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    Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Collection Preview - Now Live

    Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!

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    • CutlasshoundC
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      Custom skull. Wife bought neva blank vinyl skull. Decided to customise it with a Karajishi botan design using marker. Difficult to photograph!

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      I ain't got time to bleed.

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        That looks awesome, you've got some talent!

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        • FinksterF
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          ^ agreed … rad skull!

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          • CutlasshoundC
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            Thanks chaps

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            I ain't got time to bleed.

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              Some new work, colored pencil and wax oil pastel on Lanaquarelle 300lb. (640 g/sm) cotton cold-pressed watercolor paper…

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              • seawolfS
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                @adam313  The best part about your beautiful work is, I have no idea how you make it. It adds to the mystique 🙂

                “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

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                  Thank you chief!

                  I have a few photos that could help illustrate the process.  These poor iphone pics weren't taken with a "step-by-step" sequence in mind (more just as a reference photo to keep me thinking while I'm at work), and I don't have photos of each stage, but hopefully these might give an idea of the evolution that the paper has gone through.  It's much like a pair of jeans hopefully, in that the paper reflects the life it has lived…Thanks for looking!

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                        So I would love some impressions, any impressions, bad, good, it all helps….I'm trying out some new possibilities.

                        This is going to be a new type of series for me -- as opposed to the artwork in the above post ^^^ which is more like a smorgasbord of colored pencil -- this series will be more focused and minimal.

                        Still in progress but close...

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                          Another one just finished…"Aftermath", colored pencil on Rives BFK (280 g/sm french mouldmade cotton paper normally suited for printmaking)

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                          • Black OrchidB
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                            I absolutely love the blue…beautiful clear,cool and calm

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                              Much appreciation, @Black Orchid!

                              It's getting closer…

                              And this is the cotton paper pulp that gets ripped up during the process of drawing lines and writing/scribbling…

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                                • FinksterF
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                                  ^ fascinating … keep it up!

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                                      And started a new one too.  All colored pencil on Arches 400 lb. Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper.  This is the 25oz. denim of the paper world!

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                                      • seawolfS
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                                        Thank you @adam313

                                        That is such a wonderful and unique process. I love it. Thank you so much for sharing and giving us a glimpse into your process.

                                        I think I know of a tool that you might find useful. I recently got myself a pair of these and they seem to have unlimited applications for people who use circles in their work. http://windfiredesigns.com/Tools/CircleTool/index.html

                                        “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

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                                        • GilesG
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                                          I need those like I need a hole in the head, but boy, they are things of beauty….

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          • seawolfS
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                                            Aren'y they?! They're really well designed and well made. Such unique tools and I can't think of another like them anywhere. Great people to deal with as well.

                                            For some perspective:
                                            The small one is about 7" at it's widest point. The large one is about 19" at it's widest point.

                                            “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                                            @zeebeeleather

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