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Mittwoch, 26. März 2014
Freitag, 4. Januar 2013
I Like Pretending
I'm an IAMX fan. In case you haven't noticed yet.
Still, I really didn't do any direct fanart because the music does not inspire me to do pictures. It inspires me to live, really, find a purpose in live, take interest in politics, in art. IAMX helped me through some really dark time of my teenage life during which I so much wanted my brain to just shut up for once and not have to think anymore. Enlightenment to hell, thinking sucks!
So, I found IAMX and the music and somehow the philosophy (IAMX is for me not only about the music. It's bigger than that.) challenged me to take on this fucked up world differently.
Basically IAMX challenged me to think.
Thus, heavy influence on my life, but no IAMX dictated art. Some scribbles here and there, drawings of Chris for practice in my sketchbook, that's all.
Yet, last summer the IAMXart page on Facebook announced a fanart competition and since I somewhat fancy msyelf an artist and a fan, taking part seemed a sure thing.
The competition was at first somewhat Halloween related with 'I like pretending' as theme and the 31st October as deadline. So I really did not know what to do for a picture. Drawing Chris or Janine or whoever IAMX related in a costume seemed somewhat cheap to me.
'I like pretending' in a really personal context seemed to personal (No, really ...?) and not enough IAMX related and the song itself is not easy to illustrate because it's all about interpretation and I don't like to get things wrong. I don't like to be wrong.
Now the deadline changed and was based on the IAMX likes on Facebook.
IAMX drawing closer to the 100000 likes everyday and me having holidays pushed me to finally sketch a concept down. I based it on the song, trying to stay close to the lyrics.
Before I go into interpreting and explaing why I painted what and why (I don't do that often. I usually paint things because I like them or they look good.), I better show the picture.
Alright, explanation time ...
As nearly all songs from the Kiss&Swallow album I like pretending is one way or the other sex related.
There's this silver skinned person reminding the narrator why to stay alive, while he suffers of this ever constant death wish. In short.
'Silver skin' seems important, so I knew I had to draw naked skin in one way or the other. But taking the overall feel of the song, the album, album artwork in consideration it couldn't be some beautiful model or princess type girl. I wanted some wasted looking girl, more heroin-chick or broken Barbie doll. In some way still seductive, but just a broken as the narrator. More like finding some hidden beauty in this overall fucked up world with all the 'insanity, bleeding hearts and tragedies' in the smoke of her cigarette (which I fucked up more than a bit.), being present even in their bedroom, motel whatever.
Yeah ... and then there's the deathwish part. I tried to get a dark atmosphere, using the album artwork colours, but that didn't seem enough. Just as the 'I like pretending' bit. My goat, that's the competition theme! So I put this face hidden in the sheets. On second thoughts it's also similar to the album artwork. Not intended but alright.
Right. And there's the symbolic mask at her feet, which is really rather cheap. Um, yeah. Cheap is cheap is cheap. Just as the puppet strings are, although I like them far better.
I think it's prabably this finding something good somewhere in the mess and pretending to be free and everything being alright while everything that's dark and cruel is still there. Some kind of escape. Dunno.
I'm not really satisfied with the outcome of the picture. It could have been a lot better, I think. I mean, it's not bad, but something about the facial expressions is not the way I wanted them to be and as I sad, the mask is really cheap. And the cigarette; it's more like a sixth finger >.>
Well, nevermind.
Have a nice day and a quiet mind.
Don't fall into Winter depression or something. ;)
Still, I really didn't do any direct fanart because the music does not inspire me to do pictures. It inspires me to live, really, find a purpose in live, take interest in politics, in art. IAMX helped me through some really dark time of my teenage life during which I so much wanted my brain to just shut up for once and not have to think anymore. Enlightenment to hell, thinking sucks!
So, I found IAMX and the music and somehow the philosophy (IAMX is for me not only about the music. It's bigger than that.) challenged me to take on this fucked up world differently.
Basically IAMX challenged me to think.
Thus, heavy influence on my life, but no IAMX dictated art. Some scribbles here and there, drawings of Chris for practice in my sketchbook, that's all.
