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prh3476tfbvve by ~spinery:iconspinery:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Surreal

©2009 ~spinery
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2x20min subway travel +20min finishing at home, around one hour total.

I remembered a lot of things about pencil shading.

This is a photo with a -slight- saturation tuning... I've got a crusty old Panasonic camera, and I always set white balance to manual... It often surprises me with awesome colours.

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~thomastapir Jun 4, 2009, 6:34:01 PM
NIIIIIICE...Reminds me of the scene from the end of "Hellbound Heart" when Frank is recaptured by the Cenobites; even moreso than the way it was depicted in the movie version (Hellraiser). This comes much closer to the image I got from reading the book. It has your usual ominous, strained sense of tension; an unsettling sense of being "unbalanced" somehow. Not reflecting that quality on the part of the image or the viewer, or the artist for that matter, but the world itself.

Great job!
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~whalewithlegs Jun 5, 2009, 9:33:47 AM
hot DAMN ... this has real skin! Its hard enough for me to get clothes on people, let alone actually getting some sort of tegument on things. magnificent treatment of the palms, wrist, fingers. Its also really interesting to see your natural foray into the background take on a more atmospheric effect as you study Beksiński.
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~spinery Jun 14, 2009, 2:22:38 PM
Eh... it's not... hm. The things I'm drawing... the results are not purposeful. They are largely random.

The 'superdefined' quality ofthe hand, wrinkles, etc. are a result of me being unable to do ambient things of equal definition.

So no worries. I could answer 'so can't I' :)

I think that my ability to draw comes from mental breakthroughs rather than proper practice or learning or whatever. Constantly moving about by feel, but I'm not sure if i want it to be anything more.

Not since I can sculpt :D
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~spinery Jun 14, 2009, 2:40:39 PM
Still, I have to do a lot of muscle/body texture research. I'm saying this on the basis of that Hexapes piece of yours I've commented on today. A lot of my attempts at precise anatomy look 'skinned'.

I've got to read that book :/

Also, regarding this piece and my art in general, read this: [link]

Regarding your interpretation... I think I have this strange tendency of perceiving many alien, unsettling and freaky things as... hmm... cosy? comfortable? This piece has a lot of a hazy kind of quality to me. Not horror-ish at all... :psychotic:?

But then again, I'm the kind of person that asks people if it's possible to get good trips on schizophrenia... :D
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~whalewithlegs Jun 14, 2009, 9:36:23 PM
Hmm, you'll swing in & out of creative media, if your periods of inspiration are anything like mine ... drawing has at least one big advantage over clay, and that is the immediacy of sketching. Other than that, I agree with you totally .. i was going to mention the effect of randomness n clay before I saw that you did mention it yourself.
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~spinery Jun 16, 2009, 11:13:59 AM
Yes, the immediacy... the function of taking notes.

And then kill yourself over making the sculpture look the same as it does in sketch, while looking acceptable from all other angles, grrr. :P

When I have time and place, I like to keep a piece of plasticine at hand to help me thinking while drawing. Works really well for perspective and such.
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~whalewithlegs Jun 16, 2009, 4:14:15 PM
Hmm, that's a really good idea. I think I'll try it at some point.
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Panasonic
DMC-FZ5
10/1250 second
F/2.8
6 mm
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Jun 4, 2009, 9:02:29 PM

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