Martin-Krieger In reply to KambalPinoy [2015-09-14 18:05:00 +0000 UTC]

0h. But the image is of tattoo flash. What's there isn't on anyone's skin. Is it still not allowed?

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KambalPinoy In reply to Martin-Krieger [2015-09-14 19:30:26 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm well you know what as long I only see these Tattoo patterns not on their skin so fine I'll make this an acception but as long it's not on their actual skin, okay?

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Martin-Krieger In reply to KambalPinoy [2015-09-14 20:01:55 +0000 UTC]

It's just the design that you would follow to apply a tattoo. The artwork is ink and acrylic paint on Bristol paper.

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KambalPinoy In reply to Martin-Krieger [2015-09-15 00:00:21 +0000 UTC]

I see and like I said before your artwork is an acception as long it's just in paper not on skin

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Martin-Krieger In reply to ChilloHaus [2015-07-19 18:07:20 +0000 UTC]

I could stand a little more practice... especially in building compositions. but thank you very much. and thanks for the watch.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to 0487 [2015-06-30 19:03:19 +0000 UTC]

no need to be jealous... I spend a little more time on my DA submissions than i used to so that's all that is.

honestly, you aren't missing anything. This place is NOT what it was in 2006... but I'll be screaming that until the end of the universe.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to NJValente [2015-01-20 09:23:01 +0000 UTC]

You're quite welcome! A good friend of mine is friends with Jud. She showed me some stuff from Last Testament and I found your DA through Google image search. You've got great stuff.

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NJValente In reply to Martin-Krieger [2015-01-30 04:51:12 +0000 UTC]

Cool thank you so much!

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Martin-Krieger In reply to Strabius [2014-12-19 19:57:33 +0000 UTC]

well that is correct! thank you. how have things been going?

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Strabius In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-12-19 23:00:37 +0000 UTC]

Well I started college recently, and tomorrow is finals. I'm taking a 5 minute break to check messages here on DA, but then I have to get back to finishing my last project and studying. How about you?

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Martin-Krieger In reply to Strabius [2015-01-12 18:14:49 +0000 UTC]

I got married last october. other than that I've been working and trying to keep up with my art (privately).

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Strabius In reply to Martin-Krieger [2015-01-13 06:07:34 +0000 UTC]

Aw that's awesome. Congratulations.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to Strabius [2015-01-13 07:49:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-11 19:48:14 +0000 UTC]

It seems like the deviants who pick out DDs just choose at random sometimes. Apparently, each one is assigned to only one category, so that selection had to be an avatar... but why that avatar? we will never know... because it's likely that if we contacted the deviant who suggested or approved that DD, we would just be labeled as trolls... or bitter people... maybe the latter is true.

I haven't really been motivated to work on my DA hiatus. It feels almost like i DID quit...

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-07-12 13:26:41 +0000 UTC]

Exactly, there does not seem to be any measure by which the selection process works. If the search for accountability is the determinant for bitterness, then something is seriously wrong.

I know what you mean...

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-12 21:29:04 +0000 UTC]

there really isn't. It's not like Mod picks on elfwood... (where they had strict guidelines for the quality of featured artworks)... here on DA, the Mods are assigned a category each and every day have to pick a deviation based on ... and that deviation is a DD. There is no standard by which they pick the DDs. It's just because they like it and feel the Deviant deserves the attention. (which is a bizarre reason to pick anything... everyone deserves to have their art admired, right?)

Of course, I don't think we think everyone deserves to be admired. I think artists that show good technique, or an original vision, or something special (other than the specialness and originality of everything) deserve to have their art featured. The reason I want that to be why DDs are given is because even artwork that isn't that great get's ridiculous views and +favs as a DD... That seems petty until you think about views, +favs, and watches as traffic... and traffic as advertising... There are Deviants who have become somewhat successful as artists, partially because of the attention they received on DA.

That being said, we aren't really searching for accountability because there isn't anything to be accountable for. There is no rule that says Mods must select deviations that exemplify that category's artform... all they have to do is find something they like and select it... so they really did do the job. It's just the ammount of attention and glorification that DDs get that gives us the impression that that selection must be made based on some special quality or extreme determination to honing craft. The unfortunate truth is that giving a DD is like giving two llamas in the same week... except llamas aren't guaranteed advertising and adoration from people who would otherwise have never seen you anywhere.

