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Published: 2010-04-27 05:49:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 406; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 11
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After trying to use my thumbprint as a "face" for my Demon [link] and not quite achieving the desired effect, I thought I'd try and see how best to get the detail out of the print. This turned out a little better than I thought it would, so expect more demons.This idea just popped into my head when I was driving to the laundromat. I was thinking about a potential offer for a photography gig I just learned about, and I thought back to when I'd written up some consent forms that had special squares in the corners for thumbprints (I figured it would be the ultimate verification; it's much harder to fake a fingerprint than a signature).
I also have to give a little apology to some writer friends of mine whom I've openly shunned for swearing by a Thesaurus when they write (you should only use words that feel right and comfortable to you, instead of simply going for forced variety), as, in this case, I had no choice. It's much harder to find synonyms for "yes" than it is to find its antonyms. After much running back and forth between Wiktionary on my computer and my kitchen table where I was putting this together, I managed to find enough suitable words.
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Is everything but the writing done as a print? It's very precise, and cutting a thumbprint with that degree of precision would take hours of X-acto knife fun. Also, is there anything significant about the fact that the word "assent" is cursive once but in print letters for the rest?
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The thumbprint wasn't actually cut from anything, it was applied straight to the paper after dabbing my thumb on a paper towel since that was the problem when I made the Red Demon's eye; instead of looking like this surreal interpretation of a face, it just looked like he had a solid, big red oval for a head.
Everything else was just applied with brushes. I don't have any proper sumi-e brushes, but these cheap little watercolor ones are working out well. Sometimes I use sponges since I can cut them to any width, though it's more fun to dab them for texture. As a matter of fact, looking back over it now, I see the texture of the paper towel in the two thick black lines since I was a bit impatient for the ink to dry (I've got to work on that 
I broke up the different writing styles (like acknowledge being in lowercase) for the sake of variety. I found quite a few of the words had the same number of letters, so I tried stretching them out and scrunching them together in addition to alternating upper and lowercase and cursive versus print (even dropping letters in the case of "yeah"). I also thought "assent" sounded very elegant (like "ascend") so I found myself writing it out in cursive, whereas the others had a distinctly more imperative quality, hence mostly all caps.
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