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Published: 2009-11-02 08:04:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1578; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 23
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So the full title, pulled from a Mick karn solo album, is Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters, and its applicability should be somewhat obvious.I am ambivalent on this somewhat. Something isn't quite fitting right (at least right now in my head it doesn't), and this is borne of more developmental WIP material that was where my Day of the Dead image [link] also came from.
This is two of the three faces that precede the final five that I have actually completed the pencil layouts for, and for what this all was intended originally to be, although now a tad behind schedule.
All that rambling aside, there were things that i liked about the faces that were emerging that I felt like trying to turn them into something on their own.
Pencil, Pentel brush pen, acrylic ink (including metallics) acrylic paint, water soluable colored pencil, gouache and digital.
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subnav [2010-10-28 04:44:34 +0000 UTC]
a favorite of mine, nicely dark
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hope you like, thanks for sharing your art
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shebadapuddytat [2009-11-20 00:56:23 +0000 UTC]
Oh my lord, I am totally in love with this. I assume you know the title of the album is a play on the Goya piece "The sleep of reason produces monsters"? Most likely, but I thought I'd mention it just in case. It's one of my favorite artworks when it comes to the ideas behind it/
I instantly thought "Mexican - day of the dead" when I saw these images, so that's totally coming through. I think your style and wonderful use of colours is perfectly suited to this. Candy skulls and darkness. Awesome. Seriously love this piece.
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zeruch In reply to shebadapuddytat [2009-11-25 09:11:04 +0000 UTC]
Oddly enough, I didn't make the Goya reference. Believe it or not, even after various art history courses over the years (although none since the late 1990s) I still have odd gaps in my recollection/understanding of several major figures (including cases quite often where I recognize the movement/style, but never recall the titles).
BTW, when am I going to get a good set of reference images for your cute little face?
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shebadapuddytat In reply to zeruch [2009-11-26 02:08:50 +0000 UTC]
Pshaw, I've done art school but there's still one hell of a lot I don't know...my friends are always making references to artists I've never ever heard of, only for me to discover they're "the most important artist of this period". I just didn't want to patronise you in case you were like "Duh! Of COURSE I know that piece!"
I will send you some photos, I thought I sent some a long time ago but I may have not and in any case, they'd be out of date now. Do you have any preferences of the type of photos I send? do you want "nice and natural" or would you also be receptive to photos of me wearing bright red wigs with mermaid toys in my mouth?
How terribly exciting!
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genkaku-kun [2009-11-02 23:14:18 +0000 UTC]
It's really weird to see the dual literal and abstracted rendering. It forces my eye to pay close attention.
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