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[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Firstly, I'd like to welcome you all to my artistic domain, the Incubus Cradle, where I'll be posting commissioned and personal artworks in future, like a quite disturbing portfolio. And here I begin, with sketchbook scans of my pre-exam coursework for GCSE art. Unfortunately my actual scanner's gone walkabout, so until I serendipitously find it, I've to rely on a camera. Yuck, I know, right?

 

Anyway, here goes, in no particular order:

 

Mona Lisa Smiles:

 

 

Gluttony, of the Dante's Inferno game:

 

 

Baphomet, of the Satanic Church:

 

 

Insane Cancer, of Silent Hill:

 

 

Acrylic of Korn's 'See You On The Other Side':

 

 

Pen-only Slipknot's 1999 self-titled:

 

 

Original piece, The Warden:

 

 

Original piece, Untitled Hell:

 

 

Original piece, Fallout:

 

 

Original piece, Suspense:

 

 

Original piece, Punishment for the Heretic:

 

 

Original piece, Punishment for the Greedy:

 

 

Original Piece, Punishment for the Violent:

 

 

Thoughts?

[Phil]

Consult a shrink ASAP...

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

This amuses me, compliment or not. 

[Pasidon]

Now Phil.. borderline satanic art isn't a terrible thing.  At least he isn't drawing Anime...

 

I can appreciate this stuff.  Yea, yea... I'm a skeleton and stereotypes category me with the dark arts... but weird mutilation and deformity art really can inspire interesting things.  Games like Amesia really take advantage of having mindsets like this, and that's what made their game fantastic.  Keep on truckin' the weird stuff... erm... Digs?  Draggy?  Gosh darn it... I can't be asked to memorize who you all are when these silly name changes... 

[Elric]

Connor 3 words for you my friend: "Hell IS Bad.." LOL I think you should try drawing some uhhh nicer things.

[Pasidon]

Don't think your argument was too keen there, Draggy.

[Elric]

[OmegaBolt]

Hey you've got some talent there, Gluttony is especially well done.

[duke_Qa]

I think gluttony is the technically best one too. If that Mona Lisa is hand-painted too then I'm pretty impressed with that one as well.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

If that Mona Lisa is hand-painted too then I'm pretty impressed with that one as well.

Guilty. No, that's not been totally hand painted, sorry to disappoint.

 

I think you should try drawing some uhhh nicer things.

I have actually, I just enjoy drawing more morosely-themed stuff.

 

And thank you, to the last two posts! 

 

 

In my first post though, I seem to have neglected my computer based artwork. So here's that too:

 

Original piece, inspired by Giger

 

Original piece, Umbilica: In Between (my edited photography)

[Pasidon]

And he does photography!  Those gates actually look like the ones outside my manor home currently.  Late Neo-Victorian Architecture is pretty swish.

 

 

And thank you, to the last two posts! 

 

[zezkersar]

Very impressive artwork.

[Gen.Kenobi]

Consult a shrink ASAP...

My thoughts exactly hahahahaha.

Despite the weird stuff, those are very well done. xD

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

 

This one's another piece, six hours, for my sketchbook, Punishment for the Lustful.

Made this just after watching the two Silent Hill films, so that may explain its likeness to some of its characters.

[Mathijs]

You have quite some talent, but I feel it's going to waste on these subjects you keep portraying. Drawing obscene or gory things is easy, and none of these things inspire any dread in me at all. I've seen oodles of this stuff. Drawing gory flesh-demons and sculpting them in that one 3d-sculpting program isn't very likely to really improve your skill and vision. 

 

I would suggest exploring some other venues, teach yourself proper human anatomy, perhaps work on visualizing landscapes. Get into some realism, try doing more abstract stuff. Don't get all hung up on tirelessly continuing some 'satanic' theme (protip: satanism has little to do with blood and gore) and apply your skills in more diverse areas. That's how you improve. 

 

Edit: Also, please, know that Mona Lisa parodies are about as kitsch as it gets. Really.

Edited by Mathijs, 20 April 2013 - 05:21 PM.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I do agree with many of your points, however subtlety and fear (and Satanism), are not the subject of this project, only by-products of it. Hell is the subject, and as such is intended for pain and suffering more than the inspiration of fear - hence the use of Satanism as a source.

So, much as I'd now like to retrack from the single-mindedness of this theme, it's a little to late for that now, and further experimentations will be resumed after this and prior to the next project (in 6^th Form, that is), and yes, I do plan to return from the bounds of gore in that. Thanks for the suggestions, they'll definitely form a part of it. And yeah, the Mona Lisa was a page-filler (ugh!), I just needed a multimedia piece.

[OmegaBolt]

Pain isn't always physical. I imagine if there was a Hell physical pain wouldn't be it's only weapon, afterall the soul is what would make it to the afterlife. Draw some madness instead of just bodies being destroyed.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Next project, remind me to consult you nit-pickers before hand, so I don't get smoked .

Yet again, you manage to make unavoidably accurate points, to which I can answer this time only that I didn't want to. For all my other projects, subtlety had been prevalent, and here I just wanted to go to an extreme of what I typically would draw in my spare time, but never find a place in my sketchbook for.

[Mathijs]

Also, for your subject matter, I would advise dropping the whole pencil-drawn thing (it detracts from the vibe if you can tell the thing is drawn with colored pencils, I think) and try your hand at digital painting. Much more versatile, and from what I can from your sculptures, should be right up your alley.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Pencil-drawn?

And about the digital painting, I'm hoping to get a tablet soon for that.