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Sadly I'm not entirely sure who's the original photographer- the watermark states "MP.Moraitis", but I can't find them anywhere on the internet

A pencil drawing of a muscular female figure with short wavy hair, wielding two swords.

The photo the drawing was made from. The watermark states that the credit goes to "MP.Moraitis".

Drawing classes were pretty chill today, so I tried drawing this really cool photo I found on Pinterest.

#traditionalart #pencildrawing

"Long may the sun shine!"

His name is Wojtek

Been absolutely obsessed with Dark Souls 3 this summer (not the first time), so I made a little drawing of my player character :)
#DarkSouls3

Oh hell yeah >:D

Sorry to hear. Maybe we could draw together in Drawpile someday? I never tried that before, it seems fun

+ A few variations in practice

Themis, goddess and personification of justice, with her eyes blindfolded, holding a scale in her left hand and a sword in her right hand.

Commissioned work 🏛️
I was asked to design a new logo for a jurislinguistics science club in my college.
This is the illustration I made, depicting Themis, goddess and personification of justice, that served as the base for everything else.

I will be experimenting with absrtact designs/compositions simmilar to this from time to time. It's not perfect but I love this and simmilar aesthetics enough to give it another go.

There were a few more, but the one I posted first is definitely the best in my opinion.
I've bee told "the composition doesn't make sense". Which is fair enough, but I still like what I did here enough to post it :)

One of rejected designs for digital print classes that I still like a lot, inspired by one of my favourite 2000s aesthetics - vectorheart.

#vectorheart #neovectorheart

And what a coincidence - INSIDE turns 9 today!

Please play INSIDE, it's a haunting and beautiful game. Pretty short too, takes about 3 hours to complete, but it's definitely worth your time. Plus, it goes on sale on Steam pretty often!
This is not an ad, I just can't recommend this game enough.

Preliminary drawing for the illustration, drawn with white charcoal on a piece of black paper.

And here's the preliminary drawing for this illustration. Honestly, I think I like it even better this way than how it ended up looking like in lithography lol. Might be a skill issue on my side though, I had to draw the entire thing on a stone with a razor.

Screenshot from "The Aphex Twin Community v4" website (www.aphextwin.nu) with a description and a few frames of Chris Cunningham's "Flex".

Screenshot of a YouTube video titled "Rubber Johnny by Chris Cunningham & Aphex Twin (1080p HD)" uploaded by the user AphexAcid.

However I didn't want to simply redraw what is already present in the game, so instead I looked for inspiration elsewhere. And I found it in the works of Chris Cunningham, particularly in his films "Flex" and "Rubber Johnny".

A screenshot of The Huddle as it appears in INSIDE.

Concept art cards of The Huddle, from INSIDE Collector's Edition.

Obviously, the main inspiration for this is directly referenced in the title - The Huddle, a monstrous mass of human body parts stitched together that appears in the latter half of the game.

"pity this busy monster, manunkind" by E. E. Cummings pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness --- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself. A world of made is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence. We doctors know a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go

The quote comes from "pity this busy monster, manunkind" - a poem by E. E. Cummings, which is referenced in the game and further expands on its themes.

A vertical compositon depicting different parts of the human body emerging from the darkness, only lit by a rim light. The quote, written with a typewriter font, reads: "---pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence."

"The Huddle"
Lithography, 15x30cm
A direct tribute to one of my favourite video games of all time - Playdead's "INSIDE".

#art #illustration #lithography #PLAYDEAD #inside

My initial idea is still on the table tho

2010 concept art of the Huddle by Morten Bramsen. Made for a video game "INSIDE" by Playdead.

Screenshot of "Második Galamb" by Venetian Snares. Absolutely ridiculous track

Thumbnail sketches for the artwork. The one on the left resembles the final one (seen on the lower right), except instead of pigeon people there's a huge mass of flesh stitched together from different parts of pigeon anatomy, consuming the city. The thumbnail on the upper right shows the crowd of piegon people in a horizontal composition.

The final pencil sketch for the artwork.

Initially I had a more grotesque idea in mind, inspired by Playdead's game INSIDE and "Második Galamb" by Venetian Snares, but in the end I decided to do something simpler. I didn't feel like stitching different parts of pigeon anatomy into a giant mass of flesh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A crowd of people with pigeon heads looking at the viewer. Tall city blocks in the background, with lots of regular pigeons flying about

"Pigeonholing"
Lithography, 12x30cm
Sketches below

#art #illustration #lithography #pigeons

Gonna drop some college stuff soon

First attempts at #glitchart - part 3
Featuring crumpled paper on a working scanner

First attempts at #glitchart - part 2
Four versions of the same image destroyed by me simply pasting parts of my art history notes into the image data through a text editor.

Some first attempts at #glitchart

Why do I feel seen and called out at the same time?

I was recently on a trip to Italy and finally found some time (and motivation) to doodle a bit :)
#art #doodles #sketching

Four color tests for the illustration.

+ Preliminary color tests done in Photoshop

A mage lifting rocks using magic and a traveler enjoying the show.

A mage lifting rocks using magic and a traveler enjoying the show. The colors are slightly different.

"Show"
Etching combined with aquatint, A5 format
Two prints with slightly different colors. I made more variations, but these are the ones I'm most content with.

#art #illustration #etching #aquatint #print