The Request Thread - Request Art Here!

[Captain Galaxy]

LOL "Your face is dumb."

[Inaaca]

Heh, was wondering when you'd get it done. Given the fact that you took it in the first place, I'll say that I'm pretty impressed. But, I'm going to have to critique it, I'll get the bad over with first.

First, the anatomy is out of whack, particularly the area between the left breast and her underarm. I realize that the source itself had the flawed anatomy, but that's due to the fact that in the source image, Morrigan has some really, really large breasts, and as much as an exhaggeration that is, it still makes sense in the context of the image. In addition to that, the heart-shaped cutout in the leotard is a bit to far to her right, because I believe her navel should be right under the cutout. But if that's the case, then her right leg should be a bit smaller as well (assuming that the cut-out is where it should be, implying that she's leaning a bit to the right).

I ended up making the mistake of relying too heavily on the source image, which I think is part of the reason for some of the errors. By the time I realized what I was doing and started breaking away from that, it was already pretty late into the drawing.

You have a lot of odd color bleeding. That is to say, I'm seeing a lot of pink in places that probably shouldn't have it. For example, the top Morrigan's head seems to have some pink in it as well as her leotard and gloves. Trying to recreate the impressionist style is understandably difficult without a paint brush. However, few of the Impressionist images I've seen had color bleeding of this type. Theoretically, at the most, it should occur on the borders of two separate colors. It seems like you firmly establish that the predominant lighting is yellow, so I have no clue why you add bit pink as a highlight.

I was attempting to show reflected light coming from the bedsheets. Perhaps I misinterpreted something in the Impressionist style, but that was the intent, in any case.

Finally, this is kind of a cheap shot (as well as not really relevant to Impressionism), but to me, she has pretty vapid look on her face. That is to say, her face is, indeed, dumb. You should stop using that phrase, lest it becomes more prolific in your art.

You know, it's surprisingly hard to paint a face. I had a lot of difficulty with that part. If you would argue that my initial lineart had the same problem, though.. then I have no excuses for that, heh.

That being said, it was project that was designed to be annoying and difficult to do. When it comes down to mimicking the rough brush strokes, I think you did a pretty good job on it, especially when showing the folds of the blanket. Also, while it caught me off guard at first, changing the scene to her laying on a bed seems more appropriate for the subject matter that was generally used for that style. In all honestly, I'd argue that this is closer to post-impressionism, so while it doesn't feel like Impressionism necessarily, you weren't too far off.

Yeah, it was certainly a challenge. And yeah, I changed the scene to a bed for just that reason. It seems that Impressionism generally depicted everyday life.

With those comments in mind, thank you very much for doing this. And I hope that this project and my comments with be just as beneficial to you as it was to me.

It was a pretty hefty learning experience. If that was your intent, then I should thank you as well. It's also kind of gotten my juices flowing to do more painting, so that's also a good thing.

[Inaaca]

Sept 2, 2009 12:22:18 GMT -8 Muramasa said:

Oh, by the way, I have a new request:

I want you to draw me a robot. No particular type of robot, but one with a Vectorman influence would be nice. I'd prefer the medium to be pencil and paper. No real time limit.

You may or may not know this, but my G2 robot evolved out of some heavy Vectorman influences. I presume you want me to design you a completely new robot?

[Muramasa]

Do whatever you want.

[Inaaca]

Works for me. Added to the queue.

[Kuat]

This is going to sound odd:

A cloaked man giving a speech to a of angels, demons, eldritch abominations, and other creatures (none of them particularly happy). Next to him is a woman bound and looking worn and resigned. Behind her, flanking are minotaurs with rather large axes with executor's hoods. It's in a circular amphitheater with the entities in stadium seating, and the man, woman, and minotaurs in the center.

You can't see most of his face, but he has a rather visible smug smirk. Like on a guy who's in on a joke that no one else is.

[Inaaca]

Sept 3, 2009 16:30:32 GMT -8 Kuat said:

This is going to sound odd:

A cloaked man giving a speech to a of angels, demons, eldritch abominations, and other creatures (none of them particularly happy). Next to him is a woman bound and looking worn and resigned. Behind her, flanking are minotaurs with rather large axes with executor's hoods. It's in a circular amphitheater with the entities in stadium seating, and the man, woman, and minotaurs in the center.

You can't see most of his face, but he has a rather visible smug smirk. Like on a guy who's in on a joke that no one else is.

Well that's certainly an interesting request.

Might I inquire a bit more on the general setting? I get the impression of a Roman colosseum, but I could be wrong. Also, what manner of dress are we talking for these things (particularly the woman).

[Kuat]

Sept 3, 2009 16:56:38 GMT -8 Inaaca said:

Well that's certainly an interesting request.

Might I inquire a bit more on the general setting? I get the impression of a Roman colosseum, but I could be wrong. Also, what manner of dress are we talking for these things (particularly the woman).

You got the setting exactly right. The lady looks like a warrior, like a Valkyrie or Athena. She has functional armor though, not "video game female warrior armor". However, there is quite a bit of damage to it, and it looks like she was in a hell of a fight.

