{"id":455,"date":"2007-07-21T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=455"},"modified":"2007-07-21T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T00:14:00","slug":"2007-07-21-after-for-illustration-friday-poem-and-illustration-friday-night-my-favourite-lyric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-07-21-after-for-illustration-friday-poem-and-illustration-friday-night-my-favourite-lyric\/","title":{"rendered":"2007-07-21 After (for Illustration Friday &#8212; &#8216;Poem&#8217; and Illustration Friday Night &#8212; &#8216;My Favourite Lyric&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/866340081\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1006\/866340081_a5ee81753e.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/866340081\/\">2007-07-21 After (for Illustration Friday &#8212; &#8216;Poem&#8217;)<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tThis one&#8217;s for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illustrationfriday.com\/\">Illustration Friday<\/a> topic, &#8216;Poem&#8217;. Which kinda ties into the <a href=\"http:\/\/illustrationfridaynight.blogspot.com\/\">Illustration Friday Night<\/a> topic of &#8216;My Favourite Song Lyric&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It IS a poem. And I do sometimes sing my poems to myself in the shower. So it could be construed as a lyric, if I really push hard.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve based this painting on a 3D animation model I made in the free and open source 3D suite, BLENDER. I&#8217;ve been following the tutorial for beginners, and this monkey in a mountainous landscape is the result.<\/p>\n<p>I rendered a jpeg, and opened it as reference in ArtRage. And then I went to work on the paintwork. I made the mountain first. Then the sky. Then my monkey dude. <\/p>\n<p>When the pic was nearly finished, I did the typography in CorelDraw 10, exported that as a jpeg, and brought it into ArtRage as a tracing image. I painted my lettering (about an hour&#8217;s work). Then I exported the entire ArtRage file to Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>In Photoshop CS2, I manipulated my lettering, squashing it, stretching it, distorting it, then placed it on a layer behind the mountain range.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, with that done, I opened it in ArtRage again, and did my final touch ups. If you look carefully, you&#8217;ll notice that the white border is actually painted. I do that as the very last thing. When I print my pics out, this gives them a more painterly feel. I really don&#8217;t like the rigid line that happens if I don&#8217;t do this smudged border. For me, organic feels better.<\/p>\n<p><i>This painting was made on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">Blender 2.44<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdesign.com\/artrage.html\">ArtRage 2.2<\/a>, CorelDraw 10, and Photoshop CS2.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007-07-21 After (for Illustration Friday &#8212; &#8216;Poem&#8217;), originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This one&#8217;s for the Illustration Friday topic, &#8216;Poem&#8217;. Which kinda ties into the Illustration Friday Night topic of &#8216;My Favourite Song Lyric&#8217;. It IS a poem. And I do &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-07-21-after-for-illustration-friday-poem-and-illustration-friday-night-my-favourite-lyric\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2007-07-21 After (for Illustration Friday &#8212; &#8216;Poem&#8217; and Illustration Friday Night &#8212; &#8216;My Favourite Lyric&#8217;)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-7l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}