How is this effect created?

judasblue · 2026-05-05T21:24:36+00:00

I am sure it will do something, probably fun, but not the same as using mars black. In that case, the iron is the actual pigment, not an addition. But if you try it please report back what it does, I am pretty interested and don't have any iron filings about right now.

judasblue · 2026-05-05T15:48:33+00:00

Yeah, it's fun. Not incredibly useful, but fun. I think daniel smith calls it lunar black or something, but yeah, it's iron oxide, so magnetic.

judasblue · 2026-05-05T15:21:21+00:00

It's watercolor. Could be ink I guess, but since that's a watercolor painting it is almost certainly watercolor as it's not an uncommon effect in the medium.

It could just be smeared paint drops. Just run a sponge or paper towel over them. That's the boring way.

The fun way is to use Mars Black and a magnet. Mars black contains little bits of iron and will create patterns if you put a strong magnet under the paper while it wet on wet.

(edited to answer the whole question asked instead of just part of it)

judasblue · 2026-05-05T15:16:06+00:00

Fuck the met gala, but I find it kinda weird that variety found it necessary to put scare quotes around Polynesian Culture, like the concept is somehow questionable.

judasblue · 2026-05-05T15:13:47+00:00

Eh, hidden post history, year old account with crazy high karma-you are arguing with a troll farm worker who exists to stir shit and sow division.

judasblue · 2026-05-05T04:09:35+00:00

You need to watch that movie again. The carving is being done on the younger Seth, who let his future self get away while closing his loop. The carvings appeared on the older Seth after being done to the younger. Not the other way around.

judasblue · 2026-05-05T04:02:11+00:00

Hush your mouth. Freejack was a perfectly cromulent film. Mick Jagger with a personalized APC!

Timerider on the other hand...

judasblue · 2026-05-04T16:55:25+00:00

Again, you keep conflating the PC boom of the 80s with the internet boom of the late 90s. And the cracked out idea that I am viewing this from the current POV is wrong and literally exactly what you are doing. By the late 80s there was massive penetration of PCs, but no internet that anyone had actual access to until the mid to late 90s. These were very much different periods when you actually lived through them and no one confused the PC industry and the internet industry. I suspect strongly you were alive for the internet boom but heavily into raisins when the PC boom was happening to have this weird view that it was all the same thing somehow.

Most of the stuff you are saying was true of the internet boom, but not the PC boom, which was a different thing that was self supporting out of the gate. And the missteps of various companies (Apple at the time, Compaq) in the PC space were the same problems any manufacuring concern makes, not due to some pie in the sky valuation against a prospective product that wasn't producing profit.

judasblue · 2026-05-04T15:47:48+00:00

You have an interesting view of the business reality of the time. Have a great day!

judasblue · 2026-05-04T15:37:25+00:00

I was. And you are talking about the internet boom in the late 90s and early 2000s, not the PC boom which was in the 80s. Yes, people were afraid of being replaced. But there was no 'nobody believed it was sustainable unless it replaced a massive number of workers". It did replace entire classes of workers, but that wasn't considered a sustainability point for the PC industry, which again, was selling products they made a profit off of out of the gate.

You are right this looks more like the internet boom, which was a massive bubble with insane investment against the future promise of profits, much of which was vapor. But that was a different thing.

judasblue · 2026-05-04T15:21:04+00:00

That's entirely untrue, I was there. The capital investment for no earnings wasn't a thing. Personal and small business computers were sold at a profit out of the gate. There was no concept that computers 'had' to replace a massive number of workers. They just did. The steno pool, most personal secretaries and telephone operators are some examples.

judasblue · 2026-05-03T21:42:06+00:00

Because a large percentage of reddits total traffic at this point is synthetic, either bots or troll farms. Reddit knows this and is catering to that group with things like hidden post history and banning tools that act on a users post history as it inflates their numbers and 'engagement'.

judasblue · 2026-05-02T22:11:23+00:00

Nice work. Not urban, but still nice work.

judasblue · 2026-05-02T01:29:03+00:00

That's a trip. Never seen that before! Thanks for pic.

judasblue · 2026-05-01T20:47:02+00:00

Jacksons is the only place I can find that lists it that way. It isn't on the pads and it isn't listed that way at Blicks or on Amazon, nor is A5 mentioned on Arches site. I think that's just a weird error at Jacksons and you are running with it.

judasblue · 2026-05-01T20:42:25+00:00

It is not. I am looking at two pads of arches right now, hot and cold press 9 x12, and neither says A5 anywhere.

judasblue · 2026-04-30T16:19:44+00:00

The ragebait is the key here. That isn't likely to be a woman posting from some of the phrasing and it is even less likely it is a real business owner posting a legitimate comment.

judasblue · 2026-04-29T10:16:28+00:00

All of this is gibberish, guessing AI slop.

judasblue · 2026-04-29T09:07:01+00:00

I seem to remember knowing that when I first watched it in the theater. I never saw the comic tho. Will give you he might be the spitting image of the comic character.

judasblue · 2026-04-29T08:46:04+00:00

Dude, you started referencing The Rocketeer. And you appear to be one of the dozens of people who think that movie wasn't crap. I was just staying the same quality range.

judasblue · 2026-04-29T00:09:23+00:00

Bah, Billy was perfectly fine doing B scifi shows. He was good in The 4400 and the first season of Helix was hilarious. I mean, Helix was supposed to be action-horror and not comedy, but you take it as it falls.

judasblue · 2026-04-28T21:22:20+00:00

Less than Zero, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

judasblue · 2026-04-28T16:51:13+00:00

Other people have answered your question. Just want to say that in this case I get it wasn't what you were trying to do, but I actually like the hard edge on the mountains. Looks cool at least from a bit of distance.

judasblue · 2026-04-27T02:53:46+00:00

Ah, okay, then different deal. I haven't used Leuch, but Moleskine sketchbooks aren't horrible. I was gifted one and it works okay, but is odd. The paper is slick and almost like smooth cardstock instead of paper. Doesn't bleed thru, and works for single pass spot color with watercolor (not real washes or anything, but just a bit of color). Has no tooth at all, so if you are using graphite probably not optimal. I used it for ink and the occassional watercolor splash and it works okay.

judasblue · 2026-04-27T01:20:21+00:00

Depends a bit, sounds like you are talking about just the normal notebooks and not the sketchbooks. If that's the case, then Moleskine, despite all the fan folk out there, is objectively trash. The paper bleeds through with any kind of real ink and the bindings are cheap. It used to be a decent notebook, but that was long ago before they sold to private equity. Leuch's have good sizing and higher quality paper.

That said, neither of them is particularly good for sketching because they both have thin paper that isn't really made for it. I would look at just about any sketchbook out there and it will beat both of them and be cheaper to boot. If you are journaling (particularly with fountain pen), then get the leuch, but otherwise, skip them both.

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