tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78429690017100063052024-03-06T01:22:41.301+01:00Daniel Philip RobinsonIllustrations, Drawings, & ArtworkDaniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-52007144049176567432013-12-06T00:25:00.001+00:002013-12-06T00:25:21.088+00:00Goodbye, Madiba<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQToR3roY_AP7BbC7TuBsH7UAykFED6AJ5K0CM_KTjMooTo16cxz4eNoFen9okuBIlAJZNz4hwFuoyxGxAr2Y0AFwwYLaKJ-xszpYSjroQ7YKjO2NIbBNX-pcfHLR_pq7ymV4xSmJO9Nc0/s640/blogger-image--321890589.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQToR3roY_AP7BbC7TuBsH7UAykFED6AJ5K0CM_KTjMooTo16cxz4eNoFen9okuBIlAJZNz4hwFuoyxGxAr2Y0AFwwYLaKJ-xszpYSjroQ7YKjO2NIbBNX-pcfHLR_pq7ymV4xSmJO9Nc0/s640/blogger-image--321890589.jpg"></a></div>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0Stillorgan Dublin53.293279 -6.207001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-50679112934566916582013-06-12T01:51:00.001+01:002013-06-12T01:51:34.042+01:00iPad speed-painting on this, the day of your daughter's weddingWhile watching "The Godfather" tonight, and enjoying its rich, dark, shadowy cinematography, I ran through a couple of quick iPad paintings using Procreate. It was interesting seeing just how much of the frame was filled with pure black, and how the rest of the color scheme mainly consisted of red and gold. <div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgd3-IuAqLcHfeHQualGO9tcI6yuKbiol3MmuYLNRC65pJ26itQ4Ct-KNi8E65Mhi67kda0LoMdZO9wWHA1UT5jflnlF1mZ-_SxFPgaeD-IQI56Nu-IsSNOaT2Id1j5kDM1WVK3SeN6nRR/s640/blogger-image--632870100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgd3-IuAqLcHfeHQualGO9tcI6yuKbiol3MmuYLNRC65pJ26itQ4Ct-KNi8E65Mhi67kda0LoMdZO9wWHA1UT5jflnlF1mZ-_SxFPgaeD-IQI56Nu-IsSNOaT2Id1j5kDM1WVK3SeN6nRR/s640/blogger-image--632870100.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2afbg36OLAvhasRE9p8FuEZuH448p_My7_lO786TkP7H0UjSFpU55PfbmJKsM0UbxP4mgXoMdjZhjGuAKKa5EJX2AWpnJEx0a-xEHdVv_4pM4-IrsJgv1jW81PMoDz-M7sTuzsfWZEzuJ/s640/blogger-image--1836410423.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2afbg36OLAvhasRE9p8FuEZuH448p_My7_lO786TkP7H0UjSFpU55PfbmJKsM0UbxP4mgXoMdjZhjGuAKKa5EJX2AWpnJEx0a-xEHdVv_4pM4-IrsJgv1jW81PMoDz-M7sTuzsfWZEzuJ/s640/blogger-image--1836410423.jpg"></a></div></div>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-21799798570142075192013-05-04T17:15:00.001+01:002013-05-04T17:15:32.272+01:00May the Fourth be With YouA little iPad drawing of Darth Vader to mark unofficial Star Wars Day! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpzbrE-C3V3w5cUIYzr1VcFnlgltKZwFWLTX0VQdBc_tOgobt80SpbxWigixC2F6EegeBzJngiXp94K3LwAr61aMMIU3mQTlxR8tcLQg17PfnBg7BwVfjlYbmM7qyrE6I40uwKSBRdrU_n/s640/blogger-image-154547239.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpzbrE-C3V3w5cUIYzr1VcFnlgltKZwFWLTX0VQdBc_tOgobt80SpbxWigixC2F6EegeBzJngiXp94K3LwAr61aMMIU3mQTlxR8tcLQg17PfnBg7BwVfjlYbmM7qyrE6I40uwKSBRdrU_n/s640/blogger-image-154547239.jpg" /></a></div>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-1703715274498634182013-04-25T02:16:00.001+00:002013-04-25T02:16:28.958+00:00Supergirl!The result of this evening’s iPad Mini sketching — Supergirl! Superman’s fellow Kyptonian buddy. <br />
I modeled her on Mahmud Asrar’s design for DC’s “The New 52” version of the character. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3pVFOgCxM0DaT__sGGciVlX6faeLEsR3Htis7IAvVKhw-sLSO59mK7ISnXUjI8rSSr1kSHPuuZpnRg1NBClkaSUESCIXUGgBwIO89dyG3x4e1FZc3Tn6jBleCfqOlLJe-IAtH_Ox1CSvZ/s640/blogger-image--1067886930.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3pVFOgCxM0DaT__sGGciVlX6faeLEsR3Htis7IAvVKhw-sLSO59mK7ISnXUjI8rSSr1kSHPuuZpnRg1NBClkaSUESCIXUGgBwIO89dyG3x4e1FZc3Tn6jBleCfqOlLJe-IAtH_Ox1CSvZ/s640/blogger-image--1067886930.jpg" /></a></div>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-68429871128538091602013-04-24T19:01:00.001+00:002013-04-24T19:01:20.509+00:00Captain America, robo-dinosaur champion.Sort of a request painting here, a friend of mine described something as "almost as cool as Captain America riding a cyborg T-Rex through the battlefield", so here it is. <br />
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Considering superheroes and dinosaurs are two of the most fun things in the universe to draw, I really ought to draw them more than I currently do... <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCF1-Zs_1ZvFDidd3zdV2En7v5bbwQdvvGrm_kqgO9s8wCi9KmQux4g8gv8nqqVikinwpeYGtdzDXHIQvM3s1js4pJ1roGqUodK39HQztPdPD1s-ef7A1nAASFJ__N51Fow-A67xeTyxU5/s640/blogger-image--1033589937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCF1-Zs_1ZvFDidd3zdV2En7v5bbwQdvvGrm_kqgO9s8wCi9KmQux4g8gv8nqqVikinwpeYGtdzDXHIQvM3s1js4pJ1roGqUodK39HQztPdPD1s-ef7A1nAASFJ__N51Fow-A67xeTyxU5/s640/blogger-image--1033589937.jpg" /></a></div>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-72567293721301013362013-04-08T19:01:00.001+00:002013-04-08T19:01:46.819+00:00Boston Red Sox Opening DayJust a quickie little iPad mini sketch for Baseball’s opening day at Fenway Park. <br />
Perhaps a little more ominous than it ought to be, and it was tough to work out the batter’s pose. <br />
