hat. These are great.
posted by iconomy 19 January | 14:21
paulsc, are you sure that isn't a scene from the movie Here to Eternity? I swear I see Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr stick figures there.... ;P
posted by iconomy 19 January | 14:22
I see them too! I thought I must be going insane, or, as is the nature of us older females, sex crazed.
posted by mygothlaundry 19 January | 14:41
I saw the same thing... didn't you mean for it to be that way, paulsc? (Especially since I sense you've had a little of that action recently... :) )
posted by taz 19 January | 14:50
Those are awesome, CitrusFreak12!
posted by interrobang 19 January | 15:04
Five Bunnies

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posted by deborah 19 January | 15:16
"paulsc, are you sure that isn't a scene from the movie Here to Eternity? I swear I see Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr stick figures there.... ;P"

"I see them too! I thought I must be going insane, or, as is the nature of us older females, sex crazed."

"I saw the same thing... didn't you mean for it to be that way, paulsc? (Especially since I sense you've had a little of that action recently... :) )"

You all have better imaginations than I have artistic skills! You go, grrrrls!!!

Actually, here in northern Florida, we have many kinds and colors of sand, from the turbino white beach sand you think of at Panama City, but also find just a few miles north of here, at Little Talbot Island State Park, to the fine jet black sandy soil of Nassau and northern Duval county, to the gravelly brown sand that forms Amelia Island's beaches.

The mouth of the St. John is a place where all kinds of sediments stratify on the beaches, and the wind, waves and river cut the low beach dunes, and expose deposited sediments. You see these strongly striated, but ever changing ghosts of waves and currents in the sands. The black squiggles are my poor attempt to represent this, as highlighted in the low angle sun of an early East Coast morning.

Next time I go, I probably will see Burt and Deborah rolling around there, thanks to y'all.

posted by paulsc 19 January | 15:50
A message from our dearly departed BunnyHead:

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posted by muddgirl 19 January | 15:57
I love the box cat.
posted by urbanwhaleshark 19 January | 16:31
Thanks Interrobang!

Working on that dang crayon drawing now. Will upload later.
posted by CitrusFreak12 19 January | 17:48
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Inspired by this.
posted by CitrusFreak12 19 January | 18:30
CitrusFreak12, that is truly excellent.
posted by bigblueroom 19 January | 19:22
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This is something I did several years ago, when I was taking an art course. I am still very happy with it. I wish I could find time to do more art. I'd like to take more art courses - they seem to help spark my creativity. This was done using the stippling method - all dots, no lines.
posted by redvixen 19 January | 19:55
redvixen, that's awesome!
posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 20:05
First saved ArtRage creation:

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posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 22:24
Very nice redvixen.
posted by Mitheral 20 January | 00:35
Damn Redvixen, nice job! I was going to post one of my Sketchup thingies, but I'll pass.
posted by eekacat 20 January | 02:27
Redvixen, that is fabulous. Citrusfreak, your drawings are great. Actually, everything has been great! This was a lot of fun. It was my first time using Paint, apart from doing very basic things with my kids or resizing photos.
posted by LoriFLA 20 January | 08:58
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I drew these when I was 13! In Paint! By hand!
posted by armoured-ant 20 January | 09:34
armoured-ant, that is unbelievable, they're great.
posted by LoriFLA 20 January | 14:49
haunted art || OMG Bunnyhead Haiku!!!11!!

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