Like the other recent contests, this is a thread for the folks that submitted entries to Okthrowberfest to reveal their secrets, if they so choose.
As usual, my first steps were to find the image on google and trace the image onto a clean sheet of paper to use as the stencil. Then it was on to cutting, which was a bear for this disc, especially all the little hairs on Krumm...those really sucked. (Picture 1)
Then the first dye to get on the disc was a black dip. (Picture 2)
If you have read any of my other recent How It's Made type posts, this one follows the same format basically. With black lines between all the areas that need to be colored, you can just weed a couple sections at a time and paint on the dye. Even adjacent sections can be done without a remask - you just need to be careful staying in the lines. I do try to avoid doing adjacent sections at the same time though. I typically use toothpicks instead of paint brushes. (Pictures 3, 4, 5, 6)
Then I did some shading. (Picture 7)
Then masked over the image and where the moon would go to do the background, and added some glue drops for stars. This was the most interesting part for me, since I hadn't really done anything exactly like this before. Which is nerve wracking after spending so long on the disc already. I did something similar on the Clutch disc, transitioning from a red sky to black, so tried to repeat that procedure here. I started by dyeing the top part of the disc deep black. Then I did a fairly deep blue for an inch and half or so below that. The transition was done by painting black a little lower than the division between black and blue and letting that sit for 30 min or so. Then painting black a bit lower than that for 15 min, then a bit lower than that for 10, then 5, then 1. And that procedure was simply repeated for blue to purple, then purple to pink. The pink to orange was done both ways (painting the pink down and the orange up), then a couple shades of red at the bottom. Finally the green at the very bottom. (Picture 8)
Started the moon with a qtip/water application of yellow, then layered it up with yellow, brown, and silver. Then all that was left was a quick black ring around the rim. (Picture 9).
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As usual, my first steps were to find the image on google and trace the image onto a clean sheet of paper to use as the stencil. Then it was on to cutting, which was a bear for this disc, especially all the little hairs on Krumm...those really sucked. (Picture 1)
Then the first dye to get on the disc was a black dip. (Picture 2)
If you have read any of my other recent How It's Made type posts, this one follows the same format basically. With black lines between all the areas that need to be colored, you can just weed a couple sections at a time and paint on the dye. Even adjacent sections can be done without a remask - you just need to be careful staying in the lines. I do try to avoid doing adjacent sections at the same time though. I typically use toothpicks instead of paint brushes. (Pictures 3, 4, 5, 6)
Then I did some shading. (Picture 7)
Then masked over the image and where the moon would go to do the background, and added some glue drops for stars. This was the most interesting part for me, since I hadn't really done anything exactly like this before. Which is nerve wracking after spending so long on the disc already. I did something similar on the Clutch disc, transitioning from a red sky to black, so tried to repeat that procedure here. I started by dyeing the top part of the disc deep black. Then I did a fairly deep blue for an inch and half or so below that. The transition was done by painting black a little lower than the division between black and blue and letting that sit for 30 min or so. Then painting black a bit lower than that for 15 min, then a bit lower than that for 10, then 5, then 1. And that procedure was simply repeated for blue to purple, then purple to pink. The pink to orange was done both ways (painting the pink down and the orange up), then a couple shades of red at the bottom. Finally the green at the very bottom. (Picture 8)
Started the moon with a qtip/water application of yellow, then layered it up with yellow, brown, and silver. Then all that was left was a quick black ring around the rim. (Picture 9).
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