h0le: additional research

Trying to find some kind of pose reference was strangely difficult today, couldn't find the right things anywhere. However, Derek got me looking into an artist called Saul Steinberg to get a different perspective on using symbols and marks instead of actual words for the abuse (and nicer things) being hurled into the hole. Here's some of the works that I thought were relevant to the theme.





I found more images here but I'm prevented from sharing them, so you'll have to check them out here yourselves. Sorry about that.

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Another artist I found completely by accident today is Beksinski, a polish artist whose work reminds me of a mixture of Francis Bacon, Giger and a dollop of surrealism.

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I saw this piece-



-and the skinny, stretched limbs really struck me, so I looked for similar pieces he'd made.




I don't intend to make my animation in this style because that would be bonkers, but I'm tempted to do a piece of concept art on a similar style to make it look as grim as possible.

h0le: concepts

More background tests, these are all watercolour roughs with a little digital fixing. I'm going to try to make more serious concept pieces this week when I have better access to photoshop


A little something to lighten the mood. Can't work on something dark without a little bit of light.


The blog also needs a bit of an update, which I'll work on when I get some spare time.

h0le

So still working on the h0le idea over this and the previous week, seeing how it goes. If it doesn't go anywhere, well, I'll have to see what happens.