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Siamese Octopus Gentlemen

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Hi.
I made this piece for the Notepad Drawing Collab 2010, it got in :)

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Well what can I say...this is odd. Good! Definitely good. But odd. xD

In general, the drawing on this is superb. The little pencil-line details you've got in the face really makes it stick out, and look far more human than a Siamese octopus-type thing should. It's quite comical for the seriousness in their faces; I think with a slightly different light this would have been inherently creepy. TO the point where I'm not sure where I should be laughing or backing away. To that end, I love the top hat. It's wonderfully quirky, gives the drawing a more comic feel and for more pragmatic reasons, fills the top-right corner well.

For some criticisms...you fill the top-left corner less effectively. I get that that tentacle is from the same body, but coming out of the corner just like that does feel almost too odd. And while the details of the head(s?) are nicely drawn, the part underneath them is...literally indescribable. It just looks very unrelated from the head and the tentacles, and I can't really tell what it's meant to be, only that it kind of weirds me out a little xD So if that's your goal, then you succeeded pretty well.

This is nicely done. Weirded the hell out of me, but the drawing was very cool. Keep it up.

-Review Request Club

thies responds:

Yeah it's some sort of cloud thingy, I didn't really know what to add, but I wanted something between the heads and the tentacles.

Thanks :D

Needs more colour

I can see what you were trying to do here, but the lack of colour has harmed the detail, by drawing more attention to the white of the paper and the lines. It looks like you've either drawn this with felt tipped pen, or have done this on some sort of computer program.

I'm not sure how you could have improved this, due to constraints of the collab, but I'd have suggested more background items and some detail on the tentacles, like the suction cups, which everyone knows about.

This is a neat concept, but with how you seem to leave it as a work in progress, I cannot give you a higher score for it.

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thies responds:

I thought there was not enough space left to add a background, because some of the notepad paper should stay visible.

Thanks for reviewing :)

Crazy

Heh well this one was crazy and abit bothersome on the eyes, but regardless of that you did use some good imagination on this, it must have been hard to put that together though, besides that maybe add some colors i would like to see some reds and oranges to bright this up

Colors could brighten this up and be looking more colorfull

~X~

thies responds:

Hey, that's not a bad idea. Some red and/or orange might make it look a little better :D

Thanks for the review

Interesting

This picture reminds me a bit of Queen's cover for "The Miracle", lol.

Anyway, it's a nice drawing style. At first the notepad lines where a bit annoying, but then I read you did this for the notepad collab. So yeah, I guess there's not much you can do about those lines, heh.

I especially like the Top Hat on the right hand head, it adds a special note to the pic.

{ Review Request Club }

thies responds:

Haha, I see what you mean with the faces and that cover.
Yeah I made this for the Collab, so I had to use the paper background, I actually quite like it.

Glad you liked the hat :)
Thanks for reviewing.

~ Review Request Club ~

I liked that you had parts of the body going outside of the picture and then had them reappear in other parts such as the one very long and big tentacle on the bottom left of the picture. I do find it a bit odd that there would only be one of these large tentacle though and it's really out of proportion to the other ones that the menapus creature had.

The faces were very entertaining and well drawn. The hat itself was a really nice addition because without it the picture would have a bit of an empty space that would slightly take away from the piece.

I like the style that it was drawn over what seems to be a real piece of paper, but which is obviously a digital picture of a paper due to it's high quality. I always enjoyed flash submissions that were made on scrap pieces of paper such this art piece was made on.

I enjoyed the colors that you used and you had a really cool way of making it look like it was made with water colors. One of the best parts of this piece though has to be the detail put into it. You did a really good job with that.

I really don't have any complaints that I haven't already said about the tentacle being so large and not having proportion with anything else and it's a pretty good piece all around.

~ Review Request Club ~

thies responds:

I actually did that on purpose, with the tentacles being all different sizes etc, I find that look a bit more interesting. But some tentacles do look a bit off.

Yeah the paper is just a digital pic., you had to use it as a background. (It's for the Notepad Collab).

Thanks again for the review :)

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