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Human Hatchling
Published: 2005-11-09 01:16:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 15669; Favourites: 492; Downloads: 4010
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This painting, as with all my other artwork on deviantART, was done as an art assignment for college. The only requirements we had for this painting were to use watercolor paint and to create an illustration involving an egg. After a lot of thought and discarded ideas, I decided to go with this composition. I used my suitemate Steve Limongelli as reference for the figure, an egg that I broke open just right, and a beach scene I found a picture of online.9" x 12"
30 hours working on composition including reference shots and using photoshop (why it took so long I don't know), 30 hours painting it
fall 2005
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nice concept, great use of tones and colour.
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i love it, but i think the weak point of it is the beach,,,it doesnt look as good as the man breaking out of the egg, whether you meant for the beach to not look as impressive is another thing though, hehe
but i love it.
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aaah this one reminds me of Salvador Dali's famous 'egg'
looking good!
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thanks, yeah, i actually saw that painting for the first time after finishing my painting and saw how similar it is!
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hehe oh that's funny. you didn't hear of him huh?
well check out my galary some time
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lazylazy, thanks for looking at this piece, but i've gotta tell ya that I have no idea what you just said...
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ัะนัะพ ะธะท ะบะฐะผะฝั . ััะพ ัะตะปะพะฒะตะบ ะฎััะบะพะณะพ ะฟะตัะธะพะดะฐ ...............Egg from a stone. He/she is person Jurskogo of the period..............
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This is an interesting piece. A while back I wrote a children's story about a baby who came out of a dinosaur egg.
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oh, i absolutley love this! i haven't done much in watercolor, i find it hard to control... your piece is amazing! good job!
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Wow! What an interesting concept! The art is wonderful too.
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hehe awesome idea! werent angels originally born from eggs? something like that...
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Reminds me of "geopolitical child watching the birth of modern man" by dali. Great stuff.
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Kind of reminds me of that Dali piece "Geopoliticus child" or whatever. Really great use of the watercolours, by the way.
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This piece very much reminds me of Hermann Hesse's DEMIAN novel. Great work!
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wow this is fabulous. Though if i may say something, the beach doesn't have that beachy feel..i'm talking about the sand....The sand seems like its just a smooth road....but doesnt have that "footprint in sands" feel. Do you know what i mean? Like his hands seem like it should be into the sand...same with the egg..and I think the head too ...
I dont mean to sound so critical...:\
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I know why you would think this. However, the photo of a beach that I used for reference had sand that was this flat and smooth. The egg is sitting on top of wet, compressed sand that is near the ocean. As there are no people around, it's possible that there would be no footprints in the sand. As for his hands and head compressing into the sand a bit, you're probably right. If the figure is about the size of a turtle, it might be possible that his low weight wouldn't be enough to compress the compacted sand very much, but I'm not sure. But thanks for the criticisms and compliments!
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I hope Dennis Nolan is proud... He should be.
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You fucked up a little on the arm, and the idea is rather hackneyed. You paint pretty well, but the two previous points overwhelm the latter. Any reason you decided to make a full grown human crawling out of the egg instead of an infant?
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Ah, that's up to the viewer to decide. As for the arm, you'd be surprised to see how big his arm actually is in proportion to the rest of his body. I painted it from a reference photo of Steve that I took, and the painting is very accurate. But I can easily see why people would think that it's too big. Thanks for the criticisms.
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After looking at it more, yeah, I agree with you about the arm.
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very strange... i love it but its so weird... i dont know why its so weird... it just is.. probably the degree of un-naturalness to it. absolutly amazing idea though and pretty damn well executed! great work. congrats on the DD you definatly deserve it!
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Despspite a few minor mishaps on the right arm, I must say this is an amazing piece. I'd love to work with watercolors eventually, but as of now, time is against me. 30 hours just seems like a mind boggling amount of time to spend on a piece but I assume I'll have to get used to assignments like that. Again, congratulations on a wonderful painting.
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reminds me of Dali in an egg...sweetness.
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love that piece. puting all those elements together makes the whole scene look surreal. great job!
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this looks amazing...it reminds me a lot of this story i read in grade 7...only the people turned out to be turtles...
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Yeah, I was thinking of turtles hatching on a beach when I created this. Of course, turtles have to break out of their eggs and then crawl up out of the hole that they're buried in, but I was going for the same general idea of some creature that's hatching on the beach near water. I intended for there to be some kind of ambiguity about how and why the egg is just sitting there atop the sand and why it's a human coming out (full size or turtle size, there's no reference to tell you what size it is, which I like).
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First look and I think that it reminds me of Jim Warrens artworks. But this has a realpersonal touch to it as well. I reall like the detail that you put in to this.
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It's cool. It doesn't suit to me the all round shape of the egg. If its an oval shape would hav been better.
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I know what you mean. It actually was a real egg that I photographed for reference, broken and placed like this, and the perspective that the egg is seen at does make it appear to be round and not oval. Oh well.
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agree with you. got your point. cool stuff
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Looks like that guy from Andromeda and Stargate o.o
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it reminds me of Salvador Dali's work, lol
very cool XD
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It recalls me of a Salvador Dali's painting. [link]
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Ha Ha, I know! I noticed this too a few nights ago when I was reminded by someone else's painting that bore a resemblance to Dali's work, and as I looked through them all I noticed this same painting and laughed at the similarities. I might have seen this painting before doing my painting, but if I had it would have years ago and was maybe just sitting there in my subconscious. Good eye!
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