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Looking for some inspirationβ¦
3 years ago
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First, this is NOT a request announcement !
Even drunk, I won't involve myself in this kind of stuff.
(yes, I have am under influence of alcohol while writing)
( it is some obscure Guyana rum if you are wondering )
So, I might draw a fetish picture tonight if I got the time and motivation (a link to the first draft is given in this comment). Yet, I am looking for "inspiration" and, by inspiration, I mean pictural reference : so, I am asking YOU if you have in mind an inspiring painting / illustration / sculpture / other VISUAL ART FROM BEFORE 1900 that you would like to suggest me. I don'y have anything against XXth and XXIst century art, yet I find it to close of my usual references (and it is probably the case for some other artists here, maybe most of them).
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Music I am currently listening as a loop:
https://youtu.be/xVtLq_k_yPM
I truly enjoy the work of this composer!
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My friend Lord_Foxhole is doing the Inktober.
I really enjoy his drawing on the daily themes.
This specific picture compelled my attention:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49373427/
Don't hesitate to give a look to the others!
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Most of you knows that FootPaws has a Patreon.
Some (most?) of his posts are public like this one:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ostinatoe-73348934
Even drunk, I won't involve myself in this kind of stuff.
(yes, I have am under influence of alcohol while writing)
( it is some obscure Guyana rum if you are wondering )
So, I might draw a fetish picture tonight if I got the time and motivation (a link to the first draft is given in this comment). Yet, I am looking for "inspiration" and, by inspiration, I mean pictural reference : so, I am asking YOU if you have in mind an inspiring painting / illustration / sculpture / other VISUAL ART FROM BEFORE 1900 that you would like to suggest me. I don'y have anything against XXth and XXIst century art, yet I find it to close of my usual references (and it is probably the case for some other artists here, maybe most of them).
- Digression 1 -
Music I am currently listening as a loop:
https://youtu.be/xVtLq_k_yPM
I truly enjoy the work of this composer!
- Digression 2 -
My friend Lord_Foxhole is doing the Inktober.
I really enjoy his drawing on the daily themes.
This specific picture compelled my attention:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49373427/
Don't hesitate to give a look to the others!
- Digression 3 -
Most of you knows that FootPaws has a Patreon.
Some (most?) of his posts are public like this one:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ostinatoe-73348934
Your character Mole becomes a clown. There are ideas of your character to make for as a satire or ideas. It your choice to expand your inspiration from.
As I wrote in my journal, I was looking for inspiring pictural references from the XIXth century and before.
Concerning the back stories of my characters, I have most of their bio in my mind since the late 1990's (early 2000's) when I started to create them (Alphonse LavallΓ©e, Joseph Meunier, Alphonse Uncles -Pierre & Jean-, Anselme Duterrier, Elise Liliac and some other characters I haven't mentioned yet). My (partly) invisible mole "character" Armand Legalle is a bit apart from the other, it is a soft version of myself: if he looks ridiculous in a pathetic way, the original model is cringe-making as hell.
...Actually, I don't know how this could be used as a fetish art reference, my apologies. I just wanted to share the fact. I'll excuse myself out
Thank you very much for the reference.
I should admit that I have no knowledge about Pre-Raphaelite painters and when I hear the word "pre-raphaelite", the only image that comes in my mind is the painting you have cited (and, because of my lack of culture, I would easily mix-up Pre-Raphaelism with Symbolism - shame on me -). The style and aesthetic of Ophelia is very far from my "comfort zone" yet the disturbing beauty of this painting cannot make me feel indifferent: one could spend hours looking at each flower, at each little details of the landscape, just in order to avoid considering the main subject of the scene, a pale woman body between life and death (and probably getting closer to the second state).
Again thank you very much for evoking this powerful painting !
Je me demande à quand peuvent les premières évocations de cette créature.
J'ai peut-Γͺtre encore des dessins de Homas dans mes archives (annΓ©es 90)β¦
β¦ mais ce n'est pas sΓ»r (Γ§a remonte Γ une trentaine d'annΓ©es). ^^
He also did the similar Cowboys Roping a Bear, around the same time.
Of course, they are quite consistent with my sick and unhealthy graphical universeβ¦
Thank you very much for making me discover these somehow obscure artworks !
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhib.....h/06print.html
He did some similar paintings with horses, but they are less dramatic and composed.
Actually, I was more looking for graphical references from the XIXth c. and before.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39669495/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39669445/
Here something from one of my older sketches.
Concerning Caravaggio, it is difficult not say that he was obviously -beyond the "simple" Caravaggisti style / fashion of the Baroque period- one of the main inspiration of some XXα΅Κ° century artists: well, of course, I have some painting of Salvador Dali in mind but not only, I cannot help myself to see in his works the first (graphical) signs of some emblematic US comic illustrators (like Frank Miller for example).
I should confess that I may exaggerate a bit the influence of Caravaggio, yet not sure.
Again thank you for mentioning this true master of anatomy, lighting and, beyond all, composition !
Dali is an excellent choice (though he's in the 1900s, not prior). I think you'd love Michael Cheval. All his works have Victorian Era characters and beautiful rendering, and it's very surrealist and imaginative. But he's alive today, and I had a chance to speak with him! Take a look at Discord of Analogy, it's an interesting concept for sure!