Oh, sorry for that, prior to this I was unaware of those ring landscape... indeed, the price point of these keycaps seems, a bit high then, assuming hid did not make these himself (and now that I know how this is done, I can say that even then, this remains overpriced
Being an *******, and the work produced by this ******* are two things different, many good performing actors are true ******/drunkards/junkie in life.
However, it does not change the fact, in my eyes that the presented keycaps are beautiful, far more than any sculpted one. This is a taste thing.
Well, there is not many,
You missed my point when I said the copy thing is debatable, and I don't want debate it because too often emotions comes in play and ruins the conceptual debate. But I was talking of the conceptual aspect of copying art, not the specific case of this person.
No matter what this person does, I am only interested in what is created, that is it, I never intended to sell his stuff, just show something that is really nice, no more, no less.
Please note that I have no hard feelings whatsoever.
The only thing that is "debatable" is your claim that these landscape cubes are "original"
Dude, I meant original, as non copies
Lots of people are trying to cash in on this sort of thing since the rings like this came out, and since jellykey started doing it.
Maybe, so ? Does not many people paint the same things while not being the firsts ? Is it a shock, bad ? It's a human thing, you reproduce what you admire. Otherwise it would be a monopole policy... Thanks for the mention of Jellykey, some of his work is superb like this one on the left, and even this one on the right despite being sculpted :
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Yet in the resin incrusted department, the rest of his work does not appeal to me as much as the one selected or the three posted in the OP
Does anyone knows how he does these cloudy effects that stays low on the wood ? I'm pretty sure this is something simple... maybe... maybe an opaque resin first, then a small layer of clear one on top, then play with a tooth pick, then add some more clear on top... dunno.
EDIT : oh **** ! yeah I found some landsape caps on ebay for $44 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/For-Cherry-MX-Keyboard-Handmade-Keycap-Resin-Wood-Backlit-Noctilucent-Key-Caps/153050035204?var=452878447348&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D52475%26meid%3D47d0e7baca8e4a03948941e69cd42262%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D152751099338%26itm%3D452878447348&_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850), and absolutely georgous too, so yeah, $300 is wayyyyyyyyyy overpriced :))
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It seems like you would really appreciate lathe work/turning as well. The concept of these caps and a lot of art forms is to emulate life scale with convenient macro textures and color gradients. It's clever enough and has been used for years by lots of artists. There are some amazing street performance artists who create 'space' paintings with a very select techniques and tools. These techniques can be easily taught, but clever thinking and a lot of practice really makes for the best representations.
I think these pieces really show an understanding of very specific techniques. You obviously have a very specific taste, but be careful because it is very much an illusion. A lot of what makes these pieces beautiful to some utilizes unstable materials which are prone to breaking under normal use. They make much better show-pieces than functional caps if QC is not thorough. A lot of them will look perfect but the use of stabilized wood and certain clear epoxies can lead to cracking/shattering as the materials aren't meant to be utilized on this scale without considerable wall thickness (3-4mm or more)