Librarian Avengers » bookbinding http://librarianavengers.org Rawr Wed, 05 May 2010 01:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bookbinding Tattoo, concept art http://librarianavengers.org/2009/03/bookbinding-tattoo-concept-art-2/ http://librarianavengers.org/2009/03/bookbinding-tattoo-concept-art-2/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:51:55 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/?p=744
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    • ]]>     Someone asked me where I found the art for my nonexistent biopsy scar-covering tattoo, and I thought you guys might be interested…

    This came from a series of 18th Century bookbindings. It’s too elaborate for reality, perhaps, but I liked the idea.

    This was intended to cover a scar that I have grown rather fond of. The tattoo plan was scrapped, but the concept was good.

    I sampled my skin color from a photo, isolated two different florets from book covers I found in a digital library collection, overlapped them, messed with transparency, did a color mask to match a brown ink, and then chickened out at the last minute.

    For more on why I didn’t get a tattoo, please see this very special episode of Red vs. Blue.

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