Yeah font’ll be replaced, just wanted to make a pretty pixel font I guess.
@Mathias:
Life/death is one aspect of the theme. The last piece was mostly focused on the sneeze, with references to a knot being undone, birth/death, sleep, and anger/frustration (closed fist) vs. openness. The current piece has life/death as a theme; but more so it’s about the exertion and surrender of the will.
So the general theme is:
Tension, Conflict, Suffering (dukkha), Desire, Exertion of the will, samsara
Vs.
Release, Peace, Surrender, Submission of the will, nirvana
(as an aside, the jesus piece expressed these concepts in the anxiety of the farmer in the parable vs. the free and inert nature of the lilies/ravens)
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I didn’t intend them to look particularly alien, they’re mostly just humans without hair, the latter one has corpse influence. The colors are just emphasizing the emotions/themes they represent. The anatomy on the second guy is a little freaky, granted. I may fix that once I’m in there with the pixels.
The poem came first, the imagery developed later. I don’t think one has priority over the other, they’re expressions of the same thing in different media and complement each other. I didn’t really feel one had to hold primacy, personally. Granted I don’t have much experience mixing visual media with poetry.
I see where you’re coming from on the fine art/pixel stuff. I’ve always treated my pixelstuff separately from my traditional work, and used it more for for-the-fun-of-it type stuff- mockups and sprites and a lot of character designs. But lately it’s seemed more sensible to unify what I’m doing, move the prints and the paintings and the pixels and the poetry in the same direction, something from experience and not some arbitrarily-decided subject. And I think pixel-art is too frequently disregarded as a serious medium, something reserved for games and icons on the internet and not for -real- art. Maybe it’s because it’s such a new medium, maybe it’s because of its historical development and tie to gaming and icons, or a combination of both. I think pixel art is a capable medium though, and would like to have to communicate something serious (or at least something more conceptual and not wholly focused on aesthetics) with it. Additionally, it’s a nice way to translate some traditional work into something more easily-distributed, like prints were back in the day. Gives me a bigger audience. I could always do this by uploading traditional art to devart or something, but pixel art is unique in that it maintains full fidelity of the original image, unlike photos of paintings or even rescaled digital painting.
I do post to get the feedback of other artists, so thanks for taking the time to respond. Express any concerns you have, I promise I won’t take it personally J
@EvilEye: startlingly accurate guess at my muse. Thanks for the painting props, hopefully I can fix the problems with the lines with the more-workable medium of pixel art.
@StaticSails: I like the idea of the writing gradually becoming more subdued. My paintings and poem fragment, it’d just feel dirty to pixel over someone else’s painting.
haven't really had a chance to work on this yet, but here's a quick idea on unifying the various elements:
