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Published: 2005-08-11 07:33:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 938; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 101
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full title: "I'm sorry it had to end this way..."in a bit of a slump. comments would be apriciated, as always
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wow! this is so cool. i love the colors - this looks like a scene out of a killer movie. very cool!
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haha! fuck yeah, thanks man. image was the shit mid 90s. like marvel with more blood
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ha! thanks. a greater compliment i could not hope to recieve
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cool, blocky brushes remind me of Ash Woods work (and a touch of Klimt).
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haha! i'm not sure if you're making fun of me, but those are pretty much my biggest influences/heroes. so i'm trying to say i'm very flattered. i guess i should try and refine a more unique style though, if my influences are so apparent. anyway thank you very much!
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The background is awesome, i love the color scheme and the composition. The head on first plane looks great but i found it a bit little, maybe that or maybe the space betwen this guy and the left one is big.
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thanks very much. i was having a lot of trouble with the background in this one. you really think the helmet guy's head is too SMALL? there is more space between him and the guy on the left, if taht's what you're saying.
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i really like the colors, and the ambient glow peeking in around the sides of heads and such. I think the gun, which i'm assuming is from a picture, has a texture that draws my attention away from the foreground face due to (ugh redundancy) its texture. For some reason i want to see more of the guy with the helmet, more body or something.. maybe another hand. I really like the strokework though, very slick super attack of shapes and shades.
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thanks, babe. i know what you mean about the gun. it's compiled from a few pictures with some minor alterations over it, but it's the only thing in the piece with that much texture, which is a problem.
i see what you mean about the helmet guy too. my consern was that if i brought the frame down any further, the ominous suited figures in the background might have been a bit too tall, and the angle would have been more straight forward. thanks for the critqiue though! i'm going to work a little more on this badboy
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Justa master of color you are, and not to mention light.
What i find teh most intresting is how big the main guy's head is compared to his body.. suggesting that either it's a screen progection, or that he has an abnormal sized head.. adding either way to the general feel of teh time period it's set in.
My biggest problem is the few triangel color spots that show up more then the rest (i.e. the one on his helmet under his lips.). It distracts from teh overall movement of the piece.. though it gives it a charm.. I dunno..
Anyways awsome job as usual. ^_^
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shucks, thank you very very much.
i think i know what you mean about the triangles of color. i tried smoothing some of them out and didn't like it as much. i'm sure there's some other way to handle it, but i'm not really sure what that way is. i'm open to suggestions though!
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This is really great work; it seems as if it should be a plot twist in some fantastic story. I really think that this, 'giant fruity destruction', 'invasion', and 'home on the range' could make for an incredibly weird, innovative, and, most of all, awesome animation - set in some sort of classic sci-fi city, if you know what I mean.
Or perhaps I'm going a little to deep with this.
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haha! I do know what you mean and no you're not going too deep. i actually kind of LOVE that idea! i'm all about that retro sci fi stuff. or the way it looks anyway.
i'd probably pee myself with delight if someone wanted to animate my work. i'm already coming up with rediculous plots to tie them together now... maybe this concept is just what i need to pull myself out of this slump
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yea, what everyone said...
actually I like this, Im liking the face of the man in the foreground.
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As people have said before, the curving of the figures is awesome, the background turned out really well, etc.
One slight complaint I would have would be that the knot in the neckties of the back figures really grabs attention for me.
I really like those spots of white, but something about the knot really stands out. Maybe how dark it is or how it doesn't appear to be affected by the defracted lighting?
Anyway, your art tends to have a "Mysteries of Harris Burdick" quality to them, where they tell in one frame some rediculously epic story.
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hahaha! that is probably the greatest compliment i could ever hope to recieve. as an illustrator anyway, i'm honored you think my work tells rediculous epic storys.
as for the knots, i'm probably going to poke around the piece a little more and work on the helmet, so while i'm doing that i'll touch up the ties a bit.
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Word. Man, I had to look up the name of that Chris Van Allsburg book on Amazon, and while I was there I looked through some of his other stuff. Now I want all these books.
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haha! yeah, he's pretty dope, and he's managed to get away with basically making the same book about 12 times. he's just lucky it's such an awesome idea...
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thanks very much. you're too kind
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the glow is beautiful!
the scene.....
I imagined the scene is "game-over"'s one shot.
These three men are killer....no?
