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Post by Waylen on Jan 26, 2014 20:55:58 GMT -5
Marge The Riveter! I'd like to dedicate this art piece to a great friend Waylen I literally could not have made it without him.  And a huge thanks to keys1980 for keeping up with my chaotic brainstorming and gridding this up for me. Thanks for your help! My next one I dedicate to you  Truly amazing art from a truly amazing artist and neighbor! Really feel like this is your "coming into your own" art piece and I expect great things from you. A big shout out to keys1980 for helping Erin get her grid done. I offered to do it but she wanted to go with the best and who could blame her. |
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Post by keys1980 on Jan 26, 2014 21:40:27 GMT -5
Looks brilliant Erin +1, looking forward to the next one. Our brainstorming sessions were good times. Waylen, too kind. |
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Post by brettolmsted on Jan 28, 2014 9:13:13 GMT -5
Well, thanks to a couple of factors I have finally gotten around to attempting an art piece. I admit that I feel intimidated by the likes of keys1980, Erin, Mitzy, Waylen, ThorButtockth, and everyone else, as your works are just amazing. However, after doing some more detailed "designing" while working on a game board for the January OTM contest, I gained a little confidence and after seeing keys1980 's latest Toronto Blue Jays creation, I finally found my inspiration. I know I live in Texas now, but as many of you know I lived in Michigan for 30 years. I, my wife, my brother, and my sister all are proud graduates of the University of Michigan (in fact my high school/middle school/elementary school mascot was also the Wolverines - I went to the same school district K-12 - so I have been a Wolverine all my life). While it is definitely not on par with all the great creations in here, I am happy with it (though having a yellow decoration would have made it awesome).  Full Size |
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Post by A Bad Example on Jan 28, 2014 9:19:00 GMT -5
Well, thanks to a couple of factors I have finally gotten around to attempting an art piece. I admit that I feel intimidated by the likes of keys1980, Erin, Mitzy, Waylen, and everyone else, as your works are just amazing. However, after doing some more detailed "designing" while working on a game board for the January OTM contest, I gained a little confidence and after seeing keys1980 's latest Toronto Blue Jays creation, I finally found my inspiration. I know I live in Texas now, but as many of you know I lived in Michigan for 30 years. I, my wife, my brother, and my sister all are proud graduates of the University of Michigan (in fact my high school/middle school/elementary school mascot was also the Wolverines - I went to the same school district K-12 - so I have been a Wolverine all my life). While it is definitely not on par with all the great creations in here, I am happy with it (though having a yellow decoration would have made it awesome). Full SizeNice. By chance, have you seen the burning bush? It makes a nice yellow.  |
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Post by brettolmsted on Jan 28, 2014 9:20:34 GMT -5
Nice. By chance, have you seen the burning bush? It makes a nice yellow. yeah, and I was going to use them, but they are so short, next to the really tall phone booths that you cannot really see them, especially since the actual spelling of "MICHIGAN" ideally should be in yellow |
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Post by keys1980 on Jan 28, 2014 9:57:34 GMT -5
Well, thanks to a couple of factors I have finally gotten around to attempting an art piece. I admit that I feel intimidated by the likes of keys1980, Erin, Mitzy, Waylen, ThorButtockth, and everyone else, as your works are just amazing. However, after doing some more detailed "designing" while working on a game board for the January OTM contest, I gained a little confidence and after seeing keys1980 's latest Toronto Blue Jays creation, I finally found my inspiration. I know I live in Texas now, but as many of you know I lived in Michigan for 30 years. I, my wife, my brother, and my sister all are proud graduates of the University of Michigan (in fact my high school/middle school/elementary school mascot was also the Wolverines - I went to the same school district K-12 - so I have been a Wolverine all my life). While it is definitely not on par with all the great creations in here, I am happy with it (though having a yellow decoration would have made it awesome). Full SizeClean and tidy! My OCD is very pleased! Well done on your first piece. My brother lives just outside Detroit and is a big Michigan fan, I'm sure that would be his favorite artwork ever. I think you made the right decoration choices, it's tough working with taller items blocking out shorter ones. |
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Post by Waylen on Jan 28, 2014 10:25:58 GMT -5
Great first piece brettolmsted! My only complaint is that it's way over due from you. You've got the eye to have been cranking these out for some time now. Can't wait to see what's next. |
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Post by brettolmsted on Jan 28, 2014 10:33:15 GMT -5
Great first piece brettolmsted! My only complaint is that it's way over due from you. You've got the eye to have been cranking these out for some time now. Can't wait to see what's next. yeah, I have a few ideas that I might start working on now and finally have the space created in one of my second towns. I usually only have time to do this kind of thing for a couple hours at night and with the string of events we have had, I was busy trying to visit friends and do them, rather than work on art. Now, we will see. |
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Post by Mitzy on Jan 28, 2014 10:42:22 GMT -5
Great first piece brettolmsted! My only complaint is that it's way over due from you. You've got the eye to have been cranking these out for some time now. Can't wait to see what's next. yeah, I have a few ideas that I might start working on now and finally have the space created in one of my second towns. I usually only have time to do this kind of thing for a couple hours at night and with the string of events we have had, I was busy trying to visit friends and do them, rather than work on art. Now, we will see. How exciting. A new arty fan. Can't wait to see what you come up with  |
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Post by ThorButtockth on Jan 28, 2014 10:57:46 GMT -5
Really well done, Brett! I actually love that you didn't try to maybe force other decorations into it to give it more color. Using only one decoration, and especially the metallic blue of the phone booth, makes it look really clean and sharp (which is arguably most important for logos and the like). Although, I do feel the need to say... ... you're intimidated by me? I think you have our relationship backwards.  (I'm aware the photo is taken out of context, hehe) |
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Post by KJ78 on Jan 28, 2014 14:55:46 GMT -5
brettolmsted inspired me to do something else in my second town. KL is where I had room to try, so little color effect.  I don't know if it qualifies, but it's worth a shot. 
