{"id":98,"date":"2012-02-16T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T04:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=98"},"modified":"2012-03-19T23:52:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T03:52:51","slug":"longfingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/longfingers\/","title":{"rendered":"“Longfingers”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"'Longfingers'<\/a>

Longfingers \u00a92012 Kirsten Talmage<\/p><\/div>\n

Inked drawing of some creatures from somewhere and\/or somewhen else. Inspired (accidentally, compositionally) by a coloring book<\/a> illustration from Torn World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a digitally cleaned up version of the original illustration. There’s a matte version<\/a> also (that is how I gave it to my friend for her birthday).<\/p>\n

Visually, I wonder which version is better, and why… I don’t mean in terms of quality of the image file you see, but whether the cropped (by the matting) or uncropped one is better.<\/p>\n

I also had in the back of my a head a book I had as a kid, After Man: A Zoology of the Future<\/a>. I think these are marsupalian, with some raccoon-like and some lemur-like characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inked drawing of some creatures from somewhere and\/or somewhen else. Inspired (accidentally, compositionally) by a coloring book illustration from Torn World. This is a digitally cleaned up version of the original illustration. There’s a matte version also (that is how I gave it to my friend for her birthday). Visually,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[18,20,17,16,19],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-bw","tag-critters","tag-ink","tag-other-artists","tag-torn-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-1A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":891,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coloring-goodness-reward-for-august-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":98,"position":0},"title":"Coloring goodness reward for August 2018","author":"Kir","date":"15 August 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"[** Update: downloads are archived after two months\u2014or more\u2014so patrons have plenty of time to access them. 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