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Published: 2011-08-21 05:29:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 7973; Favourites: 307; Downloads: 163
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Sheep are notably stupid creatures, and I see no appeal in reducing ourselves to their level before some appointed shepherd. This picture is a condemnation of every ideology founded on the ignorance of the many and the cleverness of the few.Related content
Comments: 38
This reminds me very strongly of the dream sequences in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in The Walls." Very nicely done.
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ARRRRRG I love your work so much man haha. I agree, evil flourishes when good men do nothing. You put in image form, what I try to do in words. 
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All it takes is for the good men to look the other way and do nothing.
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A person is smart, people are stupid. It is an unfortunate fact of society. It doesn't matter where you live.
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this is quality, it has the feel of an aquaprint/ink plate picture. very H.R. Giger
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Thanks. I wasn't aiming very high when I started this - it was well after midnight, I'd been drinking, was fed up with Photoshop and decided to go old school again. Working on it was very cathartic and it turned out better than expected - you're looking at about eight hours of ball point pen and watercolour here.
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It's awesome. The drawing itself, the whole idea... Just awesome
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Hey there, this piece has been featured in the Things That Go Bump In The Night Art Feature VII . Feel free to check it out, have a good day!
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I can't help but be reminded of a certain H.P. Lovecraft story when I see this picture...but I can't seem to remember which one it is! I know it wasn't Dreams In The Witch-House, but it was in the same vein...ah! It was The Rats In The Walls! Was that story an inspiration here?
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I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, and this image owes a bit to the dream sequence in "The Rats in the Walls," though the real inspiration came from some dramas I went through a long time ago. I did a lot of similar stuff in 2003 that dealt with religious and political subjects I've mostly stayed away from since.
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Ah, I thought I sensed a similarity there.
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Sadly, nobody EVER thinks they're following someone else blindly, no matter what they eat up.
Besides the meaning here though, I love your designs for these floppy, flabby little mutant sheople.
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eww those are the ugliest sheep i've ever seen, i'm going to a different market
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I actually downloaded this like 4 days ago. cropped the lil weird lookin guys at the bottom and set it as my desktop background. than i took a photo from my cell and made it my cellphone background. than i showed some of my friends yesterday and they thought it was weird as hell too.
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omg, so amazing. (without staff, it should be better/more detailed)
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Is it weird that I find the little fellas that the guy in the cloak is hearding cute?
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Personally I think it's weird and I'm not alone on that (see BlakeMurdok's comment below) but I always knew that someone would!
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I love the "sheep"
They're like cute little gluttonous cellulite globs
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sad but true with the depiction you've done with this piece of artwork. I like what you did with the shephard awesome work
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ugh!
Those lil things (or whatcha may title as the 'Sheep')
has got to be THE CREEPIEST STUFF I'VE EVER SEEN YOU ILLUSTRATE OUT OF EVERYTHING YOU'VE CREATED SO FAR.
and that's really a fuckin huge statement cuz you really have drawn up so many strange pieces, but Just lookin at these little things crawl over eachother with them extremely horrid face expressions just really makes me feel a bit too uncomfortable and weirded out.
the shepherd and the background look really good, but those strange sheep people at the bottom really does it for me and nearly terrifies me inside.
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That's no shepherd, he's my daaaaaaad....
Well-executed illustration.
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"Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. The hankering of the mind is irresistible; and if once a man has taken it into his head that there is a mystery in a thing, it is impossible to get it out, either by argument or experience. And then, we can so change notions by merely changing a word. What more contemptible than fanaticism; but call it enthusiasm; then add the little word noble, and you may lead him over the world. Nor are we, in these bright days, a bit better than our fathers, who found the pardon of their sins mysteriously contained in a much greater sin, viz. leaving their family, and going barefooted to Rome."-(Spartacus)
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Amazing work! It looks like a Doom Metal band album cover!
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Cheers man. I drew this while drinking bourbon and listening to My Dying Bride, hope that makes a few things clearer.
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