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explodingmuffins — Dante's Inferno
Published: 2009-07-09 21:55:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 7330; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 5624
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I'm finally getting around to uploading some of my arts from school XDThis is the Dante's Inferno assignment...basically...we got a level of hell from the book/poem/some piece of literature written a really long time ago/thing, and we had to create an art piece from that...but without being very literal at all. Everything had to be represented symbolically.
I got level...four I think...the hoarders and the spenders. (Although I chose to work with just the idea of hoarding.) I warped my face to make it look more rodent-like, like a squirrel, because squirrels hoard things...and the shadow in the lower right is supposed to be of an owl or some other predatory bird that would hunt squirrels. In level four, the sinners are forced to push giant weights/boulders back and forth, crashing into eachother before they can get all the way around. I represented that in the bricks and the ground...which is supposed to look like rocks. XD
This is done in oil pastel, mostly. I used stuff for actual textures in the ground and the bricks, and some stuff to make the bank shiny. I want to say that it's about...3 by 4 feet? It's the biggest thing I've done so far : P
I pretty much abused the clone tool for the boarder...the fake wood flooring made a bad background and the thing is a little curved, and I didn't want to just...crop all the boarder out...so yeah.
Detail shots: [link]
artwork © me, do not steal/copy/repost elsewhere
I'm gonna try out that critique thing...o3o
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Comments: 5
After reading the description, I think you really did do a great job. I'm rather impressed with what you can do with skin with oil pastels. Pretty much anything with them. Those are hard in my opinion xD
Nice texture on the ground, and the brick is done awesome =O
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Yeah, oil pastel is hard >.> You kinda have to do it on a larger scale, and use a bunch of different techniques.
It also takes a few layers of fingertip skin sometimes >.>;
We did some practice stuff with the pastels before we used them, and my practice looks like poop. I think the key really is to do it on a larger scale, and to gesso your board first. Having a rougher surface to work on helps a LOT.
Thank yooo so much : D
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I would have never known Oil pastel steals your flesh xD
With me it's always like 'IMMA SMEAR EVERYWHERE OKAI?'
I have a lot of oil pastel, so maybe it'd be interesting to try something on a bigger scale.
Hm.
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Yeah...it really does DX While I was blending the leg, some of the ground texture sliced my knuckle and made it bleed. ...well, I guess it wasn't the oil pastel itself that did that, more like the pet bedding mixed with paint and glue...but still.
The gesso helps keep it from smearing everywhere. And from coming off. : D That's what I used on the skin.
You should look up oil pastel techniques. It really helps to put down acrylic first, or a texture, and stuff like that.
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We all bleed for our art.
Rofl.
Oooh, okay =O
I am so gonna try this out, once I get home to my dads xP
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