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Post by Q on Feb 19, 2010 19:17:34 GMT -5
The frog I invented for this year's Valentine's Day card (Pohatu got one in the mail!). Gouache; roughly 2x2". The piece I submitted for the once-per-decade Illustration Theme Show (open to students, alumni, and faculty of my school). This time the theme was Zombies. I cranked this out in five hours and turned it in right at the last second...and ended up winning Faculty Choice: Best in Show (out of over a hundred pieces in the show). And I had been feeling awful about this piece...who knew? It's acrylic, gouache, and ink; roughly 19x24". I'll post more pics as I go along...I don't have any other images in digital format yet!
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Post by Q on Feb 19, 2010 19:21:04 GMT -5
damn you margin issues
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Post by asmo on Feb 21, 2010 1:44:36 GMT -5
neato. the glistening love frog makes me smile.
I keep thinking that there is a giraffe in the second picture which has confused whatever interpretation i make of it.
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Post by Q on Feb 21, 2010 20:54:57 GMT -5
Because of the ball python's colouration?
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Post by Beelzebibble on Feb 21, 2010 21:10:11 GMT -5
I won't lie to you ('cuz I know you don't need it), I was a little surprised at first that that zombie picture could have won the faculty choice award in a once-per-decade competition with over a hundred entries... It just seems so flat and simplistic. But the more I've looked at it (especially the deets on the snake), the creepier it's started seeming, so I can appreciate its victory more now.
I still think your choices regarding the zombie's face were a little odd, though. The smoothness, featurelessness and shape evoke my stereotypical pop-culture conceptions of Aboriginal masks, which is a strange complication.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Feb 21, 2010 23:36:47 GMT -5
I'm with Poheetz on this one. The more I look at it, the more terrifying it is. It evokes an ancient fear - it shows how primitive and primal the zombie idea truly is; voodoo and venom and tribal darkness as old as humanity.
Brilliant work.
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Post by ch00beh on Feb 22, 2010 9:00:39 GMT -5
I like the zombie, but I am also a sucker for drippy vector lines.
And drippy eyes.
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Post by Q on Feb 22, 2010 18:08:13 GMT -5
I won't lie to you ('cuz I know you don't need it), I was a little surprised at first that that zombie picture could have won the faculty choice award in a once-per-decade competition with over a hundred entries... It just seems so flat and simplistic. But the more I've looked at it (especially the deets on the snake), the creepier it's started seeming, so I can appreciate its victory more now. I still think your choices regarding the zombie's face were a little odd, though. The smoothness, featurelessness and shape evoke my stereotypical pop-culture conceptions of Aboriginal masks, which is a strange complication. I was surprised too, believe me. That's not a zombie face. It's my take on simplifying West African tribal masks. As for the flatness...that's my way of trying to make the zombie snake look more lifelike (OR DEATHLIKE) by contrast. It was the only thing I could really do with a five hour deadline. And I think the graphic simplicity of the piece is what won me the faculty choice...most of the images in the show were a little overworked (or "busy," as we are known to judgmentally murmur in our snarky illustration major voices), so I think that by the time visitors got to the far wall of the gallery, where my piece was, they were eager for something to actually rest their eyes on. The title of the piece is "Damballah Wedo Zombi." Damballah Wedo is the Vodoun snake god who lends his nickname "Zombi" to the walking dead we now associate with B-movies. I don't know if hearing the title helps you decipher the piece at all...but the mask is supposed to represent Damballah himself and the snake is supposed to be one of his undead snake children. Interesting info, however unnecessary.
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Post by Q on Feb 22, 2010 18:11:41 GMT -5
but I am also a sucker for drippy vector lines. Vectors? HAH! This was done by hand, my friend. On a huge piece of stubborn bristol board. Stubborn, stubborn bristol board.I think it would actually look amazing if I recreated it in Photoshop, though.
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Post by ch00beh on Feb 22, 2010 18:14:17 GMT -5
Yeah, the texture and digital-camera-scan tipped me off about the doing it by hand, but I wanted to call it vector anyway because that is what it reminds me of.
I AM UNCULTURED LOL
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Post by Ninety on Feb 22, 2010 19:19:46 GMT -5
When I first read the title of this topic I thought it was going to be nudie pictures for my birthday like I asked.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Feb 22, 2010 19:24:53 GMT -5
I'm just gonna go ahead and channel V101 for this one:
Creeper
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Post by Q on Feb 22, 2010 19:31:07 GMT -5
When I first read the title of this topic I thought it was going to be nudie pictures for my birthday like I asked. What?Also, should I be flattered that nude pics would be posted under "Art?" ...Naw, I'm gonna go back to being weirded out.
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Post by Q on Feb 22, 2010 19:32:54 GMT -5
Yeah, the texture and digital-camera-scan tipped me off about the doing it by hand, but I wanted to call it vector anyway because that is what it reminds me of. I AM UNCULTURED LOL Whoa...I suddenly think I can totally get the same texture on Photoshop. Now I've gotta try it!!
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Post by Ninety on Feb 22, 2010 19:44:21 GMT -5
I should post nude pictures on the internet and call them art.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Feb 22, 2010 20:14:15 GMT -5
To be fair, any state of undress is immediately matched by BB in a similar state of undress, and Kuroboom photoshopping his head onto something that makes BB look like Q in comparison.
I call it Elliot's Law.
I must say, I love the frog. The hearts are subtle but notable, and the angle gives the frog this very friendly smirk instead of a more... Errr, froggy? expression. The colors are also very nice and warming, which all in all makes this the most hospitable looking amphibian this side of... Well, pretty much any amphibians.
As for the voodoo mask: The snake didn't really do it for me much, but I may just be a bit snaked out, considering I spent all weekend with Kevin and his pet ball pythons. I do still have to admit that the aesthetics behind it are incredible. Everything's got this lurid wetness to it, this sort of swamplike creeping feel that you sense at the back of your neck before your brain catches on. The blood drip on the snake is especially catchy. The eye goes right to that, and then traces along the natural path provided by the snake. It's a really neat effect.
Yet again, Q makes the rest of us look bad.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Feb 22, 2010 21:54:21 GMT -5
Makes me want to do threads about zombies.
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Post by Ninety on Feb 22, 2010 23:03:31 GMT -5
Screw your suggestions; I'm going to a restaurant.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Feb 22, 2010 23:05:14 GMT -5
That boy ain't right...
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Post by ch00beh on Feb 22, 2010 23:06:32 GMT -5
No Biscuit, you are the zombies.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Feb 23, 2010 12:54:11 GMT -5
the ceiling fell
i am trapped
not able to kill
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Post by Q on Feb 23, 2010 13:00:34 GMT -5
The blood drip on the snake is especially catchy. It's actually his eyeball dangling out of its socket. The photo is too blurry to tell. Yet again, Q makes the rest of us look bad. Aww thanks guys, that's why I'm paying $32,000 a year.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Mar 11, 2010 16:04:05 GMT -5
Filler.
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Post by Q on Apr 2, 2010 11:00:36 GMT -5
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Post by asmo on Apr 2, 2010 12:18:39 GMT -5
its always nice seeing people take a stand with the Modern Mambo Movement. our right to dance should never be taken away.
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Post by Q on Apr 2, 2010 12:21:43 GMT -5
I changed the spelling to an alternate, yet still acceptable, version of the word. For the sake of clearing up any dance-related confusion.
The MMM...It Jes Grew!
...Has anyone else read "Mumbo Jumbo" by Ishmael Reed? Does anybody get my clever reference?
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