Monday, November 13, 2023

Lovecraft Country

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because salted caramel.

I'm starting to imagine Ian as a hideous monstrosity from beyond time and space.

To be fair, I'm only going off his girlfriend.

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  1. EurobratNovember 14, 2023 at 9:24 PM

    I think Mari used to be the most normal-looking out of all of the female characters. Sadly, he then came up with a howler monkey face for her, too.

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    1. JLGNovember 14, 2023 at 10:37 PM

      I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but sometime during the past year or so he's dropped the final remaining stock poses and faces -- shared among all the female characters -- that looked okay. The ones he uses now are all varying levels of awkward, grotesque, distorted or ugly.
      Even when he's in softcore mode, tracing nude photos from whatever source, the results always look weird. They're either rubbery, or contorted in some way.
      Like that back view he's fond of using where the figure is kneeling while looking over her shoulder. All I know is, if I had an enormous block-like protrusion like that where my shoulder blade was supposed to be, I'd seek immediate medical attention.

      (Peter Paul Rubens, as I understand, was known for incorporating strategic distortion into his figure renderings, in ways that would emphasize a pose without calling attention to themselves.

      Muir ain't no Rubens.)

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    2. EurobratNovember 15, 2023 at 9:42 PM

      Ha! Yes, artists through the ages have certainly used purposeful distortion of faces or figures. However, in order for that to work, it requires the artist to first have the basic knowledge and skill of realistic figure drawing...and then they can play around with it and warp it to interesting effect.

      As you've stated, this is not that. Not Rubens, not Picasso...just Muir's Howler Monkey Period...

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