Hi. I'm Tim, I am 21 years old, and I have a blog apparently.
A blog mostly dedicated to images, concepts and illustrations I find inspiring and influential to my own artwork that may occasionally be uploaded, but most likely not very often.
Sketch Blog.
Art tag.
Dragas (2009) - Kuwaiti Artist Fatima Al Qadiri
Dragas is a series of fantasy, Kuwaiti drag queen portraits—each within a subsection of local and global style trends: goth, floral, hip hop and “haute”, respectively. A study into localized trend manifestations through the filter of the internet, studio portraiture as a private act—but fantasy destination/background —and gender as performance. - FQ
YES YES YES
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A collaboration between mortalcities and I! He drew it, I colored it!
I’m not sure I did the lines justice, so check out the clean version here. While you’re there be sure to check out his other work!
Hey, everyone, look at this awesome thing that happened!
Seriously, though, don’t think I can articulate just how much I love this… Thanks so much, man!
If you guys don’t already know Hat-Man, then you’re missing out. He’s an all round cool dude with rad art and what are you still doing here GO CHECK OUT HIS STUFF.
Oh, I own a 3DS now by the way!
Send me your friend codes. Mine is 2793-1918-8999!
The common perception is that the great statues and buildings of ancient Greece and Rome were all pure unpainted stone or green tarnished bronze, but researchers have been arguing that this may not been what these classic monuments really looked like back in the era of their creation. That, in fact, these statues were quite alive and vibrant, full of color.
Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity is a travelling exhibition of varying format and extent that has been shown in multiple cities worldwide. Its subject is ancient polychromy, i.e. the original, brightly painted, appearance of ancient sculpture and architecture. It features more than 20 full-size color reconstructions of Greek and Roman works, alongside 35 original statues and reliefs.
The color reconstructions are based on close examination of the originals and on scientific analysis of the scarce traces of paint remaining on them. Ultraviolet light, says Ebbinghaus, “brings out ‘paint ghosts,’ differences in the surface structure of the stone caused by different paints and by the weathering of the paints. It can often give you an idea of patterns, even if no pigments survive.” The paint on these reproductions of stone sculptures appears flat, lacking the depth of, say, oil. “We can identify the colorants—mostly minerals and some plants,” says Ebbinghaus, “but binding media are hard to identify. Egg has been used for the reconstructions. If the minerals were ground more finely, a different binding medium used, the paint polished or covered with a protective coating, the effect would be quite different.”
“We now assume that almost all Greek marble sculpture was painted,” she says. “These reconstructions can only be approximations,” but at least they dispel a popular misconception—that most statues of antiquity were plain old white. Plain would not be thought ideal until the Renaissance.
Researchers believe, particalurly Vinzenz Brinkmann who has been doing this research for the past 25 years, that artists used mineral and organic based colors and after centuries of deterioration any trace of pigment leftover when discovered, would have been taken off during any cleaning processes done before being put on display, washing the historical art clear of its true colors.
The findings of this research completley changes the commonly held modern ideas of the ancient world, and the way we view modern sculpture and art today, much of which was based on those classical Greek and Roman styles.
always wanted to see what they’d possibly look like coloured. they’re as gaudy as I imagined <3
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And what devastatingly dreamy dresses he designs!
Illustration © David DePasquale 2013
Please reblog, don’t repost.
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Sir Alfred Gilbert.
I became mesmerised by his work after I stumbled across him whilst in the library at Uni. My favourite is St Michael, I love the whole idea of it.
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Got the okay to post!! This was for a comic anthology project, but I left out the dialogue so the comic doesn’t become completely void if it’s ever to be sold along with the rest. I was very tired finishing it through the deadline, so it isn’t up to my standards and I wish I could fix a lot of things, but here it is ;u;
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