The Most Powerful Weapon of All

McGyver

The Most Powerful Weapon of All

http://www.ShareCG.com/v/79245/view/11/Poser/The-Most-Powerful-Weapon-of-All

Just a simple artist's pencil...

There is no fool so great as the tyrant, the zealot, the oppressor, who would think the human heart is his to control.

A voice can be silenced, but thoughts are immortal.

Je suis Charlie.

robkelk

Thank you.

Downloaded, and I'm spreading the word about this one.

teriperkins_bfd4324187

Fantastic! I'm off to Sharecg to get my hands on it.

SpottedKitty

Thank you.

One of my favourites (so far) of the cartoon replies is the one with pencils:

Yesterday — one pencil.

Today — the pencil, broken.

Tomorrow — the broken half sharpened. There are now two pencils.

rgrinly_3c04c79a1b

Many thanks for this :) I'm 3/4 way through my idea for a reply to this outrage..and this pencil will perfectly fit what I need :)

Dorseyland

Nice one, Vic. Well spoke.

McGyver

Thank you all.
The pencil is small, but my feelings on this are deep...
I had to think a while before I started to write this... I do not want to put anyone at odds with rules about what can or can not be said, nor to I wish to have anyone have to make a decision about whether or not something I write is against policy.
But I did want say something...
Although I would hesitate to call myself an artist, there are many here who truly are.
The medium by which one forges their creations is often almost irrelevant.
For some it is lead for others... paint,ink and clay or more recently, polygons and pixels
The very nature of art is the sensory manifestation of ones ideas, feelings and visions... be that through drawing or imagery, in music, song, theater, or by written words... but even those few examples fall short of the many ways to share and express our thoughts... it is the most fundamental aspect of human nature, to try and express what is inside of us in some manner or form.
To some extent everyone here is an artist... whether you like it or not.
Whether others say so or not.
We owe all the artists in the world and throughout history, who refuse to be silent, a debt of thanks... We may not agree with their style, their ideas or their humor... but what we should always agree on is their right to say what they feel.
I wish I had enough money to make millions of real pencils like the one I modeled...
I wish I could hand them out in Paris, London, Tokyo, Rome, NYC... everywhere, on any street corner where people pass...
Some would take them and draw something.
Some would take them just because they are free...
Some would put them in a drawer and forget about them...
Some of the pencils would be used to a stub... maybe for making something beautiful, maybe just for drawing horns and a mustache on a newspaper picture of a politician.
Some would be used for a couple of days and forgotten...
But some would eventually emerge from drawers after months or years, long after the events of these days have faded from public memory...
On some of those little sticks of wood, the person holding them would rediscover the inscription... and some would remember the true importance of not being silent.
The words "Je suis Charlie" may turn out to become overused or even abused... but to those that identify with them, who truly understand them... they will always remain real.

Be well folks.

Vic.

RCDeschene

I am humbled by it's majesty...

Bunyip02

My little tribute......

StratDragon

lordvicore said:

The Most Powerful Weapon of All

http://www.ShareCG.com/v/79245/view/11/Poser/The-Most-Powerful-Weapon-of-All

Just a simple artist's pencil...

There is no fool so great as the tyrant, the zealot, the oppressor, who would think the human heart is his to control.

A voice can be silenced, but thoughts are immortal.

Je suis Charlie.

+1
and nice model. I'm always having trouble getting the sampled hex end of the pencil to round off for the eraser in Blender.

McGyver

Thank you all.
@ StratDragon- this was based on an old HB artist's pencil (from Pearl Paint- the Canal st. NYC store- which has now closed), that was so cheap it just had a cut off end (not like a Faber-Castelle, with the rounded, finished ends)...
But you wouldn't really have to do much to make an accurate eraser end... On real pencils the metal bit is just an aluminum or brass tube that is crimped or glued onto the cut end... So a separate lathed part which is grouped ( "joined"- took me forever to figure out "joined"is Blender-speak for "grouped") to the pencil end, would not be bad... as long as it was just a tiny micron bigger than the diameter of the pencil and placed a tiny bit ahead of the end.

Valentin3D

Merci beaucoup, Thank you very much

StratDragon

lordvicore said:

Thank you all.
@ StratDragon- this was based on an old HB artist's pencil (from Pearl Paint- the Canal st. NYC store- which has now closed), that was so cheap it just had a cut off end (not like a Faber-Castelle, with the rounded, finished ends)...
But you wouldn't really have to do much to make an accurate eraser end... On real pencils the metal bit is just an aluminum or brass tube that is crimped or glued onto the cut end... So a separate lathed part which is grouped ( "joined"- took me forever to figure out "joined"is Blender-speak for "grouped") to the pencil end, would not be bad... as long as it was just a tiny micron bigger than the diameter of the pencil and placed a tiny bit ahead of the end.

Is it closed? Sad. I bought many Berol colored pencils from that place when I went to Pratt Institute and realized I was never going to make money as a graphic artist, just spend it. I still have much of what I got from there and it's been passed down.
I took a 6 month hiatus off Blender, I'm presently making a flur de lis and remembering why I hate Bezier curves and took the hiatus in the first place.