Pretty messy, but hopefully amusing. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHpf9PQ2xs0yOVF5DvYZWd7vFCf5M5W1FnizuSR5DHKDAk2BP6fKdvb2Jq5eHl1KyjC5MyvXrvqAAKuRyFCNmPZ61IthQMf41wCO1zeSGgmFpF11TgS6McnC0ETHNkMc-sRwegFvdDBNl/s640/blogger-image--1900135050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHpf9PQ2xs0yOVF5DvYZWd7vFCf5M5W1FnizuSR5DHKDAk2BP6fKdvb2Jq5eHl1KyjC5MyvXrvqAAKuRyFCNmPZ61IthQMf41wCO1zeSGgmFpF11TgS6McnC0ETHNkMc-sRwegFvdDBNl/s640/blogger-image--1900135050.jpg" /></a></div>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-24613812500607908592013-04-08T01:33:00.001+00:002013-04-08T01:33:42.671+00:00A "Land of Winter" TriptychJust a little triptych of pre-production images for my personal project: "Land of Winter". Composing images in black & white is a lot of fun, it's satisfying to wring a sense of drama from a composition using tone. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOhQ9vtNzJRJ_1BCMRyfKxlAO1WMNohqAZ8cwIRJZ6XUNrvC_XMcR8axTfklOtJMDAj4RLdDlFUzRCthLB3KhIdssNZAGWY0X1fseUzy2eMR9X97mbcuu3G4zRaSRKsbaZuWYA7aT5TIe_/s640/blogger-image-1700640651.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOhQ9vtNzJRJ_1BCMRyfKxlAO1WMNohqAZ8cwIRJZ6XUNrvC_XMcR8axTfklOtJMDAj4RLdDlFUzRCthLB3KhIdssNZAGWY0X1fseUzy2eMR9X97mbcuu3G4zRaSRKsbaZuWYA7aT5TIe_/s640/blogger-image-1700640651.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWVIZFBe6l_qr_R_3smxnk3YVVQI3MLfnWADOJg8n1lCWabc7FVp-diHaPX1RMA-VJp-gRt1hRIkkkqaFzpeaRVn45ExEwNP1WCYv5TkUxeJc0NbdvvDPdV5GaEtJfhKfgpfxQYCdqYqg/s640/blogger-image-292750591.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWVIZFBe6l_qr_R_3smxnk3YVVQI3MLfnWADOJg8n1lCWabc7FVp-diHaPX1RMA-VJp-gRt1hRIkkkqaFzpeaRVn45ExEwNP1WCYv5TkUxeJc0NbdvvDPdV5GaEtJfhKfgpfxQYCdqYqg/s640/blogger-image-292750591.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDY1XH2L1HN1cinOSsdzHwZelHyO4rGaUNP0sboykrkePvfvOHjYKUtL2RCTT0-qf-agi6w18Qe5eO_t_6GBm3LPRgKUxy8zjf665G3_WPYhxV41bhyphenhyphenHJJ173yzHiaLQ1Yt4XV1o-a-mLB/s640/blogger-image--1201546212.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDY1XH2L1HN1cinOSsdzHwZelHyO4rGaUNP0sboykrkePvfvOHjYKUtL2RCTT0-qf-agi6w18Qe5eO_t_6GBm3LPRgKUxy8zjf665G3_WPYhxV41bhyphenhyphenHJJ173yzHiaLQ1Yt4XV1o-a-mLB/s640/blogger-image--1201546212.jpg" /></a></div>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-46397982747302429212013-04-07T23:27:00.001+00:002013-04-08T01:31:24.401+00:00The Man of Steel & The Dark KnightAnd now some superhero drawings, first tackling the most iconic of all — the Man of Steel, Superman. I tried to go for a slightly more flat and graphic look than I usually do. <br />
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Of all the superheroes, Superman is throne that perhaps works best as a cultural icon than a character, functioning for us the way that Achilles functioned for ancient Greeks. He represents what is essentially the purest form of virtue: when given unlimited power, would one still strive to be a moral person? It’s a philosophical issue that goes all the way back to Plato, describing the Ring of Gyges (a ring that turns the wearer invisible, perhaps an influence on Tolkien). Superman is how most of us WISH we would act if given limitless power. <br />
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As a character, and perhaps I just haven’t read enough of his stories, he doesn’t have many personality flaws, and his weakness, Kryptonite, is so singular that the only tension he can have is how someone will sneak a bit of Kryptonite into Clark Kent’s morning coffee. I'd think that this would make him rather dramatically inert, but the character has been with us for so many decades that I think it's more a case where his character serves the same narrative function as the lead character to "The Shawshank Redemltion" or "Forrest Gump", wherein the protagonists themselves don't change, but the effects f their presence or actions changes those arid them.<br />
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The second image is a quicker sketch of Batman, the dark flip side of Superman's cultural function (Superman is gifted with supernatural powers, Batman is merely wealthy and disciplined, Superman is motivated by high-minded ideals, while Batman is motivated by vengeance and a loathing for criminals). I don't think the Batman sketch is terribly successful, but it was fun enough that I'm going to try another crack at the character...<br />
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Last Christmas, wandering in and out of shops in Dublin doing some last-minute shopping, I strolled into <a href="http://www.littlemuseum.ie/" target="_blank">The Little Museum of Dublin</a> on St. Stephen's Green, who had an Irish Design holiday shop on their first floor. My attention was drawn to a display of <a href="http://www.kovet.ie/" target="_blank">Kovet</a> iPhone cases, reassuringly thick and sturdy, and featuring exceptional designs and paintings on the back. After a bit of nosing around (and after buying two cases), I checked them out. They're based in Ireland, manufactured in Sligo, and feature artists and designers based in Ireland. I'll admit the quality of the work they displayed was intimidatingly good, but on a long shot I sent them my portfolio. After the holidays, I got a reply asking for illustrations to adorn phone cases.<br />
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Success!<br />
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So far, only one of my designs is on sale, and that's the one I'm going to discuss (there are four more, and to preserve some of the surprise when they're released, I'll post about them as they become available)<br />