Yet, last summer the IAMXart page on Facebook announced a fanart competition and since I somewhat fancy msyelf an artist and a fan, taking part seemed a sure thing.
The competition was at first somewhat Halloween related with 'I like pretending' as theme and the 31st October as deadline. So I really did not know what to do for a picture. Drawing Chris or Janine or whoever IAMX related in a costume seemed somewhat cheap to me.
'I like pretending' in a really personal context seemed to personal (No, really ...?) and not enough IAMX related and the song itself is not easy to illustrate because it's all about interpretation and I don't like to get things wrong. I don't like to be wrong.
Now the deadline changed and was based on the IAMX likes on Facebook.
IAMX drawing closer to the 100000 likes everyday and me having holidays pushed me to finally sketch a concept down. I based it on the song, trying to stay close to the lyrics.
Before I go into interpreting and explaing why I painted what and why (I don't do that often. I usually paint things because I like them or they look good.), I better show the picture.
Alright, explanation time ...
As nearly all songs from the Kiss&Swallow album I like pretending is one way or the other sex related.
There's this silver skinned person reminding the narrator why to stay alive, while he suffers of this ever constant death wish. In short.
'Silver skin' seems important, so I knew I had to draw naked skin in one way or the other. But taking the overall feel of the song, the album, album artwork in consideration it couldn't be some beautiful model or princess type girl. I wanted some wasted looking girl, more heroin-chick or broken Barbie doll. In some way still seductive, but just a broken as the narrator. More like finding some hidden beauty in this overall fucked up world with all the 'insanity, bleeding hearts and tragedies' in the smoke of her cigarette (which I fucked up more than a bit.), being present even in their bedroom, motel whatever.
Yeah ... and then there's the deathwish part. I tried to get a dark atmosphere, using the album artwork colours, but that didn't seem enough. Just as the 'I like pretending' bit. My goat, that's the competition theme! So I put this face hidden in the sheets. On second thoughts it's also similar to the album artwork. Not intended but alright.
Right. And there's the symbolic mask at her feet, which is really rather cheap. Um, yeah. Cheap is cheap is cheap. Just as the puppet strings are, although I like them far better.
I think it's prabably this finding something good somewhere in the mess and pretending to be free and everything being alright while everything that's dark and cruel is still there. Some kind of escape. Dunno.
I'm not really satisfied with the outcome of the picture. It could have been a lot better, I think. I mean, it's not bad, but something about the facial expressions is not the way I wanted them to be and as I sad, the mask is really cheap. And the cigarette; it's more like a sixth finger >.>
Well, nevermind.
Have a nice day and a quiet mind.
Don't fall into Winter depression or something. ;)
Montag, 3. Dezember 2012
Peter Pan
Okay. Das werden jetzt viele Fotos.
Nach dem Scherenschnitt (den ihr hier nicht findet, aber auf Animexx, DeviantART oder facebook) kommt jetzt eine Schattenfigur. für die WAM. wieder. Ich mach sonst ja nix mehr.
Jedenfalls war das Motiv freigestellt und was wäre naheliegender als Peter Pan?
(Für mich jedenfalls. Ich hab' da irgendwann 'ne Langzeitschädigung davongetragen. Aber lest BROMs The childthief, J.M. Barries Peter Pan (und schreibt da eine Facharbeit drüber) und hört IAMX und Patrick Wolf und ihr kriegt auch so eine.)
Okay, wo war ich jetzt? Egal. Bilder. Ich poste jetzt Bilder.
Anfangen tu ich mal mit der Skizze. Die fehlt. Also, die hab ich nicht abfotografiert.
Als nächstes wäre da mein Probefigürchen. Ist ungefähr 20 cm groß.
Die Körperteile habe ich dann eingescannt, am PC ein gutes Stück vergrößert und dann auf Fotokarton ausgedruckt.
Falls sich auch wer einen Peter Pan basteln will, hier wäre das 'Schnittmuster' (Ohne Details&fehlerhaft. Stiefellängen, etc. wurden nachträglich noch angeglichen).
