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Back in the day, in the golden age of exploratory psychosurgery, doctors discovered that by inserting a long, pointed object (such as an ice pick) into the orbital cavity of a patient's skull (that's the eyesocket to me and you) and giving it a hefty thump with a pressure-appying object (such as a hammer) they could instantly cure almost all of the violent and distressing behaviours associated with severe mental illness. Effectively losing their frontal lobes, the patients would stop having seziures, become placid, serene, and generally 'cured'.They'd also lose their entire personality and spend the rest of their lives in a state of semi-aware benign apathy. But you can't make an omlette without breaking eggs.
Soo, this miracle cure got a lot of good publicity and some doctors got a little carried away with it. It got a bit like the craze for having your tonsils out... be committed to an asylum with anything from epillepsy to depression and you stood to get an ice pick jammed in your eye the moment you got in the door.
...Meet Dr. Richard Mereii.
The idea was to make a kind of alternate version from a different era. And I may have watched one too many episodes of Kingdom Hospital. And yes, I love red ink.
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I think it more interesting that the fellow who invented the transorbital lobotomy traversed the country advocating it in his 'lobotomobile' and training surgeons at state-run facilities. Wasn't his name Walter Freeman or something like that?
And I have to agree with everyone else, the blood and skull look amazing. Not to mentionthe fact that your dr. Mereii looks absolutely amazing, as always.
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Hehe
I saw a video on Labotamy today in Psychology. It had some pretty graphic footage. It's literally just like this.
They also enduced fits by running electricity into peoples noggins, to blast out the madness with a rush of neurochemicals. That's ECT to you and me.
Fanspastic stuff.
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I love your Mereii comics, they're so twisted and cool, but I gotta ask, how do you do your technique? It kikz butt.
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He really looks like blood-thirsty Harry Potter 
gigi
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So did they do that.. above the eye, or actually in it? This is geninely interesting stuff. I think I'll have to do some research on this. Encyclopedias are always good..
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I'm not sure which is more disturbing: the picture itself (which really does look like it has skulls pushing out from behind the walls) or the fact that it's based on something real. And I also can't help but wonder if there's a poor, alternate Otto in this alternate world that Mereii is about to perform this little procedure upon...
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holy crap YEA dude! a steampunky turn of the century SOMEHOW-existing-despite-all-actual-logic-and-science Doc Ock! i love you! *attacks!*
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*waves* Hello, Dick. Nice to meet you. Bastard.
Nice effect with the blood. It's very.... um, red.
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a nice little factoid, there... 
scott.
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...Brrrr. First time in a while that a piece of art has given me such a bad case of the creeps. o____o I think mostly because truth is more strange and disturbing than fiction... isn't is amazing what people have done to eachother over the years?
But I absolutely love the way you used watered down paints and such for this. The traditional medium, the way you applied tiny little details like the darker marks and such on the walls... it works incredibly well for not only the piece for art's sake, but for the topic matter as well. I think, for some reason, it's creepier this way. And now I'm going to be staring at all the little odd wall-markings since people said they look like skulls and I can see why and I bet.. if I keep looking... I'm going to get nightmares. XD;;
Alternate-John looks so awesome here, though. His expression is just ten different levels of perfect, as well as his pose and how he's holding them things. And the skull diagram turned out really nicely, too!
...The fact that the entire edge of things, especially the bottom, bleeds out like that... THAT is completely kick-ass. It's like the walls are dripping, only not, but I'm really impressed how you even got the red blood splatters to follow the same running pattern along the bottom there. It looks really nice.
...and you've gotta love how his suit is all pretty and clean, and his smock and gloves are all grimy and bloodstained. AEEIIII. RUN AWAY NOW. So glad we aren't at the turn of the century anymore.
Curiousity- what kind/size of paper did you do this on? o.o
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whoo thanks... sosorry, dunno how i missed this. It's a little blown up here, the original fitted on a sheet of A4 paper. Cartridge paper with a medium tooth, out of a sketchbook.
to tell you the truth the running blood spatters at the bottom was a bit of a fluke... I noticed they were running allofasudden and went AARGH tissue. ><;
Be glad, yes. Muhah.
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Wow. Right away your description made me want to go watch the Jack the ripper movie (with Johnny Depp, not sure of the exact title) again. I really enjoy the backround which you really look like you put some effort into, how'd you get the more concentrated greens in certain areas to make it look like skulls? (It's really neat) bahf, thumbs up.
