tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post3385928709509599382..comments2024-03-28T22:00:35.840-07:00Comments on Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Why Is This Picture So Good?Zak Sabbathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-81978435606360019002012-11-24T14:59:29.542-08:002012-11-24T14:59:29.542-08:00Hard to remember them all
Ecstasy of St Teresa
On...Hard to remember them all <br />Ecstasy of St Teresa<br />One or two works of Jean Tinguely<br />The dancing celestial and one of the portrait sculptures of durgha in the Met<br />Fall of the Rebel Angels<br />Lucifer by Pollock<br />some Lee Bontecou sculpture<br />portrait bust of scipione borghese by finelli<br />that William Eggleston photo of the guy and the rocket<br />Garry Winogrand's picture with the hippos<br />A few of the other drawings in Realms of Chaos<br />"The ghost of Genta Yoshihira" by Yoshitoshi<br />that: http://lebbeuswoods.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/5a1.jpg<br />Makoto Kobayashi's Bound Dog gundam drawings<br />one of the Simon Bisley doom patrol covers<br />that egon schiele drawing with the girl with the patterned fabric hanging off her<br />paolozzi's collages<br />lots more, really, too <br />Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-74688227590034064472012-11-24T14:25:57.601-08:002012-11-24T14:25:57.601-08:00"I'm assuming that was a good idea mostly..."I'm assuming that was a good idea mostly because the picture came out as one of the finest pieces of art in history ever"<br /><br />What other pieces would you put up there, out of curiosity?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-79574928907547045982012-11-23T19:20:34.443-08:002012-11-23T19:20:34.443-08:00That was vague and weird.
I don't see why I&#...That was vague and weird.<br /><br />I don't see why I'd post a 20 year old Adrian Smith drawing on some website though.Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-69314113101032491862012-11-23T19:07:52.699-08:002012-11-23T19:07:52.699-08:00It's a good sketch, but there is much that nee...It's a good sketch, but there is much that need to be refined to make it great. The axe is an issue as is the lack of dynamish in the anatomy.<br /><br />That is the detail is excellent, shows real skill and style. There are problems with form and the overall composition. The style and technique do exude raw energy and that is always attractive in art.<br /><br />But hey, that's just my view. Art is a large part taste, small part technique.<br /><br />Post it on conceptart.org in It's Finally Finished and see what they say.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231609275892907901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-59637444654201181912012-11-22T11:04:44.962-08:002012-11-22T11:04:44.962-08:00Adrian Smith is using a pencil here.
Durer made pr...Adrian Smith is using a pencil here.<br />Durer made prints, I don't know what the exact process was. Van Eyck I don't know, I only know his paintingsZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-83187656244185665972012-11-22T06:18:45.050-08:002012-11-22T06:18:45.050-08:00Zak -- what materials are at use here? Plain ol...Zak -- what materials are at use here? Plain ol' pencil on great paper? A few years back I very briefly ventured down the road of silverpoint, but quickly decided that the unforgivingness of the medium would drive me to such depths of suffering, I really didn't want to go there. But the depth of the kind of suck-you-in-detail you can get out of silverpoint, while not being distracting at all, reminds me a lot of the kinds of things you're talking about here. Didn't Durer and Van Eyck both use silverpoint for drawing? I wonder if Smith does, as well?Viktorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04867648528753994863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-46363145824800726602012-11-21T20:55:20.295-08:002012-11-21T20:55:20.295-08:00Yeah--what Brendan said. It's not that he'...Yeah--what Brendan said. It's not that he's holding it far up the neck it's that he's holding it with the blade aligned between thumb and web of the hand forefinger thta makes it weird.<br /><br />Things would have to have gotten pretty weird to be holding an axe essentially backwardsZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-51667663923476520382012-11-21T19:54:14.822-08:002012-11-21T19:54:14.822-08:00I just really like the strong kinetic line that st...I just really like the strong kinetic line that starts with a hoof and ends with a crushed windpipe. And there's enough details to roll around in until you feel the urge to bathe. <br /><br />Don't study the groin.Arnold Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12603155377769597516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-84717122564801271202012-11-21T19:45:53.040-08:002012-11-21T19:45:53.040-08:00The wrongness of the grip actually enhances the wh...The wrongness of the grip actually enhances the whole thing for me because it suggests brutality, kind of like someone swinging a rifle by the barrel and using it as a club. Like, that's clearly not the best way to use the weapon, but he doesn't care, he's just there to beat the snot out of someone.Necropraxishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716340801054739658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-10747322487271468882012-11-21T15:58:31.019-08:002012-11-21T15:58:31.019-08:00Fair enough!
I think he's already done his be...Fair enough! <br />I think he's already done his best work though. And Don Quixote kind of did him in. Mike Monacohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474135378521139178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-6717721015594434312012-11-21T15:53:59.370-08:002012-11-21T15:53:59.370-08:00Unless he's got that angel almost choked out, ...Unless he's got that angel almost choked out, he's gonna need to do something about the sword coming down on his head. But I think he could maybe use the axe to cut the angel's throat from that grip. Mike Monacohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474135378521139178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-67140750231346337412012-11-21T15:43:03.840-08:002012-11-21T15:43:03.840-08:00I'm not saying he couldn't do a movie that...I'm not saying he couldn't do a movie that looks like this. I will say he hasn't done it yet.Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-6557378486038235942012-11-21T15:41:28.495-08:002012-11-21T15:41:28.495-08:00I'm guessing, basically--if you _still like th...I'm guessing, basically--if you _still like the picture_ then that means the highwire of "holding the axe wrong but somehow right" has been walked.<br /><br />Like you can probably imagine a situation where he's holding it _so_ wrong you don't like the picture any more or the rest of the picture is composed in such a way that it matters a lot and I'd go "Why don't you like the picture" and you;d say: <br /><br />"well he is stretching out his arms at right angles in a posey, undynamic way. It doesn't look so much like he's about to swing it, as he is striking a pose and saying to the viewer: "Look at me, at the centre of the picture, and how badass I am!" and that makes it implausible"Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-41859142465553891442012-11-21T15:40:23.464-08:002012-11-21T15:40:23.464-08:00"Hollywood hasn't gotten there yet: it re..."Hollywood hasn't gotten there yet: it requires a dedication to a certain visual niche that, as yet, has not produced its own Greenaway or Kubrick or Ridley Scott."<br /><br />How about Terry Gilliam? The obsessive level of visual detail in almost every frame of Brazil, for example...which is also extremely grotesque. Not sure his other films quite meet that standard though.<br />Mike Monacohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474135378521139178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-68684879569608672902012-11-21T15:35:21.155-08:002012-11-21T15:35:21.155-08:00I dunno. You know more about these things than me,...I dunno. You know more about these things than me, but the way he's holding that axe just looks wrong. Not so much where he's holding it (though that looks wrong too) but because he is stretching out his arms at right angles in a posey, undynamic way. It doesn't look so much like he's about to swing it, as he is striking a pose and saying to the viewer: "Look at me, at the centre of the picture, and how badass I am!" To my eye, anyway. I still like the picture, though. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.com