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September 21, 2017, 03:40:57 PM
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This is more or less a remake of a little traditional drawing I made a few years back. Why remake it? I don't know... It's nothing special, I just stumbled upon the old piece and thought I'd redraw it in Inkscape.


October 03, 2017, 03:31:05 AM
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A girl in her quiet little spot high above the noise of the big city...

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October 12, 2017, 06:15:26 PM
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I found another silly little old sketch and decided to give it a spin in Inkscape...


October 13, 2017, 09:03:38 AM
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Not an uncommon situation... The shading is really great here!

October 14, 2017, 03:15:14 AM
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Not an uncommon situation...

Sadly; if I understand your meaning....  Maybe you're thinking the devil character is a daydream for the young female?  I don't see that so much.  I see him being real and sneaking up on her, which is why it would be sad.

For some reason, I want the devil character to be partially invisible, or partially obscured, in some way.  Or maybe if there were a mirror where we see the reflection of the devil, but we don't see him first hand, it would seem more like a daydream?

But what strikes me the most is the facial expression of the female.  There's just so much....depth of innocence and purity and youthful bliss in that face!  It's truly a masterpiece by itself!  And given how well that's achieved, I have to say it makes the rest of the image distasteful for me. 

If she was not child-like, maybe more worldly....I can really imagine a comical older female who's past her prime - lots of bulging and sagging, maybe bad tattoos, huge earrings, bad hair color that's growing out, bad hair style, maybe self cut/styled (thinking of some Carol Burnett characters - not sure who is a more current comedienne, who portrays such a character).  Anyway, a youthful devil sneaking up on her would be hilarious (especially if it's a daydream!) !!

And the other thing that strikes me (these aren't in order).  I don't recall any of your drawings where we see the gnarly, sometimes partly skeletonized, or somewhat militant (guns, weapons), or just punks, either male or female character, in the same image with the sweet young female characters.  So in the hands of the devil, I see the contrast of the gnarly, maybe evil character, almost conflicting with the young female.  I just find it's an interesting contrast.
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October 14, 2017, 04:22:05 AM
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Mmh. I was rather thinking of normal couple real-life situations. Mischief - yes, bad intentions - no.

October 17, 2017, 03:02:14 AM
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It's been too long since I drew the sketch so I can't really remember the thought process that led to this drawing. Usually though, there isn't much back story to my pics. I have an idea for a character or a situation, a brief moment in time and try to put it on paper before the thought is gone. I don't know what's happening before or after that moment. Who are they and what's the relationship between them? Does he succeed with his prank? How does she react? Who knows... To me it's just a funny situation... funny, silly, immature, whatever you wanna call it. Is it distasteful? Personally, I wouldn't say so but of course others might disagree. Moini's last line actually sums it up nicely.

As for your other observation... yes, I guess that's true. I don't draw multi character images very often and usually I go for either tough/punky/etc or cute. More often the latter. I don't know.. I just love to draw cute.

October 24, 2017, 09:03:45 AM
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Terminator meets Bladerunner meets Robocop... or not :D


November 03, 2017, 03:14:08 AM
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Grimm's fairytale, Rumpelstiltskin.


November 03, 2017, 10:02:21 AM
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Love it :) (not just the gnome, but also the background) I was thinking rather of Christmas than of Halloween... somehow.

Looking foward to your version of Rotkäppchen (little red riding hood) :) There's a place for a wolf, too... Or perhaps something less well known... Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot, with bear? Or an old woman, like Frau Holle? So many great characters :)

November 09, 2017, 09:28:26 AM
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Christmas? Hmm, interesting... I'd never have made this connection. Red riding hood is the only fairy tale character that I've already covered, if I'm not mistaken. Not sure if you saw these back when I originally posted them.

