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Published: 2008-04-10 16:16:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1169; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 12
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Description Eh :'D
I rarely draw men
I rarely, RARELY draw macabre&horror
And I rarely, RAAAAARELY draw backgrounds :'DDD

Why put it all together now?
'Cause new things are fun~

Last entrance assignment I'm gonna post here. This is for Metropolia, we had to read a text by Kafka and draw a picture that has all the essential stuff of that text. I mostly concentrated on the mood and left a lot undrawn. There was a picture, I remember, and something on the desc, but I couldn't stuff it anywhere.

I must confess I've never read anything by Kafka, but I do know something about his style. His characters are pretty much unable to do what they like and the theme of alienation is very usual to Kafka's books.

In The Metamorphosis Georg Samsa wakes up to find himself having turned to a vermin. I don't know anything about the character of him, or the analysis some litetaty investigators have don about the book, but I intepreted it so that Samsa is not a literary cockroach but feels unwanted, unimportant and a burden to whoever takes care of him. That's why I drew him as a human. He is, though, covered in something weird and his spine is deformed and stuff, so he has lost some of his mental humanity already. The cockroach on the floor is the way he's heading, getting smaller and smaller and more pathetic. That's why the title is Today, Tomorrow if you know what I mean.

I'm so bad at symbolism. At least I tried :'DD

Now that I got rid of the analyzing part I can go to the technique 'CAUSE I HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH THIS! It's a combination of colour pencils, oil pastels, water colours and inks, all stuffed on an A3 paper. This piece cost me almost half a white oil pastel (I used to have two, now I only have like two centimetres of it. Need a new one~) to get the colours blend smoothly. I could've taken it further, but again, time was up. Since I had abandoned the last version of this same assignment (the last version was lame and the technique quite one-sided) I did all this yesterday (and today because I worked at night, too :'D).

Now everything's safely mailed, though. Time for me to stop babbling. I don't force you to read all this so Iäll just sum it up.

Oil pastels, colour pencils, inks and watercolours
Size A3, took about 4-5 hours or so.
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Comments: 11

kometae [2008-06-06 16:24:34 +0000 UTC]

Mun mielestä on vähän harmi, ettet mitään makaaberia muuten piirrä Tää on näes oikein näsäkkä teos mukaan lukien sen seikan, että mulla jokin pakkomielle ötököihin ja kovasti päässä omiakin ideoita, joihin haluaisin näitä kuusjalkaisia istuttaa

Vähän olis ollut vielä rupisempi jätkä, niin täydellistä.

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Ghost-Shrimp [2008-06-03 01:47:49 +0000 UTC]

Turned out lovely. =]

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aurastiina In reply to Ghost-Shrimp [2008-06-03 10:36:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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mrpantsman [2008-06-01 10:12:15 +0000 UTC]

well im glad you did this rare picture, cause it looks great!

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xxsqueekbatxx [2008-05-19 23:41:49 +0000 UTC]

I really enjoyed the metamorphosis, it was pretty bizarre.. which is my taste to a T haha- either way, great use of color and media, I love seeing artistic references to literature ^_^

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aurastiina In reply to xxsqueekbatxx [2008-05-20 06:46:02 +0000 UTC]

Think I should read it too. I have never read any Kafka books.

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xxsqueekbatxx In reply to aurastiina [2008-05-20 14:08:18 +0000 UTC]

Metamorphosis is actually very short, I'd suggest it.

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aurastiina In reply to xxsqueekbatxx [2008-05-21 06:09:55 +0000 UTC]

OK. I'll find it when I'm through with reading Robin Hobb.

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evelmiina [2008-04-11 08:35:07 +0000 UTC]

Acghhchg it's so good 8C

Inhoan kinda sitä mun omaa kun se vaan ON eikä siinä oo mitää nerokasta, hitto, haluun sinne kokeisiin nyyh!

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aurastiina In reply to evelmiina [2008-04-11 09:41:58 +0000 UTC]

No mut siinä tehtävänannossa haettiin mun käsittääkseni just sitä että se vaan on :'D. Mä en nyt tidä miten tästä mun räellyksestä välittyy ne oleelliset asiat, oon lähinnä vaan lähteny tulkitsemaan sitä, joka ei tainnut olla ihan se tarkoitus. No, eri asiat on oleellista eri ihmisille, puolustaudun sillä.

Kyl sää kokeisiin pääset!

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evelmiina In reply to aurastiina [2008-04-11 11:11:56 +0000 UTC]

En tiedä miksi ihmeessä en jotenkin lainkaan osannut ekana ajatella että se itse olisi nimenomaan joku hyönteinen, kun ajattelin sen muuten vain jotenkin tosi härskin näköiseksi. Nyt on sellainen fiilis että mun aivoilla on joku ihan oma tapa tulkata asioita, huh. Toivottavasti nää nyt ei kato että on paha asia kun en kuvannut sitä sen syöäläismäisyyttä sen kummemmin :'D

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