A Marked Woman
Jan. 29th, 2006 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynOn Monday, I ordered the Tria marker set I'd been planning to get. I'd decided on the 144 version, figuring too many would be better than not enough, and that I'd be unlikely to want to buy them piecemeal.
On Friday, the box arrived. Yay! I opened it up. Inside were two boxes, heavily taped together, each labeled "72 Marker Set". Hmm, I thought. This is not promising. Maybe they're two different sets of 72 markers each? I examined the exteriors of the boxes. They were identical.
I took the boxes, still taped up, to Lut. "Y'know, when I asked for a 144 marker set, I didn't mean 'send me two of the 72 marker ones because I love redundancy'."
"Maybe you should open them up; perhaps they're just packed into the same boxes but are different markers?"
This thought had crossed my mind, although it seemed unlikely. Still, I had the boxes already so I might as well. I hacked away at the large quantities of clear packing tape sealing them shut, then pried one box open. Inside it were six racks of twelve markers each, neatly sectioned by type: two of greys, one of pastels, one of neutral colors, etc.
I opened the other.
It contained six racks, with twelve markers stuffed haphazardly into each rack, with no apparent order or thought given to it. I pulled out a few from the second box and compared them to ones in the first, and a spot check demonstrated that, yes, these were different markers. Oooookay. Pretty peculiar, but I guess it works.
Yesterday, I sat down to play with them. The first thing I did was put the haphazardly organized box into some semblance of order, grouping them by color.
The next thing I did was gaze in awe upon my collection of markers.
144 markers is a lot of markers. And I mean ... a lot. I have thirty-six markers in shades of grey. Thirty six. The mind boggles.
I didn't have anything particular in mind that I wanted to color, but this morning I did some art anyway. Because I have markers! and they must be used!
One of my thoughts was, "I have so many different markers that I could do a whole picture in one color and still use a sizable fraction of my collection." So I did this picture. "Sythyry: Symphony in Blue"
It was done on grey cardstock and probably would've come out better had I used white paper. Still, I was just experimenting so I didn't feel too fussy about it.
I'd told![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beetiger a month or so ago that I'd do a Floosh icon for her. I'd meant to do it digitally but I have markers! and I needed something to mark with them, so I re-drew the picture onto bristol board and colored it.
I'm fairly happy with the way this one came out, although it strikes me that for someone with artistic ambitions, I have appalling color sense. And the shirt is kinda wonky. Anyway, an icon-sized version to round it out:
So that's been my day so far. Well, that and talking totelnar and doing laundry. How was yours?
On Friday, the box arrived. Yay! I opened it up. Inside were two boxes, heavily taped together, each labeled "72 Marker Set". Hmm, I thought. This is not promising. Maybe they're two different sets of 72 markers each? I examined the exteriors of the boxes. They were identical.
I took the boxes, still taped up, to Lut. "Y'know, when I asked for a 144 marker set, I didn't mean 'send me two of the 72 marker ones because I love redundancy'."
"Maybe you should open them up; perhaps they're just packed into the same boxes but are different markers?"
This thought had crossed my mind, although it seemed unlikely. Still, I had the boxes already so I might as well. I hacked away at the large quantities of clear packing tape sealing them shut, then pried one box open. Inside it were six racks of twelve markers each, neatly sectioned by type: two of greys, one of pastels, one of neutral colors, etc.
I opened the other.
It contained six racks, with twelve markers stuffed haphazardly into each rack, with no apparent order or thought given to it. I pulled out a few from the second box and compared them to ones in the first, and a spot check demonstrated that, yes, these were different markers. Oooookay. Pretty peculiar, but I guess it works.
Yesterday, I sat down to play with them. The first thing I did was put the haphazardly organized box into some semblance of order, grouping them by color.
The next thing I did was gaze in awe upon my collection of markers.
144 markers is a lot of markers. And I mean ... a lot. I have thirty-six markers in shades of grey. Thirty six. The mind boggles.
I didn't have anything particular in mind that I wanted to color, but this morning I did some art anyway. Because I have markers! and they must be used!
One of my thoughts was, "I have so many different markers that I could do a whole picture in one color and still use a sizable fraction of my collection." So I did this picture. "Sythyry: Symphony in Blue"
It was done on grey cardstock and probably would've come out better had I used white paper. Still, I was just experimenting so I didn't feel too fussy about it.
I'd told
beetiger a month or so ago that I'd do a Floosh icon for her. I'd meant to do it digitally but I have markers! and I needed something to mark with them, so I re-drew the picture onto bristol board and colored it. I'm fairly happy with the way this one came out, although it strikes me that for someone with artistic ambitions, I have appalling color sense. And the shirt is kinda wonky. Anyway, an icon-sized version to round it out:
So that's been my day so far. Well, that and talking to
telnar and doing laundry. How was yours?
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:30 pm (UTC)Actually, much better. I got about four hours' sleep and am back at work, though working from home at the moment.
I like both, especially the color composition in the Sythry piece, and Beetiger's eyes. The icon version improves the fur and hair through the inevitable blending, but damages your excellent work in the eye highlights for the same reason.
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Date: 2006-01-29 11:10 pm (UTC)1) Sort them by color, shade, and code (I assume Tria has some sort of consistent scheme)
2) Span the sorting across both boxes.
You'll quickly find "hot-spots" where you're always reaching -- THIS shade of grey complements that shade of blue, that sort of thing. But with the markers in a contiguous sequence, you'll be able to more easily break out of your hot-spot ruts by grabbing markers from the areas you seldom reach for.
Also, you'll be more likely to find complementary colors this way.
--Howard
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Date: 2006-02-01 03:57 am (UTC)Do you have any recommendations for a carrying case for these things? They come with organizer racks for groups of 12, but they're not very portable. :/
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Date: 2006-02-01 05:27 am (UTC)RYN@OD: If I had finished, I assure you that you'd have been one of the first people to know. (And since you weren't let know... let known?... um, anyway, I'll keep ya posted.)