As for the audience, formal dress, but fitting to each creature (don't put an elder god in a tux, but have him maybe adorned in something... interesting). I'll leave this to your imagination.

[Inaaca]

Sept 3, 2009 18:34:01 GMT -8 Kuat said:

Sept 3, 2009 16:56:38 GMT -8 Inaaca said:

Well that's certainly an interesting request.

Might I inquire a bit more on the general setting? I get the impression of a Roman colosseum, but I could be wrong. Also, what manner of dress are we talking for these things (particularly the woman).

You got the setting exactly right. The lady looks like a warrior, like a Valkyrie or Athena. She has functional armor though, not "video game female warrior armor". However, there is quite a bit of damage to it, and it looks like she was in a hell of a fight.

As for the audience, formal dress, but fitting to each creature (don't put an elder god in a tux, but have him maybe adorned in something... interesting). I'll leave this to your imagination.

This one will be tricky to execute, but an interesting challenge. Added to the queue.

List is getting a bit long. I'd better step up a bit.

[Kuat]

Sept 3, 2009 18:43:57 GMT -8 Inaaca said:

This one will be tricky to execute, but an interesting challenge. Added to the queue.

List is getting a bit long. I'd better step up a bit.

I figured as much. I look forward to the result regardless.

[Inaaca]

Patrick's request is now complete.

I'm leaving this completely up to the viewer's interpretation, particularly due to the nature of this request.

Enjoy.

[Kuat]

All in all, he's just another brick in the wall.

Alternatively: what a blockhead.

Sorry, couldn't resist the puns. Otherwise, cool stuff. My take: when the man bursts through the wall, which may represent adversity of some type, he take some of it with him and it becomes a part of him.

It may be like slavery for our black population: while it no longer exists, parts of the "wall" such as mistrust, resentment, and a feeling of inequality persists well beyond it's abolition. Or in a more concrete (har har) example, the Berlin wall that separated East and West Germany. While the wall is quite gone, the social and economic devisions that it fostered remain to a great deal.

[You probably can't touch this.]

Ha ha! Brilliant!

Be forewarned, what follows below is much philosophical wankery:

I agree with much of how Brian frames the interpretation but I would have the wall to mean, in this instance, modern malaise. In interpretation of the original image, I take the wall to mean a complete end to the notion of art being a progressive dialectic. In the greater sense (i.e. outside of art theory), this dialectic can be attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who is a cunt. Sorry for the profanity but I make it a personal thing to mention that every time his name is brought up because he is. While "dialectic" originally refers to the Socratic method of Socrates questioning an interlocuter in order draw out contradictions within the established wisdom, Hegel blew this up to meta-philosophical (and international) proportions and stated that history is progressed by the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis of theory, the synthesis then being the new thesis and it all continues until the END OF HISTORY. The end of history, for Hegel, being "absolute idea" or "absolute knowledge" which is like a rational, self-consciousness of all knowledge. Yes, Hegel was an idealist and a huge prick of one, too. Anyway, it turns out that Hegel's dialectic had huge influence on western philosophy via British idealism and 20th century Marxism but also comes up again with modern art consciously rebelling against "traditional" art and then post-modernism consciously rebelling against modernism. Thus, modern art becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and kind of grinds to a screeching halt (see: original painting). I take this new image to be, as Brian kind of alluded to, the adoption of this end of art history as a psychological/existential wall for the depicted character (ostensibly, the Every-man). The every-man necessarily busts through the wall because, as it should be obvious, history is still in the making but the wall in his head leaves him compromised without direction and, thus, is contemporary. He can't think of anything new.

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Or maybe he's just the less palatable cousin of the Kool-Aid Man. OH, YEAH!

[Inaaca]

Heh, nice. I was wondering when the requester would get around to commenting.

I love that you guys are putting thought into the analysis. It's really interesting to see what you come up with. Also, the jokes are just as entertaining.

[Inaaca]

Sara's first request (Yotsuba) is complete. I actually economized a bit on this one, so it's also counting for Illustration Sketchbook entry #16.

Even so, I always put extra effort into these requests. Enjoy.

[ShortPerson]

Thank you! Its so cute.

I do love the rain and water affects. And Yotsuba is just perfect. I love her facial expression.

[Inaaca]

You're welcome. Glad you like it. ^_^d

[Inaaca]

Sorry about the lack of getting requests done here. I barely have time to keep up with the college workload. I'll work on these when I get a chance.

[The Dankness]

Finally, my first request.

I want House MD to be riding a motorcycle down the road wearing his usual getup. A medical bag is stored right behind the seat. The motorcycle has a sidecar and I'm sitting in the sidecar with goggles on, holding that ball that House always has in the show when he's talking.

A title on top should read "House and Andrew Hit the Road".

You can maybe have an explosion in the background or something.

[Kuat]

Expect that drawing to coincide with that actual adventure happening!

I.E. never.

I keed, I keed.