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Laurie McIntosh
{K:958} 1/5/2006
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It's what they're saying, and the shake their heads slowly when they say it. I don't even have to egg them on no more.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 1/5/2006
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Is that what they are saying on Church Rd?
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Laurie McIntosh
{K:958} 1/5/2006
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The boy ain't right.
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Subhash Sen
{K:11931} 1/4/2006
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Nice textures & original ,cheers,subhash.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 1/4/2006
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Excellent suggestions re the dusty ancient book shelf look for this. The only weay I can describe the aesthetics I ended up with in this firsat attempt was like the day I found myself to have gone out wearing linen with shiny polyester pants. The back ground you suggest is very pleasurable crystal enriched stone. Carrying on the "dressed funny" analogy: with a little more compressing and sharpening this stone could be sequins, but that again would surely be another story... :)
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 1/4/2006
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:))
hands off with swastikas! the nazis have ruined it for all eternities.
but odin certainly was no nazi
:))
'futharken' was borrowed from the greek alphabet obviously (and greek alphabet in itself from semitic phoenician alphabets:))... knowing to read and to write gave magical supernatural powers in an illiterate society, I think:))
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 1/4/2006
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Yers I am afraid it looks a bit too "coffee table book" at the moment.
Go wild with the norse. It's actually rather scary for me... (I did a swastika today and tremble to post it)and I have little right to speak for their stuff! Aside from some sailor jumped off a long boat in Inverness early last milennia...
So hard in some ways,being pakeha (white New Zealander), a long way from our roots.
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 1/4/2006
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some ideas on the fonts: the upper two are original 'futharken' (there were a lot of variants in ancient times, also a lot of saxon fonts, not just norse ones:)), the third is - gues what? - a modern jokerman-ttf
:))
YGGDRASIL on leather like stone macro
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 1/4/2006
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may I nitpick a bit, mr. mcintosh?
:)))
the life/death rune is very fine and adequately retro-brownish, but the font should be, if possible, changed to a true (type:)) futhark font (there are very fine examples for free to google for them on the net)... and the paper(?)/leather background, where 'ggdrasil' of your Yggdrasil is written MUST show more texture and detail (i.e. like old pergamen or paper - direct scans of certain materials will do that job).
nevermind, I'll have to copycat your idea... presenting some old norse witchcraft devices and futhark letters:))
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 1/3/2006
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What a strong illustration, Ian.
Really splendid touches throughout.
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 1/3/2006
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I am not sure Grasshopper
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Marcio Janousek
{K:32538} 1/3/2006
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YYYesss !!
Great work , great colors Ian , great light and details . This is higly expressive.
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