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Post by penne on May 12, 2016 21:16:57 GMT -5
these are incredible!!!
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 12, 2016 22:22:39 GMT -5
Thank you so much!!
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on May 13, 2016 0:48:44 GMT -5
Fantastic! I always love seeing anything drawing on Snicket's researching methods.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 13, 2016 9:33:54 GMT -5
Fantastic! I always love seeing anything drawing on Snicket's researching methods. Thanks! Yes, it's so much fun to imagine all the ways he might have compiled his research, especially given the detail of all the conversations he transcribes in ASOUE. And it's great because it feels like I'm matching his style; that is, I'm almost compiling research myself, in a way.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 13, 2016 16:10:43 GMT -5
My fourth illustration! Back to the Baudelaires. I'm not exactly planning to alternate between Snicket and the Baudelaires for each drawing, but so far that's what's been happening ... This one was actually going to be in colour but by the time I finished the pen work, I liked it too much in black and white, so I couldn't bear to add colour. I've had a lot of fun researching different fashion styles in various decades. It's difficult because on the one hand I want to draw lovely costumes and stuff but of course we know Mrs. Poe bought them ugly clothes and stuff so I've chosen to tread a middle ground: the clothing the Baudelaires wear might be fun vintage clothing, but to actually wear on a day to day basis, it would perhaps feel a bit ridiculous and, yes, ugly. So Violet's dress, here: while it might e kind of fun in if you were dressing up, would be frustratingly impractical if you had to wear it all the time, and Klaus and Sunny's clothing might feel too stuffy. Anyway, here the Baudelaires are in Justice Strauss's library.
'The children agreed, and for thirty minutes or so they perused several cookbooks that Justice Strauss recommended. To tell you the truth, the three orphans were so excited to be out of Count Olaf's house, and in this pleasant library, that they were a little distracted and unable to concentrate on cooking. '
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 19, 2016 11:15:33 GMT -5
My fifth illustration! This time focusing on puttanesca sauce and the chocolate pudding mixes -- but with some notes scribbled underneath the puttanesca recipe. I imagine that as part of Snicket's research, he would probably have made the recipes the Baudelaires encounter, and so here we have his preparations for making puttanesca sauce -- with a couple of V.F.D. references tucked away in there, too. I didn't make his notes too obvious though so this could also be read as simply the Baudelaires preparing the meal. This one was the most fun to draw so far, and it's also my favourite finished illustration. I'm so excited about drawing all the other recipes/meals mentioned throughout the series! 'For most of the afternoon, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny cooked the puttanesca sauce according to the recipe.'
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Post by Liam R. Findlay on May 19, 2016 16:59:23 GMT -5
So lovely and textured and appetising! It's really appealing and has a nice three-dimensionality. Your monochrome drawings also have an interesting manner of marks
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 19, 2016 17:16:06 GMT -5
So lovely and textured and appetising! It's really appealing and has a nice three-dimensionality. Your monochrome drawings also have an interesting manner of marks Thank you, that's some lovely feedback. It's so great hearing from other people on what they think works, etc. -- especially from another artist! I'm going to do some of the monochrome ones as more close-up studies of characters' faces and that sort of thing, which I think will be interesting, because I'll have the level of detail and closeness as my coloured ones but I'll leave it without any watercolours, so I'm looking forward to trying that out.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on May 23, 2016 17:05:32 GMT -5
I don't think I've expressed my appreciation of these yet, other than through 'likes' of your posts. I'm extremely impressed with these, and I very much enjoy the consistency of the format - that it's either a direct illustration or a tabletop with relevant items, but that you keep the square frame in either case. It's also really interesting to look at the details - it takes a little while to catch all the things you've put in there. I like to imagine these illustrations belonging in some large, deluxe 'fully illustrated'-or-something-like-that edition of TBB, sort of like what they've just started doing with the Harry Potter books.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 24, 2016 13:55:52 GMT -5
I don't think I've expressed my appreciation of these yet, other than through 'likes' of your posts. I'm extremely impressed with these, and I very much enjoy the consistency of the format - that it's either a direct illustration or a tabletop with relevant items, but that you keep the square frame in either case. It's also really interesting to look at the details - it takes a little while to catch all the things you've put in there. I like to imagine these illustrations belonging in some large, deluxe 'fully illustrated'-or-something-like-that edition of TBB, sort of like what they've just started doing with the Harry Potter books. Thank you so very much for such a thoughtful comment -- I particularly appreciate it right now because I'm in one of those 'agghh how ill I ever become a proper illustrator?' modes when everything about doing professional art seems terrifying. I've actually also been doing illustrations for Harry Potter for quite a while now -- I'm about half way through Order of the Phoenix -- as along with ASOUE and another series called Warriors they are my favourite books, so I've been interested to see the fully-illustrated editions they've been publishing. It was actually in part those editions which gave me the idea to do the 'Snicket's desk' illustrations because a lot of the new Harry Potter illustrations are character portraits or pages from books within the series -- that is, they aren't drawings of particular scenes, which I thought was an interesting way of illustrating a book. But my goodness, having these appear in a fully illustrated edition of TBB would be a dream come true!
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on May 24, 2016 17:09:22 GMT -5
Oh, so I noticed an influence of yours, you'd say? I feel all knowledgeable about art now! If you'd care to share them, I'd be interested to see your HP illustrations as well. I'm reading the books at the moment (very casually, I tend to read a few other books in between each of them), and I've finished Prisoner of Azkaban. Having a fully illustrated edition of TBB at all would be a dream come true, as far as I'm concerned! But as I said, your illustrations would feel perfectly in place for such a book.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 26, 2016 11:23:24 GMT -5
You could say that -- how arty and cultural we are! I'd be more than happy to share some of my HP illustrations ... the only trouble is, I started them quite a while ago, as I say, so the early ones aren't nearly up to my current standard, but I don't want to show you later ones and spoil the books you haven't read yet! But I'll have a look through them and see which ones I can share without giving away major plot points. It would be wonderful. I'd also love it if Snicket and Helquist collaborated again ...
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Jun 1, 2016 16:19:28 GMT -5
For my next illustration I chose what is, I think, one of the most creepy moments from the entire series: the bald man telling Violet that Olaf might ruin her 'pretty little face'. '"You're a pretty one," he said, taking her face in his rough hands. "If I were you I would try not to anger Count Olaf,
or he might wreck that pretty little face of yours." Violet shuddered, and the bald man gave a high-pitched giggle and left the room.'
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Jun 2, 2016 13:05:05 GMT -5
So this illustration took quite a long time in the final stages of paining and re-working some of the pen because I had to extensively use white watercolour paint in quite a precise fashion and then go back over some of it with ink to make the shading look right -- but I'm pleased with the end result! This one is in connection to the Baudelaires' visit to Mr Poe at Mulctuary Money Management. As usual I'll leave most of the details up to you to find, but I will just explain that the coins are from a few different countries -- the UK and US, Canada and Japan -- because I wanted to continue in Snicket's vein of never explicitly stating where ASOUE takes place. And anyway, banks have to deal with converting currencies so it makes sense. You probably can't actually see the details on the coins very well but they are there! 'After walking through the meat district, the flower district, and the sculpture district, the three children arrived at the banking district,
pausing to take a refreshing sip of water at the Fountain of Victorious Finance.'
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Post by trip on Jun 2, 2016 13:46:22 GMT -5
I really can't say enough about how gorgeous your art is, and how impressed I am with your attention to detail. It's obvious you put a lot of work into these, and it's very admirable, you have an excellent talent. :-) And your artwork of Violet and the bald man is downright unsettling, so congratulations.
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