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Artist: Johanna Iso-Järvenpää (pre-FA, Elfwood, no contact known)
Convention: None
Date: File dated 2004
Description: Final piece one of one.
This piece won a "Mods Choice" award when it was posted to Elfwood, which both me and the artist were thrilled about because such a designation is not easily won and has to actually be given by the moderation team supervising Elfwood uploads at the time. Mods Choice award places a shiny special tag icon on the art piece page, and gives the submission front and center highlight on a special grid of the front page for a solid week as saying "this is the best of the best on our site that cannot be missed". Such notice also means the art piece gets a lot of eyes and comments on the submission too. Elfwood really was a thriving community of artists in the early Internet days.
Being an actual painting I followed this submission for days afterwards to see what other Elfwood users and visitors had to say about it and overall the support was there, and took downloads of the page to record all the comments until it faded into memory and a new batch of Mod's Choice picks was established to get peoples attention elsewhere.
As such this is yet another opportunity to peek into the past and see what the artist had to say to their art submission. You can see that my idea of what I wanted out of a 'taur was still so outrageously out there that it was hard to be taken seriously with my vision:
This is a commissioned piece for a guy who likes it multiple.
After first reading the description of the character, I couldn't believe it was real. I was thinking, that someone was making fun of me. So, the customer had to convince me that this really was his character, before I started sketching.:) My goal was to make all those limbs and heads look as natural as possible.
Convention: None
Date: File dated 2004
Description: Final piece one of one.
This piece won a "Mods Choice" award when it was posted to Elfwood, which both me and the artist were thrilled about because such a designation is not easily won and has to actually be given by the moderation team supervising Elfwood uploads at the time. Mods Choice award places a shiny special tag icon on the art piece page, and gives the submission front and center highlight on a special grid of the front page for a solid week as saying "this is the best of the best on our site that cannot be missed". Such notice also means the art piece gets a lot of eyes and comments on the submission too. Elfwood really was a thriving community of artists in the early Internet days.
Being an actual painting I followed this submission for days afterwards to see what other Elfwood users and visitors had to say about it and overall the support was there, and took downloads of the page to record all the comments until it faded into memory and a new batch of Mod's Choice picks was established to get peoples attention elsewhere.
As such this is yet another opportunity to peek into the past and see what the artist had to say to their art submission. You can see that my idea of what I wanted out of a 'taur was still so outrageously out there that it was hard to be taken seriously with my vision:
This is a commissioned piece for a guy who likes it multiple.
After first reading the description of the character, I couldn't believe it was real. I was thinking, that someone was making fun of me. So, the customer had to convince me that this really was his character, before I started sketching.:) My goal was to make all those limbs and heads look as natural as possible.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Tutorials
Species Taur (Other)
Size 700 x 518px
File Size 112.6 kB
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