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Published: 2007-05-10 20:37:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 13523; Favourites: 198; Downloads: 175
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Another of my odd little shrines--this one has a smokin' rooster.I took a lot of liberties with the actual design of chicken wings on him--I tried really hard to do the design with the correct chicken wing, but it just didn't work the way I wanted to, and so he got more of a hand shape. As chickens go, he'd be a freak of nature, but the art looks much better.
Nevertheless, I feel that obscure guilt that many of us feel when we throw reality over for aesthetics. I need an artist's confessional. "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I have committed atrocities to the wing structure of Gallus gallus for my own twisted visual amusement..." (One wonders what sort of penance you'd have to do--biological illustration, maybe...)
Anyway! This little shrine is about...I have no idea. 7 x 10 or so, maybe a smidge bigger, constructed out of acid free foam core, MDF backing, and modeling paste. The scan did two peculiar things--the middle bars are the same blue violet as the upper and lower, but at the same time, the orange is not so smoothly painted--somehow, for once, a scanner IMPROVED the image! What're the odds?
Anyway, those caveats aside, the shrine is for sale, send a note or visit [link] for details.
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And now i'll be thinking about Nicotine-roasted chicken for the rest of the day.
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A very colorful and entertaining little shrine. The way you layered the colors looks especially nice.
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Cool idea and picture.
Can imagine having to make a shrine for Artistic Unrealistic Indulgences.
Maybe I will have to make one.
Then the 3d priesthood can gush on how "abstract" I made it.
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I know what you mean about the guilt. I once was preparing a sketch of a guy playing a saw and had the sketch all ready and I thought it was PERFECT. Then I decided I better do some research and make sure he's holding the saw correctly. Of course he wasn't, in fact he was holding it exactly opposite of the right way to hold it. I was gonna leave it but I knew the guilt would eat at me, so I decided to redraw the whole thing and it did turn out OK, but I could never make the revised sketch look as good as the initial one. here's the final piece if you wanna see it. - [link]
Same thing on a popeye piece I recently did where I did the background in a separate sketch, matched it up to the characters, and realized the perspective on the background didn't match the perspective in the foreground. I was all ready to transfer to canvas anyway, but again, I knew it would eat me up, so I redrew the whole thing full size to make the perspective match. Here's the finished piece - [link]
Anyway, nice work, something like this wing I would have let slide too. THIS is what artistic license is for.
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I find this amusingly morbid. I will remember him next time I eat at KFC.
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I, too, am a stickler for biology, but if it isn't working, I chunk it and make it up. And I still sleep soundly at night.... Do a rosary or two, and be obsolved (sic!).
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Perhaps your penance would involve skeletal studies of the transition between a pentadactyl hand and a wing...
Perhaps he is an anthro chicken, which would also explain the cigarette.
βTarawyn Worldwalker
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Smoking isn't just hazardous to the health of humans!
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Woot! This rocks! I love how crative your ideas are. But how are you always so noticed?
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Oho, chicken.
--------Scanners work in mysterious ways. That's probably why I stood on mine.
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^^ All your art work makes me happy. Your ideas are so creative! I love this peice. Very well done (as always) and wonderful imagination and color as well.
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this is like, the perfect present for a stoner. :^^:
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That's just too cool. Chicken is one of the best foodstuffs under heaven, and a shrine to it is most finger-lickingly appropriate.
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Three "hail Darwin"s and an anatomical study. You are forgiven my child.
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I really love these shrines such a creative idea.
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aww, i love your shrines. I want to make one for my car. Maybe a tree wearing a fez ^ ^
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I totally understand warping reality for aesthetics guilt. I'm horrible at over researching stuff before I draw, because, heaven forbid, I get it biologically wrong!
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ARGH! now you've done it! you made me wanna eat chiken!
I just love the overal feel the shrine gives
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Beautiful work! I love this latest series of shrines you've done! Your penance? Three hail marys and a bucket of wings!
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biological illustration is kind of a punishment.
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I have a message for that rooster :
it's not because you have no lungs that others may not get a lung cancer. please quit smoking now.
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I like this one. And for some strange reason, that wing/hand doesn't look out of place at all in this.
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I don't think cocks have hands. You know why, by the way ? 'Cause chickens don't have boobs.
Makes sense, eh ? :B
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o.O then what have I been buying at the market all this time... they say chicken breasts... ::walks away deep in thought::
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This is called polysemy , my dear.
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I like my chicken with very little meat, smoked over and open fire, and with a side of human hand. Serve it up on a shrine platter and you got yourself a date.
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That's a great message about smoking, and why chickens shouldn't do it. :3
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Pure fantasy has no boundries. Plus, I think the Creator of all has made some pretty twisted creatures, and won't mind you messing with the original design. In other words, twisted and cool. The only limitations are the ones in your head. ^-^
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Personally, I think your mind is a freak of nature - I love it though.
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Wonderful work! Freaky and beautifully executed.
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"Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I have drawn Dinosaurs and Hominids together in the same cartoon."
-Gary Larson, "Prehistory of the Far Side"
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