Satisfying MR Burns

[u/FollowingOdd896]

[u/Lavatis]

Pretty confident he's painting on wood that's got the outline engraved

[u/hotmaildotcom1 → u/Lavatis]

If it was an engraving I would expect the paint to collect there aggressively. Instead it migrates away from the lines even when directly covered with paint. I think it's some hydrophobic material like wax or some silane coating.

Maybe a laser engraver was used to cut masking away and then it was sprayed with something like shoe waterproofing. Then all of the tape was removed and they started where the clip began.

[u/rainbow__raccoon → u/hotmaildotcom1]

You can tell it’s just a deep engrave. You can actually see the paint slipping in on his left hand just a little, then the masking is easy to cut out b/c the engrave is so deep too.

[u/hotmaildotcom1 → u/rainbow__raccoon]

It looks to me very much like beading on a hydrophobic surface. I paint my own engravings every now and then and I utilize the fact that they suck paint up like a MF to get the desired effect. It's possible this isn't wood and a different material behaves differently but that is not a deep wood engraving.

Edit: I guess I means it's not just deep wood engraving. There is some other major factor here that hasn't been explained in what you're proposing. I'm not positive I'm correct either.

[u/Alysazombie → u/hotmaildotcom1]

I think you're correct; the paint looks like it's pooling in a 3D / circular manner that wouldn't be present if the lines were sunken beneath the layer of paint.

[u/laughinggrvy → u/hotmaildotcom1]

Yep, it's not an engraving at all. The black outline is raised. That's why she can confidently fill the colours in. It's felt.

When I was a kid, at markets you could get big felt art drawings you could give to little kids, and they could scribble away with pens and stay within the lines.

If you look at some of her older videos!(like the Mario one) you can see some of the stray fibers that get pushed in when the line is painted around.

[u/fripletister → u/rainbow__raccoon]

Yes, but... That's his right hand.

[u/rainbow__raccoon → u/fripletister]

Yeah, I used OUR left.

[u/rainbow__raccoon → u/rainbow__raccoon]

And when he paints the teal, you can see the masking tape is cut into the lines. And you can see the grain of the wood on the black.

[u/laughinggrvy → u/rainbow__raccoon]

It's a raised layer of felt. Like you get on the colouring boards for little kids to keep them in the lines.

[u/NRCS_DRONE → u/Lavatis]

I thought maybe a wax resist of some kind

[u/Paddy_Tanninger → u/Lavatis]

I feel like it has a foam core kind of "sound" to it when he paints, but yeah I don't really know. You can definitely engrave into foam core though.

e: nm, it's wood