Pen In Hand
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This piece was commisioned by my friend. She called me one day and left a message saying that
she had a client working on a book, tentatively titled "Pen In Hand", and had requested
pictures from the client so she could make one into the cover. She found she couldn't use any
of the images she received. She'd seen some of my other artwork, so she was confident I could make
something along the lines of what she needed. She was definately more than impressed at
the final results.
I made this using a photo of my hand that I took with a digital camera. I scoured the ethers
for a decent looking fountain pen to use as a model. Using Photoshop, I traced my hand and
fit the pen into it, and touched it up to the point where I was satisfied that it looked
really nice, though she liked it even before I was done. The full-sized version is ridiculously
huge, because I didn't know what kind of resolution was needed for a book cover, so I played
it safe and made it a bit on the big side (2400x2400... *cough*).
Sadly, it never became a cover, because of some copyright issues with some of the main things
that were supposed to end up in the book. But I can still call it "commisioned art" :)
last modified 07/22/05
