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Storel:

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--- Quote from: Storel on 12 Sep 2013, 12:22 ---Or by 'cab?
(click to show/hide)(short for taxicab)
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Wrong - or at least only a small part of the story.  Cab is short for cabriolet (a type of carriage), and taxi is short for taximeter (originally the French taximètre, from the German taxameter - meaning a charging meter).  Taxicab was formed by concatenating those two abbreviations to describe what had already been called a "taximeter cab", though now both taxi and cab are used independently as abbreviations for taxicab.

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Oh, interesting. I had heard the word "cabriolet" before, but had no idea it had any connection to taxis. Thank you!

DSL:
Jotunheim, may I ask: Is you work digital, or physical media? Much impressed either way, and I wish you all good luck in making a living off it.

Occurs to me the word I was looking for in saying what I specifically liked about your Faye portrait was "modeling" moreso than "lighting" but it's still amazingly good.

Jotunheim:
Most of my work is digital, though occasionally it will be based on a pencil sketch/drawing.

lepetitfromage:
Beautiful work!! I adore digital painting and you do it so well :-)

What program do you use?

Jotunheim:
I use Photoshop cs3 and a wacom intuos 5 tablet.

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