I’m Ruby。 I’m roughly 20 apples tall
ルビーです。背がりんごを20つぐらいです。

I drew my profile pic and banner. The gameplay in the banner is from dragon quest 1 for game boy that I recorded myself.


allenwalton
@allenwalton

must've done something right...

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even though making this wood bowl has been arduous, it's pieces like this one that made me fall in love with the material in the first place. no other material on earth has so much inside it to discover.


compared to foam rubber or clay or a highpoly mesh, wood is a real bitch to work with. doing so is expensive, loud, dangerous, and the stuff is always trying to warp/move around on its own once you get it into shape. but what sets wood apart from those other more pliable materials and makes the whole enterprise worth it to me is that it pulls its own aesthetic weight. i see my whole artistic task as exposing what's inherently beautiful about the material and then getting out of the way.

these photos weren't taken with fancy equipment or anything. these are stills lifted from iphone video shot under white LED shoplights and fluorescent tubes.

these posts have been getting sorta overgrown, so i'll keep this one short. the hard parts are over. the remaining tasks are 1: lightly refining the form here and there (mostly the exterior surfaces) 2: making whole surface smooth 3: sealing it with wax

thanks for reading, -AW


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