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Submitted: April 22, 2012
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Serpentineby =torture-device

Digital Art / Drawings / Surreal

Personal, "back-to-the-roots" work.

Not much to say aside from being something I might print out and shit.

Critique by ~SuperSaiyanPony33 Apr 22, 2012, 2:25:31 PM

The Vertebrae looks awesomely real as well as the skull structure. I really like how the lighting also. The bullet wounds seems very realistic as well as the blood. Your art inspires me to create grimdark stories/. although you included the Nazi insignia, which is bad, the detail is very life-like. This is my first critique so bare with me if I mess up. The red background seems to me is a ship of some sort. the eye is very good , but the helmet needs work as well as the Jaw bone in the skull. This a very good piece.

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Critique by *Walking-Maelstrom Apr 22, 2012, 2:15:49 PM

It is quite a surprise to see this "roots" work back and without announcement but then again there was never a need to announce. Your works with gunmetal and rather austere colors (not counting the red background) again works to your favor. Jagged edges and the continuously nice work with skulls and their features (as so vividly seen in 40K works) look not a moment of laziness put in it. And while the swastika looks off-kilter and too large for the badge itself (like the spacing on the right side of it), the colors go with the helmet and overall design.

The only real non-aesthetic criticism I'd have to say is simply your lack of explanation behind it. Now I've tried to imagine what went through your head with this but I feel a bit incomplete. Does it allude to a sort of resurrection seeing the bullet holes, skull, and mechanical spine? Is it a fantastical vision of a sort of futuristic mechanical familiar build purely by iron and circuitry? Granted this is very vivid as through a dream and while you make it clear what it is in form, I almost feel the need to press what it is/was in substance. Perhaps that's simply me being too objective and concrete in my analysis of art. Nevertheless...I do very much like it.

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~baronsarda51 Nov 9, 2012

Totally Awesome! I like the lineart, the colors. I am a big fan of your art!

=cosmicspider May 10, 2012

This reminds me of the snake that Beetlejuice turns into when he possesses the stairway banister in the film. I think it's the eye that does it.

*Kleevinar Apr 30, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

That remember me in style of H. R. Giger.

~thevampiredio Apr 29, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

love it!!

~DeathMasker Apr 26, 2012

Lovely symbolism in this piece i like the supporting look of the oversized vertebrae as if "back to the roots" in nazism how it supported the artist's thought and viewpoint especially the tubes connecting to the cervicle and the giger-ish backgroud but I kind of miss the sharper brushing style you used in most of you older pieces, well atleast that's my take in this one.