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4. Jack Skellington - The Nightmare Before Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5Z9SUW7r0
And the "Biggest No Brainer" award goes to-
So yeah, it's no mystery that I'm a life long fan of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. In many ways it has shaped me into who I am today and has been one of my biggest sources of inspiration. This may seem a little silly, but when I first saw the movie was when I was really coming of age and had a lot of questions as to who I was and what I wanted to do. My interests, both personally and artistically very much did not align with what my family would have deemed acceptable, that's not to say I had a bad or toxic family life but I was definitely the odd man out when it came to my darker sense of art and my... *cough* life choices.
This was also at the same time that I had begun brain storming ideas that would eventually bloom into the prototype version of High School Death Party which at the time became sort of a mental palace for myself that I would frequently get lost in. I felt different and alone as most children do at one point or another, filled with weird ideas I'd not seen executed before... until I saw this movie. In seconds I was seeing things so akin to my own eccentric characters moving around on a screen. Jack's plight of longing for something different really spoke to how I was feeling at the moment. It was like all at once I saw someone's head space who rivaled my own and it was comforting.
I realize this all comes off as a bit over dramatic-(but would you expect anything less from me?)-and maybe a bit fanatical but you have to remember. In my once tiny, shallow world I had never seen anything like this. It was the first time my eyes really got opened to the kinds of things I wanted to work on and it helped pave the way for me to eventually create what has been a long standing labor of love and that is why Nightmare Before Christmas will always be my favorite movie of all time and I'll always see more then just a little bit of me in Jack. You'd think with all this that Jack would have placed in the no.1 spot and yeah, you'd be right. If I had to go off of personal connections, he would, but there were just a few more in this list that I felt deserved higher billing then him. I tough choice for certain, but one done without regret.
This was essentially drawn to be a counterpart to an older picture I did: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11971025/ to sort of finish the sort of trifecta that is 'Jack'. Sadly I don't think it holds up quite as well as the previous one, but it was nice to revisit it and actually draw his various gifts which I've shockingly never done in all the years I've drawn "Santa Jack" during December.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5Z9SUW7r0
And the "Biggest No Brainer" award goes to-
So yeah, it's no mystery that I'm a life long fan of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. In many ways it has shaped me into who I am today and has been one of my biggest sources of inspiration. This may seem a little silly, but when I first saw the movie was when I was really coming of age and had a lot of questions as to who I was and what I wanted to do. My interests, both personally and artistically very much did not align with what my family would have deemed acceptable, that's not to say I had a bad or toxic family life but I was definitely the odd man out when it came to my darker sense of art and my... *cough* life choices.
This was also at the same time that I had begun brain storming ideas that would eventually bloom into the prototype version of High School Death Party which at the time became sort of a mental palace for myself that I would frequently get lost in. I felt different and alone as most children do at one point or another, filled with weird ideas I'd not seen executed before... until I saw this movie. In seconds I was seeing things so akin to my own eccentric characters moving around on a screen. Jack's plight of longing for something different really spoke to how I was feeling at the moment. It was like all at once I saw someone's head space who rivaled my own and it was comforting.
I realize this all comes off as a bit over dramatic-(but would you expect anything less from me?)-and maybe a bit fanatical but you have to remember. In my once tiny, shallow world I had never seen anything like this. It was the first time my eyes really got opened to the kinds of things I wanted to work on and it helped pave the way for me to eventually create what has been a long standing labor of love and that is why Nightmare Before Christmas will always be my favorite movie of all time and I'll always see more then just a little bit of me in Jack. You'd think with all this that Jack would have placed in the no.1 spot and yeah, you'd be right. If I had to go off of personal connections, he would, but there were just a few more in this list that I felt deserved higher billing then him. I tough choice for certain, but one done without regret.
This was essentially drawn to be a counterpart to an older picture I did: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11971025/ to sort of finish the sort of trifecta that is 'Jack'. Sadly I don't think it holds up quite as well as the previous one, but it was nice to revisit it and actually draw his various gifts which I've shockingly never done in all the years I've drawn "Santa Jack" during December.
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