ALIEN CLUSTER
click the magnifying glasses to zoom
My panel for the untitled Antipodes project of 18 panels (3w x 6h).
Each panel is a 14 x 11 inches Bristol board.
This panel goes into the second row from the bottom, center of the overall project.
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I left space on the outside for the connections to the surrounding panels to be drawn by the project coordinator.
Untitled Antipodes Project
this photo is compiled from several images I received in a Facebook message. I cloned them together with my panel. The quality is not that good, hopefully when the project is finished, there will be a good overall scan done.
The Process
from start to finish and details
Details from the finished panel
About two months ago I posted about the previous Antipodes Project that was finished and exhibited several times:
🎨KILROY WAS HERE - THE ANTIPODES PROJECT REVISITED
check it out!
I hope once this (yet untitled) project is finished, it will be as successful!
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contemplating the meaning of life with Peter Gric while getting a shoulder massage from a ghost.
Photo by Sabina Nore
That's fantastic!
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thanks Peter! I think I spent almost as much time processing the photos and putting this blog together than the actual drawing. ..... at least it felt that way, because when I draw, it doesn't seem like work, but blogging does.
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Hi thermoplastic,
Visit curiesteem.com or join the Curie Discord community to learn more.
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Thank you very much!
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Hi @thermoplastic, this was a very fine art. You have a lot of patience to draw this piece of yours. When I zoom the painting, I like gosh, it so detailed and how heavy my eyesight if I draw it. Normally, you need how long to complete one piece of fine art like this? It really amazing on how you draw all these fine arts. Is this your hobby? You were so thoughtful by providing a zoom in feature for us to view your art. I viewed your other fine arts beside this alien. You are really good in what you are doing, patience is the key element to complete such a beautiful art. Have you draw any colourful art beside black and white? I am very curious now with your eye sight. You must be have a very sharp eye sight :p
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I used to have much better eyesight, but now I need a headband loupe at times for the details in my work.
I can't say how long I work on something since I work on several projects at the same time, this one maybe off and one over 2 weeks, a few hours here and there.
To see much of my work, inclusing paintings, check my website: https://www.artofthemystic.com/
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HI @thermoplastic, with such detailed work of yours, your eye sight worked very hard for you :) This headband loupe very cool and interesting. 2 weeks is consider fast with such a detail work. I amazed with your patience and dedication as well by looking at your other project.
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Great art work and great photo of you and Mr. Gric!
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that photo is from a few years ago. I find it funny because Vesna Krasnec is the one giving the shoulder massage, but only her hands are showing in the photo because of the low angle.
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Wow!!! So many details in that painting!! It's an amazing work!
Is this one currently exhibited in Marchtrenk as well?
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No, it is in a large envelope on it's way to Canada to be joined with the other panels. I suspect it will be a while before the work is finished and hopefully properly scanned (like the previous project). As with the previous one, the original is out of my hands.
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This collaboration seems to be rather smooth and unproblematic. I only judge from the seamlessness in style, but just that is kind of a feat! I have seen many collaborations that ended in war and bickering.
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@katharsisdrill There is not much bickering that I know of, but this one sat on the shelve for a long time. The smoothness (as you can see in the previous project) comes from that we use the same material: bristol board and micron pens. Some artists had physical access to the adjoining panels (I did in the first project) and drew some of the transitions, whereas with this one I submitted to, I had photos of the adjoining panels, but left space for the project coordinator to fill the blanks in-between. There are several core-members of this project that had worked successfully together before and we had been friends and collaborators on other projects over the years. Some of us had recently started a new experimental concept, less rigid about the materials and processes used. Participation by as many or as few as two. The whole idea came out of the old game of exquisite corpse and collaborative corpse we used to play on deviantArt for years already. Not long ago I started a digital canvas which I sent to two other collaborators per wetransfer. Digital is actually the easiest way since you don't have to physically mail stuff back and forth and, as in this current case, go across borders and customs.
On Facebook find The Antipodes Project and the newer spin-off Triptacular Art Collaborations that has yet to gain some traction.
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I have a few persons with whom I have worked effortlessly. When things are like that it is a great thing. Nice things on the --corpse pages.
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Dear Artzonian, thanks for using the #ArtzOne hashtag. Your work is valuable to the @ArtzOne community. Quote of the week: Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. -Victor Pinchuk
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Amaaaaaaaaaaaaazing, Otto <3
You're just made out of so much awesome ... I dont even have words anymore sometimes .... My mind's just so blown with the design and detailing of this piece <3
Absolutely gorgeous work !
upvotes and resteems
Also, congrats on curie :)
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@veryspider - thanks Spiderman! I was busy elsewhere last couple of days, so took time off from Steemit.
Hopefully the group of friends I am working with can come up with something new - as indeed I had started a digital canvas a while ago and sent it off to a couple of collaborators. This should be the start for as many or as few as want to participate.
▲ click for larger view
this is a expandable canvas, currently I have 2 friends working on it (so far, no results yet). Being digital and the limit of the free wetransfer service is 2GB, the sky is actually the limit for how big this is going to potentially get.
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Wow, this is a very lovely artwork, Otto. The detail is so fine and intricate, I wouldn't be surprised if it looks even more amazing in real.
Congratulations for your curie vote. Very well done :).
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thanks - what looks amazing is the already completed previous Antipodes piece where I also worked on (I got the full-size print file). I am hoping this will be just as good once finished.
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WOW! How long did it take you? And how do you feel while drawing? Knowing myself I would be very inpatient.. but I can imagine that you completely clear your head? You must be so focused on the drawing that you forget the world around you . I have never seen so much detail in one drawing.
It is a brilliant work! You are very very very talented! :)
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Thank you - you guessed right, when I am absorbed, time stands still.
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My word...that's detailed. Amazing work mate.
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thank you - and don't forget, there are many great artists working on this, and I was trying to keep up with the overall quality. The top image center (on the big board where I put the individual panels together) for example is by Alex Grey. Got big shoes to fill here!
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Beautiful details and great technique ... nice work
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thank you!
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I really liked your drawings there so many different things going on, the closer i look more i find. And it all blends together perfect. Good job.
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Thank you - the blending together comes from that we use the same material, we see what the others were doing before and try to match them, but still retain our personal styles, and lastly, the project coordinator who fills in the blanks between the panels.
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Wow I’m glad I found you...your artstyle is amazing! I can see much passion in it and a great mind.
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I credit my collaborators - seeing what they had done elevates my own work.
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Nice work. Upvoted and followed
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thank you for the vote - also for following.
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Wow... So mazing !!! I am speechless.
I am so glad to see your artwork!!
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thanks
maybe you like to check my website: https://www.artofthemystic.com/
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Wow ! I love both the mass and volume of details and the multiple panel approach. Amazing !
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thank you - we have been at it for quite a few years, several different artists from our genre and circle of friends.
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Very fine work, full admiration and respect.
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thanks!
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Very complex alien cluster, it is like many merged together, is that symbiosis or a disaster that made them melt in one organism, I like the way you worked, especially the fine lines, first of all what I can see are the teeth and in their I see the alien from alien movie. You must be very patient person and spent really huge amount of time :)
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Patience is relative to what I work on. I am actually impatient when it is just work, but if a project is open-ended and working on it is a trip, then I forget time. Thanks for dropping by!
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Absolutely mesmerising work! I really enjoy the level of detail and shapes throughout the peice :D
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Thank you!
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Your work is so amazing, it's like been created in another planet, where imposible dreams can make real.
Your art is so special.
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it is not just me, a lot of credit goes to the participating artists and the project coordinator. It could be compared to symbiosis.
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Aristotle
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Incredible!
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