Re: Mystery Beach
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:29 am
Thanks everyone but I can't take all the credit being that I do use photos of the women themselves to work from. I don't have the time like I did when I was younger to sit down and illustrate like I used too. I do however do all the surrounding work from scratch like the bogs, fallen limbs, buildings etc and all color schemes clothes, hair, skin from scratch also. I try to use the right perspective at all times and trust me I've done entire backgrounds that I later dumped because the perspective wasn't quite right. I have more unfinished pieces than not because of this reason or other reasons along the way. So what I'm trying to say to say is there is a little fakery going on but still a lot of my own creativity thrown in also. I hope this doesn't disappoint anyone I do try and put some time into this for all our enjoyment. My work is truly hybrid between drawings and fakes so it does make it hard to categorize it correctly because there is a lot of illustrating and coloring I do in these pieces. It's not hard to tell the differences in my 100% hand drawn work to this. I just like quicksand and beautiful women in it.
One thing that has helped me, especially on this piece, was working as a cameraman for Fred this summer at Studio 588. I can't tell you how much useful information that experience was. I did a lot of still photos while also manning the second video camera giving me a chance to explore many different perspectives and views. I really liked the low to the ground perspective like you see in this piece while taking stills even though i got eaten alive by the myriad insects out at Fred's while sitting or lying on the ground. I hope I get the chance to help film there again.
I hope this doesn't make anyone not like my work I, like all of you, love quicksand in all it's forms and interpretations and do love to share that because frankly there's not a lot of it around. And I do push myself to make them look better every time. Ok the cat's out of the bog berate me if you're so inclined.
One thing that has helped me, especially on this piece, was working as a cameraman for Fred this summer at Studio 588. I can't tell you how much useful information that experience was. I did a lot of still photos while also manning the second video camera giving me a chance to explore many different perspectives and views. I really liked the low to the ground perspective like you see in this piece while taking stills even though i got eaten alive by the myriad insects out at Fred's while sitting or lying on the ground. I hope I get the chance to help film there again.
I hope this doesn't make anyone not like my work I, like all of you, love quicksand in all it's forms and interpretations and do love to share that because frankly there's not a lot of it around. And I do push myself to make them look better every time. Ok the cat's out of the bog berate me if you're so inclined.