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Published: 2007-03-17 03:46:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 4977; Favourites: 195; Downloads: 57
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I just watched this movie again tonight, for the first time in a long while. And you know what? It holds up beautifully. I don't know who is prettier - Jennifer Connelly or David Bowie.Anyways, this was a spur-of-the-moment sketch, ink on watercolor paper. Jareth got WAY over-worked, but I like Sarah's minimalist form. I was onto something, I think. I'll have to re-visit this soon, and turn out something a little nicer.
Thank you, Jim Henson, for being such a badass.
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Ooooh, LOVE the lines. Very grungy looking, nice.
For the record, David Bowie is prettier, IMO.
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Thank you - and of course he is
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Sorry, Jennifer - you're cute, but Bowie is too pretty. |D
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that's just too pretty I love it so much hooray for pen and ink
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I like it when ppl do their own Jareth not david bowey, like here for example! Keep up the good work!
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Thank you 
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Cheers 
It's all about the Bowie... thanks for Favourite-ing.
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Wow, this is excellent too. Its Lydia again.
I am so happy to have one of your versions of Jareth. Its one of my absolute all time favorite movies. (I hooked my cousins and nieces onto it too, so every time they visited, we HAD to watch it. I didn't mind of course. I think I could recite the movie.)
I like your softer version of the Goblin King. In this one, Sarah almost looks more cruel then Jareth. Im not sure if thats awesome, or just wrong, or more appropriate or what. ha!
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Great Labyrinth fanart! I really love this movie... Such a pitty that Henson won't make another one ever again.
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Thank you.
At least he did it right the first time, no? We'll never have to dream about what "could have been"...
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I am so in love with this you have no idea D: The black lines just make me smile.
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You are very sweet. Thank you.
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for being spur of the moment, it is well done.
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Cheers! It's great to hear that from a Bowie fan
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I'm a big fan- been running two web sites for him for several years. it is a lovely piece of art.
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they look like they're both going to rip someone's head off.
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LOL, serious business. Thank you for the Favourite
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on my endless quest of fabulous Labyrinth fanart (ok, I seek labyrinth, sandman& howl's moving castle fanart) I have rarely stumbled across such an exquisit piece like yours... you have just caught perfectly the prettyness of Sarah (though she looks 17 instead of 15, like she already had passed that thin line between childhood and adolescence leading to womanhood) and the eeriness of Jareth (despite Bowie's nose is slightly different, anyway I love it)
I hope you'd create more Labyfanart.
if not... well keep the sandman series going on.
(btw each sandman related piece of yours is awesome, but it seemed futile to write AWESOME on each one of them as comment, so I am saying it here 
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Thanks VERY much!
More coming soon, hopefully.
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more coming soon??? labyrinth or sandman related pieces? if it is sandman may I suggest another Deliriun fanart? colored maybe? though your black&white inked pieces are Amazing, I wonder what would you do with colors....
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I vowed I would give the Sandman art a rest for a while
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well, I will be waiting eagerly.... as many others.... once the labyrinthClub faves your pic.. you will have all the labyrinth fans at your feet...I am afraid...
well the Labyrinth is a movie that has aged well, (ok, I admit that the dancing sequences-but the ballroom- are quite awkward nowadays)
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You again! Your awesome inking style, and now, Labyrinth fanart? Dude. Instafave and many many brownie points to you.
I totally agree with you on the characters there too. (I really don't need to say that I am a major fan of the movie generally.) Because Bowie is... impossibly ambiguous dark sexiness, and young Jennifer Connelly in that is just... luminous. Perfectly on the cusp of womanhood. And, same with me, I fell in love with her then, and she remains beauty, to me.
Jim Henson, you are sorely missed.
And you... are going on my watch.
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You are too kind. Thanks so much for the nice words, and for the support!
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Gorgeous work. I love the brush work on Jareth's hair, and the way you used the heavy dark background to add more emphasis to the characters
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Thank you Chris; and thanks for the Favourite!
