Author
joel (sucho)
Date Submitted
09/23/2009 | 03:53AM EST
Category & Size
Illustration | 1000 x 1400 px
Tags
Current Score
4.58 / 5.00
156 votes | 5,899 views
Awards
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Daily 2nd Place –
09/24/2009 -
Frontpaged
– 09/23/2009
Author's Comments
as his foster mother sits spindling away, our young hero daydreams of adventures far from his underground cove of earthy seclusion and safety
i suck at thumbnailing.
The People Have Spoken
Average Score: 9.8 / 10
I like them.
Author's Response:
do jawallabies eat bugs?
You've managed to do it again mate, a delicate blend of the absurd, hideous and yet strangely beautiful. Whether it's a metaphor or just absolutely messed up picture put to allegorical paper.
All in all, you know how to delve deep into the psyche and just generally fuck with our base emotions- love, fear, and just general weird.
Congrats.
Author's Response:
thats not saying anything, thats saying something! :D
i can't believe it.
Author's Response:
without it, i am nothing really.
I love every piece of your artwork you're very creative. Keep it up, if you make real paintings i would buy them, ALL!
Author's Response:
i've got two prints that havent sold.... someday i'm going to cheat proper though and find somebody that can scan these images onto a canvas and gesso the crap out of it so it looks like brush strokes. woot.
You have an awesome imagination. Youre work fascinates me!
Author's Response:
fascinates me too. like how did i not realize i gave the beetle four fingers on the weaving hands and six on the other. oh well. I DID IT ON PURPOSE, THATS RIGHT. THESE ARE NOT THE DROIDS YOU"RE LOOKING FOR
I like this piece, what is the bug weaving? Did it also weave that loose root?
Author's Response:
OH GEE, I WONDER WHO THIS PERSON IS.
beetle momma is weaving a scarf for her fuzzy one, and while she didn't do the root braiding, she did weave the lattice that guards the nest. the monkey did the other root
the artwork is fascinating
why is the beetle webbing something?
and why are the larvas so GODDAMN cute?!
Author's Response:
she makes handsome babies, i'll say that much
What is this
Author's Response:
it...is...itself?
Your art is so strange, yet so refreshing.
I think you may be starting a trend there, good sir.
Author's Response:
strangely refreshing, it sounds like i should be in the beverage business instead of art
What a story this entails...
Never seen anything like it.
Author's Response:
too bad i dont have the patience to write it down
you are terrible at thumbnailing but awesome at arting. Is this from something?
Author's Response:
just my IMAAAAAAGIINAAATIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
just awesome idk what to say about it, it just looks really kewl.
Author's Response:
fanks mang
Other than being technically good, it's one of the more genuine and unique pics I've seen in quite a while. Who knew a monkey could be adopted by insects. On the downside, I too wondered if the monkey was dead - at first glance.
Author's Response:
dead right you are, dead bored he is! ahahaha, the puns are killing me!
*don't hit*
Does the monkey dies ? :O :(
Author's Response:
certainly not by his family
I love the setting in this piece, the colloring is nicly done.
But i miss something, something special, i dont know what it is but when i find it out im sure to tell ya.
^_^
Author's Response:
i'll be...just...waiting here then?
i give you 42.5/7
Author's Response:
:O thats like an 85 out of 14! did you measure my score in 'stone'?
and thats what i love about it
Author's Response:
just like your spelling
But awsum.
Author's Response:
fanks mang
Did that monkey end up in there???
I mean, wtf???
Anyways, it's pretty good. I especially like the little maggot thingy who is joyfully eating the leaf he holds (in the "nom nom" way), while the monkey is just dreaming away. Either it was just a little "accident" or your meaning, I still like the diffrence between him and the monkey!!!
Keep it up
Author's Response:
om nom nom nom. i was torn between a leaf or the paralyzed carcass of a dead wasp
i would not enjoy being that monkey
Author's Response:
no grammy beetle's home-baked aphid pie for you then.
wow this is an awesome picture. well done.
Author's Response:
theeenks
I really like this picture, the shading is well done. The expression on the beetles face also made me laugh I'm not sure why I guess most don't see insects as nurturing creatures... especially to monkey... people... things. anyways overall this is a great picture the only flaw i see is that the monkey's, expression reminded me not as a happy family but more like god I hate my life, i don't know.
- who
Author's Response:
pffft. typical monkeys. they always spoil a picture
Lol this may be wierd but um..the lil baby things look kinda cutish,anyways..
FUCKING 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 10/10
Author's Response:
13 ten out of tens? it must be my super lucky day!
I love it.
The face of beetle is epic xDDD
Author's Response:
no, your face of your beetle is wh-wait-wha?
THEY'RE EVERYWHERE
Author's Response:
its the miracle of life
+19 for art.
Great overall, really like how I can see the light coming down from the openings.
The eye on the monkey on one side though looks like totally on a seperate spacing than the other though, or maybe's it's the nose getting shoved over so far to the left.
Either way, great composition.
Author's Response:
yea, i should have deepened the shadows between his far eye and the bridge of his nose, his eyes are pretty far apart.
hehe
i love the beetle's face
Author's Response:
it took me about ten tries to get her looking sweet and elderly enough, without looking like that ladybird from disney's A Bug's Life. its a dangerous threshold
...It wasn't as he didn't appreciate the attention, but he needed some nurture apart from moldy leaves and morning dew. And after all, he got some task to do.
Yes, although she was the first living being that hadn't intended to harm, kill, eat or fool him since he began his journey, he would have to reject her hospitality in the most kindly and polite way possible.
Yet he found it was kind of a pity, though.
Author's Response:
don't worry, later on momma joins his rag tag crew when all her little offspring have all growed up. she's a tank that one
In that "monkey laying in a pile of maggots being tended to by a giant beetle" kind of way.
I really like this, gorgeous work.
Author's Response:
its such an overused subject really, so i'm flattered that this shines out among the rest of the "monkey laying in a pile of maggots tended to by a giant beetle" pieces out there :3
