This is a spin-off of the original GFX Art Battle, but with some updated rules and changes. Please make sure to read the rules before entering, since they have been modified. Good luck, we look forward to seeing some creative artistic entries!
Competition Rules 1. Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program. It can then be manipulated in an graphics program. But unoriginal artwork cannot be used as the main focus. Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified. 2. Submissions must follow the current theme that has been chosen by a moderator for that week. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged. 3. If your image is larger than 600 pixels wide, please provide a link to the image instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the image will be cut off. 4. Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week. 5. After the deadline, a moderator will pick the winner, and they will be awarded a 25 AP award.
I don't do digital abstracts. (ShintetsuWA) I don't do pure abstracts. (thisisnotanalt) I don't even do abstract abstracts. It's like saying a sociopath pulled a thoad after going on a killing spree. (Note the use of buzzwords.)
I haven't visited this thread in over a week but I see some crazy stuff, so coming back was worth it.
I don't do pure abstracts
I feel this is something that is both important and grossly underappreciated. With arguably one or two exceptions (like the Gantt chart which really doesn't count), none of Gantic's submissions on this forum have been abstract. To quote from the article I just linked to:
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Gantic's submissions have this in common: they emphasise a component of visual reference to the world, therefore they are, by definition, not abstract. If anything what throws most people is that he works with puns and riddles (both visual and verbal), or seeks to express using unique and experimental techniques.
The closest I'd say he has gotten to it would be "quasi-surrealist", like that crazy hair-waterfall piece a while back.
Therefore, "ulling a Gantic" should only be used if one has used some extraordinarly witty (or corny, or obscure) pun/riddle, or has gone out of their way to use an unrecogniseable technique.
And your definition of 'creepy,' to what end is it applicable to anything else? You are simply trapped in the shell of your mind, using your definitions of 'English' and 'creepy' to define the ever-strange world around you, to try and dismember it into a way that makes some sort of sense. . .as we all do. So, 'twould be a misconception to label something 'creepy,' because of our infinitely limited perspective, truncated by our own imaginations and puny human personas. ------------ So, it's because your works are never even close to abstracts. . .which is true, because they are, like Stropsign said, 'quasi-surrealist' at the most, and they all have some sort of discernible meaning behind them.