Every snowflake is identical, because every one is different.

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-07-12 21:52:09 +0000 UTC]

Indubitably, only those pieces with demonstrable, meaning and not even novelty or technical excellence should be spotlighted. Anything else is just pointless exercise in masturbation for novelty-sake, hence pointless.

Yes you are right, the problem is even more systematic then could be simply enveloped by a question of accountability. Like you said, it is self legitimizing nonsense.

"Every snowflake is identical, because every one is different". So true, spoken like a genuine Hegelian . The measure of worth a piece has these days is not measured by the degree of truth but by the novelty of the subject or style.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-12 23:00:38 +0000 UTC]

my main concern has always been the execution... Like, it doesn't bother me that yet another stupid pony is a DD... but that a stupid yet another pony is a dd and all it is is a poorly drawn attempt to match the style of the nouveau little ponies.

Is that artist seasoned enough to really know what they're doing? do they understand the craft of cartooning, or of creating vector art? or are they just really big fans of twilight sparkle and thus a special little snowflake among the rest of us white shapeless clods?

I'll openly admit that I'm bitter by the way I know things about all these stupid fandoms that won't stop overshadowing artists who spend their time learning art and sharpening their skills... And I've even tried to embrace fandoms that I can tolerate in an effort to try to fold myself into the community... and It's not working.

I guess I'll have to start drawing spawners again... Or recoloring ponies.

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-07-13 16:10:40 +0000 UTC]

Such tragedy, being grey amongst these wonderful, radiant snowflakes.

I hate the very concept of "fandom", all of them I hate, out of principle. I think we are just not COOL and quirky enough for the fandomz buddy .

I am currently working on an awful piece that will surely rake in millions in Aztec gold and is sure to please da fandomz community or whatever.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-13 19:12:02 +0000 UTC]

I like some things that are caught up in fandoms... so I guess you could say that I'm fandom adjacent... I did however think of something last night on this subject, which is why I wrote:

A Nasty Open Letter to Fandoms:

Back in 1984, ponies came in every color of the rainbow... what you like now should be called "stupid fucking horses".
C. S. Lewis already did all that shit that J. K. Rowling received critical acclaim for, and he could write...
True Blood, Twilight, Vampire Diaries, I would like you to meet Lestat De Lioncourt... he's a bad ass.
Mario and Peach are not an item. plz stop drawing them in weird romantic scenes.
Furries, you wouldn't exist without disney, mythology, porn, and the internet... You are not a canid, and humans are animals.
Disney, Frozen? WTF is your problem? Tangled?! I can no longer tell the difference between you and Dreamworks...
Dreamworks, thank you for stopping shrek... but we gotta talk about this dragons thing... or you could just stop feeding the furries...
H. P. Lovecraft Wrote about WAY more than cah-tool-who... seriously, how many of you have a hot topic cthulhu item but have never read a single HPL book. I'm willing to bet a lot...
I might be a hater, but if you let it sink in and realize that your peers are the most obnoxious "die hard fanz", you'll be a fuckin hater too...


I want some Aztec gold!

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-07-14 15:51:17 +0000 UTC]

HAHAH! Yes, very good. Such passion

I am utterly lost on why any of these things get cults formed around them, like what is up with this stupid Frozen thing? Oh gosh.

OH don't get me started on what they do to Lovecraft and his creations, oh god. These happy go lucky, obnoxious, hipsters with their Cloo-loo  merch don't know the first thing about it, they don't comprehend that the funny little green plushy they have on their sofa is actually a symbol for philosophical pessimism. Its a huge problem I have with this explosion of popularity Lovecraft has been having,- it lacks all meaning, the image is popular not the message because few actually read it and fewer still are mature enough to get what cosmic-horror is about, and NO it is NOT just horror+sci-fi, my word. It is terrible, stupid subversive postmodernist teens and their fandoms.

