Monday, March 14, 2011

Be Civil



This piece was done with fine liner and acrylic. I've decided to use a lot more solid black acrylic to colour in most aspects of my works, just because using fine liner is pretty annoying. Not to mention I'm running dangerously low..The colour comes out with a much better coverage. I'm overall sticking to my black and white roots, however I do like adding some colour here and there. Ultimately craving the clean look that simple fine liner and paper has, especially after watching the 'secret wars' artists do their stuff. (Which you can read about here and here)

Inspiration for this piece came from two separate videos. One called 'Staying with Vegas' which you can see here And the second one called 'Pink Terror' Which you can watch right here (Sorry I couldn't upload the videos, for there was no download option for these specific ones)
Basically the overall look and feel came from Pink Terror, I for one loved the music used in the video, (big Justice fan) and the stunts and slow-mo was just way cool. The concept behind the piece revolves around the idea of perception of others who have plenty of body art. If you've seen the video 'Staying with Vegas' you would know it's about a single father who talks about the love for his daughter. He isn't what the typical old-fashioned person would say looks fit to raise a child, or be a good father. And that's where my concept fits in. People tend to judge on stupid ideas and images, however little do they realise they are in fact more inhumane than those they are judging.

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