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screen print i’m working on, here’s the colour tests. accidentally put the outline on back to front - that will match up properly on the final version. 4 layers!
bartkira preview!
exhibition is TOMORROW AHHH! set it all up today. arrived at 3pm with only vague ideas of how to set it out, pretty much done by 5pm. painless. attempt at printing flyers: painful.
so, some of the new X & Y Pokemon have been released and another 5 years are added to Ash’s quest. i have some issues.
now, of course the main reason i like the ~~original 150~~ the most is because they’re the Pokemon i grew up with and was thoroughly obsessed with until the age of i’m still thoroughly obsessed with them. they’re far from the best designs in the world and are totally guilty of what i’m gonna talk about (Clefable, Mewtwo, and so on), as well as a bunch of other issues.
to be clear: this is my personal issue and could totally just be to do with my imagination sucking, however i wanted to write this to work out what the issue i have is.
so,
as an unresearched blanket statement, since generation IV the designs have done this and it really bothers me.
this:
what are those. what is that stuff. are those spikes. is it fur. are they horns. what is it? how heavy is it. how does it move? is it functional? where is the muscle mass?
is it a leaf?
WHAT
outside of the turnaround of the pokemon being able to function as a 3d model, it really doesn’t feel as though much thought has been put into the pokemon as a creature. a mobile, independent creature, with defined limbs and bodily structures.
they are designed to be made into resin models, and not much else.
with Chespin… what are those? ears, leaves? lumps? do they move?
the things in Fennekin’s ears… they just look like big solid masses, i can’t see anything else. probably very heavy, heavier than those thin ears. are those attacking spikes on its back legs? or are they fluff?
Froakie’s ruff. is it a ruff? is it solid, or cloudlike? (also, why are its reproductive organs are in the centre of its face? actually please don’t answer that)
set of 5 hand made postcards, based on this old tegakie drawing. everybody thought the “witch” one was Snufkin on account of the fact that it definitely looks exactly like Snufkin. i have a bad case of the Janssons.
14x10 cm. many colour variations, £4 for the set.
HEY! i made some tshirts!
going to be for sale at APG Gallery from the 20th to the 25th of March at our exhibition!
£10 each, get in touch if you want one! (@chcherry, ask or email)
Just Because… is a print and illustration exhibition by 5 artists based in Sheffield.
Legend has it these artists are incredibly talented; as well as maybe having superpowers. And some say they are impossible to look directly at, on account of their incredible beauty… so don’t forget your sunglasses!
Their work is believed to sometimes jump off the walls to live a life of freedom in the wilderness, so catch your own while you can at the exhibition shop! And rumour has it they are holding a soon to be historical event, based at APG Gallery on the night of Wednesday 20th March from 6-8pm. So don’t miss out on and evening full of whimsy and wonder, not to mention free drinks…
featuring the work of: Harry Stewart, Becky Turton, Meg Burgoyne, Alex Whelan and myself!
EXHIBITION AND SHOP ARE OPEN EVERYDAY FROM WEDNESDAY 20TH - MONDAY 25TH MARCH (EXCLUDING SUNDAY)
10AM - 4PM
APG WORKS, 16-20 SIDNEY ST, SHEFFIELD, S1 4RH
Nu Shooz, I Can’t Wait (1985)
Nu Shooz’s scarily accurate predictions of the internet in the year 2012
Womack & Womack, Teardrops (1988)
Linda Womack is a fox. The video doesn’t do much, but then nor does the song, and that’s the point! It’s one moment turned into a killer song.
David Bowie, China Girl (1983)
I think they wanted that very first shot to look something like Nicki Minaj’s Your Love opening shot (which is a wonderfully made video!) but it looks more like a windows 95 game crashing. I love that this is filmed like a cheesy karaoke video. Well, up until about the 1:35 mark. Then I’m not sure what they were going for.
Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer (1986)
Oddly enough this is a music video I saw countless times as a child. We had a video of Aardman Studio animations I would regularly watch. I’d hate to think how it’s influenced me as an adult.
For some reason, the most disturbing part for me was always the fruit. Even recently, watching Gremlins 2 for the first time, the vegetable Gremlin gave me a cold chill.
