On Friday nights I volunteer at a kid's program at my church. A little less than a month from now we will be having a Crazy Hat theme night. I plan on making a few crazy hats. Naturally, one of my first ideas was to fold a gigantic shuriken hat.
This 8-point shuriken is a modular design consisting of 8 pieces that connect into a ring. The ring can then be pushed together to form the throwing star. The transformation process does not work very well for this particular shuriken because it was made with thick poster paper (my arms were sore after folding all the pieces).
For a sense of scale, here is a photo of my sister wearing the "hat".
January 16: Colouring
A favourite childhood pastime - colouring. Be it cheap cartoony lineart in a book or a fresh white wall that mom just cleaned, kids like to paint the town red. Or blue. Or whatever crayons are available.
In Photoshop, I find it immensely relaxing to colour well-drawn greyscale images. It's actually rather easy - set a layer to "Colorize" and then have at it. Of course, one can do a bit more through various filters and masked adjustment layers.
From the beautiful comic "The Abominable Charles Christopher", by the amazing Karl Kerschl, comes this wonderful image. Below, I've desecrated his art with hideous colour. :)
January 17: Hasty Drawing
I was busy pretty much the entire day, so this is what I have to show for it. Hurrah?
The comment about my left hand is, of course, a reference to January 11.
1 comment:
Hats are fat! Colours are glorious. Haste is tasty. Fun stuff. Especially the hats.
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