Thread: Prismacolor pencils... redux

So that nightwing picture never happened. I just wasn't happy with where it was going. And it took me this long (nineish months) before I got around to messing around with them again.

Got some bristol and decided to pick them up one more time...

Working on a 1969 stingray. STILL not pleased with the way colored pencils cover the paper really but I'm going to give it a shot at finishing one this time.

looks pretty damn good

Get you a Chip Foose jr set...

Chip uses markers. Different beast altogether.

As an aside:

My grandmother was a fairly accomplished artist in her day, and he favorite medium was colored pencil with water color on top.

She always said the water color won't stick to the waxy colored pencil and will just fill in for shading or background color.

Maybe give that a go?

Originally Posted by Kanati

Chip uses markers. Different beast altogether.

Plus, Kanati's narrator speaks Klingon while he draws. Not that gibborish that Chip Foose's narrator was speaking.

Originally Posted by dex71

Plus, Kanati's narrator speaks Klingon while he draws. Not that gibborish that Chip Foose's narrator was speaking.

So here's a thing.

... I mean, as long as we're leaving the realm of practical fact, there's a question I'd like to ask.

We started with "Grunk Draw Car!" and "Grunk say red pencil make red mark on cave wall!" and I think that Grunk is very real or at least an excellent approximation to a human with skills in both the sysadmin and art world. Grunk can bring home 4 tons of Mammoth steaks, grill it up nice, and then depict the entire process in a beautiful pastoral on the wall of his den.

Grunk is real enough, and so are the first stages of an excellent Corvette rendering.

We then moved from real to Reality TV, which is a thing that my own caveman brain has yet to understand. VR tech hasn't come so far that it can fake a Chip, but there's something about Reality Star Chip which doesn't feel quite Grunk (or quite Human, as the case may be). Still - when I draw on the wall it's also not art, so maybe I'm a lost cause and will never get it.

Then there's Dex's post, which brings us to the thing which I was thinking of when I said, "so here's a thing."

Klingon.

In Chip's fictional reality the narrator was speaking a language different from what Chip speaks. We might call it "Russian", but we certainly don't call it "Human."

No one speaks "Human"

And this is the thing: Why do we think that Klingons speak Klingon?

What makes us think that any two arbitrary Klingons, chosen at random, would be able to talk to each other?


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Originally Posted by Kanati

Chip uses markers. Different beast altogether.

Yeah I get that...but but he ain't too shabby with just a Sharpie. I would imagine a #2 would be just as respectable.

Chip Foose is definitely the Man.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

So here's a thing.

... I mean, as long as we're leaving the realm of practical fact, there's a question I'd like to ask.

We started with "Grunk Draw Car!" and "Grunk say red pencil make red mark on cave wall!" and I think that Grunk is very real or at least an excellent approximation to a human with skills in both the sysadmin and art world. Grunk can bring home 4 tons of Mammoth steaks, grill it up nice, and then depict the entire process in a beautiful pastoral on the wall of his den.

Grunk is real enough, and so are the first stages of an excellent Corvette rendering.

We then moved from real to Reality TV, which is a thing that my own caveman brain has yet to understand. VR tech hasn't come so far that it can fake a Chip, but there's something about Reality Star Chip which doesn't feel quite Grunk (or quite Human, as the case may be). Still - when I draw on the wall it's also not art, so maybe I'm a lost cause and will never get it.

Then there's Dex's post, which brings us to the thing which I was thinking of when I said, "so here's a thing."

Klingon.

In Chip's fictional reality the narrator was speaking a language different from what Chip speaks. We might call it "Russian", but we certainly don't call it "Human."

No one speaks "Human"

And this is the thing: Why do we think that Klingons speak Klingon?

What makes us think that any two arbitrary Klingons, chosen at random, would be able to talk to each other?


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Face.... OFF... No more drugs for that man.