I say bring back the hanging black person. It was cool.
WTF?
Umm, I think I came in too late to see the hanging black dude, but yeah, you wouldn't have been able to explain why you had a hanging black dude on your site to everyone, and it's pretty much in human nature to draw conclusion from their own experience or past events. People
would be offended, invevitably, instantly drawing the conclusion from historical events. I, for one, would be offended if I was browsing a site and came across a black dude hanging for
no apparent reason. In fact, why do you want a hanging dude there anyway? Honestly, there are much better (and more appealing) ways of displaying your artistic skills. One important aspect of being an artist, I believe, is the ability to create things that have meaning or are original creations. If nothing more, have a tasteful display of skill.
As for the actual art, I actually like the grass and gallows, but I think that the layout would benefeit from losing the tiled feeling in the dirt. Also, a common theme would be nice, instead of a stylistically uncohesive hodgepodge of characters that seem to be oblivious to one another. Perhaps some interaction between them would be nice?
I just saw this:
Esker: I have a strange fixation with stringing people up to posts/trees. I haven't done it much in pixels, but there are many a person hung in my sketchbooks :p
If you really want to continue with the hangman theme, maybe have a suitable environment, like an eerie marsh with (more) bodies floating around and a crocodile hungrily licking his chops...? Or a bloody asylum with a straight-jacketed psycho in the corner and people asfixiated to various pipes, poles, and maybe
hanging from a live wire or something. Seriously, if you wanna hang someone ya gotta be creative.
Oh yeah, yay, Pittsburgh, PA. [Hometown]