ok, i made the watch smaller, a little bit. I went back and looked at
the code and realized that instead of making it 2 inches (approx) across
I made it 2 inches from 0, and so it ended up being about 4 inches
across. oops. So I shrunk it a little.

I obviously changed the pen. I was having trouble with the feather. Now
it is actually what would be much more likely to be what Lincoln used to
write the speech; a steel tip pen. As fountain pens were not either
invented or not in wide use at the time and quill pens (I believe) would
have been used for more formal purposes, and he was writing this for
himself.

I thought about making a scanned image of an envelope with a partially
written address on it, but decided against it when I found this image on
the library of congesses web site. This is actaully Lincoln's
handwriting. This document was produced by Lincoln for a friend after
the fact. I also want to clean up the image map. The site had it posted
as a jpg (you can tell from the dirtiness around the words).

Thanks for the comments

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Looking good.
I kept myself from saying this before since I was being pretty critical,
or so I thought, already; but Lincoln reminds me of Leonard Nimoy from
Star Trek :) Pay no attention to me!
And I just now realized this is intended to be his actual reflection, I
thought it was an engraved watch.
There's something about the watch and pen I noticed now, as if they are
floating. Perhaps a darker, tighter shadow for them would change that?
Except if you do I'd leave the shadows that you do have there as well.
Just commenting.


Paul Swagerty wrote:
> 
> ok, i made the watch smaller, a little bit. I went back and looked at
> the code and realized that instead of making it 2 inches (approx) across
> I made it 2 inches from 0, and so it ended up being about 4 inches
> across. oops. So I shrunk it a little.
> 
> I obviously changed the pen. I was having trouble with the feather. Now
> it is actually what would be much more likely to be what Lincoln used to
> write the speech; a steel tip pen. As fountain pens were not either
> invented or not in wide use at the time and quill pens (I believe) would
> have been used for more formal purposes, and he was writing this for
> himself.
> 
> I thought about making a scanned image of an envelope with a partially
> written address on it, but decided against it when I found this image on
> the library of congesses web site. This is actaully Lincoln's
> handwriting. This document was produced by Lincoln for a friend after
> the fact. I also want to clean up the image map. The site had it posted
> as a jpg (you can tell from the dirtiness around the words).
> 
> Thanks for the comments
> 
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>  [Image]

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