:: all fishies/high romance with/mystical fields/bugs me ::
by swallowedbees, Cicada, Grimace6, and enclosed
::| an.exquisite.corpse : discussion : 10 |::
That half paper mermaid is friggin sweet.
moonroof at February 15, 2006 9:55 AM
smooth! not a disjunction in sight!
Zounds Padang at February 15, 2006 10:00 AM
I like the very consistent (and literal) "cut and paste" (or tape) look to this one. Fun stuff.
FogBaron at February 15, 2006 10:02 AM
A Magical Mystical World Indeed!
Wild........ at February 15, 2006 10:06 AM
Cicada: You are a bounty of imagery and mythology. I hope you break this one down for us.
Another beautiful, outstanding corpse. Good stuff!
Miroje at February 15, 2006 11:03 AM
Excellent work. I love the mess in the transition from 1 to 2: very nicely done.
doctormatt at February 15, 2006 1:10 PM
Whoa! Nice mermaid!
This one is great fun!
Shae at February 15, 2006 3:08 PM
Wow, I love the title for this one. Amazing flow for all parts! I'd also like to extend a welcome to newcomer Grimace6. (Who also happens to be my brother) Keep up the great work all of you!
Aaron (kopaka88) at February 15, 2006 5:33 PM
Pretty nice, I really like the second panel, is not what I thought it would be like from the bit I got from it.
Grimace6 at February 15, 2006 5:42 PM
Thank you all so much, truly and sincerely from the bottom of my heart. I can't express how much I needed to feel good about my work today. You are all, collectively, the coolest and anexquisitecorpse.net is the best site on the web. It is better than Cats.
Such beautiful work by the other players. swallowedbees, that image is strong, dynamic and wild. enclosed, I think that's my favorite example of your work that I've seen so far and all your work for me has been impressive. Grimace6, great opening piece. I've only done a few corpses so far and I've had that sensation every time. Fun, isn't it? Amazingly you continued my theme with nothing from my bottom 15 to indicate it. Psychic much? What number am I thinking of?
When I got the slice from swallowedbees panel I only had a chance to glance at it, and my immediate impression was of silvery foil and brown, crinkled paper. I was thinking over what I might do with that when a Puzz-3D commercial came on and my idea came to me. My real title for the panel was "High Romance With Paper", I tried to trick the CMS by making HighRomance one word, but it is too clever for me, which is good because the combined title totally rocks.
When I returned to the slice I realized I had had a misinterpretation, and that the foil was actually a fish, but I liked my idea and thought a mermaid would work very well for it. Some may recognize the mermaid as the work of the genius, Golden Age illustrator Arthur Rackham (one of the most sublime lines in art history) so I can take little credit for it other than arming her with a sword (the Rider-Waite Tarot Queen of Sword's sword, yeah, I'm that tightly wound).
So I just started gathering images of different paper elements. The knight is something really cool, a kind of wind-up, paper puppet, Russian I think. The dragons flames are a decal and red tissue paper used, I kid you not, in a child's religious diorama depicting sinners burning in Hell. I really liked the ballpoint pen lunar cycle drawn on a paper plate, unfortunately barely visible. The spider is from a weird set of old, Mexican trading cards (I thought the eyelashes were spider legs)and the tiny crusaders carrying the box from an illustrated manuscript-style grail romance. I thought the paper doll samurai was too artful not to feature strongly. Oh, and the river is the Thames from a map of London. I don't know why I did that.
Sorry for prattling on. After the day I had it felt rather cathartic. You guys don't mind if I'm using ECing as a form of therapy, do you?
Cicada at February 15, 2006 11:34 PM
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