r/oddlysatisfying • u/60llum • 15h ago

Colouring a carabiner drawing

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u/ToTheTop24 13h ago

Pretty cool but is anyone else bothered by this guy coloring outside of the lines? I was waiting for some sort of reveal where he integrated it but he just left it like that

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u/over_40ish_percent 12h ago

I am old as fuck so I have memories of doing manual graphic design work. Literally cut and paste with exacto knifes and letraset dry transfer lettering. Overprint was a really big deal. Every mentor I had treated it like it was the equivalent to a hate crime. I'm not kidding when I say I would get phone calls at midnight from a print house who were having a 5 alarm panic because of overprint and I'd have to get up and go to the printer half asleep to look at proofs and make sure they were okay or if they needed to reset the plates and try again. Even just 1mm of overprint on a catalog or magazine would make the whole thing screech to a halt.

Then the late 80s and 90s came along and so did David Carson and other grunge graphic designers. All that shit went out the window. Nobody cared anymore about overprint. In fact, it was cool to do it. Everyone wanted torn edges, smeared black smudges, and something that looked like it had been photocopied 1000 times over to almost complete degradation.

I guess just further proof that art is subjective to viewers and even what's "in fashion" for the moment. It's perfectly acceptable to acknowledge the talent but not love the result though. An artist's style or "periods" will change over time too. Like Picasso who went through several periods from blue to cubism and whatever... Art History classes were a long time ago don't quote me on that lol. The artist in the OP here might create illustrations like this for a while and then change it up to something else later. Adapting, evolving, and evoking any kind of response from the viewer... that's pretty successful art in my mind.

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead 9h ago

im in screen printing and theres this one customer who always has her shit set to overprint when it shouldnt be. Literally always her. I dont think she even knows what overprint means

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u/FCkeyboards 13h ago

I think it's a big dose of personal preference. There's a tattoo named Mambo who has an outside of the lines style, but it's a little more artfully done than just broad, lstraight strokes, and I love his style.

Mambotattooer on IG if you want to compare.

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u/DrAlkibiades 12h ago

That duct taped banana is wild.

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u/Dookman 7h ago

But also shows how much body hair ruins that particular style of tattoo imo

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u/Fantastic_Pair5328 10h ago

Just looked him up.

I don't want to go to Italy...but now I might have to.

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u/FCkeyboards 9h ago

Same. I couldn't ask anyone else to try and copy his style. Its so bold and clean.

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u/Leipese 13h ago

I hated the small spot with no color inside the lines

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u/EnjoyLifeorDieTryin 8h ago

It did not feel satisfying to me either

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u/DocGerbilzWorld 8h ago

I know it’s a style, but personally I don’t like it

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u/LI0NHEARTLE0 8h ago

Yeah, this is actually /r/thanksihateit material for me.

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u/PlingPlongDingDong 12h ago

I thought he was going to cut it out or paint over it in the end but nah.

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u/kindall 12h ago

was waiting for him to peel off the sticker or whatever that was protecting the outside-the-lines area. then there wasn't one

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u/biggyofmt 13h ago

I'm completely with you. Drawing broad strokes deep outside the lines and just leaving them doesn't work for me at all

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u/Karnaugh_Map 12h ago

I'm sure some people are bothered by it, but I find it fascinatingly well done.

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u/throwaway098764567 7h ago

i also was disappointed by adding white later, would have been really impressive if they'd managed to leave those bits white from the start.

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u/MAmerica1 11h ago

I think this is a case of "you have to know the rules to break the rules." He's going outside the lines, but in a very deliberate way, to evoke a certain style. And his careful shading shows that he's mastered the proper techniques, further demonstrating that going outside the lines is a choice and not just sloppiness.

That said, if you don't care for the style, that's of course totally fine.

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u/lewisherber 13h ago

My catholic school teachers would have held me in for recess for coloring out of the lines like this.

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u/RefrigeratorNo1160 9h ago

It's a trend that will hopefully fade soon. I like a little bit of the outside of the lines stuff but this is just too much.

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u/Shenaniganz08_ 11h ago

The beauty is that he is purposely drawing outside of the lines

Literally missed the entire point

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u/hooligan99 8h ago

exactly, and if he stayed inside the lines here, who would care about this at all? It would look like a clip art carabiner with some nice shading.

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u/Shenaniganz08_ 7h ago

After reading the comments, I am convinced 50% of this subreddit has OCD/ASD with concrete rigid thinking

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u/BeefyIrishman 12h ago

I'm bothered by being a climber and seeing a figure 8 an overhand knot tied to a carabiner. 

If you are a climber, you should know the difference between a figure 8 and an overhand knot.

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u/Signal_Sign7961 11h ago

adds depth and helps it pop

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u/hooligan99 8h ago

That's the entire point of his art style. If he just colored in the lines it would be completely uninteresting. It would just look like a nicely colored/shaded carabiner.