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"Yeah, the world was pretty fun for a while....but i'm really into this cup and ball now"-----------EDIT------------------------- -
upped the intensity of those beams coming out of her. hopefully this will enhance her godliness. added some flames, and made the ball a globe.
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hopefully not the last assignment done for Tom, illustrating the sentance:
"God is a beautiful little girl who changes her mind."
as usual, scanned pencils with photoshop, and some photomanip
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I like this one a lot ...
Is that a skull I see in the globe ?
((I actually have one of those ball in cup toys.... simple , but fun . Even more fun to watch other people try it out . ))
((And , uh , WOW on the other lengthy "Thoughts"! )) 
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it is a skull indeed. do you get my increadably clever subtle message? god, i'm an idiot
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This is a great piece. If I were you, I would vectorize the girl so that her lines and color are smoother, and not so sketchy. I love the concept of "God" being a little girl who pays more attention to a dinky toy than to our earth. I'm very anti-religion, and think the concept of God in the first place is absurd, but that's my personal opinion. Maybe I would be a happier person if I lied to myself more . . .
If there was a god, I would think he didn't care about us anymore, or that this "devil" character has taken us all over. . . . I'm guessing that is what this peice represents. Sweet.
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thank you thank you. yeah, i know what you mean about vectoring the girl. she kind of stands out as the only thing with outlines, but it does help to make her the focus i think. you're probably right, but i don't think i'm going to go back into it now. thanks though!
I consider myself agnostic i suppose, so i didn't mean the message to be QUITE so cynical. my idea was more allong the lines of this god created us, and then like anyone might, god bored, and found something else. she's left us to our own devices, and we're fucking shit up. if you want to blame god, that's fine, but i would prefer people to take responsability for the shit we're in.
thanks for the kind words
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Well, I don't blame God, because I don't think there's such thing. I understand what you're saying, and, yeah, we do fuck shit up. But just like you say "God got bored," maybe we're getting bored. We're getting tired of trying to make our lives "easier" to the point where we have to make it more difficult for ourselves, and the things that we try to make laws against may be the solutions to our problems in a lot of cases. People kill each other every day. Is this a bad thing? I dunno. Everyone who lives dies, and the population is way, way way way too big. With the economy like it is, how the hell is there enough money to go around? If there is, why aren't the middle and lower classes getting any of it? Is it getting harder for everyone, even the rich, to live fulfilling lives, or are they getting richer while we're getting poorer? What do you think is the cause for "the shit we're in," as you so put it, and how could we had avoided it? Do you mean the war, the state of foreign affairs, or the state of our economy and the lives we lead? The way that entertainment seems to rule our lives, and that our education system became just background noise, instead of the other way around? Hmmm . . . .
I love discussions.
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most of the stuff you were talking about were political and in most cases, specifically american problems. honestly, i don't think america is "the land god forgot" or anything. I just think a lot of America's problems are caused by the way we're taugh to think here. meaning that we're entitled to anything we want. "you can be whatever you want to be" etc. everyone think they deserve everything. anyway these are all pretty interesting points you bring up, but i actually don't think i'm up for such an intense discussion right now.
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I'm used to it. No new thing there.
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I like the addition of flames/cup and ball globe. I also like the touch of blue in the upper left, I think that balances out what would otherwise be empty space.
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hmmmm... i like the idea behind it. the whole illustrating a sentence things pretty cool. i like the sentence you chose also, certainly something to ponder.
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well to be fair i didn't choose it so much as it was assigned to me. but thanks just the same
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Wow. This is cute and disturbing. On closer inspection, I see a mushroom cloud and a skull image in the world globe. Nice touches! The beams are interesting, but a glowing halo effect around her entire body, instead of beams, would also accomplish a godlike quality. That aside, I do love it the way it is. I like your work, and I like the way you think.
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haha! aww, thanks! i like the way i think too. the halo would have been a good idea and probably more clear than the beams...i might give the idea a try, but i'm sure people are tired of me updating this image, so we'll have to see if it's worth editing
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The corrections look better. She looks more "godlike" with the rays but, it may be my computer, the ball on the string doesn't read as the earth.
Overall, nice interpretation. The standard has been set. Conceptually, may be hard to top. We'll see, I guess.
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Dudes, if you guys are losers for doing this assignment . how much of a loser am I for criting it on a Sunday morning? It's a bit hard to know how hard to be on this since it's entirely voluntary but Alex, particularly, said I was too easy-going in crits so I feel no hesitation about saying exactly what I think:
- I love the setting, some idea of "heaven", but how do we know the little girl is god? Short of putting a sign on her that says "god" it's a bit tricky.
- I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but is she "beautiful"?
- I wish there was a closer connection between her negligence and the fates of the planet. Conceptually, it's a very strong interpretation, could the connections be stronger? Could the ball on the end of the string be the earth or could the ball on the end of the string somehow mirror the movement of the earth ? For instance, she could be holding a match to a ball, while behind her the earth was in flames. Or behind her the earth could be on a string as well mirroring the movements of the ball. In which case she could appear smaller, but determining the earth's fate. Or something where the connection was more obvious.
- Overall, a very nice interpretation...way more than I have any right to expect, since my teacher superpowers have been stripped away from me for the summer....like an exile in babylon
- Ridiculously, I already have an idea for another assignment. I'll post it in about a week.
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Another assignment in a WEEK!? GRR. All right, fine, gonna have to kick this assignment into overdrive. You're a slave driver Tom! A SLAVE DRIVER.
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i love you Tom, both for the brazen chutzpah and for addressing us as "dudes."
i see nothing wrong with criting a piece on a lazy sunday morning. what else would we be doing, church? the very idea!
-you're right, the piece really relies on the sentance its illustrating and the sentance i've written for it. do you think i should try and incorporate the sentance into the piece itself?
-i suppose i made the girl more cute than beautiful, but i'm sticking with her.
-i really like the suggestion of making the ball on the string the earth. the other ideas would probably mean redoing the piece, which i could do if you think it's necesary. but lets see if i can make this idea work first.
can't wait for the next idea. if only i were getting payed...
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though i agree that maybe some more connection could be made with her being god, i think that making her "beautiful" is a bit tricky. i think cute would be a better description for a little girl; beautiful should be your girlfriend/wife/significant other. good job on the rays.
also, tom, who cares if it's sunday? you're talking to two of the most godless people in your class. personally i prefer crits on sunday. i'll be working on mine today, but i can't color it until monday afternoon/late night. i'll hopefully have it up by tuesday. i'm also curious as to what this next project is. it's keeping me in suspense...!
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ha! thank you very much! i was a bit worried about the blank space at the top left myself, but maybe it's not a problem if no one else sees it...
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don't worry! i don't mind empty space, as long as it looks like you made a choice in leaving it there. and it looks that way.
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the skull in the globe is definitely a nice touch. the yellow is a great color. i just wish that the fire was done a bit differently. it seems a bit flat and you can still see some white coming off of it. also, i would bump up the contrast of the beams coming out of the girl a bit and make them stand out a bit more.
dude, we're losers for doing this project. we officially have no lives. none.
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yeah, this is a new low. a new wonderful low. thanks for the advice though, i'm looking into it.
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