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Description "sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good... [it] is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds."
Thomas Aquinas

Fifth in my occasional series looking at the seven deadly sins. I looked at the first few as being litteral translations in a way, where as this is much more abstract in its depiction.

I'm probably doing snails are horrible disservice here, but what the hell, anything to ge the job done

The main inspiration for the look of this piece was the quote. I had the idea for the snail head thing a while back, and worked up a few trial versions before actually sticking on the idea.

The piece uses several main pieces of stock, namely a dolls head to form the starting point for the image, a couple of shots of a snail shell I found in my garden; the ONLY pesky snail I could find, so I ended up having to get a live snail picture from stock too, much to my annoyance.

The machinery is from my stock account, so I'm actually using it for once LOL
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Comments: 74

ChrisKora [2009-06-26 10:44:07 +0000 UTC]

perfect work!!!

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pullingcandy [2009-05-07 15:09:16 +0000 UTC]

I featured this in my latest journal entry .
Thanks for the excellent work.

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RokaShotar [2007-12-23 17:49:50 +0000 UTC]

Wow. I must admit that I like this the most out of your seven sins. I feel like it is the most surreal. Nice work.

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PAtScHWOrK [2007-05-23 08:01:37 +0000 UTC]

i really love this little guy...

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xBroodrooster2x [2006-12-16 19:06:36 +0000 UTC]

Incredible

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oh-harley [2006-09-28 06:44:49 +0000 UTC]

oh man thats sooo cool i love the eyes on it

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Amarastarleaf [2006-07-17 14:38:57 +0000 UTC]

i likes it, it reminds me of mirrormask in an offhand sorta way, or maybe dune.... dunno why tho.... bravo!

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strangelittlerebel [2006-06-11 05:57:13 +0000 UTC]

Im sure you get to many comments a day to even bother to reply to mine. but i had to say i absolutly love your gallery. you hve a very unique and amazing style. which is both inspiring and intruiging. i had to watch your gallery and i look forward to seeing more of your work.

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BloodMagic [2006-06-02 07:16:27 +0000 UTC]

I love it

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Deaflisteners [2006-05-23 16:05:04 +0000 UTC]

Weird. I like it.

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guelder-rose [2006-05-17 16:44:10 +0000 UTC]

...scary...

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nebu [2006-05-16 23:14:12 +0000 UTC]

Awesome awesome awesome. Nuff said!

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zilla774 In reply to nebu [2006-05-17 07:48:40 +0000 UTC]

thanks hun

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Beetleborg [2006-05-13 08:23:13 +0000 UTC]

awsome

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mailorderchild [2006-05-12 16:41:20 +0000 UTC]

That is insanely cool in it's subjectiveness...... did that just make sense?

But yeah seriously you make me wanna revamp my 7 deadly sins piece since I did it when I was like 19.

But yeah
you rock at this sort of stuff
To like sit and talk to you
You wouldn't think this kinda stuff would be crawling around in your gray matter

srsly keep it up

if you stop

I'll eat your feet or something equally painfull

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zilla774 In reply to mailorderchild [2006-05-12 17:47:54 +0000 UTC]

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SARGONAS [2006-05-12 13:31:57 +0000 UTC]

crazy...just crazy..... !!!!!

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tonare [2006-05-12 06:56:21 +0000 UTC]

I swear, you'd be t3h ruler of zbrush bro.

Anyhow, to be honest this scares the crap out of me lol....in a good way.
It's like a bad-seed-gerber baby, thats been sucked into a DOF camera from hell...lol.Awesome art bud.


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HagerotH [2006-05-11 23:09:51 +0000 UTC]

man, that fucking rocks! this is damn beautiful.

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Helioth [2006-05-11 21:02:19 +0000 UTC]

Nice, I like the seamless integration and colours ! projects and series are always a good general thing to be doing

I like this one in particular, but it does seem to suffer from the blending a bit in regard to flatness / 2d3d. . .
:>

You did use a render for the head or something right ? dont tell me thats painted

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zilla774 In reply to Helioth [2006-05-11 22:01:45 +0000 UTC]

no renders. I don't render anything.