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Post by brettolmsted on Jan 28, 2014 14:58:57 GMT -5
brettolmsted inspired me to do something else in my second town. KL is where I had room to try, so little color effect. I don't know if it qualifies, but it's worth a shot. I will say good job, but not sure if I can like that (the same would be true for Ohio State) |
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Post by KJ78 on Jan 28, 2014 15:05:04 GMT -5
brettolmsted inspired me to do something else in my second town. KL is where I had room to try, so little color effect. I don't know if it qualifies, but it's worth a shot. I will say good job, but not sure if I can like that (the same would be true for Ohio State) Understood. |
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Post by Waylen on Jan 28, 2014 16:17:14 GMT -5
If we're getting all collegiate in here this was my old landing spot...  |
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Post by Erin on Jan 28, 2014 19:20:07 GMT -5
Well, thanks to a couple of factors I have finally gotten around to attempting an art piece. I admit that I feel intimidated by the likes of keys1980, Erin, Mitzy, Waylen, ThorButtockth, and everyone else, as your works are just amazing. However, after doing some more detailed "designing" while working on a game board for the January OTM contest, I gained a little confidence and after seeing keys1980 's latest Toronto Blue Jays creation, I finally found my inspiration. I know I live in Texas now, but as many of you know I lived in Michigan for 30 years. I, my wife, my brother, and my sister all are proud graduates of the University of Michigan (in fact my high school/middle school/elementary school mascot was also the Wolverines - I went to the same school district K-12 - so I have been a Wolverine all my life). While it is definitely not on par with all the great creations in here, I am happy with it (though having a yellow decoration would have made it awesome). Full SizeLooks great! Time for all those ideas to start rolling around now...the tough part is the painstaking deco placement...and then the eventual teardown makes me want to cry. I think there's about 50 different things I'd like to try now! |
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Post by Waylen on Jan 29, 2014 17:29:58 GMT -5
Here is an art project that Mitzy, keys1980 and myself collaborated on over the weekend. We decided to go with a 'Simpson's Kids Gone Bad' theme. But that was a little too easy so we decided to try and give it a twist and and show Bart, Lisa and Maggie all grown up. This is the resulting group picture:  keys1980 also made a thread here that gives a little more perspective and shows who created the different pieces. |
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Post by Duff Dawg on Jan 29, 2014 20:12:34 GMT -5
Ok tonight I'll add everything from these last two pages that qualifies to the first page gallery and badge whoever doesn't have one (that made an actual art piece not everyone as in u TDP!)
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I don't need no stinking badges. thanks anyways......\_(●¿●)_/
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Post by shelfcleaner on Feb 1, 2014 18:47:24 GMT -5
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Post by Waylen on Feb 1, 2014 18:51:16 GMT -5
+1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 Absolutely amazing! |
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Post by Duff Dawg on Feb 1, 2014 19:43:47 GMT -5
Oh Your God I Love This!!! |
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Post by lyonsek on Feb 1, 2014 20:03:46 GMT -5
Dear lord this is impressive! |
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Post by keys1980 on Feb 2, 2014 20:12:16 GMT -5
Sweet Jesus! Thankyou for doing this. |
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Post by Fraggle on Feb 2, 2014 20:17:33 GMT -5
shelfcleaner this is really impressive and I really love your incorporation of Squidport. Thanks keys1980 for tagging this. I really need to catch up on this thread it looks like there's a lot of new work here. Edit: holy Buddha since we seem to be going with a religious theme here.
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Post by Waylen on Feb 2, 2014 20:21:02 GMT -5
Sweet Jesus! Thankyou for doing this. Right??? |
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Post by brettolmsted on Feb 2, 2014 22:57:16 GMT -5
So this is only my second art piece. I felt better about it before shelfcleaner really show us all up (it's amazing), but I put a lot of work into this and want to say thank you to Waylen, keys1980, and Mitzy for all their help and inspiration. I had the opportunity to go to Italy last summer and my wife and and saw a lot of fabulous art and architecture and Botticelli's Birth of Venus is a masterpiece. I had the idea of recreating it and then I found the simpsonized version of it. So here is the original Botticelli:  Here is the Simpsonsized version from which I worked:  I had wanted to include the ribbon and Lenny and Carl, but due to time constraints and without having to take screenshots, tear down, and work in stages due to the item limit, I had to recreate her left hand. So, here is my masterpiece:  Full Size |
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