I will share some

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-16 20:52:38 +0000 UTC]

yeah... if you have even constructive criticism on any of those things, they freak out and call you a hater... on the disney/dreamworks thing... it's more my hatred for happy go lucky things. And the weird desire for the fans to cling to "disney originals" weirds me out. It's over buddies... disney original animations were one, never original stories created by the company, and two aren't capturing the magic you remember from aristocats... (it's mainly the older people who are frzn fanz that creep me out... you can tell they're just trying to keep up some semblance of disnostalgia that they can inject into their children)

and yes... if i saw a full body night gaunt costume in hot topic... that came with free amphetamines you could use to become emaciated to look the part... instead of cthulhu plushies and HPL bust tshirts (with no context), then I would probably not be so broken up about the fandom...

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-07-20 14:16:07 +0000 UTC]

It is all very much insufferable. I hate lion-king and its insufferable nature worshiping message, I hate how Aladin ripped off the brilliant, never-finished thief and the cobbler, and so on and so forth.

Bloody hell, "lovecraft fandom" just kill me already.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-21 20:46:02 +0000 UTC]

I did like the little mermaid... but not because of disney claiming it... Every little gay boy wants to be a mermaid and I was no different.

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-07-22 08:27:35 +0000 UTC]

Ah! mermaids, I have never watched that film, I grew up on soviet animation, and watched the soviet adaptation of that same mermaid tale, was kind of scary the way they portrayed the suffering that the character was going to feel every time she walks on her new feet.
The only 2 Disney films I was exposed to back then were Lion king and Aladin, I loved Aladin as a child, until I learnt that it was plagiarizing a vastly superior film.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-22 19:12:35 +0000 UTC]

well Disney's rendition of the little mermaid was the softest possible... no excruciating pain when walking... she just lost her voice. I guess it's all of the oceanic imagery in it that keeps me so far above tolerant of it.

I've seen skreenshots of the Thief and the Cobbler and a few sections that compared it to Aladin but I've never seen it... i would really like to.

in fact... I'm watching some version of it called "recobbled" on youtube right now before work...

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-07-23 07:46:51 +0000 UTC]

Oh yes, that is the version I watched too! The version that tries to salvage the original, unfinished project according to the vision of the creators. All other versions are recut bastardizations, by other people once the project was snuffed, due to problems.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-23 19:28:45 +0000 UTC]

looking back ... i want to say i saw one of the "finished" released versions too... and in fact, i've been hanging on to memories of the ending that I just couldn't place anywere. I have a few of those... including some segment that I believe came from an episode of Disney's wonderful world of color that depicted these strange alien creatures who locked away knowledge inside their heads which had a literal door with a keyhole in the center... never saw it again and it's been unnerving me ever since.

Maybe someday, a wealthy benefactor will obtain the rights and actually finish the film in the same way that the recobbled version attempts to... filling in the rough sketches and animatics with fully realized animation. at some point, these things; animation, entertainment media, modern art; will be the artifacts that explain our culture to the people of the future... the pieces that exist beyond being money making devices deserve to represent us.

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-07-26 07:49:50 +0000 UTC]

This film, for the longest time, had set one of those strange discordant memories. I had memories of viewing landscape zoom past me and turn absolutely red, and memories of horrible red elephants in a horrible dark place.

Since I saw it as a very young child I had those memories. Then I rediscovered this film by accident.

The question of cultural representation is an important one, it seems that we are to, overwhelmingly, be homo-economicus, as far as contemporary film goes.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-07-29 19:34:43 +0000 UTC]

I'm worried about that.

But I really only have an American perspective... maybe globally, humans won't look so stupid based on what artifacts they leave behind.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to 1gga [2014-06-15 18:45:33 +0000 UTC]

Um... In terms of color saturation and mood, yes. But the visual style there is more anime-ish. I'm trying to go for more of a "distorted live action" look.

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Martin-Krieger In reply to 1gga [2014-06-09 19:27:09 +0000 UTC]

Aww shucks! well, I'm taking my time so as to make sure that nothing comes out rushed or inappropriately changed. (you know what I mean) I'm glad you wanna stick around and see where it goes!

