BattleWraith

Happy Birthday Prof.

Hiya, Dark Ether is getting close to completion. I think he is probably pretty popular with the ladies, as well as people with a fetish for having their souls ripped out of their bodies.

I had a spot open up in my queue, so I put Greymist in there since I still owe him a piece from the Feral Kitty contest I ran months ago :/ . Sorry about that Greymist, didn't like how the other piece was going and got sidetracked.

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Ahem, the forbidden palace is in china...

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Lol mmmm-hhmmm. Yes it is. I think you're having a reading comprehension issue here.

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lol. I should add new scenes. Come on people, some suggestions? Feed back? Crits?

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How about a scene with a Japanese guy at the war memorial at Hiroshima, looking everything over and saying "Ah screw it!"

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Then the us used a mobile ICBM and destroyed shanghai, then another bomb blew up Beijing. Then they b2 bombed the forbidden palace. Then Russia joined in and launched 2 missiles at Chicago and Denver. Then japan joined in and used a particle cannon to destroy the capitol building. Then Russia dropped the tsar bomba, a 100 mt yielded nuke, on New York. hehehehe

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Well thank god we nailed the Forbidden Palace before the Japanese particle weapon took out the White House!

I'm sorry but this is very similar to a story idea i had named "Planet Blaahgflaarb." In this story, there are 1337 known planets and everyone wants them all because if you had them all you would be 1337. So there are two big groups, the PUFFF (People of the United Federation of Free Fellows) and Mycrosoft. And Mycrosoft's operating system and crappy tech support sent planet DiscoBall spiralling into the sun causing a vicious war. The main characters are an intelligent toaster oven and a whole wheat fibrous entity from the anti-universe who hates toast.

Conflict is settled through forklift jousting and breakdance fight ala Michael Jackson's Beat It video.

Hi, sorry for the wait on updates. Work was being done on the inside of my house this week and interrupted my computer time. Anyway, I made some changes to the Dark Ether pic and did some inking. Here's the wip:

Dark Ether wip

Well, I wouldn't have any idea why this war was happening if I hadn't read your post up top. A lot of the content is strange, like the Japanese guy being in some sort of traditional garb instead of a business suit, or the U.S. nuke hitting some dinky little huts in China instead of any modernized city. Japan helping defend China against us? Odd considering they're under our nuclear umbrella.

Ambitious project and gratz on getting it done. But maybe do more research into the subject matter.

Hiya, this is something i had been working on before starting commissions. Finished it up this morning. A sketch of Neverdark:
Neverdark

There's no way to fit every permutation under one umbrella term "art." To counter your point I mentioned 3 distinct theories of art which are not grounded in the concept of "art as communication." You haven't responded to any of them.

The idea of art as objective communication begs the question "why art?" If I want to clearly and objectively communicate something, why spend 20 hours on a painting when I can spend 5 typing you a memo? Viewed this way, it would seem that the less objectively a work portrays something, the more artistic it is. Again, illustration vs. art.

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Art is communication. Communication is by its very nature objective. Just like spoken or written language, nothing can be communicated if the communication is subjective. I can say "Bandangle dondo floo," and while it may mean something to me, it's not communication because nobody else understands it. Likewise for visual art. If nothing is communicated, the piece fails; it is bad art.

For example. Mondrian? Not art.

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Hilariously simplistic. Especially the part where something is bad art because Joe Shmoe off the street doesn't "get it."
This definition might be ok if we were talking about illustration.
There are many different school's of thought where communication per se is not the goal (eg. surrealism, Brechtian alienation effect, Russian Formalist Art criticism).

There is no single definition of art. There are many different theories spanning different cultures and time periods. The most important thing is context.

Mondrian was a significant artist during his time. And because he was significant then, his art will be preserved in a museum due to it's historical relevance. Someone putting a bunch of lines and squares on a page probably won't be taken seriously now because the moment when that statement was culturally relevant is over. It's not just a question of art/nonart. Time and place are also factors.

Going back to the question of subjectivity, a reaction can be subjective and still be ignorant or just plain stupid. An intelligent, informed opinion is a subjective reaction that takes into account many objective factors.

Heheh starting to build the collection eh? Gratz! Nice piece.

Terada Katsuya
Esteban Maroto
John Buscema

also concept artists like
John Foster
Andrew Jones
PuddnHead
Jason Manley

I would've gone with #2 as well. The perspective is nice, but ultimately I'd perfer to have the characters as visible as possible.

Hi guys,
Here's the first completed one:
Turbo Ski

Lol. I preferred to have Dragonberry restrained rather than beat up, but beyond that I didn't want it to be really all that erotically charged. The ice cream was partially to undercut that type of interpretation.

Lol, glad you liked it Scarf.

I missed this one. Very nice GG!

Rough sketch for Dark Ether:
Dark Ether

Here are a couple roughs for commission work I'm doing right now:
Sanguine Phantasm
and
Turbo Ski
Both are still very scribbly.

Thanks for all the compliments. Most of all thanks to Brandon for letting me color his stuff, and to Kat for setting it up.

The scaling on the photobucket paged is really jagged on my screen. Here's a smaller resolution off of my DA page:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48004738/

lol ok np.

Lol ok. I guess it's now a queue of 6 instead of 5.
1. Turbo-Ski.
2.DarkEther
3. Memphis Bill
4. Blackberry Thorn
5. Feral Kat
6. Buckeyestar

I laughed pretty hard. Then it was all fear and nausea.

Thanks a lot guys!