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Locomule — Evolution Through Mana
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FULL VIEW THIS PLZPlease voice criticisms as well. TIA
increased full view to 1024 wide 20 OCT 07
16 NOV 07 --> sweeeet! This just got accepted to *PsychedelicTreasures !!! That's my first club and my first submission so I'm having a little me party lol. My next one is already finished and will be up soon. Check out our club, it rocks!
9x12 2007
various inks and pencils on sketchpad
photo croppedwith brightness and contrast adjusted in psp
This is my entry for 's "Abstract Mania" contestsubmitted on Nov 14, 2007 and my first art submission to the club!!
***UPDATE 15 NOV 07***...
Here are some details about the drawing and the thinking behind it (this was requested)
The piece is named after the concept that the evolution of man from wild beasts may have been inspired initially by hallucinogens which pushed reasoning abilities to new limits. My wife and I both hate the early evolutionary dinosaur chicken thingy. I was simply embodying my theme (much of the picture is inside a psychedelic thought balloon emanating from the chicken's forehead) as well as follow the spontaneous theme of the contest.
And there are at least 14 faces in the picture
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Learning the limitations of my scanner (only goes up to 8x11 doh)
I had to take a photo to upload it... grrr....
here were the contest rules...
our entry MUST/ MUST NOT have or be the following:
1.Your entry may be traditional or digital. (This means, painting or drawing) with any medium exept photography and poetry.
2. Your entry MUST be black and white! (No colors)
3. Your entry MUST have a mushroom, butterfly OR both somewhere in the scheme.
4. Your entry must be abstract and/or psychedelic in pattern.
5. Your entry Must be neat in appearance. (I do not expect perfection, but a sloppy quick drawing will be disqualified.) Take your time, and put effort into this.
6. Your entry MUST state that it is a contest entry with my icon, 's "Abstract Mania" contest, in your description.
7. The link to your entry MUST be sent to me in a note, not a message by at least this date and time: October, 15th @ 6:00 p.m. EST.
8. Only *1* entry per contestant.
9. No cuss words, sexual words, or BOLD letters (that take up space) in your entry.
10. No nudity, sexuality or provocativenesses in your entry whatsoever.
11. Your entry MUST be new and made exclusively for this contest!
12. HAVE FUN
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Thanks a lot, glad you like it
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I guess the scary thing is that obviously, a lot of the time I do! Heh, thanks!
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That's really quite awesome. I like how you add shading to give the image depth, and there are some really nice faces depending on how you look at the drawing. Wonderful work.
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I tried 2 other images and styles first. By the time I started this, *Relic-57 had the eventual winning picture up [link]
When I saw his shading, I knew I wanted to do something similar. I was glad that I at least went the right direction as I initially had strong suspicions that something more like line art or less surreal might be preferred by the judges.
This was the first time I've ever combined pencil shading with ink. I recently purchased my first pencil set. I also just possibly revived a .05 pen so my next piece may be the straight ink surreal style I've been wanting to do since I joined DA.
Thanks for your comments!
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I've bought different pens and stuff and you do notice a difference in how they work (especially when you draw as tiny lines as I do). There's typically a difference in how quickly the ink comes out and how it works and feels at different velocities. It will be interesting to see your next drawing, I presume you'll post it on Psychedelic Treasures? Is it the Wormhole Nr. 49?
Btw, I suspect that you are using Firefox hehe
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Lol, this drawing's name is kind of a riddle. I wasn't even going to give that away and just see if someone got it.
With regard to tools, I've never used the "right" ones before. We would use bic pens on blue-lined school notebook paper. We'd color them with highlighters.
And I basically quit doing traditional art for a long time. So when my wife encouraged me to start again I thought "why not approach it seriously this time" so I started finding out what other artists here are using. (Check out the short interview with *Bernardumaine in my journal!)
The funny thing was the more I looked around, the more stuff I realized I already had from paints to Rapidographs. *inthename really influenced me, not only from her awesome inks but also by welcoming me to the site and being a constant source of encouragement. She got me addicted to ink.
Yes, there is an amazing difference between scribbling on notebook paper and inking on vellum. I've played guitar for over 22 years now. Every amp/guitar combination feels, sounds, and plays different. So when it feels 'right', I actually create more freely, easier. I think that's just true of any creative process.
ps..why the Firefox comment? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks!
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I'd have to ask what's your mana 
I've never used vellum before, but it sounds interesting. I have on occation used photo paper for printing as these are treated and absorb ink very differently from normal paper.
No you're not really doing anything wrong, I just presumed you were using Firefox due to the link you gave me to the winner picture of *inthename 's contest. You gave the link directly to the thumbnail image instead of the link to the page, which is so easy to make with Firefox as the commands are right above one another (Copy Link Location vs Copy Image Location), that's all
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Yeah, I know what you mean about mana. Like the concept of Moses leading the tribes through the de
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Oh, my god! You must have nightmares awake! I consider this a good thing!
And I wish you the best in the contest!
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As I expected I did not win. I was very surprised to learn that I went in the right direction, especially as I started out with a completely different style (did 3 entries but only finished the last one.)
I really wanted to win a sub so I guess it will have to be next time. The main thing is I learned a lot. Even down to trying to get a decent image digitized. I just revived some old Rapidographs so I won't be using "cheap" pens anymore, even if my ink is like 15 years old haha.
Thanks for your comment. I quit doing this stuff years ago (all my gallery stuff like this is old.) For one thing, you don't just wave this kind of art around my town. So pretty much only my closest friends ever saw it. It's really refreshing to realize that there are more of us out here! And to have so many sources to draw inspiration and technique from.. I'm home!
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fricker me timbers i be a lowly ol' beggar....me eyes are twisted....me ribs are shaking and me tummy is a grumblin'....there be some fingerin lickin good mushrooms sprouting in these here streets....talk about spaghetti brains and rhinocerous grins....red tapes and green tapes guiding societies straight with disregard to individual tastes or faiths....long gone are romanticized gathering days.....
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i think i feel like that bird-faced folk bugging out there~~~~~~
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Yeah, I was trying to be spontaneous. I never intended to have our ancestry represented by some kind of dinosaur chicken but I'll be damned, he just popped right out there.
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Wow that looks incredible! Good luck in the contest as well
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Good luck to you as well! Check out 's page as mentioned by . Very similar to yours as well.
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Awesome! this looks strikingly similar to 's drawings!
Very trippy...and there is so many diffrent things to look at!
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Thank you, Sabrina! 
Hi, Locomule, thanks for the note, I`ll write back as soon as I come back on dA (this week).
I like your work very much, I have to give it a closer look. Anyway, this one goes to my favourites.
Regards,
Ivana
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Wow, thanks for the tip! I sent her a note, I agree with you cept hers is better
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Your welcome! Ahhh...I wouldn't say that...this is very unique also...and is better than my art! LOL
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Woah, so many things happening all at once! Nifty.
Looks almost like a combination of species into one. The eyeball inside the mouth of a one-eyed skull was really sweet. I also like your smooth transition from one item into another, very nice.
Good luck at the contest.
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Thank you so much! Got my fingers crossed
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