[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[oshfdk]

Quite the opposite.  My big problem is that I don't have time to post all the evidence that I see.  I posted at least half a dozen image clips to this thread, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which show several cases more patent than that daiin.  Like nymphs with three legs and robot tentacles, glyphs turned into weirdos, etc.  They can be found on almost every page, if one is not a priori set to deny the possibility...

I generally follow the threads and I think I've see all the images you have posted, but I haven't seen anything as convincing (or even anything convincing) as these two examples from 1r and 80r. Most of the other examples appeal to strangeness: weird glyph, unnatural pose, strange arms, etc, combined with a different ink color. These can mean many things. From my point of view it's undeniable that the manuscript has a lot of original weird imagery. Plants with strange roots, all the elements from the Rosettes, etc. It looks like this was a manuscript with some weird drawings from the very beginning. I do not see strange or unusual glyphs or drawings combined with some variation of ink color as confirming retracing.

One very simple explanation for why the crown, the eyes and some other elements of some images are of different color is they were just tiny and detailed, so the artist switched to a small stylus or some other drawing instrument, which grabs the ink in a different way, or which can be dipped deeper into the inkwell, or which uses a different preparation of ink entirely. Combined with the fact that some inks change their darkness with time in a bit unpredictable way, it could be quite possible that when the drawings were initially made the contrast between what now is the dark and the light ink wasn't as pronounced and it looked like the ink density roughly matched.

While it's of course possible that the original manuscript was tampered with at a later date (I'm talking specifically about retracing, not foliation or cutting pages), I haven't seen any clear evidence of this so far.

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