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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 28, 2009 - 05:07pm PT
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I may be many things (not all of them pleasant) but one thing I am not is an illustrator.
I need a black & white line illustration of a hand doing a finger lock. The sort of thing I expected to find in Basic Rockcraft (Sheridan Anderson did fantastic illustrations for the book but they skipped the finger lock.)
Here is a crappy illustration and a fair one I found at a British site (what do they know about thin cracks, anyway?) This gives you an idea of the image I am looking for. In other words, I don't need the whole arm... just a section of crack and a hand clearly showing a finger lock in action.
It's for a shirt, so two shirts to the illustrator!
P.S. Make the image clear enough and at a high enough resolution so it can be scaled up cleanly.
Here is the crap drawing:
This one is a bit better
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slobmonster
Trad climber
berkeley, ca
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Jul 28, 2009 - 05:10pm PT
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2009 - 05:12pm PT
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Let me add... I need something that you have the rights to.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2009 - 01:03pm PT
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So... are there no illustrators out there? I have a message into Clelland (that guy is great!) but he may be out of my price range. So... any illustrators out there?
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2009 - 01:23pm PT
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Mike... I 1,000% agree. I am not looking for a professional, just someone who can draw better than me. I apologize to anyone who was insulted by my offer.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jul 29, 2009 - 02:03pm PT
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What's your timeframe? I might be able to whoop one out for you.
I'm not a professional by any means, nor do I play one on TV.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jul 29, 2009 - 02:16pm PT
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Simon,
Just take your own photograph of what you want, stuff it into Photoshop, create a copy of the background layer, choose that new layer and then go into FILTER MENU (pulldown), then choose how you want to stylize your photo with the zillion options plainly laid out in there. Tons of fun. Hugely powerful, super-easy, very professional. If you want help, let me know but you have to do the photo yourself and send it to me.
Here is one of tens of thousands of possibilities: my fingers:
Now to illustrate some more of the potential and the before and after, here is my hand on a towel, then Photoshopped in a duotone (since you are silkscreening I guess) and some other filters worked on it. It took one minute after the photo was on my desktop from my Nikon:
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jul 29, 2009 - 02:28pm PT
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;-)
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jul 29, 2009 - 02:58pm PT
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Lemme know if one of these will work and I can get you a bigger one in a veritable raft of formats...
I just drew them ten minutes ago, so I can assure you I own the copyright.
With more time, I would probably put some shadowing into them...maybe I'll go do that.
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 29, 2009 - 03:01pm PT
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Yah Simon
steelmnkey can draw. He's really good with illustrations.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jul 29, 2009 - 03:02pm PT
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Thanks guys.
New job? But I love the old one sooooooo much.
How 'bout those big fat hands of mine? :-)
A little shading...
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2009 - 05:26pm PT
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Monkeyman! That's what I be talkin' 'bout. know what I mean? (Sorry, channeling Compton for a moment there.)
I am running out to do my daughter's physical (all sorts of wrong in that sentence...) anyway, upon my return I will contact you!
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2009 - 06:55pm PT
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steelmnkey... e-mail sent.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jul 30, 2009 - 11:42pm PT
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Simon, haven't seen anything... I'm going to ship you an email, so if you see this, keep an eye out for it.
Otherwise, just ship me one at steelmonkeyaz at cox dot net.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2009 - 03:38am PT
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e-mail sent to the address you listed in your message to me.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jul 31, 2009 - 04:05pm PT
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Like Peter showed, you can use Photoshop to alter a photo to look like a drawing. I used the "posterize" modifier, and maybe some other goodies (Photoshop 5.0, from last century, BTW) to get this from a classic Wawona Tunnel view up the Valley.
EDIT: I replaced the image with one without any text.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jul 31, 2009 - 05:45pm PT
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Just cross your fingers, like The President does when he's lying to us, and thread them into the crack like a bolt in a nut.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jul 31, 2009 - 06:01pm PT
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Simon, you now only need to GET OUT and put that illustration into practice. Let me know when...!
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