Illumination Apparatus

	Illumination Apparatus

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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:

	GNU General Public License
	or...
	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Unported
	or...
	Free Art License 1.3

	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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	Downloads:

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	More from Collection of Objects:

	[2017-09-15] Soggy Teabag
	[2017-03-08] Glowing Filament
	[2016-05-18] Ticking Forward
	Collection of Objects

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