This one I made for my sister, too:

This one was a collab with a friend of mine who used to work in a photo studio:

I still have another unused sketch from the first image that I definitely want to work on further at some point. As for other fairy tales, we'll see. I agree that there are many cool characters and stories, it's just that I rarely think of these when I sit down to sketch. Therefore I usually end up drawing something entirely different... mainly girls in skimpy clothes :D

November 09, 2017, 02:58:26 PM
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The first wolf is still a bit static - while the girl already has a hint of that defiant look :) While it's already a good picture, you've become quite a bit better with all that practice! (even the one year between the two wolves makes a big difference). It's cool to see that development in time lapse here :) (no, I don't remember seeing your Rotkäppchen).

Christmas, a time for stories and family. That was the connection :)

(I think I need a friend who works in a photo studio, too... couldn't draw any wolves, though... lol)

November 24, 2017, 10:13:01 AM
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Sorry for the late reply.

You're right about the first wolf. Quite stiff and overall rather goofy-looking. I wouldn't say though, that a year of practice made the difference because one year isn't that much in my slow world. The second wolf was supposed to look different than the other one: more fierce, aggressive, savage, you name it. The first was meant to be child-compatible, cute and funny.

As for the photographer friend.. haha, sorry, can't help you with that. Guess I'm just lucky in this regard. Although... besides this one collabo, I haven't really drawn any advantage from this friendship.. I mean in an artistic way, not speaking about the personal relationship of course LOL

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This was my latest piece. Once again, I'm only posting a cropped version, for the usual reasons.


November 27, 2017, 03:35:32 PM
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Skullboy vs The Weird Horde Pt. 2


December 02, 2017, 05:50:54 PM
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A cute little sea horse... dragon... umm... mutation thingie :D


December 02, 2017, 06:00:32 PM
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I like that one!  Put on a t-shirt and I would buy one :)
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December 03, 2017, 12:49:09 PM
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Cool! Glad you like it. I guess I could add it to my RedBubble store... just not sure how to do it exactly. I could either remove the background and just have the creatures, which is what I normally do with characters (i.e. only have the character). Or I could leave the image as it is but personally I don't like having a rectangular print on the front or back of a shirt. Looks like a poster slapped onto the cloth. Or I could make it so the image fades away towards the edges... but this might looks crappy too. I don't know, what do you think?

December 05, 2017, 02:11:08 AM
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Oh, I see what you mean.  I didn't think of that.  Yeah, I tend not to like the whole rectangle thing either.  (And plus, there is a certain transfer process which smells kind of rubbery - even years and many washings later.  And a whole rectangle of that, iick.)

I think it would look good just to have the character by itself.  But it would need some changes to stand on its own.  That sort of bubble-wrap effect which seems to overlay parts, and background in other parts, would not work if the character was by itself.

Maybe there could be something like the bubblewrap background, but instead of a big rectangle, maybe an oval, which blurs around the edges, smaller than the character, so it sort of looks like it's bursting out.  I'm thinking of an oval like the yellow here, except it would be in the background.  And not yellow, but having something of the current background.

But it would be nothing quick or easy, probably....
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December 05, 2017, 05:02:13 AM
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It would look good silkscreened indeed. I'd make a somewhat fading edges.

December 18, 2017, 07:27:46 AM
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Sorry for the late reply. I haven't been online much these last days. Thank you for your suggestions. I actually like both of them. Problem is that now I'll have to find a way to make something that's similar yet not so similar that I feel I'm just ripping off your ideas :D

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December 19, 2017, 03:14:43 PM
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I don't think my suggestion is specific or detailed or unique or creative enough as to really be "an idea".  It only comes out of my memory of other tshirt designs.  I certainly don't care if you use it!

Although I could understand if your personal sense of integrity means being 100% unique :)
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January 08, 2018, 01:44:32 AM
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Several weeks without any image updates... *sigh* What a sad way to end a year. And then, what I weak way to kick off the new one :D Happy new year guys!


January 08, 2018, 05:24:13 AM
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Happy New Year, Sven! Christmas time is busy for everyone :)

January 08, 2018, 12:34:26 PM
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Cold and flu season too.  me  -->  :flu:
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January 11, 2018, 08:53:46 AM
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Moini
Thank you! Can't say that Christmas was overly busy for me... on the contrary, I've been really lazy ;)

brynn
Sorry to hear. Hope you'll get better soon.