Copyright Nicholas Rubatino
nicholasrubatino@gmail.com
Made an MXR Distortion+ from salvaged parts, it took every alligator
clip I had to test it but it worked! The Red LEDs I’m using as clippers
came from a broken blender I harvested and give a suprisingly great
gnarly grit when turned up. This is the first stripboard circuit I’ve
made after I started making pedal kits about a year ago, and it is even
more fun and rewarding and I got 5 more circuits already lined up.
Just finished a new watermark for this era of my work. In school
there was much made about hands and I never cared about drawing hands
and felt like it was low hanging fruit to critique either positive or
negative for when you didn’t really have anything helpful to comment on,
so in part this is my retort to that. Also you ever reach out for
something and retract your hand mangled? that too. Also this started
when I was designing a logo for The God Labs, and real lab logos are
always just like a hand with a test tube, so I was drawing a severed
hand pinned to the ground with a dagger and in my head called it ‘The
Black Hand of Science.’
A good spell to cast on your enemies would be teeth to molars. Making
all of their teeth molars would open up a whole world of dental
inconveniences for your opponents to suffer in.
My professor Peter said ‘why bother making up a pile of garbage when
you can just go find one and draw it,’ so here is a pile of scientific
junk for reference.
Testing out a brush I made in photoshop, I called it “Mr. Chaos of
Nature.” I like it for making pine trees; it’s a combination of a branch
brush I made and a picture of a pine thing from some brush set I
downloaded years ago. It’s nice that it doesn’t leave a repeating
pattern or flatten things out, which are oft waged battles in digital
painting