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i waited till the first wash of green wasn't so wet, then stuck the tip of a scrubby old paintbrush into the undiluted green and poked it uprightish onto the paper so it bled but not much. ^--^ From Hell... i wuv it.
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That's awesome and sick at the same time...love it! Particularly the coloring job...I love the drippy splattered background...
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Golly, a liking for cruel medical procedures runs in the family!
Yeah, yeah, you say it's an alternate version, but I remain convinced that it's Johnny-boy's great-grandfather.
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oh hee hee. Well, if you like. the resemblance is uncanny, though, if that be that case.
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The story behind the picture is a little disturbing...
dA Version -
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Now that's MY type of psychiatry. Line up the patients!
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There was a slightly less invasive version, which could be done under a local anaesthetic where the instument was popped in just through the eye socket above the eye through the back of the thin orbit area...... trouble was it didn't really leave a scar or anything.
Yes, it looks as if there is a skull peering out from the background.... well done.......
"... they got me a gift certificate useable at any hospital for a frontal lobotomy...." Tom Lehrer on Christmas presents.
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Ugh, God... Puke... I knew some sick stuff happened in history on the account that humans generally do incredibly cruel things to each other, but that's extremely sick.... I seem to remember hearing about things like that, though. Like a man who gave his wife a lobotomy with a butterknife...
On the 'cruel things' side of the spectrum, there was also a school for the retarded that would only take students if they were allowed to infect them with hepatitis. I believe it was called Willowbrook State School.
Anyway, excellent work! I really enjoy looking at your sciencey-doctorey pictures. They are very inspiring, let alone, disturbing - and they make the history of medicine even more interesting to me. I should keep things like this in mind when I work on my Huntingdon Life Sciences Vivisection Lab projects. Geez, those animal technicians wierd me out...
Excellent, excellent work! The sublimity in history is something EVERYONE needs to take a closer look at.
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I wonder if you could labotomise someone,
with a brick,
from 200 yards...
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ooh, that would be an excellent olympic event.
as would javelin catching.
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Eeeep, frightening. . . . 
Richard is very very creepy there -- is he just some alternate version of the John we all know and hate, or is he related to him somehow (Uncle Richard perhaps?)
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alternate... i think this is kinda turn-of-the-century. ^^
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Ahhh, yes. Turn of the century creepiness.
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*is attacked by mad giggles for some reason*
I so very much love his expression. And the runny lower edge to the picture. Gorgeous work.
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Thatβs so freaking fun. I donβt know why. I love it. The picture and the truth behind it.
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Old school lobotomy, eh?
Haha. Awesome pic. I like the big red X on the skull.
"Right here, guys! Or, er, well, anywhere in this general area ought to do it."
The slooshy watercolor effect gives it just the right amount of creepy background. Washing away more than one thing, here.
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EXCELLENT coloring job. Especially the background and the blood. Simply excellent.
Wonderfully creepy and very very awesome. Insta-fave and 2 thumbs way up.
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DUDE YEAH, they did that in Session Nine. WATCH THAT MOVIE. IT IS GOOD. @.@
That skull and his expression = YES. x]
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Mereii, you sick mofo. You and that ice pick and hammer are like this, aren't you? Creepy pic, mon ami.
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Oooh, yes. They did this in that movie "From Hell" which admittedly I only saw because there was Johnny Depp. It was freakish - it was a demonstration at a university. "So we just hit them right here *crunch*, and they're cured!" Ack, dude. it was a long and scary walk home from the theatre.
Absolutely excellent coloring job there. The background is freaky and 'old hospital-like' and Mereii himself...oh, that confident smirk is perfect.
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oh, i love you. 'old-hospital-like' was exactly what i was going for.
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great minds and all that, I guess.
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You make me laugh in the morning. ecks dee. XD
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Of course there were times that the lobotomy failed and the patient would wake up from his semi-vegetative state and attack someone, but that was very rare.
Is this watercolor?
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watered-down acrylics and gouache. ^^
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I like the blood-splatter and blood-dripping the most.
Maybe I'm seeing things, but some of the spots on the wall make it look like there are skulls coming out of it.
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*holds out spork* NOOO. Spork, protect me! *spork leaps out of hands and flies away* Damn it.
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*looks. runs in other direction.* EEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppp!......
That is an awesome pic, although heavily disturbing... o__o
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It's funny because it's true.
I love the expression.
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