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Blur-Falco — Three Strange Monkeys
#alchemy #brain #chakra #drawing #ear #evil #eye #hear #monkeys #mouth #see #speak #surrealism #three #wise #no #art
Published: 2019-05-10 21:14:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 412; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 1
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This is three monkeys performing alchemy, trying to turn a brain into a living being with wooden carvings of an eye, mouth and ear. The picture was inspired by the "three wise monkeys" concept. The background was super hard and took me two days to finish. An older draft was scrapped because I was messing around with different patterns by twisting them into different freaky special effects to see if I could get a good stoney background going. Finally, I learned that I can just make a good one with the simple tools, so I did. I kept the alchemic pattern was my favorite part, since I got to do a lot of weird stuff with it and blur it in different ways and different shades of yellow and orange before I got to this. The brain is sitting on a drawing of the seventh chakra.Related content
Comments: 6
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
I'm not sure what the brain represents, but I'm pretty sure that's what the three monkeys represent.
I noticed your Tag includes alchemy, so does that mean the monkeys plan to create some type of villain? 🤔
Coming up with 200 words is difficult, I wonder why requires that many. 😕
What else is there to say? The color of their eyes being Red, Blue and Green?? 🤔
I'm lost for words here, feels like I'm just rambling on to reach 200 words. So annoying, I hate this. 😥
Hmmm... 🤔 the alchemy symbol in the background is kinda interesting.
What did you use to make this? Paint Tool Sai is a pretty good program.
Ugh, I'm bad at this commenting thing. well, at least when it comes to trying to meet a requirement of so many words anyways. I'm more use to keeping things short, sweet and simple.
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You'll get better at it. Practice makes perfect.
The brain is put at the center because the monkeys are going to create a living being, but the process requires a body part. The eye colors are to add extra color to the piece and personality to the monkeys.
My heart picture had a deeper meaning, but this picture was really just a mystic take on the "three wise monkeys" bit. I think I'm going to keep working with that theme.
Thanks for commenting! You'll get the hang of 200 words. I suggest you read some lengthy comments spread throughout Project Comment's folders for some insight.
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Heya Blur-Falco ^^, Im from ProjectComment, just wanted to critique this piece here, now I do like this concept you have, 3 monkeys trying to turn a brain into a living things sounds interesting ^^, and the design and effect of character placement here really gives it a nice vibe and idea that is nice to implement, now.. I can see you said the background took two days which is all ok ^^, you could go faster at it though by putting the base colour, then putting patterns over it and then shading it all on 3 separate layers, which I think you can look into, not sure which art program you used for this but one I'd suggest using for this is things like Krita, Paint Tool Sai or Photoshop, also to note a few anatomy studies and experimenting with shading would give you the next steps in which I think would improve your work massively ^^, oh and if you can another thing to really get the viewers attention would be complimentary colours, say the background could be a light yellow or light blue or warm grey, I hope this helps you the best that it can and you're doing well ^^
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Thanks a bunch for the comment! That background was actually the secomd one used. The first was a scrap which wasn't going anywhere, so I redrew the stone outlining. I needed it to be a shade of brown to contrast with the glowing alchemic pattern, which was actually a part of the old background. I "cropped" it, blurred it and added it to the new one. As for the monkeys, I was going to add shading, but something in my gut told me they didn't need it. And I'm not too worried about the anatomy since my outlining style is intentionally odd, though I do admit it needs improvement. Thanks again for the comment and I'll use your advice for the future!
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