tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post5101768509126973378..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: The Sparklegul Revisitedchris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-89708762637754018172011-12-30T21:00:57.662-05:002011-12-30T21:00:57.662-05:00I definitely like the colors as well. One very us...I definitely like the colors as well. One very useful thing about the brustrokes is that they make it less noticeable that getting the colors that way left the image blurry.<br /><br />I converted the image to a vector image using Inkscape's trace feature, then converted it back into a bitmap. I'm not completely sure that I remember why I did that. I think it might have been that the conversion process results in a nice clean posterization, it loses a bunch of information, but what you're left with is very neat. That said, I can't say for sure that's why I did it. I can say that it wasn't for scaling because I already had the image that large to begin with.<br /><br />Anyway, back in gimp with the resulting image I played around with it in various ways. One thing I did was to sharpen as sharp as sharp can be. That resulted in all kinds of interesting colors in very small lines around each section of color, then I blurred the image until the lines of color spread out some.<br /><br />Without the lines there providing fine detail it's a blurry mess. A blurry mess with really nice colors, but a blurry mess none the less.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-4395584512579764962011-12-30T18:47:42.092-05:002011-12-30T18:47:42.092-05:00Very boring of me, no doubt, but I find myself cau...Very boring of me, no doubt, but I find myself caught not so much by the brushstrokes as by the colours, particularly in the latter images. A spray of fire...Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-30036077931356624922011-12-30T10:23:54.817-05:002011-12-30T10:23:54.817-05:00The close up view of the first image reminds me of...The close up view of the first image reminds me of mokume gane, a metal working technique that involves folding different colored metals into layers, creating a bumpy surface, then shaving the surface smooth to reveal patterns. This technique is used frequently by polymer clay artists, who can achieve similar layering effects much faster.Caretaker of Catsnoreply@blogger.com