tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post3940878638599535038..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: Paint Yourop, Draw Yndjapjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-58268335970193966992022-04-13T14:24:55.167-07:002022-04-13T14:24:55.167-07:00As a German native speaker, kudos to the Germanish...As a German native speaker, kudos to the Germanish, it put a smile on my face. Mradon Kalashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06373817703237113329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-30411622829003851602022-04-11T04:39:13.211-07:002022-04-11T04:39:13.211-07:00I have some sympathy because how else can you expl...I have some sympathy because how else can you explain or communicate otherness to a wide audience except by that which is known?pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-13672613652319190242022-04-11T04:23:34.803-07:002022-04-11T04:23:34.803-07:00It reminds me a lot of generic 'Fantasy' a...It reminds me a lot of generic 'Fantasy' art. Maybe if you strip away the specific signifiers and just try to draw something "foreign" and monumental, thats what you get.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-15500580441815867072022-04-11T04:22:30.223-07:002022-04-11T04:22:30.223-07:00Yes it creates an interesting blurred boundary bet...Yes it creates an interesting blurred boundary between fiction and historypjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-87542934675153236632022-04-09T09:48:01.936-07:002022-04-09T09:48:01.936-07:00It's just like the medieval illustrations of t...It's just like the medieval illustrations of the Trojan war, with all the knights in plate armour riding warhorses.<br /><br />Or the Hammer films where everyone sports 19th century clothing and 1970s hairstyles.Alea iactanda esthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951704235056042923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-84822561608860397412022-04-09T06:33:59.669-07:002022-04-09T06:33:59.669-07:00It interests me how difficult it is sometimes to i...It interests me how difficult it is sometimes to imagine something we never saw, how mind falls back on the patterns of already recognizable things. <br /><br />For non-picture example, it always of interest to me how much the monsters or mutations or gods or SF species that supposed to be different and/or more advanced than humans are just messed up animals and people (and, more rarely, plants and crystals) or parts thereof combined, but people rarely if ever can imagine something actually as different and new comparatively to humanity as the humanity different from, say, wolves, even if monsters and mutations come from Chaos where everything is, theoretically, possible. Mostly this vast possibility takes forms already familiar, just like for those painters, who defaulted to India-like women and German-like buildings respectively because they couldn't imagine or had no detailed description of what these actually could be.Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-61629009441881820412022-04-08T13:52:51.512-07:002022-04-08T13:52:51.512-07:00Weird! A perdurable, cross-cultural style guide. T...Weird! A perdurable, cross-cultural style guide. Though that can be said for all art, I suppose. anthony mhorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02439495903811144056noreply@blogger.com