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Stipple Project
Xaquin
Right behind you!Registered User regular
Right behind you!Registered User regular
I .... may have bitten of a lot more than I can chew ....
My wife and I went to Hawaii for our belated honeymoon and absolutely fell in love with the Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve & Garden. It's home to countless tropical trees, orchids, and a zillion other plants. Anyhow, my wife took a beautiful shot of the canopy of monkey pod tree towards the middle of the walk
I foolishly decided when we got back to make her a poster of this image for christmas since she loved it so much. Not a bad idea! .... then I figured what if instead of a poster, I make it 66x28 inches and create an intricate curved frame and hang it from the vaulted ceiling in our bedroom!
Which was an even better idea, but also a way worse idea because now I need to stipple nearly 13 square feet ....
Anyways, I figure to keep me motivated, I'll post my process and progress and hopefully by christmas eve I'll have a finished project!
Right now I'm using a regular assed mechanical pencil to lay down a rough outline of the really dark areas and a 0.25mm Micron technical pen to stipple with. I rest my hand on a slightly raised piece of plastic in an effort not to smudge everything.
I'm also waiting on ink for 0/3 and 00 Rapidograhs I've rescued from the year 1998, cleaned, and got working. At some point, I'll get a thing of white ink and go back to fix a few obvious places where I rode the grid lines a bit hard
I imported the image into cad so I could grid the whole thing out. I use a simple hatch pattern to lightly hatch over the cells I've already finished.
I'm using an old .... magnifying glass light lamp .... I guess you'd say?, so I can actually see everything =p This is killing my aged eyes. I have no idea why those yellow lines are on the image
I've also made a sheets chart to gauge how many squares a day I need to do to be finished by christmas eve. I'm .... behind =/ I need to hit around 20 a day. Fortunately, several cells in the middle will be nearly completely white.
I'm getting there!
My wife and I went to Hawaii for our belated honeymoon and absolutely fell in love with the Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve & Garden. It's home to countless tropical trees, orchids, and a zillion other plants. Anyhow, my wife took a beautiful shot of the canopy of monkey pod tree towards the middle of the walk
I foolishly decided when we got back to make her a poster of this image for christmas since she loved it so much. Not a bad idea! .... then I figured what if instead of a poster, I make it 66x28 inches and create an intricate curved frame and hang it from the vaulted ceiling in our bedroom!
Which was an even better idea, but also a way worse idea because now I need to stipple nearly 13 square feet ....
Anyways, I figure to keep me motivated, I'll post my process and progress and hopefully by christmas eve I'll have a finished project!
Right now I'm using a regular assed mechanical pencil to lay down a rough outline of the really dark areas and a 0.25mm Micron technical pen to stipple with. I rest my hand on a slightly raised piece of plastic in an effort not to smudge everything.
I'm also waiting on ink for 0/3 and 00 Rapidograhs I've rescued from the year 1998, cleaned, and got working. At some point, I'll get a thing of white ink and go back to fix a few obvious places where I rode the grid lines a bit hard
I imported the image into cad so I could grid the whole thing out. I use a simple hatch pattern to lightly hatch over the cells I've already finished.
I'm using an old .... magnifying glass light lamp .... I guess you'd say?, so I can actually see everything =p This is killing my aged eyes. I have no idea why those yellow lines are on the image
I've also made a sheets chart to gauge how many squares a day I need to do to be finished by christmas eve. I'm .... behind =/ I need to hit around 20 a day. Fortunately, several cells in the middle will be nearly completely white.
I'm getting there!
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Progress: 11.53% Finished
edit: I just realized my values are all fucked up =/
been slacking due to other commitments. Today and tomorrow are my best days for free time though so I'm hoping to knock out 50 or 60 cells
That said, my time per cell is improving. I'm nearly 20% finished. I'm also marking cells that are solid and stippling them on lunch breaks since I don't need my magnifying light to do them.
No way I'm finishing on time =(
Something like this;
https://www.amazon.com/Cuttlelola-Electric-Dotspen-rechargeable-sketching/dp/B09R1JH9P1/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=stippling+pen&qid=1698855833&sr=8-1-spons&ufe=app_do:amzn1.fos.006c50ae-5d4c-4777-9bc0-4513d670b6bc&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1
but I'd feel like I was cheating
.... still though ....
I finished 1/3 of my goal
ah well. November and December sucked for various reasons. maybe I'll shoot for 1/3 a year