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As I was beginning this set of paintings, the <a href="http://www.rbs6nations.com/" target="_blank">Six Nations</a> rugby tournament was just getting underway. It would ultimately turn out to be one of the most disastrous tournament campaigns the Irish Rugby Team has ever suffered, but it was buoyed by an initial first week victory over eventual champions Wales. I decided to give a rugby-themed case a try.<br />
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90% of the work for this image was accomplished using an iPad Mini, an app called <a href="http://www.procreate.si/" target="_blank">Procreate</a>, and a Wacom Bamboo iPad stylus. This way of working is absolutely thrilling. Never having used a Cintiq tablet, the immediacy of drawing right on the screen was exhilarating. Procreate's flexible tools and brushes, along with the ease of having access to layers, means that a rough color draft of your image can be ready in a minute, leaving the rest to fine-tuning.<br />
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I liked the original line drawing for the rugby player, despite it's straight line of action, so I preserved that as the rest of the drawing was fleshed out. The background is Lansdowne Road Stadium (more corporately known as the Aviva Stadium), a new and glassy arena in which the Irish national team play. As the image neared completion, the background started to make the overall composition a little too busy, with too many elements competing against the player for attention. I added the white halo of light behind him last, emphasizing his silhouette without losing the essence of the background (professional athletes might already feel they emit this messianic glow, so it's perhaps fitting.)<br />
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I was very late in developing an enthusiasm for sport. I wasn't able to participate in contact sports whatsoever, so growing up, sport was just something that other people did. I didn't have the physical experiences on the field that would allow me to appreciate the physical achievements of athleticism. My eventual appreciation came when I was well into my studies in Animation. Focusing my mind so much on seeking out beauty through motion led to an awe of athletes' control, fluidity, and power. The aesthetic qualities of sport are hard to deny. Anyone who appreciates action cinema has so much to enjoy in seeing the clash of muscle and the finesse of tactics.<br />
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And lest this first point seem a little bit too worshipful of a rather martial sort of beauty, the second thing that draws me to sport is the bloodless and often positive way it channels humanity's baser instincts of tribalism. Not everyone agrees with this view. In 1945, George Orwell <a href="http://orwell.ru/library/articles/spirit/english/e_spirit" target="_blank">lamented</a>:<br />
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He then goes on to describe sport as "warfare, minus the shooting". Those last three words are very, very important. While there are certainly examples in which he's very correct (see, for example, any sporting clash between Croatia and Serbia), in my personal experience of watching and attending international sporting matches, quite the opposite effect occurs. During the period of play, one cheers and encourages one's own team, but that support is more spirited when there is a respect and acknowledgement of the ability of the opponents. Orwell is right when he says that most sports are a binary win/lose result, but he concludes that a supporter wishes to see the opposition humiliated.<br />
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I think the real desires of a sporting audience are more clearly reflected by David Mamet's <a href="http://sevencamels.blogspot.ie/2006/05/sports-and-our-need-for-drama.html" target="_blank">drama-based assessment of what makes a "perfect" sporting match.</a> Great story artist <a href="http://sevencamels.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">Mark Kennedy</a> paraphrases the essence of what a sporting audience wants to see:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Even if my team is winning in a lopsided game I start wishing the other team would surge back just to keep it interesting. Especially if you're there in person. When you're watching from home you can turn off the TV if the game stinks. But if you're sitting in the stadium in an expensive seat you always wish you got a good show for your money, and a good show means great drama.</span></span></blockquote>
Spectators don't wish to see the opposition humiliated because they want to see a real contest.<br />
