Beautiful picture Pedestrian! Love your choice of colours!

Ears aren't level anyway Ped, well mines aren't I always feel a slight squint when I wear sunglasses or that.

Yes, as Cru Hoor says, the colours are very effective. I`m particularly impressed by the unflinching look in your eyes, and the way you`ve drawn your hair so that it seems to fall so naturally.
Altogether it`s a very attractive portrait, though I think you`ve been uncharitable about your nose - much prettier in the MB photos thread !

Looks really great, Pedestrian. Like you're ready to just beat the crap out of someone.

Would make a good album cover.

Thanks guys. I have some kind of series in mind of self-portraits with skin-diseases, but I'm not adept with paint and I can't think of another medium I'd want to do it in.

^Beautiful^

Nice! Another great work by Cru Hoor. And a bit less on the abstract side than usual. I love the colors and the strong, yet still relaxing impact.

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Been working on some playful stuff lately.

^Very nice!

Thanks Jansz! And just finished:

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I love that one. There's something about it I find disturbing.

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Just finished this.

"Wicker Tree"


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My brother's always pressuring me to go to an art academy. Meh! I just wanna sleep and listen to music, aaand occasionally spend my time with a pencil. Besides, I can only draw from photos and am not very original myself.

That's some pretty skilled illustration, certainly worthy of an art academy. It would be cool to see that image animated in a sequence- it feels like a still shot. I guess some artists create more from observation than pure imagination. The most astonishingly amazing results, I find, tend to come from artists who can do both.

Do you find it easier to be original if you are given a concept to work with? Or do you draw most of your inspiration from images that capture your attention? Either way, I really like what you accomplished with that drawing :)

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Geekoid: Typically an image or a concept will occur to me, then I will redraw it as near I can to how I visualized it, sometimes pulling on reference photos.

I can certainly see that, Pedestrian. Your art looks like it came from somewhere within an imaginary construct or vision, but then there's still that grounding in reality that makes it less "cartoon"-like and more sophisticated. Your portraits show your ability to draw from a reference, but there's always a definite personality that comes out in them.

I've haven't seen anything quite like your style before; it's kind of like the sort of thing artists make using Illustrator and post online (for memes, comics and whatnot), but with a kind of interesting grotesque distortion that's really playful and striking. I never know quite what to think or feel when I look at them; but for that very reason they're alluring.

I bolded these, because they're massively complimentary. These are the feelings I hope to portray in these pieces, and the fact that they do come across means that what I am doing is successful.

I lost my passion for artwork over years of focusing on technicality and finding that my aptitude (portraiture) was pleasant, but ultimately not moving for anybody. Sometime in the last year I realized that there isn't a wrong way to make art, and that's really empowered me to explore my imagination.

Thank you again!

No problem! I'm glad your artistic vision is coming across the way you were hoping. I'm not quite there yet, but only time and confidence will get me to that place (I hope). I'll be keeping my eye out for more :)

I love this one. Looking at it, I weirdly had the immediate thought, "There are ghosts in the trees."

I don't know why. That's just the impression it gave me.

Nice work, man!

Thank you very much! Come to think of it, it was easier for me to be original when I was still in high school and my art teacher gave me concepts to work with. But nowadays it's as you said: I get inspiration from images that capture my attention. Though sometimes I have an image in my head but I can't get it out, so I need a reference picture to work with. Often I'm inspired by lyrics of some songs. For example, this soldier picture was inspired by a part of Editor's song: "Darling, just don't put down your guns yet. If there really was a God here he'd have raised a hand by now."

Anyway, besides drawing I also make little videos (mostly stop motion) and with them I find it much more easier to be original with. So, I guess my problem with drawing is that I can really only draw what I see with my eyes.

Thanks Phanastasio, I am delighted you like it! Yeah you hit the nail on the head there, thats more or less what I am trying to portray from a dream I had.

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I like your style, Pedestrian, though it's very different from the art I make. Do you do this for living? Graphic designing or something? Or are you an art student? Or just for fun? Also, how do you do these? I've never done pictures with computer, so I don't know the process. Enough questions? Let's see...hmm...yup, I think enough for now :D

Thank you! Truth be told, it's very different from the art I made up until now too; mine was more in the vein of what you posted (charcoal and graphite portraits). Creatures, concepts, and colour are all the opposite of what I thought my strong suits were, so this is a lot of fun for me right now.

I'm just doing this for pleasure at the moment. I'm untrained and unpaid, and this is just one of my little creative outlets. It would be amusing to see it take off into something more though!

What I do is I draw up the original idea, ink it, scan it, then I use ghetto-photoshop to add the colour in.

Bare in mind I never studied art, I only took it up 2 years ago as a hobby, I have not really ever painted people before, I thought I should start with myself last night. I wasn't very sobre doing this.

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Dangit, Cru Hoor. Even drunk, you're better than I am.

I wasn't drunk(;p), but thank you! ^^


I am not too happy with this one but my mother loves it. She put it up in the kitchen.


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You said you weren't sobre, so I just assumed drunkenness. Well then, even stoned you're better than I am.

On your 'The Other Side of the Nile'

This is really lovely, fantastic work!

Thank you!

I found some brilliant old black and white photos. Couldn't resist drawing them.

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Haha, that's great!

Thanks! :)

That is a great picture.

Here's my own latest item.

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Thank you! :)

I clicked the link and my first reaction was a huge smile on my face. I don't know if it's supposed to make people smile, but it's great if an image makes people react spontaneously. You have some great ones on your fb page, too. I especially liked the cat in the diving suit.

Your reaction is indeed a large compliment. Thank you!

That's hilarious, Pedestrian. Your art really reminds me of my own, if I had a better sense of scale and was a hair less trippy.

I'd love to see some of it!