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Angelic Dancer

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This picture was originally intended to be a nude angel. But some jerk in the mall made such a scene in the mall IN FRONT OF HIS KIDS, that it was like being pressured to change the piece. In my opinion it totally ruined what I was going for, and because it destroyed my creative "flow" the wings didn;t turn out. BUt, I do have a wing version that I created later one.

As an artist I HATE being forced to sensor my work.

Hand drawn, scanned, and colored in Photoshop 6.

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glow filters are a little harsh

first rule of art. nobody understands you so why should they be understandable towards what you do?

second rule of art. don't draw nudes in public unless you're willing to get into fisticuffs over it.

fuck society

i really hate assholes. if u dont undersand art thats cool, but donttry to bring ur morals and ur rules into it, cause when u do, ur just gonna ruin it. if i was u, i woulda kicked that guys ass. stay sstrong brother, someday the assholes will shutup.

im curious

howd the person in the mall know you were doing a nude version of this, and what made you decide to go along anyway and do the nude agel one? were u just sitting there and inspiration struck and started work, and that person was spying on your work? i still think its great nonetheless, youve got some serious talent

BlackUniGryphon responds:

I used to own a cart in the mall 9now I own a whole store) so I would sit there and sketch to pass the time. Business really sucked due to economy, so most of the time I just sketched.

Even tho' there wasn;t many shoppers that day several came over to me and butted into what I was doing. I was just really into the sketch, and as an artist it's not unusual to draw nudes.

At the time I was very into angels. (I still am, BTW) and I was very inspired to do this. I was totally in the flow w.it.

But, then this jerk dragged his kids over to me, made a scene and a total ass of himself, totally mortifying his kids over what I was sketching. As if human figures are something to be made fun of.

Then, after that all these old people came over to berate me as tho' I was some kind of "masher".

then I was made to think i was somehow evil, even tho' I knew better... I got so annoyed with the constant judgement of strangers, that after several more of this type of thing, I just doodled in some clothes, but the details could be seen, even tho' I doodled over them.

Then I darkened the lines, and it just ruined the whole feel of it.

i couldn't get it back, and the wings just never come come to be after that.

I felt totally sad for my sketch, because to me she had life & feeling. So I worked on her, and scanned her then deleted the wings.

Later, i felt bad and on the 2nd try of doing something based on the same theme, I took her wings edited them and put them onto this angel.

My art isn;t just some lines to me, necessarily... sometimes it is... but, other times, it has life and feeling. This was 1 such piece that actually lived, to me.

It has meaning. It has feeling. It has purpose.

Yet, she was totally innocent and became a martyr.

Never again shall I ever allow anyone to tell me how I should create my own art. especially those whom understand nothing of art, nor me, nor my own art.

Quite often non-artists misinterpret artists work by their own feelings or judgments and give no consideration to the artist. But, this is a common human/ego aspect. It's called "projecting" and also called being ethnocentric.

I guess it's not so big a deal anymore. But, anyways, that's kind of the story.

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