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dying-paradise17 [2006-05-11 20:34:23 +0000 UTC]

eep

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anagoge [2006-05-11 20:10:08 +0000 UTC]

Excellent work. Reminds me of *AjonesA 's work.

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helenabeana [2006-05-11 12:57:41 +0000 UTC]

A very gorgeous sin indeed!

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SmxDeadlyDesignz [2006-05-11 02:34:12 +0000 UTC]

Creepy, well execution of your vision. Respect!

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Fused0001 [2006-05-11 02:21:45 +0000 UTC]

looks good but i like the wallpaper version better....

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YukikoBlossom [2006-05-10 23:56:34 +0000 UTC]

are u a god ov the underworld?!

(just kidding!!! joke!! ha ha)

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theUndying [2006-05-10 22:06:43 +0000 UTC]

Another masterpiece xD

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knotbox [2006-05-10 20:37:33 +0000 UTC]

. . . and all over the world, snails began dissing zilla774 . . .

((Sounds like an ending to a Brothers Grim tale))

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horai [2006-05-10 18:35:48 +0000 UTC]

Wonderfully and incredibly gross.
Love it.

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Halowan [2006-05-10 18:26:11 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME!

Great concept!

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esotericax [2006-05-10 18:23:22 +0000 UTC]

This... Wow. The stuff of nightmares. Fascinating!

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hilachento [2006-05-10 15:17:07 +0000 UTC]

very freaky! i like mush......... {visit mygallery}....salu2

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Strypz [2006-05-10 13:49:27 +0000 UTC]

woooooooooo... wicked and weird. nice work!

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fensterer [2006-05-10 13:31:55 +0000 UTC]

Really nice work! Very creative with this one!

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interfeci [2006-05-10 13:27:01 +0000 UTC]

ugly, werid, odd

just the way I love things

woot to you

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Esqueletica [2006-05-10 12:22:32 +0000 UTC]

Yack. Nice work.

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dualdesigns [2006-05-10 11:47:48 +0000 UTC]

snail baby WOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - this is wicked - Im glad to see you creating again yay

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R-psyco-R [2006-05-10 11:27:01 +0000 UTC]

wicked work dude
the head is so realistic


greetz

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oibyrd [2006-05-10 09:45:38 +0000 UTC]

FWeeeeeeeeeeee......I was worried that this particular one would really gross me out.
Thank jebus you went easy on me all kidding aside, this is amazing !

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fourteenthstar [2006-05-10 09:04:58 +0000 UTC]

all the details in this make it so distinctivly yours. I love the glow that you have achieved too.

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zilla774 In reply to fourteenthstar [2006-05-10 09:06:32 +0000 UTC]

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I-magine [2006-05-10 06:33:19 +0000 UTC]

I swear I saw a dude like that on the bus.

Very nice, looks real lazy.

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Truley-Unruly [2006-05-10 05:36:50 +0000 UTC]

Very creative and imaginative. Excellent work and different for sure!!! Great style!

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Anenome [2006-05-10 05:28:35 +0000 UTC]

I love how the snail shell looks golden, coolness, though I think having two of them makes the piece suffer - a bit confusing. Having just the larger one as like the back of the head might be better, but I don't know your motivation for it ;D

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wenelane [2006-05-10 05:01:44 +0000 UTC]

This is nice, check out mine too..

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NuclearSeasons [2006-05-10 03:32:12 +0000 UTC]

by far my favorite of the series. kudos.

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E-X-O-G-E-N [2006-05-10 03:20:34 +0000 UTC]

Excellent work; I love the way you incorporated snails into it, really sets the theme.

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SisterWitch [2006-05-10 01:46:46 +0000 UTC]

wonderful expression of sloth, great job.

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aarora [2006-05-10 01:11:49 +0000 UTC]

Nice job, i like the colors.

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