Mark Grambau's Elegant Superhero Silhouette Posters [Art]
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Posted on: 2010-08-18 10:39 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
It's rather lazy to draw an outline of something and then call it art. I can use the "Auto-Fill" option on MS Paint and call it art, then.
If it isn't on the right side of the uncanny valley, it isn't art.
Those aren't silhouettes.
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Go ahead and whip some of these up for us.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
It's rather lazy to draw an outline of something and then call it art. I can use the "Auto-Fill" option on MS Paint and call it art, then.
If it isn't on the right side of the uncanny valley, it isn't art. |
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I really like 'em.
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Agreed. They're just highly stylized. Still cool-looking, though.
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Originally Posted by Eisregen_NA
Those aren't silhouettes.
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Loose --> not tight.
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am i missing the sarcasm? Cause if not not that's pretty low brow Marcian. If i did miss it ignore me and carry on.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
It's rather lazy to draw an outline of something and then call it art. I can use the "Auto-Fill" option on MS Paint and call it art, then.
If it isn't on the right side of the uncanny valley, it isn't art. |
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This me ignoring you and carrying on.|
Originally Posted by ObiWan
am i missing the sarcasm? Cause if not not that's pretty low brow Marcian. If i did miss it ignore me and carry on.
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That art is gorgeous and I love it in ways I can't easily explain. Rarely do I decorate my walls, but I want these on them. I admire unique projects like this, especially as popular continues to drive towards the narrow minded and myopic idea that looking "the most life-like" is best. In years, "good graphics" will be outdated. But people don't talk about Majora's Mask's presentation anymore: They discuss Wind Waker.
Admiration.
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People call what Liefeld does "Art", and yet these are far better then anything Liefeld could do. Therefore, they are art.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
It's rather lazy to draw an outline of something and then call it art. I can use the "Auto-Fill" option on MS Paint and call it art, then.
If it isn't on the right side of the uncanny valley, it isn't art. |
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Only idiots do. Anyone who's finished high school should be aware that the purpose of art is to show truth, not perception. This even goes for Naturalists who claim to only portray what is there, though it's obviously more clearly seen with more abstract art styles, Cubism probably being the most direct example.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
I admire unique projects like this, especially as popular continues to drive towards the narrow minded and myopic idea that looking "the most life-like" is best. In years, "good graphics" will be outdated
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"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
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Are we bordering on starting an art thread?
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Originally Posted by Eisregen_NA
Only idiots do. Anyone who's finished high school should be aware that the purpose of art is to show truth, not perception. This even goes for Naturalists who claim to only portray what is there, though it's obviously more clearly seen with more abstract art styles, Cubism probably being the most direct example.
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Pff...art doesn't show truth. Its goal is to present a myriad of perceptions in order to expose the limitations of our own perceptions. Art never shows truth, just exposes how frail or untrue our own beliefs can be. By default, art must be interpreted by not simply being of the object itself. Only rare instances of art can be considered of itself (found art), and only then to destabilise set definitions of what is art (i.e. to make a point about the fluidity of art) by engendering artistic context into an object that really shouldn't have any.
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Originally Posted by Eisregen_NA
Only idiots do. Anyone who's finished high school should be aware that the purpose of art is to show truth, not perception. This even goes for Naturalists who claim to only portray what is there, though it's obviously more clearly seen with more abstract art styles, Cubism probably being the most direct example.
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No Iron Man? :/
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
No Iron Man? :/
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Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
He doesn't have a catch-phrase.
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He should do a line of B-,C-, and D-list heroes as well, along with their own less iconic and more laughable would-be catch phrases.
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Silverspar on Kelly Hu: A face that could melt paint off the wall *shivers*
Someone play my AE arc! "The Heart of Statesman" ID: 343405
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Well, he did include Wolverine.
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Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
He should do a line of B-,C-, and D-list heroes as well, along with their own less iconic and more laughable would-be catch phrases.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
It's boozing up, skirt chasing time.
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I was going to say, "He lives, he walks, he conquers!"
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I was thinking, "It's 5 o'clock somewhere."
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
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I was going to say, "He lives, he walks, he conquers!" |
I like the artwork that's on there. Granted, it's not bombastic, nor is it terribly detailed... however it does simplify what the characters are about. That's what is interesting about it. You get to the core of what the subject is about and then show it off. That's art to me.
My two cents...
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Stuff I've Drawn
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Some of it is decent... others, not so much.
I guarantee most of those took less than 20 minutes to create.
Is it still art? Yeah. Extremely easy art, but art none the less.
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It's not art if it doesn't take 20 minutes and doesn't have a catch phrase:|
Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
He doesn't have a catch-phrase
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(I swear: less than 20 minutes.)
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