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Anecdotally, any time I have been to an international match (or a match with visiting foreign fans), there has always been a wonderful sense of welcoming the visiting supporters here in Dublin in a spirit of affection and fraternity. Even a match-up that observers might predict to be aggressive or fiery, such as Ireland vs England, after the 80 minutes of play is finished, the Ireland supporters and England supporters all flow out into the same streets, the same pubs, the same restaurants, and most everyone involved is the richer for having shared their city and time with the visitors. And a tradition such as the British & Irish Lions rugby tour every four years is especially wonderful, when four nations assemble a single team that the entire public can get behind. Yes, there is still inherently an "us versus them" element if they play AGAINST any team, but being able to have something of a super-national team has to be seen as a unifying force. Trust me, there will be more on the British & Irish Lions to come on this blog, perhaps another iPhone case, hmm?<br />
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Sorry about going all long-winded, I wound up having to work harder than I'd thought I would to justify my appreciation for sports. Anyway, there are more iPhone case designs coming up, but also more doodles to post in the coming days thanks to this iPad. Sorry to inflict so much reading on you, especially when I have a blog devoted just to long-winded nonsense like this, but if you've read this far, thank you very much! I'll be back with more illustrations soon!Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-9345842219137927142013-01-05T02:03:00.000+00:002013-01-05T02:03:05.627+00:00New Year at the BeachWell, we've successfully completed another transit around our local star, and we've ticked forward an increment on our calendar. Time to celebrate!<div>
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This time I spent New Year staying with some friends, a couple of whom were generous enough to host us, in Cleggan, County Galway. It's a more rugged, rainy, and windswept place than I am used to in Ireland. Dublin's gentle, graceful shore is nestled against the rather contained Irish Sea. The West coat, by contrast, is hewn into its serrated undulations by the unrelenting violence of the Atlantic Ocean's full fury. </div>
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Now back in Dublin after strolling those beaches, strewn with rocks and tide-pools, I've kicked together another little digital painting. This has wound up becoming another bit of concept art for my "Land of Winter" narrative project that's been in the works for some time, but I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out for a relatively quick piece of work. I was doing some experiments with layering textures to give the sense of a large, shallow, sandy tide-pool, one only a couple of inches deep, but blasting a reflection of the tumultuous sky back at us.</div>
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Here's a version without the two guys fighting to the death, in case anyone's interested.</div>
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And just for the sake of documenting, here's the rough composition about five minutes in. Unlike how I usually do these, I didn't start with a scanned sketch, so I just kicked around digital paint for a bit. As anyone who has taken a cursory glance at my other illustrations can see, yes, there's the overpowering backlight again. I'll tone it down next time, but in this instance, I stuck it in there as anyone who's spent a winter as far north as Ireland will tell you, that low, blinding, cold sun is a feature that is difficult to escape, and is one of the main visual cues I plan to use in "Land of Winter" to create a sense of contrast and alienation in our poor hero. (It also makes driving here in the winter a real pain.)</div>
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The combatants' poses I came up with while referring back to sketches I had done at a fencing club a few years ago. I can't claim that they are terribly accurate or effective poses for skewering one's enemies, but I hoped that the downturned sword in the foreground would both give a sense of being on the defensive backfoot, while also drawing the eye to the mid-ground figure. Our hero's the one in the unenviable position of fighting for his life with the sun in his eyes.</div>
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Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-35931125472275824502012-10-18T03:24:00.003+00:002012-10-18T03:24:31.956+00:00Dealing with the Zombie Menace<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Just in time for Halloween, here's a painting I sketched up a few months ago.<br />
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I'm not quite the zombie fanatic that some of my friends are, but they have certainly inspired some fascinating work (early George Romero and the oeuvre of Max Brooks to name just two), the best of which are fun mirrors into our own society's fears. Perhaps not surprisingly, they usually suggest that those in our society mostly fear each other.<br />
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When I set out to make a zombie image, what interested me wasn't the zombie itself, but how it is manifested as a plague to be controlled. I tried to draw upon the dread that I felt when I saw photos in 2010 of Tsunami relief efforts in Nuclear-Disaster-stricken Fukushima prefecture, the mint-colored HAZMAT suits had a chilling unreality to them.<br />