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1gga In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-06-10 07:51:47 +0000 UTC]

I'm a pc user, and I lack of knowledge about the latest Mario games, but when I come across any of them somewhere on the net, I feel kind of disappoint. I think that, me as a kid wouldn't like that. Mario is acting weird and retarded, like a grownup man speaking childish in stereotypical italian accent. I don't see a point to make a big deal about his nationality, or to overdone with bright tones everywhere.
In my childhood I had a chinese piratic NES console, and I really enjoyed mario bros games. But when i accidentally got a chance to play Super Mario Bros 3, it just blown my mind.. It was so unique and appealing, had a huge variety of everything, and addictiveness was over the top. That feeling of interest to explore further, to see different worlds, and etc. Now I see that developers just using the same palette to cook other mario games and remake everything instead of creating something absolutely fresh.. just adding some new features, enemies, moves and etc. It's more like an expansion, but not a new step into mario universe. You might notice that there is no actual Super Mario 4 or something?
But what most importantly i wanted to say, is that I really like how Mario has it's own charm, it's own version of how everything should be. Those silly bushes, clouds with eyes, funny deadly creatures like some sort of bombs on tiny legs, armored bugs and etc. And environment sometimes makes you believe, like this world is so true-believable. It could work somehow. Everything is so innocent at first, but then you see how sometimes it is cruel and unforgiving. You might think it's so childish and simple, but I tried to remove something from it and add my own stuff, it's very hard and ruins everything. The only thing I would remove is those lakita clouds who throw spiked buddies, probably because it looks like a nerd-baby koopa and annoys me, but maybe it is suppose to be like that, a dumb looking thing which gives you hell..

Anyway, good luck to you with this project, I'll be following the results

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Martin-Krieger In reply to 1gga [2014-06-10 18:52:24 +0000 UTC]

"Mario has it's own charm, it's own version of how everything should be. Those silly bushes, clouds with eyes, funny deadly creatures like some sort of bombs on  tiny legs, armored bugs and etc... ...Everything is so innocent at first, but then you see how sometimes it is cruel and unforgiving."

THAT is the gist of SMB: The Falling Stars! I want to encapsulate the stylistic nature of the source material, and liven it up just enough to realize that if it was made "too real" it would be very disturbing...

Like, Mario is still a worker (with knowledge of plumbing) because from his early teen years, he and Luigi worked with the toads to rebuild Toadtown.
Peach is still a princess (because she's destined to guide the mushroom kingdom to peace) which is why Bowser wants her... to guide his dominion to absolute rule.

I'm just giving some reasons why things exist in this world... but not trying to overpower it with "real X" tropes or gore... or sexuality... Mario the way you remember him... but with a very strong expository narrative. Something the franchise has really never had...

and Lakitu stays... he's my BF's favorite character... I just did the spiny, I gotta do Lakitu to go with him, lol.

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1gga In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-06-11 07:30:44 +0000 UTC]

I would like to see mario as a young man in his twenties, or maximum in early thirties. I always imagined him like that, since when someone says he is like 40-50 years old buffer and he is romantically involved with the princess.. it makes me think about pedophilia, since she is obviously out of his league. It would be more interesting to see a young plumber saving someone out of his league, instead of old fart doing this. All I can see that it is a baby midget with mustache, even the hair color differs, are those mustache are fake then?

Are you going to put this project into something else, like an interactive thing? Or it will be left as redesigns on paper?

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Martin-Krieger In reply to 1gga [2014-06-11 17:33:28 +0000 UTC]

I wrote some new stuff about Mario and his age on my last Deviation, you might like whats there...

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1gga In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-06-11 17:55:31 +0000 UTC]

I will check it

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Martin-Krieger In reply to 1gga [2014-06-11 12:27:25 +0000 UTC]

I was thinking of possibly writing the falling stars narrative into like a short graphic storybook... Inspired by Arvalis' pokemon hunter book...

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Martin-Krieger In reply to PolskaKaczka [2014-04-25 17:00:02 +0000 UTC]

No problem. I can't believe I haven't watched you already! (I seriously forgot that I wasn't watching you until I checked your page and realized that you've updated journals and deviations, but I wasn't getting messages about a single one.)

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PolskaKaczka In reply to Martin-Krieger [2014-04-25 17:08:53 +0000 UTC]

Happens.

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