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Hand done wood burning on mahogany. It's an image from the game manual of Tunic (if you haven't played, the manual is unlocked by finding its pages during gameplay). After cleaning up the enlarged image a little bit I transferred the image by hand with carbon paper before sitting down to do the burning in of the image.
Wow thanks for the intro. Can you also do it with a kind of electric arc? I remember seeing a video about how that's very dangerous.
How did you get started?
Would you be interested in getting a greyscale depth map from me? I make all kinds of funky stuff.
I've seen some things made using that electric current setup that are really neat but it's certainly riskier and requires some more intensive and intentional safety prep.
A friend gave me a small box he had decorated with the sigils from Skyward Sword (TLoZ) and I was instantly in love with the idea of doing it for myself. I've always enjoyed coloring books, to the point of scanning them to reprint them on better paper for ink pens, and used to ink the comics a friend drew when we were in high school, so the skill set for this goes back a ways. Woodburning is a hobby with a low barrier to entry but a high skill ceiling, and it's fun to mix media in a way that's distinct from working with paper.
That sounds like such an interesting and challenging project, I'd sincerely appreciate trying my hand at interpreting something you've designed!
Well what kind of file do you need. Like a pdf with a fuckton of pixels? Like say A0 300 dpi.
That's perfect! Thank you so much, I'm excited to see how to best translate it and find some complementary grain pattern for it
Ok I'll get back to you in the next months I hope. My life has been nuts but since today there's some stability again and so I can focus on these crazy ideas again :)