Whenever I am intently thinking, I wind up placing my fingers together and placing both hands in front of my chin. About a month ago, I was staring at the computer thinking about what to create next. And it dawned on me to draw my hands.
About half way through creating the Hands in Meditation, Heidi, my toughest critic looked at it. She asked: "Are you trying to become the Jewish-American Albrecht Dürer?" I completely forgot about his wonderful hands in prayer - and had to defend myself and point out the differences.
It took an infinite amount of patience to create this drawing. Doing this in vector graphics probably takes far more time than tackling it in a regular drawing.
I experimented on a number of different papers and chose Hahnemuhle "German Etching". The paper has fibers that are almost brushed up - this softens the lines and adds for more depth to the print.
The picture is a .jpg of the print - not the vector graphic .png generation prior to printing.
I am Roy Torley. I've been writing a basic Inkscape tutorial for the past several years and am currently thinking through the final tutorial which focuses on preparing one's artwork for printing. Your work here with the hands "au Penseur" have really captured my attention and motivated me to explore areas of printing heretofore unknown. My wont is also to put my fingertips together as I think things through. I am very grateful to you for sharing your work. The concept of creating Hahnemuhle styling is very attractive, elegant, and distinctively different from what I see on the Web and basic advertising. In spite of your critic's statement, you have embarked upon refining a style that is definitely worth exploring further. With your permission, I would like to play with your creation is a teaching example for how to prepare your work for printing. I don't know whether I would actually use your work, but at least it got me thinking along the lines of simulating the Hahnemuhle look. This last tutorial is still in the nascent stage of finding a good example, putting the framework structure together, and finally seeing whether I can work with the current tools that Inkscape has. I really appreciate what you have done and support having your imagination run amok. Best wishes, Roy
As you know "printing" changes the perspective of something created in Inkscape. For each work, I easily create 20-30 proofs on the final media before being satisfied. In other words there is a bunch more work that needs to be done before a final print is considered acceptable.
Besides printing on Hahnemuhle "German Etching", I also print on a very thin (25 g/m2) Japanese Washi paper, cotton rag paper with a sand texture, flat cotton rag paper, and fabrics that have been treated for inkjet printing. Each presents different features.
Japanese Washi paper is very interesting because it is semi-transparent. If one places the paper on a dark mat board (I prefer a coffee brown color), the plant fibers show through. In order to bring out the fibers in the painting, I change many of the objects to be more transparent (reduce the opacity to somewhere between 25% to 50%). At printing some ink is applied to the Washi paper. This brings out the fibers underneath but at the same time the object shows.
Printing on specialty paper is a whole new world to me. Thank you once again for sharing this distinctive corner of the universe with the Inkscape community and me. The more I look into it, the more fascinating it becomes. I wish you good luck, success, and personal fulfillment.
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Whenever I am intently thinking, I wind up placing my fingers together and placing both hands in front of my chin. About a month ago, I was staring at the computer thinking about what to create next. And it dawned on me to draw my hands.
About half way through creating the Hands in Meditation, Heidi, my toughest critic looked at it. She asked: "Are you trying to become the Jewish-American Albrecht Dürer?" I completely forgot about his wonderful hands in prayer - and had to defend myself and point out the differences.
It took an infinite amount of patience to create this drawing. Doing this in vector graphics probably takes far more time than tackling it in a regular drawing.
I experimented on a number of different papers and chose Hahnemuhle "German Etching". The paper has fibers that are almost brushed up - this softens the lines and adds for more depth to the print.
The picture is a .jpg of the print - not the vector graphic .png generation prior to printing.
Hi BarryG,
I am Roy Torley. I've been writing a basic Inkscape tutorial for the past several years and am currently thinking through the final tutorial which focuses on preparing one's artwork for printing. Your work here with the hands "au Penseur" have really captured my attention and motivated me to explore areas of printing heretofore unknown. My wont is also to put my fingertips together as I think things through. I am very grateful to you for sharing your work. The concept of creating Hahnemuhle styling is very attractive, elegant, and distinctively different from what I see on the Web and basic advertising. In spite of your critic's statement, you have embarked upon refining a style that is definitely worth exploring further. With your permission, I would like to play with your creation is a teaching example for how to prepare your work for printing. I don't know whether I would actually use your work, but at least it got me thinking along the lines of simulating the Hahnemuhle look. This last tutorial is still in the nascent stage of finding a good example, putting the framework structure together, and finally seeing whether I can work with the current tools that Inkscape has. I really appreciate what you have done and support having your imagination run amok. Best wishes, Roy
Good Morning Roy,
Thank you for the kind words.
As you know "printing" changes the perspective of something created in Inkscape. For each work, I easily create 20-30 proofs on the final media before being satisfied. In other words there is a bunch more work that needs to be done before a final print is considered acceptable.
Besides printing on Hahnemuhle "German Etching", I also print on a very thin (25 g/m2) Japanese Washi paper, cotton rag paper with a sand texture, flat cotton rag paper, and fabrics that have been treated for inkjet printing. Each presents different features.
Japanese Washi paper is very interesting because it is semi-transparent. If one places the paper on a dark mat board (I prefer a coffee brown color), the plant fibers show through. In order to bring out the fibers in the painting, I change many of the objects to be more transparent (reduce the opacity to somewhere between 25% to 50%). At printing some ink is applied to the Washi paper. This brings out the fibers underneath but at the same time the object shows.
Best wishes,
Barry
Hi Barry,
Printing on specialty paper is a whole new world to me. Thank you once again for sharing this distinctive corner of the universe with the Inkscape community and me. The more I look into it, the more fascinating it becomes. I wish you good luck, success, and personal fulfillment.
Best summertide wishes,
Roy