[HN Gopher] Airbrush art of the 80s was Chrome-tastic (2015)
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       Airbrush art of the 80s was Chrome-tastic (2015)
        
       Author : Michelangelo11
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2025-08-14 19:53 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | PlunderBunny wrote:
       | Which nerdy teenager in the 80s with a computer (or a lust for
       | one) could forget the "Ultimate - Play the Game" logo? [0]
       | 
       | 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Play_the_Game
        
         | egypturnash wrote:
         | Anyone in the US really, they were mostly a Spectrum shop and
         | that machine absolutely bombed in the US. C64 ports of their
         | games exist, and some c64 exclusives, but I never saw ads for
         | them in the three or four US c64 magazines I subscribed to.
         | 
         | Outside of the occasional software pirate, nobody in the US
         | heard of them until they'd become Rare and been eaten by
         | Nintendo.
        
       | esafak wrote:
       | The Rio cover model, Marcie Hunt, originally appeared in Vogue
       | Paris, February 1981: https://consequence.net/2024/06/duran-
       | duran-rio-cover-model-...
        
       | egypturnash wrote:
       | I have explored many looks in my time as a digital artist
       | specializing as Illustrator but the most delightful moments were
       | when I looked at what I was doing and felt like I'd worked out
       | how to quickly and effortlessly get a look that had everything I
       | loved about the airbrush art of my youth, while sitting quietly
       | under a tree in the park with my laptop and drawing tablet.
        
       | jaysonelliot wrote:
       | "Today, you still find airbrush-inspired art in advertising
       | that's done digitally rather than with ink on paper. The digital
       | art is a little too perfect though -- the gradient blends are
       | flawless, while an airbrush would give you the slightest
       | inconsistencies that made it look more genuine."
       | 
       | I feel that way about so much digital painting and illustration
       | now. Artists can work faster than they can with physical media,
       | but the end result is always missing something when there are no
       | happy accidents.
        
       | sxp wrote:
       | The picture of the gynoid is by Hajime Sorayama. He has a very
       | distinct (and slightly NSFW) art style. I'm a computer graphics
       | nerd and I've always been amazed by the curved chrome in his
       | paintings. A lot of my hacky attempts at art tried to replicate
       | that chrome style in Photoshop.
        
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