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Cool tribute, Andy!! In all the years I've known you, I never realized you were such a fan of Jim Henson, at least beyond the affection that every kid from our generation has from watching The Muppet Show when it was originally on TV.
Which reminds me... if I had to pick a #1 favorite Henson movie, it would be the original "The Muppet Movie". Just because I have fond memories of seeing it in the theater with my parents and sister when we were little, and because it sums up everything that Jim Henson was all about in my mind.
Between his fantasy films, though... personally I always liked the Dark Crystal better, though I agree it has that one fatal flaw - the Gelflings are tough to connect with. Oh yeah, and the fact that Augrah, cool as she looks, and despite the fact that she pulls her own eye out... is such an obvious Yoda rip-off. In terms of concept, at least. And anyone who says she isn't - is kidding themselves. But those are minor quibbles for me, and the mind-blowing coolness of the Mystics, Skeksies, and Garthims kinda makes up for all those problems in my book.
But back to your Laberynth illo! You really captured the young Jennifer Connelly. And this pic does the best thing a tribute illustraton can do - it makes me want to watch that movie again. I have to admit I only saw it once or maybe twice as a kid, and have only vague memories of it (so maybe it's unfair to say I prefer the Dark Crystal, which I saw so many times and remember so well?)
Anyway, great illo. I would love to see you take a swing at coloring it. For such a magical story, a nice dose of playful color would serve it well.
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Ever since I was conscious enough to know what a television was, I was a Sesame Street addict. The Muppet Show was HUGE to me as well. And the movies, even though they really lost their soul after a while, still stand heads-and-shoulders over pretty much any kids' movie made since 1990. Jim Henson is ostensibly my Godfather.
I love the Muppet Movie; there's a purity of spirit that is has that makes it timeless. But my FAVORITE one is The Great Muppet Caper, for its naughty sense of humor; it really captures PURE Henson to me.
I can forgive Augrah being a Yoda riff, since it's all Henson, and it's all good.
You really should bust out Labyrinth again. It ages well. It was the beginning of my long-standing fascination with Jennifer Connelly. And Bowie! The only flaw is the musical numbers (not all of which are bad, but I get a mental disconnect every time a musical number comes into a movie that isn't a MUSICAL).
Color... you know, I'm always telling myself I'm going to do it sometime. I don't like this particular piece enough to pursue it any further, but maybe next time...
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very cool.
oh and i think david bowie is much prettier
~allie~
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Oh, but I would take a bullet for Jennifer Connelly.
Tough call!
Thanks for the Favourite
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One of my Fav movies (=
David Bowie is the god of music for me!
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Bowie is immortal brilliance personified. Did you know they were originally considering Michael Jackson for the role of Jareth? *shudder*
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I didn't know that, well to be honest - and no offens to anyone whom reads it - if Jacko would have been Jareth = sux...
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Jim Henson is full of win and awesome. loved the Dark Crystal too.
i think this looks great. the fact Sarah's so simple helps her stand out from Jareth and the background i think.
and yes, it is pretty hard to say who was prettier.
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Thanks! You know, I love the Dark Crystal, too; but it is SO serious. There is no levity, no lightness; it's relentlessly grim. I really like Labyrinth's use of the subtle Henson-esque comedy, and the human characters that make it just THAT MUCH better to me.
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true, Labyrinth will always be an ultimate fav of mine. i think its the character designs of Dark Crystal that i really dug, those little monk guys were like totally awesome i always thought
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I agree. The Mystics and the Skeksis are some of the coolest puppet designs of all time. I just never could relate to the Gelflings; and since they were the MAIN CHARACTERS that you werer supposed to relate to, that kept me from fully engaging with it.
But it's still a brilliant movie, regardless.
I'm a hopeless Henson junkie; it doesn't matter what it is; if Jim touched it, I love it.
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Thanks, Bro. I think I'm gonna watch it again before the weekend's out...
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