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It reminded me that the color palette of most real disasters is the antiseptic tones of the equipment and clothing draping those responding to it.Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-34308954883719124162012-04-24T03:06:00.000+00:002012-04-24T03:06:52.925+00:00New Writing Blog!In an effort to keep the focus of this particular blog on visual work, I have decided to clutter the internet further with another blog, this one devoted to written work.<br />
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I am adding a link to the new blog to the sidebar on the right of this page, and additionally you can find it <a href="http://danielphiliprobinson.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">by clicking on this link</a>, which will also take you to its inaugural offering: a short story that's been cooking in my brain for a little while.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">To accompany this story, and something which I think ought to be a habit of mine from now on, I decided to make companion illustrations as headings. Half of the story is set in China in 1006 A.D., so I decided to try my hand at an imitation period Chinese painting, even though I opted to imitate the Yuan Dynasty's style, which came about 200 years after this story is set (1006 A.D. would have been the Song Dynasty, but paintings of that period tend towards monumental complexity and I chickened out)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Chinese text at the top-right corner is <i>K<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">e Xing</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">客星 — literally "Guest Star" — a name given by Chinese astronomers of antiquity to temporary or unexpected events observed in the heavens, a phenomenon that factors into the story on the other blog. Hopefully I didn't utterly butcher the rendering of the text, or generate a pastiche image of culturally inept banality (I always hope that part, though.)</span></span>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-1445198176900811482012-03-21T14:48:00.000+00:002012-03-21T14:48:19.911+00:00The Zoo!I don't need to tell people that the Zoo is fun, or that it's a great opportunity to sketch some really interesting things that almost all of us can't possibly encounter on a routine basis. Drawing animals is tough, very tough. Trying to figure out their skeletal and muscular structure, their balance, the way they move, all while hopefully imparting character... All very challenging.<br />
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That's probably why the sketches I'm most happy with happen to depict the most human-like creature of the lot, Gorillas.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9owskfDCGi_fq3DeixO2sIxS19YkGf20CTGorpdG3eOILgylAfshEyjuf0e_NaRZ5OV6Cs-jiEUFkBMFvEB4gpHcDWOsVslGnH92qZ2TsEByvCLbPb94jGTfhYnz0ySq-IGhFOdmMhTS/s1600/SCN_0006v2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9owskfDCGi_fq3DeixO2sIxS19YkGf20CTGorpdG3eOILgylAfshEyjuf0e_NaRZ5OV6Cs-jiEUFkBMFvEB4gpHcDWOsVslGnH92qZ2TsEByvCLbPb94jGTfhYnz0ySq-IGhFOdmMhTS/s320/SCN_0006v2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-11199610104913581702012-01-23T22:38:00.000+00:002012-01-23T22:38:09.399+00:00Inkling!I just recieved a belated Christmas gift today, the <a href="http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Inkling" target="_blank">Wacom Inkling</a>, a little device that you attach to the side of whatever you're sketching on, and it records all of your pen strokes as vectors, negating the need to scan anything while preserving the act of drawing with an actual pen on actual paper.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wacom Inkling</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I've just finished charging it and had to give it a spin, so here's the inaugural sketch on my Inkling, drawn on an A5 Moleskine sketchbook, of a Rob Gronkowski ball-spike in honor of last night's Patriots NFL win.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gronk Smash!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>As usual, I'm going to end with a promise to be more active in my posting. It's pretty bad of me not to keep updating regularly, so pretty soon I'm going to scan in the sketches I did of a recent trip to the zoo. Everyone likes animals, right?Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-35456447655225071602011-10-11T01:44:00.005+00:002011-10-11T02:11:59.096+00:00Kanellos!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Such a nice doggy.</td></tr>
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Getting a little bit political here, but I have been quite amused by the emergence of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct/05/greece-protest-dog-kanellos-video?INTCMP=SRCH">Κανέλλος the "Riot Dog"</a>, a stray dog named "Cinnamon" that always seemed to be at the front lines of civil unrest in Greece. He's recently reappeared during fresh strikes / riots, and I thought I would make a play on his odd mixture of cuteness and utter ferocity towards authority.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">A true icon for our times, I suppose...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">(CORRECTION: I seem to have gotten the Greek onomatopoeia's spelling wrong for a barking dog, it should read "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">γαβ, γαβ". It's late in the night at the moment, so I'll correct it later...)