Woahh! Thanks for the video, Chris. Didn’t picture you like that AT ALLl! So freakin cool, eheh.
Will follow your tips religiously but you’re way ahead. I did web stuff back in the day when Cina and Jemma Gura were together, what was that 2002?! I used to do all my stuff on Fireworks since hardly ever did print.
Fast forward to 2024: All I do now is drawing/painting… and in fact I only need tools to correct the photos I’m taking of studio work. That’s why Bridge was super cool for me.
PS. I also have a cracked version of Corel Painter 2018 (which is a blast), and then there’s Clip Studio. You probably have heard of it. It has amazing tools like you zoom in or out in an area you want to paint and the tool you’ve selected remains the same size on screen — which means you can paint a whole lot quicker when you zoom out.
Speaking of Corel Painter… watching your video… you reminded me a lot of Sinix.
Interesting. I still have Photoshop, CS 6. Very old… but I still find it very useful. Now the latest Photoshop has AI built into it. I saw a few demos and wow… it’s unreal. Especially how it can generate content based on existing images, to seamlessly “fill in” any gaps.
So the technique you use solely in the browser… are pretty much all Photoshop capabilities available?
Is there reasonable functionality for layers support? Not just text overlays, but able to select image portions and create new layers, as well as copy/paste transparent aware image data as layers?
Sounds like offu_5050 may be in Japan… but has access to local fleamarkets where vintage pencils are sometimes scored. I’m pretty stunned by what they’ve uncovered. For instance, this haul for only ¥1000 at a local fleamarket: LINK(x)
Or this:
And this:
And this for ¥1000 that was broken, but he managed to fix it:
Then an old stationery store haul he scored… unreal: LINK(x)
Now we know who scored this off YAJ:
I wonder if they’ve got other 1970’s PILOT catalog scans, aside from 1977.
I follow many Japanese stationery collector accounts on Twitter and soon I got used to such thing you mentioned here, I can find different lucky guys every month, I know some people found dozens of Hi-mecha, Variable, or etched Newmans.
One of the most legendary man I have seen (even though he may not be the one who makes the most profit), found a whole box of PM in a store, the owner found these PM can’t sell over the years, and gave them all to him for free.
I wonder if culturally speaking, older people in Japan who’d had a family run stationery shop for many years just never caught on about online technology and the ability to resell vintage items there. Having really old inventory, maybe they only think about what was paid so long ago for the merchandise, not the actual value today. Also, if it’s something they never use themselves, “just pencils” for example, maybe they just don’t have the appreciation. But then… wouldn’t any family members who are much younger and know the online marketplaces be thoughtful enough to do some checking? “Hey Dad, do you have any really old stuff back in that storeroom that never sold? I should see if there is any interest on the resale market today.”
I showed a friend of mine, who has a nice vintage fountain pen collection, a selection of several mechanical pencils from mine… and while he thought they were nice for their workmanship, he was shocked to hear about how market prices today. “For mechanical pencils??” And that’s not a one-off reaction. Even my mother thought I was crazy when she heard what I paid for some of them. I had to explain they’re rare and hard to find these days and collector demand is strong enough to drive higher prices. It’s more about rarity. She still found it hard to appreciate. I then had to mention the G.I. Joe action figure collection* I once had that she gave away to some neighbors with kids. “That’s different!” It’s the element of rarity. Toys are used and destroyed. Pencils are used and damaged/broken/lost.
(I had a pretty cool G.I. Joe toy collection. Had the wooden footlocker case. All kinds of uniforms & gear… including a deep sea diving suit w/helmet and an astronaut suit with replica Mercury space capsule… and a couple G.I. Joe variants, one with “Kung Fu grip.” When I was away at college, my mother was doing a toy purge. She opened up that cardboard box, found my G.I. Joe stuff, and gave it away. Today, probably worth several thousand dollars. I didn’t have original boxes, but the stuff wasn’t abused. I took good care of it. Really painful!)
I have a friend whose family owns a stationery import business. A warehouse filled with old stock of COLLEEN and other stuff. But they cleared it out before I knew about it.
