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Submitted: June 8, 2008
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Herr Drosselmeyer's Dollby *phantoms-siren

Digital Art / Drawings / Fantasy

Procrastination at its best, this is what I've spent the day doing instead of the Pagan Festival series.

I have issues with working in limited palettes and with avoiding black so this was a test to see if I could work in monotone.

The subject was inspired by Abney Park's "Herr Drosselmeyer's Doll". Mmmmmm steampunk...

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~ChiBurbs May 1, 2011 General Artist

I am jealous, to say the least.

For someone who does not like limited palettes, you do well with the monotone. I find not fault with the use of the color/hue/shading.

Because you requested critique, I will make three observations:

1) The lettering on top should be just a bit larger, or at least taller.

2) I'm not sure the cogs ghosted in the background add anything to this. The cogs on her dress and the seams on her skin should be sufficient.

3) The perspective on her torso is off, especially compared to the perspectoive on the rest of her anatomy. The belly and chest seem flat, and the shoulders are a bit off.

Still, I am VERY jealous and wish I could do this well. Excellent work.

*phantoms-siren May 8, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

thank you for your detailed feedback!!! It's much appreciated

I'm reworking this for a new project soon so I'll take all your suggestions into account, hadn't noticed the perspective thing before but I totally see it now.

~ChiBurbs May 8, 2011 General Artist

Glad I could help. It's a wonderful piece, and if you're making changes, it should go in your portfolio.

DaVinci had some great advice for artists: look at your work in a mirror. Just as it's easier to find the flaws in others' works, so will you be able to find your flaws by making your work look like another did it.

BTW, do you know where Herr Drosselmeyer is originally from?

*phantoms-siren May 8, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks, I'm hiding an awful lot of work at the moment for something big later this ear, but I'll post it when I can.

Yes, that's a great tip, the flip tool in Photoshop is a lifesaver

Herr Drosselmeyer is the creepy toymaker from a ballet isn't he? The Nutcracker?

~ChiBurbs May 11, 2011 General Artist

I don't know whether he was creepy in The Nutcracker, lthough I have seen some versions of it where he comes off as vaguely a pedophile.

I should scan in some of my better works, too. I have some on here from the 80s and early 90s.

~amanofthebox May 25, 2010

hear i gaia here is eve and i stand before you as her father
my favorite abbny park song

~FedhaNyuni Apr 25, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

The joints are exquisite! Very well done!

~Minto9955 Mar 23, 2009

Woah . . . That . . . Is excellent. Really, that's marvolous. ^_^ I love how you did this to look like an advertisement poster. It's really well-done, great job! Abney Park is wonderful, btw.

~rotten-orange Jan 24, 2009

Aww so beautiful...

~Mase-chan Nov 17, 2008

That's a pretty disturbing song in my opinion... and this work is perfect to depict the queerness of it all (in the good way, of course)!

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