</span>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-9565957517683622192011-09-05T00:58:00.003+00:002012-01-23T22:38:41.426+00:00Rugby World Cup<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All Together Now</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Next weekend, the Rugby World Cup begins. The first match is on Friday, however the first in which I have any national stakes takes place on Sunday: USA vs Ireland. Being a dual citizen, I sort of have my pick of loyalties in this case. Being someone with hopefully a sense of morality, I must throw my full support behind the underdog, in this case the USA Eagles. A confident performance this year could give the US Rugby team the visibility it needs to grow the sport in the US (as much as I do enjoy American Football, there is room for the NFL and a healthy Rugby culture in a country as big as America.)<br />
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I'm particularly looking forward to seeing how the extremely talented USA winger Takudzwa Ngwenya fares.<br />
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This rather fanciful image is, if you haven't yet guessed, a bit of a take on the famous photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, with a beam of sunlight standing in for the flagpole. While I'm waving the flag, I may as well appropriate such things in the process, right?<br />
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I seem to have an unhealthy obsession with flooding an image with ridiculous backlighting, don't I? I'll have to start playing around with other ideas soon. I think it was that I found in animation it was quite a nice way to pump a bit of thick atmosphere into an image, and create almost a live-action sensation of light.Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-82716749029834191602011-08-23T02:06:00.001+00:002011-08-23T02:10:58.099+00:00Some Science-Fiction to Brighten (Blind) Your Day<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv7SVCJk3WG5koZrigJ3c6M0hlVD6Ebsp-XDNcb-JOZlDWnkFJGSv4gBof_1YP4JCHn57MSrpfD_5BexF_hpm_zYZ39WNhbpnOdSLiigVB2FDyAcOGSb-CWxFvcOvCnRAOsua6bcLRqcVu/s1600/Random+Skyscape" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv7SVCJk3WG5koZrigJ3c6M0hlVD6Ebsp-XDNcb-JOZlDWnkFJGSv4gBof_1YP4JCHn57MSrpfD_5BexF_hpm_zYZ39WNhbpnOdSLiigVB2FDyAcOGSb-CWxFvcOvCnRAOsua6bcLRqcVu/s400/Random+Skyscape" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing helps you hide<br />
like glow-in-the-dark eyes.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Just a quickie random bit of science-fiction imagery to break things up a bit.<br />
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This actually is character / environment I used to draw a lot in secondary school, thinking it was something I could turn into a fully fledged fictional world. While I did wring some ideas out of it what I think are quite good for other potential projects, it was a case of coming up with a "world" before a story, which will almost never work.<br />
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Then again, I was 16 at the time, so I don't think I quite grasped that difficulty.<br />
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The world in question revolved around a giant city that had expanded upwards to the point where roads and footpaths were all essentially "skyways"between high-rise buildings, glass half-cylinders lit by yellow ribs of light, creating a mix between a cathedral nave and a hamster tube. And of course it being a world devised by a 16 year old boy, it was a society policed by an oppressive corps of quasi-fascistic super soldiers, hiding behind impassive glowing red eyes.Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-87406278999593497142011-08-16T02:40:00.002+00:002011-08-23T21:16:43.616+00:00On the Beach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A typical Irish summer.</td></tr>
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</div>Just a quickie little tonal piece again, this time our intrepid hero shortly after arrival. Still needs work, just wanted to convey the idea of a vast stretch of low-tide beach covered in sky-reflecting tide pools.<br />
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Hospitable looking place, isn't it?Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-42221169297564166532011-08-11T01:55:00.003+00:002011-09-05T03:01:37.799+00:00Totila<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying to channel a bit of Gustave Doré here I suppose...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Just a quickie little rough tonal sketch here, done in Corel Painter.<br />
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I've always been fascinated by the marginal corners of history, people and events either shrouded by obscurity or by not having been chronicled. This is a not-at-all-historically-accurate fanciful rendering of Totila, the 6th Century Ostrogothic warlord the day he conquered Naples. It had been a long siege and the locals were terrified that once they had surrendered they'd be massacred by the supposed barbarian. To their surprise, he instead delivered a speech about how Italians should resent being an exploited colony of the Byzantines, and gave a rebuke of colonialism that sounds strikingly modern.<br />
