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yatz — Jimmy,Janis and Jim
Published: 2010-07-13 18:20:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 2357; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Another bit of pre-history - done in Rapidograph, back in 1987. I would love to give it a full render, but have no hope of finding the necessary energy...Related content
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Be nice - girl paid her dues!
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Damn..............that is a LOT of work. How come you never see this approach anymore? I think people are too lazy. I mean it is taking the long way around but it is a GREAT effect. I miss seeing this stuff. I hope you do more Yatz. Even if it is just a head shot. Theres not enough on here!
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I'm going through a book of illustrations I just got from Amazon - Drew friedman's "Too soon?". back in the 80's, I was doing this thing all the time - sitting for hours, dotting away like crazy, doing stuff I had no idea why I was doing. Then suddenly I came across his work, in Spy magazine; he was doing a sort of caricature, "private Life of Public Figures", really weird humor - and it was all stippling. This really blew my mind, as it was the style I was doing, and his humor was very much of the sort I was aiming for - only he was killing it, and I couldn't get anyone to "get" what I was doing... I'm ashamed to say that was the point I gave up on this (the shameful part: at the time I had gotten a spot at the weekend edition of a paper here, a whole page, with the editor encourging me to "go wild" - and I just fucking gave up...!)
Anyway...! the funny thing is, Friedman writes in the introduction, that at some point he just realised that this style - which made his name - was just plain stupid... He started phasing it out over a few monthes, and now he's doing just colors. He's very big, and his stuff is still pretty good, but his color illus have got nothing on the stippled drawings.
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Dead! Dead! Aaaaaand dead!
Bet you didn't know that.
And I can honestly say I've never absorbed the tech beyond a Rapidograph, other than the result always looks cool.
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Wha... whe... NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Do you know Drew Friedman? Man rocks the dots - and he's arguably one of the funniest/coolest cartoonists on the planet (though calling him "a cartoonist" really doesn't even begin to cover it).
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I've heard of Friedman. That's kind of what I'm talking about. The technique looks so exacting and ultra-detailed ... I just don't understand how one achieves that look without scratching their eyes out.
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Eyes? You meant brains, right? Mine are all scratched out. Seriously, it only started making sense to me after I learned about ADD and hyperfocus; because, really, even at the time it felt more like a symptom of something than art.
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I absolutely love the stippling. got any more art done like this?
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Stippling...! So now I know the name for this insane method. Thanks. I have made a gazzilion of those when I was younger, but almost all the originals were lost, and the few scans I have are very poor quality. I'll see if I can dredge some normal ones up, I'll post them here.
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