| Illumination Apparatus
| Originally released 28 November 2021
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/Before LEDs, there were halogen bulbs.../
This is another nostalgia drawing, though not a very
high-effort one; what you are seeing here is an
old camping flashlight I used to use. It uses a |
| halogen bulb |
| powered by a sealed lead-acid battery (I don't remember
that it was 6 V or 12 V battery), chargeable by plugging in
an AC adapter's barrel jack at the bottom of its handle.
This flashlight was very bright, rivaling a motorcycle's headlight;
however, its battery was fickle. I couldn't quite figure out
an optimal discharge depth, so it ran through batteries
like candies. And when its second battery finally
gave up the ghost, no one bothered to buy another battery for it,
so it went into storage. To be honest, I kinda miss the yellowish
warm light it gave; compared to the bluish-cold tone
of LED flashlights that is the norm today.
Art-wise, this piece got its simplicity from |
| [2017-03-08] Glowing Filament |
| and painting techniques from |
| [2017-09-15] Soggy Teabag |
| It is drawn from memory rather than a reference as I was
not in a mood to dig its box out of a dusty storeroom;
which is probably the reason it came out more geometric
than I would like. But as a drawing I started on a whim
and finished in less than a week; I think it is decent enough,
considering the circumstances.
Copyright (C) 2021 xwindows
This is a free illustration, you can modify and/or
redistribute it under:
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| GNU General Public License |
| or... |
| Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Unported |
| or... |
| Free Art License 1.3 |
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Though this is drawn for 16:9 aspect ratio, extra care
was taken to make it look reasonably good on 4:3.
If you need the 4:3 version, just crop for middle part
of this drawing.
29 November 2021 edit:
- Added aspect ratio note.
- Removed extraneous punctuation.
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More from Collection of Objects:
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| [2017-09-15] Soggy Teabag |
| [2017-03-08] Glowing Filament |
| [2016-05-18] Ticking Forward |
| Collection of Objects |
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