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Keenspace Competition: Rennaisance Art

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I remember when I joined only a few short months ago, Rkolter ran a contest for the best space related drawing. He was even so nice as to have a prize for the one voted best. I enjoyed what came from it and then kept my eyes open for similar events (not solely from Rkolter mind you). So far there haven't really been any competitions since then. So I am suggesting one. Now before I go any farther the fundamental difference is that I sadly have nothing to offer up as a prize, other than maybe hollow sex. If this goes well we could even continue with different competitions. This isn't like an awards show but still we can recognize excellence in the community this way.

Competition: Rennaisance Art Conversions
Rules: You must take a Rennaisance piece of art, redraw it with your own style, and with your own characters.
Art Style: The art styles that will be emulated will be of the Renaissance period. (I am officially repetive now... =])
Voting: All submissions will be compiled and then a voting thread will be created. The winner will be the person with the most votes.
Deadline: The deadline will be 3 weeks from this date so Midnight April 10th.
Submission: PM me your picture and a link (or picture) to the original piece you copied from. I'll set up either a big long post, or a seperate web page (which is cleaner) for all submissions.
If you are doing a "period" piece. (A picture that is not a copy but an emulation of the Renaissance style), just indicate that.
Prize: Unfortunatly I personally can not give a prize as I have nothing to give, however, I can offer a fan art to the winner. One that will take far more time than a usual work. (Yeah take it or leave it, I'm sure most people probably won't care but it's all I can really offer up)

So good luck, and I hope to see some excellent works here. =]

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Spriteville, you're crazy. Somebody needs to beat you over the head before you kill yourself coming up with all these awesome ideas for things for you to organize. :D
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Sounds really nice, <s>but I think we should just beat you over the head for our own personal enjoyment.</s> and I think I'd like to participate.
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Leko wrote:Spriteville, you're crazy. Somebody needs to beat you over the head before you kill yourself coming up with all these awesome ideas for things for you to organize. :D
So you're gonna do it right?

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Unfortunately, probably not. I'd say it's because I'm not confident in my ability to draw realistically or to copy the classical styles...

But that would be a lie. The truth is I'm too damn lazy. :D
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Leko wrote:Unfortunately, probably not. I'd say it's because I'm not confident in my ability to draw realistically or to copy the classical styles...

But that would be a lie. The truth is I'm too damn lazy. :D
That's ok. I mean you can draw your inspiration from a classical piece as opposed to try to make say... a DaVinci. The most obvious project one could do was a copy of the Mona Lisa, it doesn't have to BE the Mona Lisa, it just has to be obvious that was your inspiration. Anyone can do it =] You can do a classical piece in your art, or try to emulate a classical piece, it's all up to you.

P.S. Check the first post, every time i do a crazy thing, guess what pic I'll put under it =]

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Heeheehee! Perfect!
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Yikes! :o

This will be very interesting, though maybe we could clarify what the goal is. Are we going to take well-known and easily recognized pieces of artwork from the Renaissance and redraw them in our own crude styles and insert our own characters? "The Creation of Cortland" by Michelangelo makes me cringe. I'd rather not have any of my crude scribbles being compared with any renaissance artist. Maybe we could expand the window to post-modernism, or at least Impressionism? Those schools are a little more forgiving.

Then again, this could be a very interesting challenge. If we stick to the Renaissance, then I call The School of Athens by Raphael. GROUP FAN ART! :D
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::sigh:: somehow i think my medium of choice precludes me from participating here... sounds like fun though
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Not so:

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/ ... ure01.html

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Stephen Henderson-Grady wrote:Not so:

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/ ... ure01.html

Look here for inspiration, Legoman!
Ah... intriguing.... perhaps I am not so on the outs as previously assumed.
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legostargalactica wrote: Ah... intriguing.... perhaps I am not so on the outs as previously assumed.
Here's another possibility:

http://www.brillig.com/lego/starry_night/
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Nothing has yet to impress me as much as this

http://www.richardland.com/stuff/03/10/lego_escher.htm

Especially since Escher is my favorite artist and Relativity is probably my favorite of his works.

But I'm derailing now, so let us just say that I shall endevour to have an entry for you, Spriteville.
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I'm in. Sounds Awesome.

Though I can't decide on a piece. Can anyone remember the artist/name of the piece of someone tied to a tree, naked, with arrows sticking out of him? They referenced it in REM's "Losing my Religion" video...

I'll have to think on this...
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Spectre_General wrote:I'm in. Sounds Awesome.

Though I can't decide on a piece. Can anyone remember the artist/name of the piece of someone tied to a tree, naked, with arrows sticking out of him? They referenced it in REM's "Losing my Religion" video...

I'll have to think on this...
That would be Saint Sebastian when he was shot by Mauretanian archers somehow he didn't actually die from this....

There are several different versions of the scene. The one linked above is Rubens.
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I'd think about entering my Good Friday strip from last year, except that the artwork is so far removed from what it is now I don't think I'd want to enter it. Besides, I've posted it in other threads before.

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I'd love to enter if only i was capable of doing it.
Which i'm not, i have no clue how to make something look anything close to a classical painting..

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Hmmm... I wonder how Ugly Girl would look riding in naked on a clam shell a la Botticelli? :lol:
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Nanda wrote:Hmmm... I wonder how Ugly Girl would look riding in naked on a clam shell a la Botticelli? :lol:
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I would like to encourage anyone and everyone to take a shot with this if they feel they have the time. The differences in style and how all of us with our different talents try to portray an onler art form is perhaps the most interesting part of this competition. If you think your not good enough to make a rennaisance picture, don;t worry, no one expects you to be Van Gogh or Raphael. Do what you can, make something pretty. Even leave it unamed and see if we can guess the original work. Those people that don't draw anything similar to the Rennaisance period will surely be the most interesting of the bunch.
Cortland wrote:Maybe we could expand the window to post-modernism, or at least Impressionism? Those schools are a little more forgiving.
While not a bad idea, I think we should limit this specific contest to just the Rennaisance period. There is a wealth of material to work from and if we expand the limits then I might as wlel just make the contest be "take any piece of art and do your own take on it". I understand that those periods are easier but that's part of the fun too is the challenge. If this goes well however I will go through different periods. Pop Art is a must of course for later.

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