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Post by Q on Oct 21, 2009 22:16:46 GMT -5
at ishkahatu's request, i am putting up a few scant images, mostly poorly cropped photographs, since most of my art is too big to fit in on a scanner bed and i'm too lazy to stitch scanned pieces together. yes, this is copypasta'd from his post...he wanted me to make my own post. a few portraits on my kitchen wall. SOME BETTER THAN OTHERS. illustrations from last semester, set up for my year-end review. ALSO SOME BETTER THAN OTHERS. a redesign of popeye, from my character creation class. yes, we have character creation classes at art school, you all would love it. this is for my natural science illustration class...i love this class more than anything in the world. we don't just draw sticks...we've moved on to clumps of dirt (which are HARD), flowers, bugs, birds, and soon we'll be doing mammals. awesome. a painting of "the jabberwocky" for an illustration business class. a pomegranate for the heck of it. shown in a science illustration exhibition. that's it for now. hopefully when i get into the swing of things on this forum i'll be able to post things that, well, actually relate to anything on this website.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Oct 21, 2009 22:20:17 GMT -5
I have never seen a Jabberwocky interpretation like that. It's awesome. And slightly Lovecraftian. (So is the pomegranate.)
(Lovecraftian Pomegranate would be another good name for an indie band.)
I also thought the stick was real at first. Like, I thought it was a photograph of a real stick. That is seriously impressive.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Oct 21, 2009 22:25:05 GMT -5
P.S. I think they need to see the World's Quietest Baby for real if you have a closer picture of it.
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Post by Q on Oct 21, 2009 22:54:15 GMT -5
glad you thought the stick was real...that's me job!
and i don't know...the world's quietest baby is a liiiiiittle controversial and offensive. i don't usually keep it in my portfolio. but if you want it, i can try and take a better picture of it (once again, too big for a scanner).
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Post by Tout-Perd on Oct 21, 2009 23:13:42 GMT -5
Y'see, if this was a shonen series, this'd be the point where all the rest of the artists here go into some sort of wacky training to improve their art for a month, because this Q chick is on a totally different level.
Very impressive, distinctive style. The pomegranate is nice, a little unsettling looking in some vague way that I can't quite put my finger on, but that draws you into the image. The Jabberwock is terrific, a new riff on something that one would think had been done to death. Still, you managed to spin it into something new, while maintaining the key elements of whimsical and horrific twirled about together.
The stick is pretty freakin' impressive as well. I've always had a fondness for Popeye, and your redesign does a terrific job. Dynamic, distinctive, with a really nice contours to him that I could see lending itself to fantastic animation.
Finally, would it be possible to see a closer shot of the farthest right picture in the second "Gallery" photo? It's picqued my interest a bit.
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Post by Q on Oct 22, 2009 9:37:27 GMT -5
the pomegranate...hmm. it IS creepy. i was working from a blackened, dried pomegranate, and it seemed to me to have so many complex chambers that i decided to push it in that direction. it's an intimidating object. the real thing was near-unrecognizable. my painting attempts to reflect the exotic, dark, other-worldly nature it has acquired since deteriorating. for the jabberwocky piece, i wanted to retain that "oh shiiiii--" moment while still keeping it in that silly, made-up-word universe the poem takes place in. i only had a week in which to complete this piece, and i regret to say that in that time my figure drawing was overwhelmed with paint and i had a hard time bringing it back. perhaps i'll go back into it and make the boy more believable. as far as popeye goes, there was a general consensus in my class critique that this character design would fit in well with an indie comic reinvention of the popeye story. that piece on the far right is embarrassing. it was a redesign of a book cover for michael ende's "the neverending story." it was the last piece of the semester, i had tons of finals, and it just doesn't look finished, not to mention there were some crucial compositional problems that i didn't completely work out before putting paint to paper. but if you insist, i can take a photo of that for closer examination and criticism. look, you've got me talking like this is a formal critique.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Oct 22, 2009 11:07:39 GMT -5
That's 'cuz my sister is S-M-U-R-T smart.
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Post by asmo on Oct 22, 2009 13:29:27 GMT -5
thats not how you spell smart pohatu. your typo/error has brought shame to your entire family.
also qzumaki your art is very well made and it seems like you have a command of a variety of styles so you should post some more pictures.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Oct 22, 2009 21:14:25 GMT -5
They're all pretty amazing. I'm hoping I can venture into new styles!! Shading is one of my biggest downfalls, and proportions... You seem to do an excellent job at that!!
I would really like to learn how to use other utencils, rather than a #2 pencil and an eraser, it seems you can get a variety of tones depending on the hardness of your pencil.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Oct 22, 2009 22:28:33 GMT -5
thats not how you spell smart pohatu. your typo/error has brought shame to your entire family. Well that's not how you punctuate "that's", asmo. Yeah! What. What now. *flings his arms up all Jesus-like and struts all up in asmo's grill* okay maybe i just wanted to use the phrase "all jesus-like" twice in twenty-four hours
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Post by SV on Oct 22, 2009 22:34:57 GMT -5
Wow, excellent stuff, qzumaki. I'm pretty sure that my feelings toward the Jabberwocky piece qualify as love. Post more! I'd love to see it!
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Post by Q on Oct 30, 2009 8:26:13 GMT -5
sorry i've been absent...been working like mad on some new stuff! pics coming soon!
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Post by Beelzebibble on Oct 30, 2009 10:05:37 GMT -5
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Post by Cendra on Nov 1, 2009 11:56:01 GMT -5
I love the faces you've done! I might be asking you for tips sometime. Also your stick is very very excellent! You do wonderful art work.
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Post by Q on Nov 4, 2009 16:02:25 GMT -5
okay here's my biggest secret about doing portraits:
ALL YOU REALLY NEED TO DO PERFECTLY IS THE HAIRLINE AND EYEBROWS. facial shape is next most important.
it's all in that. after you have those, everything else falls into place.
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