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I imagine him here having just entered the city, standing atop their walls to address them — imposing and alien, yet stoic and egalitarian. Part of the pose was inspired by the Soviet war memorial near Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-14528268989673297262011-07-07T02:52:00.001+01:002011-09-05T03:01:29.517+00:00Must... Keep... Posting...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdZPFNQJ2VcwAY7wg4Mb6K9F7_E9Ybi1qUVVJt2p-PrsY3vJ8MOLr-7cGwYpK8677r1Bzk8dg0g5bVi6Vg-BG1UVn0uaLFAZ1TnFWIqW7So3fmgwGPutO0dsg4PzLU9h95cRMvUyiMNjtq/s1600/Random+Metellus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdZPFNQJ2VcwAY7wg4Mb6K9F7_E9Ybi1qUVVJt2p-PrsY3vJ8MOLr-7cGwYpK8677r1Bzk8dg0g5bVi6Vg-BG1UVn0uaLFAZ1TnFWIqW7So3fmgwGPutO0dsg4PzLU9h95cRMvUyiMNjtq/s400/Random+Metellus.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Going for the "American Gangster" poster's cut-off-face award...</td></tr>
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I need to stay on the ball with producing work and uploading. My current job search is occupying quite a bit of time, and when I spend time with one thing, I regret not spending it on another. Not a very helpful attitude to have, so I'm going to do a bit better with scheduling and allocating my time from now on.<br />
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This is just a quickie little Corel Painter doodle to get back into the swing of things. I haven't done a whole lot of work on things like page layout and typography, type / logo design. I'd like to develop those skills quite a bit as I go on. I'm not even sure if the type ideas in this little doodle are interesting at all, but the ball must get rolling somewhere.<br />
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Why not here?Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-4189217122619911282011-04-28T20:00:00.002+01:002012-01-23T22:39:39.140+00:00A bit of Leinster Rugby Socialist Realism<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM_lr6ZQ-zQWqcCpEEpNY1th5i8mLt1tygnACloLS00nFCpAhIH3TS2tT_hHLjiHgVyF3d4RAwTxNj3MSmpu3dpXBzGl2HE8m3W697c5DF7gfWv_bsWb9tLQDSd-3MjXgev6lce0RICPZq/s1600/ISA+ISA+ISA+ISA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM_lr6ZQ-zQWqcCpEEpNY1th5i8mLt1tygnACloLS00nFCpAhIH3TS2tT_hHLjiHgVyF3d4RAwTxNj3MSmpu3dpXBzGl2HE8m3W697c5DF7gfWv_bsWb9tLQDSd-3MjXgev6lce0RICPZq/s400/ISA+ISA+ISA+ISA.jpg" width="308" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking to pass to someone...<br />
... Anyone?<br />
...<br />
... Anyone??</td></tr>
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This weekend I've got tickets to see Leinster Rugby face Toulouse in the Heineken Cup semi-final in Dublin. To mark the occasion, a quick spot o' Socialist-Realism inspired Leinster propaganda. This time it's Leinster's immensely talented Isa Nacewa in an image constructed using the ol' stalwart technique of Divine Proportions. The one thing I'm perhaps not thrilled with is that with all my enthusiasm for lighting (I tried to keep the color scheme to Leinster's colors of blue, white, and gold) I think the detail of the translucent roof structure gets a bit lost in it.Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-52920957499526166392011-04-14T16:03:00.002+01:002011-09-05T03:02:00.264+00:00More practice images.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq5kMv6EY96muPITXiRmiRdpotYbhWtEXBQYsjvb5pfoGOt38kH4R2_Ddl-9OZOyeduJUo6EdI_eHDE-44w5R70LpkRMjPRb3NYudJ0TvMK7DuUgO0ymMctML9XFl4blxIJHp9xtkV0QpU/s1600/Aftermath.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq5kMv6EY96muPITXiRmiRdpotYbhWtEXBQYsjvb5pfoGOt38kH4R2_Ddl-9OZOyeduJUo6EdI_eHDE-44w5R70LpkRMjPRb3NYudJ0TvMK7DuUgO0ymMctML9XFl4blxIJHp9xtkV0QpU/s400/Aftermath.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here comes trouble...</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just another practice image from Land of Winter, same general setting as some of the other images — a rain-swept village that's the site of a brutal bloodbath. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This week marked the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. For a country that has not had a peaceful history, it's arresting to think that its most devastating, bloodthirsty conflict was against itself. It was the first industrialized war, with mass produced rifled bullets able to fire a straight shot, but strategies that relied upon bunching men together in easily targeted groups. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's also intriguing to note the euphemisms that are still used when referring to the war's motivations. The argument that it wasn't slavery that motivated the conflict, but "states' rights" is somewhat misleading, as the only "right" that was under threat was the right to own and exploit human beings. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Civil War also has the onerous distinction of containing the single bloodiest day in American history — the Battle of Antietam, in which 23,000 men were killed. From 6:00am to 9:00am, one man was killed every second.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"When we came to that beautiful cornfield... That was when the trouble began... Oh but the bullets did fly. I didn't see them, but I saw their effects. Men were falling all around us. Our bugler was standing near me when a cannonball struck him in the head and cut it from his shoulders. I think I got some of the blood and brains in my face... Brave men on both sides are falling, to rise no more. Thousands of them."<br />
