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jacindaelena:

Dioramas by Matthew Albanese

1. (Icebreaker) 25 pounds of sugar cooked at varying temperatures (hard crack & pulled sugar recipes) It’s basically made out of candy. salt, egg whites, corn syrup, cream of tartar, powdered sugar, blue food coloring, india ink & flour.Three days of cooking, and two weeks of building.

2. (Fields, After the Storm) This model is simply made out of faux fur(fields), cotton (clouds) and sifted tile grout(mountains). The perspective is forced as in all of my images, and the lighting effect was created by simply shifting the white balance.

3. (Tornado) made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss

4. (How to Breathe underwater) Diorama made out of walnuts, poured and cast candle wax, wire, glitter, peanut shells, flock, plaster, wire, dyed starfish, compressed moss, jellybeans(anemones), sponges, wax coated seashells, toothpaste,clay, figs, feathers, Q-tips, nonpareils. Surface of the water was created using vinyl shower curtain, plexiglass and clear epoxy. The reflected sunlight effect was created using a video projector through fake fog. The white balance was set for tungsten allowing the sunlight to appear bright and clear while the strobes provided a deep blue shift in the fill light regions. The lens was covered with a piece of blue stretch wrap which created subtle distortions throughout the image. A total of 11 light sources were used including the projector.

Tutorial – Painting with “free” powdered graphite

bob-artist:

Do you use a lead pointer?

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Do you cry whenever you sharpen your lead because you know how expensive that lead was?  Then dump that dust out and use it!

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You now have free powdered graphite!  (If you don’t use a lead pointer, you can buy a solid graphite stick and take a hammer to it – yes, I’ve done this – or you can just go ahead and buy powdered graphite.)  You can use a dry brush to paint it on your pencil drawings for a soft, light blended effect.  Or…

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Add a drop or two of water and mix until it dissolves.  Remember that softer lead will produce darker effects, so add more or less water depending on how dark or light you want to go.

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You now have powdered graphite AND erasable paint!

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Paint whatever the crap.

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Lift that crap out with an eraser.  Darker graphite won’t come out completely, but you can soften, blend, and lighten it.  You can also smudge it with a finger or brush.

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Then you can go in and detail it with the same pencil you cannibalized to make the graphite powder, and it’ll all blend together because it’s the same crap.

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But painting with graphite is nice because you can block in large areas and detail on top of it.  And sometimes you just want to have a “brush” effect, which isn’t so quick and easy with a pointy pencil, or maybe you want to be free and loose the way only a brush can let you be.

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There you go!  Graphite paintings from repurposed waste materials!

k-eke:

Frisk pigeon falling with DETERMINATION ! C’est génial =D

I was full of determination to finish it for you all !!

Well, I got so many requests from you, precious fans, to animate something about “Undertale”…. so there is “Underfail” 😀

Long time since I parodiate something and well, I saw so many awesome fanarts of this game …. I wanted to try and make it a present for you all =D (hoping I’m not too late, hoho !)

The animation is a little too fast sometimes and that’s normal =) I put hidden things, so you have to stop the video to see them all 😀

This game is amazing, I mean PIXEL ART aaah ! (love this retro style <3) and the musics are awesome, the characters are really interesting, how not to make fanarts about them all ?

A huge thank to Toby’s fox and all the team for making such a good game and being able to create something that link people together (so many fanarts x) )

Well, I hope you will like it, took some free time to make and it was cool ^^

(couldn’t put them all, so many awesome characters ^^’) 

Hoping the creators will see this one day :’)