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Published: 2007-05-14 21:22:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1902; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 15
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Haven't drawn anything in a while, so I thought I'd play Fun with the Pause Button on my favorite movie. FwtPB is usually just for sketches... but it was a really cool shot.From "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade" (1967).
Great movie, if you've never seen it. Brilliantly acted by the Royal Shakespeare Company of the time, it's a film of the play about a play that the Marquis de Sade directs about the assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday, put on by the inmates of the asylum where he's being held, arguing the differences between his own political and social philosophies and those of the late revolutionary leader Marat, while the asylum director tries (with limited success) to censor anything too radical, and (with no success) to keep things from devolving into complete chaos.
And it's a musical!
Sade (Patrick Magee), Marat (Ian Richardson), and the Chorus (Freddie Jones, Hugh Sullivan, Jonathan Burn, Jeanette Landis).
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I just saw this tonight at my school. Such an amazing work!! Awesome drawing!
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We actually did this play my freshman year in high school. I got the honor to play Coulmier and watch the magic unfold before my eyes!
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Must kill you for not having more sensitive line pressure. Even with that, Love it. Very cool. The guy on the top left, leaning over, especially. <3
Maybe I must watch this movie, but it doesn't sound like my kind of happiness. At all. Heh.
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This movie makes me fear for my future as a writer. See, I hear that it takes place in four different years simultaneously, that it doesn't have any real plot to speak of, that it can hardly be said to have any characters because almost everyone is a crazy person reciting from a script, and on top of all that it's a musical--and I think that's a great idea. And if I think that's a great idea, who the heck is going to want to read what I write?
But D&L have tentatively agreed to watch it with me, so hopefully we'll see to what degree I'm completely insane for liking it.
What's the matter with my line pressure?
Yeah, for some reason the guys at the top were really easy to draw, and came out surprisingly well. ...Probably because I have no idea what they look like under the clown paint.
And I hereby resolve that someday I'm going to actually learn that when I'm drawing from a screen cap and it's too blurry/grainy/dark to be able to tell that the person has eyelids, a likeness is not going to be possible. I don't see this happening any time soon though; I suspect that the number of times I've discovered it and then forgotten it is fairly staggering.
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Lines: they are just very abrupt. like, thick and black. that's not always a bad thing, but here it's kind of distracting -- especially around the eyes, and the outline of that guy's profile.
I really, really like it tho. Just that if your lines are that dark, they should be less obvious? I don't know what I'm talking about. <3
Wish me luck on muchos examenes! AHhh.
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!Buena suerte!
Hmm... I suppose the picture is very much an outline that got colored in. I was sort of hoping it wouldn't be. Especially since that's so prosaic, and this movie so...isn't. And then... I started outlining. In the end, I ended up flattening the colors a bit--it looked so children's book illustration otherwise. Still it'd be nice not to be depending on the outlines.
I've never managed to do a proper digital painting that came out well, with the dark bits actually integrated into the rest of it, instead of having outlines standing in for it.
Is that the phenomenon you're talking about? I mean, I like the style of outlines and coloredness. ...It would be nice to do something else, too, but I do like it.
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