J. Polk Racine, on the Battle of Antietam</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-84907835725274342622011-04-11T02:47:00.003+01:002011-09-05T03:01:10.292+00:00More "Land of Winter" doodles.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Can't make an omelette without... <br />
Getting doused in an arterial spray. <br />
One of the lessons I've learned from Samurai films.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Batter Up!</td></tr>
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Just a couple of quick little Painter XI doodles relating to "Land of Winter". The former being a little bit on the psychotic side, I know.Daniel Philip Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065611527627233269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842969001710006305.post-55907849247743396512011-03-23T03:30:00.011+00:002012-01-23T22:39:51.511+00:00Land of Winter concept art, and Improving my Posting Habits<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJx9m1bWhSnO1wVkZFm6yaIMHu0F3aWm_3vmZfK35haV6eYIny0g6JaR8-OeI6D0KWvq66ch742Mr0Vt6vPhckebNBQiqAYkjN-IjaT79u2Tf9WNyLo_2N4HKqQu80k8ehDOEWLn3USeD/s1600/LandOfWinter+Sketch2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="250" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587116647775456146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJx9m1bWhSnO1wVkZFm6yaIMHu0F3aWm_3vmZfK35haV6eYIny0g6JaR8-OeI6D0KWvq66ch742Mr0Vt6vPhckebNBQiqAYkjN-IjaT79u2Tf9WNyLo_2N4HKqQu80k8ehDOEWLn3USeD/s400/LandOfWinter+Sketch2.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><br />
<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVRCuH6Eanpd1C0etJkHsFlS9msY5pdU7ATMSk_pPd0zQg3URnfzvbiT32YV9QOngbAzpdUp7CwuBlfQv14zHWbriF5zdKYqzQp4J503kfbHCcv75jOMXxz95SxfxMqIZlmVYXvAwMFDJA/s1600/Sad+Metellus.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="250" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587116654053410226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVRCuH6Eanpd1C0etJkHsFlS9msY5pdU7ATMSk_pPd0zQg3URnfzvbiT32YV9QOngbAzpdUp7CwuBlfQv14zHWbriF5zdKYqzQp4J503kfbHCcv75jOMXxz95SxfxMqIZlmVYXvAwMFDJA/s400/Sad+Metellus.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgid0R8OI_cMG5pif-dqPG4ygPu14cUWShwH0RgYxNjzm98KJ0pv9WsBXnjH3ua2WBPbZKQN_viheADhNYdfw8ypwZ83M4hGxAaB7o1EmOuy3S5-9AJotyOT2kz90rbU0zacwr47VHaJUIS/s1600/Horseman+version2"><img alt="" border="0" height="250" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588000894729071266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgid0R8OI_cMG5pif-dqPG4ygPu14cUWShwH0RgYxNjzm98KJ0pv9WsBXnjH3ua2WBPbZKQN_viheADhNYdfw8ypwZ83M4hGxAaB7o1EmOuy3S5-9AJotyOT2kz90rbU0zacwr47VHaJUIS/s400/Horseman+version2" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></div>I seem to only update this blog annually. That is probably a mistake. I will try to be more diligent about posting new material as I make it. These days have been split between endeavoring to find a job, script-writing, and creating concept art for the script I'm writing.<br />
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</div><div>The current plan is to turn the script into a graphic novel, or a similar format, upon its completion. When working alone, as I am, animation is such a labor-intensive process that it rarely makes sense for the sorts of projects I have cooking up. My main interests tend to lie in narrative. Ideally I like to convey that narrative visually, but I also immensely enjoy dialogue, and occasional forays into conceits that cannot be expressed without a bit of dialogue. I have nothing but absolute respect for the John Lasseters of this world who can convey sophisticated emotional experiences, often in very brief runtimes. </div><div><br />
</div><div>It's a skill I need to improve, it certainly isn't easy. Like the quote that's usually attributed to Blaise Pascal goes, <i>"I apologize for writing such a long letter, I did not have time to write a short one." </i></div><div><i><br />
</i></div><div>Anyhow, with all that said, I may as well explain the images at the top of this post. They're from the script I'm working on, as I attempt to establish a tone and aesthetic. The former is approaching the intended look of the bulk of the piece, with the middle approaching the intended look of a recurring sequence of traumatic flashbacks for the protagonist. The last one is the intended aesthetic for the third act clash, borrowing liberally from the climax of <i>Seven Samurai</i>, if I'm going to borrow, I may as well borrow from the best. These were all done in Corel Painter XI. Usually I work from a sketchbook, scan the drawing, then paint, but in these cases I decided to try my hand working digitally from scratch. For all you lose in immediacy using a tablet instead of paper, you gain a lot in flexibility after the sketch is done.</div><div><br />
</div><div>And finally, just because Ireland sensationally clobbered England in the closing round of the Rugby Six Nations, a quickie little sketch from the week before that turned out to be somewhat prophetic.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ireland finally coming into form in the 6 Nations Rugby, as imagined a week earlier</td></tr>
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