Intuitive Details ...
Und weil's 'ne Schattenfigur ist, mussten natürlich noch Schattenbilder her.
Jetzt habe ich zufällig keine Leinwand und wie ihr sehen könnt, sind da auch keine schicken Holzstäbchen zum Festhalten und bewegen an der Figur dran. Es geht also amateurhaft und improvisiert weiter.
Der weg ist das ziel. Oder so.
Nach dem Scherenschnitt (den ihr hier nicht findet, aber auf Animexx, DeviantART oder facebook) kommt jetzt eine Schattenfigur. für die WAM. wieder. Ich mach sonst ja nix mehr.
Jedenfalls war das Motiv freigestellt und was wäre naheliegender als Peter Pan?
(Für mich jedenfalls. Ich hab' da irgendwann 'ne Langzeitschädigung davongetragen. Aber lest BROMs The childthief, J.M. Barries Peter Pan (und schreibt da eine Facharbeit drüber) und hört IAMX und Patrick Wolf und ihr kriegt auch so eine.)
Okay, wo war ich jetzt? Egal. Bilder. Ich poste jetzt Bilder.
Anfangen tu ich mal mit der Skizze. Die fehlt. Also, die hab ich nicht abfotografiert.
Als nächstes wäre da mein Probefigürchen. Ist ungefähr 20 cm groß.
Die Körperteile habe ich dann eingescannt, am PC ein gutes Stück vergrößert und dann auf Fotokarton ausgedruckt.
Falls sich auch wer einen Peter Pan basteln will, hier wäre das 'Schnittmuster' (Ohne Details&fehlerhaft. Stiefellängen, etc. wurden nachträglich noch angeglichen).
Intuitive Details ...
Auch, wenn die Figur an sich jetzt fertig ist, muss sie ja noch bunt werden. Sieht man zwar als Schatten nicht, aber das ist mir egal.
Das Gesicht und die Hände werden mit Bleistift vorgezeichnet.
Zwischenschritte bei der Acrylkoloration hab' ich nicht.
Aber so siehts dann aus:
Irgendwie kams danach über mich und ich musste mich an 'ner Animation versuchen.
Sind 11 fotos, die amateurhaft gemacht, bearbeitet und in imovie zusammengefügt wurden. Heureka!
(Qualität ist auch nicht die beste. Und so.)
(Ich weiß auch nicht, ob man hier Videos einbetten kann.)
Und weil's 'ne Schattenfigur ist, mussten natürlich noch Schattenbilder her.
Jetzt habe ich zufällig keine Leinwand und wie ihr sehen könnt, sind da auch keine schicken Holzstäbchen zum Festhalten und bewegen an der Figur dran. Es geht also amateurhaft und improvisiert weiter.
Der weg ist das ziel. Oder so.
Und hier nochmal in Farbe mit schatten:
Und Peter meint, ich sollte jetzt mal langsam aufhören.
Also wär's das jetzt. Der meister hat gesprochen.
Moment, nein, ich muss noch Werbung für meine wunderbare Lieblingsband IAMX machen ...
Seit heute gibt's nämlich die Doppelsingle The Unified Field/Quiet the Mind zum Download in allen geläufigen Downloadportalen (itunes, amazon, etc.) zu kaufen.
Ihr könnt euch beide lieder auch schon auf dem youtubechannel von IAMX anhören (The Unified field sogar mit Video :3). Ich lass' mal 'nen Link da.
[Ihr müsst auf das 'da' klicken :D]
Sonntag, 16. September 2012
Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2011
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Sonntag, 25. September 2011
Awesome~
Volatile Times
So looking forward to 8th Octobre <3
Waah~ ich hab mittlerweile einen Berg an Material zum Posten, aber einfach keine Zeit dafür. Aber ich bin noch nicht tot.
So looking forward to 8th Octobre <3
Waah~ ich hab mittlerweile einen Berg an Material zum Posten, aber einfach keine Zeit dafür. Aber ich bin noch nicht tot.
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