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haha! it is kind of like a game over screen.
i imagined that the suits are the ominous big wigs in charge of the killing, and the tough guy in the helmet is the one who's gonna do the deed. but it's really very open to interpretation.
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I thought as much
And I felt the glow is like a sight of near-death!
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ooooh, i like that idea. nice
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hmm, i guess my main thing with it is that i'm not sure what's going on. maybe i'm just too fixated on the title, but i'm not sure how that relates to the piece. are the two guys behind him going to kill him, or is he going to kill whoever is not in the picture plane? i know the guy in front has a gun, but the other two look so ominus. also, i didn't know that that was a helmet that he was wearing. i thought that it was (in all seriousness, i'm not trying to be an asshole) a frankenstein-esque (what looks like two bolts coming out of his neck) hitman with a 70's haircut (think lupin III).
otherwise, i agree with what basically everything everyone else is saying. angle's awesome, i love that lighting effect that you got (seriously, i wanna marry it), and the gun rocks my face. nice jorb. LIMP WRIST TOMORROW!
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well, firstly let's address the title. these guys are going to rub you out. frankenstein helmet guy is about to unload on your face with that gun, as ordered by ominous fisheye guys behind him.
as for the helmet, my pops had the same problem. what do you suggest? maybe make it rounder?
AAAHHH! LIMP FUCKING WRIST! i'm going to buy like 8 shirts
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so wait, he does have frankenstein bolts or is that a joke?
maybe put some sort of writing on the helmet? i never saw hair with that. making it rounder would help. or stronger, higher contrast highlights. something, i dunno. i'm in a slump too and art is giving me the cold shoulder.
dude, totally buy a shirt with a penis on it. i want to see walter's reaction to that. i can only hope it would be like the song says.
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no, it's just a helmet with like gas mask stuff on it. i'll try some of that stuff you just said. good ideas. i like the idea of putting some writing on it actually, if i can finess it well..
but yeah, my pieces don't seem to want me to finish any of them. it's frustrating.
i imagine walter would laugh and compliment me. but we can hope for
"oh my god there's a PENIS on that!"
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OOOOOOOOHHH. NOW i get it. dude, i'm a fucking idiot. then the problem is that you wouldn't see his nose or mouth and the air filters are a bit narrow. it's better that you can start pieces than me having nothing to draw. i think i'll go have a whaa-mburger and some french cries.
we can dream, can't we? we can dream. "dad, ugh, it's just a shirt..."
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yeah, the filters don't bother me so much. i actually had added a piece over his nose and moth and i didn't like it nearly as well, though it would probably read better.
aww, don't worry babydoll...perhaps limp wrist's rainbow majesty will pull us out of our dry spell! and until then, i'll join you for some delicious whamburgers
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eww...sweat from naked gay men...
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heheheh...my sweaty shirt stank up the whole rid home. it was awesome...
I LOVE! HARDCORE BOYS!
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I LOVE BOYS HARDCOOOOOOOOOORE!
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ha! god, we're so awesome
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I like the angle, and the light works really well with the piece. Slump, pfft.
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thanks very much!
hopefully school will help pull me out of this gloom
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Oh, very welcome.
I'm sure it will, even though what you call gloom I call good work.
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Slump? Heh! Really now?
This turned out really nice, art, concept, and all. Grade A work, Mr. Alex.
I love how the buildings were done, and you always seem to get any color to work well.
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aww, thanks. i had originally not intended to do the city, so i'm glad you think it worked out.
as for the slump, i'm just having some trouble finishing pieces. and starting them
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Well, you certainly started and finished something lovely.
I know how them slumps feel. Heh, it took me a half an hour just to conjure up a good idea last night. I had to break in my new inking pens...Hee.
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half hour's not so bad! gotta give yourself time to warm up. i've been spending days just staring at my work and doing nothing. but whatever, wah wah wah. no more whining
and thanks for the fave, by the way!
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Ah, no problem. Any time.
Bajeesus, and I though I took a long time. XD Poor Alex.
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Ha! This is what you call a slump? I wish I had half the talent of your so called "slumps"!
I think I like the angle most on this. Its got that really mysterious atmosphere to it. Its like the audience has been cornered.
The style benefits this factor as well. If you had any more detail I think it'd ruin the affect...
...well thatβs the way I see it.
Its' a 
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