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Published: 2019-08-23 19:13:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 11361; Favourites: 258; Downloads: 2
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All the semi-realistic Gorillaz bandmember paintings together!
I tweaked them a little cus I didn't plan them ahead so looked nasty together. Mostly a background fix and some minor details.
Gorillaz: Murdoc Niccals, Stuart "2D" Pot, Noodle, Russel Hobbs © Jamie Hewlett & Damon Albarn
Check out the post for each member here!
MURDOC
2D
NOODLE
RUSSEL
PRINTS
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Thanks!
Yeah Im not really active one here anymore. Only upload to keep it up to date really.
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This is freakin' amazing! Beautifully done and accurate. I think this is one of the best realistic representations I have seen in a very very long time!
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Thank you so much for your kind words!
Its always a challenge, especially when theres an entire fandom that knows the characters just as well or see them differently than you.
But its fun to try nonetheless
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Every interpretation is a welcome one, IMO. Granted, I'm old and my opinion may not count anymore, LOL. It's not often you can capture realism in animated characters and Gorillaz is prob one of the more difficult ones to try. But hot damn, you made them so freakin' real I feel like I can reach out and touch them!
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Oh definitely! Always awesome to see how other people would draw them! And of course your opinion counts!
Everyone's opinion counts fuck those who say it doest. Whatever the reason
Tell me about it! Jamie's style makes 2D, Noodle, and Russel's headshape and nose often looking the same.
How the heck are you gonna make non-same-face humans that still resemble the character enough!!!
However, the fact that they're different race also helps a lot with recognizing each. Had jamie made them all the same race (and sex),
the only way you could distinguish one from another by face is their haircut, teeth, and eyes.
Sure every race still has a range of different facial features, but you kind of know what youre looking for a lot better and safer bet.
Unless a certain feature was drawn a certain way like Murdoc's nose... no matter what race he couldve been, his nose must look rather fractured and hooked.
I'd have given 2D a longer and straighter "european nose" if the style didnt make his profile looking curved. D: Plus his personality and voice, didn't feel as if he'd fit
strong features lol
Thanks!!
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Hewlett's style is pretty specific and as much as I hate to say it, a lot of his characters look alike. It's the hair, a piercing or even a tattoo that helps differentiate most of them. Gorillaz is probably his most diverse set of characters as far as his art style is concerned. But it doesn't change the fact that even with all the little things Hewlett's added to make them their own individuals, they're a difficult group to envision - let alone draw - as flesh and blood people.
It just blows my mind how beautiful your representation is. You've captured them all perfectly in ways I could never imagine.
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Well are they though? :0 The Whitney Action design looks a lot like Noodle in the last couple of phases, and 2D and now Russel too have similair headshape as her..
But there are some other characters as well, like Booga in Tank Girl, the Monkey universe, and some Gorillaz lore characters.
But I guess you're speaking of his human characters, then yeah I agree that Gorillaz are the most diverse in terms of age, size, body, face, race, etc. And personality.
Which is good cus theyll be so fricking boring if they wouldnt. And there wouldnt be story dynamics etc. Even their voices are completely different, a very good thing for interviews.
BUT at the end of the day you can argue its still the style though. I think in general, same-face often happens to human characters in anyone's style cus we see
realistic and detailed humans every day, and even then we all look similair. And when you stylize a detailed being to round head, nose, mouth, eyes, cool haircut... not much is left. Those little blemishes, birthmarks, scars, eyebrows, hairline, jawline, etc are gone. That's why I think people who draw more realistic character's unknowingly get a pass.
If you change Noodle's eyes and hair to 2D's... it'll be 2D lol. But if I were to try it with a real version... it'll be like an entire plastic surgery!
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Thank you!
Those new background colours where a struggle to decide lol
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Glad you like it! THank you!
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