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Human Hatchling
Published: 2005-11-09 01:16:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 15671; Favourites: 493; 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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Comments: 121
Great work. The watercolor seems to be articulated very well here, giving it really smooth deadpan kinda feel. Usually, I'd dislike that, but here, for whatever reason, it works quite well. Excellent job in capturing the shape and weight of the egg. The composition too is a very strong one.
One thing though. The figure doesn't seem to be 'falling' out of the egg very much. He kinda looks suspended inches above the sand, and that positioning throws off the very tight and technical rendering of everything else. I can definately see that this is from a reference photograph. Maybe if his back were arched more or there were a more pronounced shading underneath the figure, this small problem could be corrected. Really really good work.
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wow. that's just brilliant imagination. 
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this is a great painting, i'm very interested as to what size this was done on. i also think you as an artist need more exsposure. great work.
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that is AMAZING. One of the best traditional paintings I've seen on this site.
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This is a very interesting image. I really like the concept. I guess my only critisism would be that the arm closest to the viewer looks a little large. But overall I really like this piece. Good job.
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I was browsing surreal deviations and nothing had caught my eye on the first two pages but yours. This is nicely done and shows good control of the watercolor. You did a wonderful job with color, proportions and value.
my only constructive critisism is that if this is taking place in sand you should have taken the time to show that. As you said you combined an egg, a photo of your friend posing and a beach photograph. To make them all one there should have been a push in the sand where the egg is setting as well as where the hands press down. Perhas even the head would make some sand displace.
Well done.
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Awesome. You got great control over your medium. Concept and excution is fantastic!
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I'm majorly impressed that you did this with watercolors. Most watercolors are very blended/fuzzy not as clear and defined as this is. That and you have really good color saturation. What's your technique?
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This is the first time that I used cold-pressed watercolor paper for an illustration. This type of paper has more of a tooth to it, so that it absorbs the watercolor better but has more of a bumpy texture to it. I started off using washes of color on the egg, figure, and sand, which means that you apply paint that is very watered-down. After these washes dried, it was easy to go in with what's called "dry-brushing," in which you mix the color you need using as little water as possible so that your lines can be sharp, defined, and color-saturated. I used a combination of washes and dry-brushing with this painting, whereas you can see that I used practically only dry-brushing for my "Cardinal" painting.
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Thanks for the play by play on how you did this. I'm curious to try another piece with watercolors.
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wow... i like this alot... I would never have the imagination to think up this
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I think it would be even better if it was like when a chick breaks out of a shell and it's in mucus and you can see the innards of the egg...but overall very imaginative
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I definitely thought about doing that, but Steve wasn't willing to put anything like that on his body, and I didn't want to make up how that would look. Plus, some animals like alligators break out of their shells pretty clean. I wish I could have done that, though. Good suggestion.
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You could've thrown stuff at him...
Anyway, nice picture. I find it a little bit disturbing, but i can't think why...
Pretty cool over all.
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