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©2006-2009 `eilidh
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From CGtalk's daily sketch group; subject: "Roses are red, Guns are gunmetal gray". Ironically enough, when I read this subject I thought it was so bland and uninspiring, and set out to sketch something in an attempt to prove so. I was totally wrong, since I ended up something I rather liked!

Sorry if you see sexist undertones in this. :)

Painter, a bit of Photoshop for minor tweakings, final touch-ups in Painter again.

ca. 1 1/2 - 2 hours

I might go for some final revision at some point in order to make a proper painting out of it.

The 22' minute sketch (there was a time limit) can be seen here. Doesn't that peach-pink look UGLY in that one? :)

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:iconellygator:
Powerful and dramatic!

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"You must do everything yourself." (First rule of Alchemy)
:iconeuphorbic:
Definitely dramatic! Like with your other pieces, I'm so uneducated in this visual medium that I don't know what to say. I feel conflict when I look at it that comes more from the use of color than the actual violence of the image. I especially enjoy the turbulent hem of the red figure's drapery. I think they are roses, but I like the hem better as just... turbulence. Like smoke bubbling up from underneath.
:iconred-queen-of-hearts:
I like the shapes in this a lot; the curvier female one and the straighter male one. I really love it as an interpretation of the subject given!:clap:
:iconinnuendo:
wonderful colors, and I do see some gender-specific tones :P great work!

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:iconeilidh:
thanks! I too liked how it escaped the clichés (guns, roses...). I'm quite happy with this piece. :)
:iconeilidh:
Thank you! I'm glad the colours give you such an impression. They turned out better than I had expected, and I thought that was a bit of luck/sudden burst of intuition; colour often gives me a headache, and I don't always make the best of choices, especially in quick pieces such as this.
They are supposed to be roses, yes, but I didn't want to give them too much definition. Even if I polish this up I'll keep them that way. Somehow real, flowery-like roses strike me as being somewhat kitch, in art; I don't much mind the one that acts as the figures head, because.. well, it's not the typical rose depiction by any manner of means. :)
:iconeuphorbic:
I figured they were either roses or the impression of roses. I like to think of them as turbulence that happens to look like roses. (grin) As for the rose-head, I quite like it.
:iconcgko:
Polu kalo! Den h3era oti hsoun kai sto cgtalk. Ante kai sketch of the week! :D

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TEHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

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