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Collosimo · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2001 6:22 pm

I need some help here. This thingy I drew is really racking my brain. I can't work out what to do with it next! It's going to be a wallpaper, probably called 'suspended animation' for obvious reasons.

It is some sort of oily liquid that is flowing from an invisble source, and into a murky pond. Kinda weird huh? It's intruiging me....

Edit: Thx for telling me it didnt work, I accidentally missed out an extra underbar! stupid typo.

[ July 14, 2001: Message edited by: Collosimo ]

Zoso · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2001 10:05 pm

The pic won't load. Might just be me ...

Collosimo · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2001 12:02 am

I fixed that link...

and forgot to mention...

I need help! Has anyone got any ideas of where I could go with this? any interesting scenarios? I'm stuck ATM.

Zoso · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2001 12:50 am

I have been staring at your drawing for the past fifteen minutes. Absolutely nothing has come to mind ... well that's not true. I had something for a minute but I lost it.

Maybe it will come to me in a minute ...

Ken McCracken · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2001 3:21 am

How did you come up with this? Were you just doodling around and decided to go with it?

I just imagined a guy's evil face in deep shadow glaring at the viewer behind, with the oily drip thing just coming off his index finger. I have no idea what that means.

Collosimo · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2001 4:36 am

Yes I was just doodling and this thing came up. Weird huh? Thx for your suggestion. I had sort of thought of it dripping off a finger. I my go with that idea. Who knows...

Dryfire · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2001 10:08 am

...you know what it looks like to me ;-P

A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

Visions of Disorder.

Jenn · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2001 1:22 am

i likes.... to mind boggling.. not enough intelligence to comment more... its gewd~!

beekay · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2001 7:12 am

i absolutely love this piece ... i wouldn't touch it any further... i love the way its offset in the corner and how it ripples.. and the way that the "oily substance" is sort of.. breaking away underneath the liquid surface... the only thing i could possibly think to say other than what you have.. is try to make that oil stream (coming from an unknown sourcE) ... show a reflection cast across the water... other than that.. this is quite beautiful.

redrubberchicken · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2001 10:59 am

All I have to say is the following... "The invisiable man takin' a piss."

THAT IS ALL

JammyB · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2001 12:03 pm

I agree with beekay, minimalist = good

leat hacksaw · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2001 8:29 pm

first thing's first - great pic

the only thing i noticed is that the oil seems to be falling at an angle, rather than perpendicular to the surface of the water (or whatever it is.) Unless its under the influence of something else (air flow, static electricity, alcohol (like me =P) )
then it should fall straight down.

other than that, i wouldnt change a thing.

keep working at it

JiMSouL · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2001 12:31 am

One added thing about not having the liquid coming from anything is it gets the viewers imagination warmed up and entices them to participate with the image.

Plus it makes it more memorable for the fact u think for a while about what the liquid is and where its coming from......

Collosimo · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2001 1:47 am

Its funny you know... I had in mind the same sort of issues, and ideas about my pic as you guys have highlighted. Maybe this is supposed to be minmalist.. the composition works fine as it is, and like everyone says it is intruiging just as it is. JiMSoul has a particularily good point about it making ppl think, and therefore being memorable... and the fact that it generates interest because it is coming from nowhere..

Leat Hacksaw: It is supposed to be tilted.. for composition and interest.. the watery sort of pond is also titled, although I see now that it has a slight discrepency to the angle of the oily drip. It is probably not so clear because of the fact that it fades into the dark background.

Thx for all the comments ppl, I will leave this as it is. just for fun.

JiMSouL · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2001 2:43 am

Just to ruin a good conclusion (sorry about that), heres one thing to think about....

Is it something dripping into a liquid or a substance that was drifting in the liquid and decided to propel itself out of it? The angle its on got me thinking it doesnt necessarily have to be falling....

tone · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2001 6:11 am

I think it is awesome the way it is but would it not be cool if another drop coming up and off to the viewers left and the drop was in the shape of something odd?

Great Picture

Fatch · junior member Member # Joined: 16 Jul 2001 Posts: 5

Ok, I agree that it looks damn good by itself, but here's my proposition...

You could make a very gloomy, dark background full of rocks and small plants in the mid-ground(?), and rocks and trees in the background. This would be real dark, almost greyish green vegitation. There would be a little stream or whatever coming from something in the midground to past the foreground, and for the foreground you would have a pretty, greyish green, dark, and decaying stem/leaf structure, and this oily stuff you've painted would be trickleing off of the crease in the leaf. Might be too much, but it looks really cool in my head, honest

.

Fatch

Collosimo · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 12:49 am

Thx for the replys...

JiMSouL: I actually originally was drawing it to drip from somewhere, however I thought it loked more intruiging without a source. The very fact that you are asking is just the sort of reaction I intended to promote. Intriuge.

tone: I may actually do another picture, and if it i as abstract as this, then I would experiment with another weird drop, or odd shape as you suggested. So thx, it is a good idea.

Fatch: Thats a great suggestion you have. Something I will have a go at now.. I can picture it now, it looks cool in my head aswell

. Thx for your suggestion!

conann · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 2:29 am

I agree with beekay, a reflection would be interesting. The surface appears to be curved a little, the ellipses are not on the same plane. It�s a very beautiful piece of work as it is and I would not change it at all, but if it where to look more real I would add some turbulence to the falling liquid and make it feel more translucent. The bubbly stuff under the surface describes a very transparent liquid and also a varied source. I would also disturb the ripples a little so that they are more natural.

But there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Great work.

Con�nn

Freddio · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 6:59 am

kewl..

I like it..

balistic · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 7:14 am

The reason it doesn't read as a drip is because it isn't vertical. If its meant to be a flow rather than a drip, it should arc, instead of being linear.

tone · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 7:40 am

balistic: That is what is cool about it. It is as if the drip is happening in your peripherial vision. I love it. Pictures like these are really awesome because they capture something. I think that (and I am no art student) is what makes alot of pictures awesome to me. When I feel like there is something in the picture I can touch.

You know when you see something to the side and it happens only for a moment and your like " What the.....was that?" But here time stops and you see it and can examine it. This is a picture you can't turn away from for a minute.

Great

[ July 17, 2001: Message edited by: tone ]

Collosimo · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2001 2:07 am

Hi there again.

I'm surprised there has been as much interest in this. Certainly it was very intruiging for me when I finsihed it. I sat there for maybe half an hour thinking is it finished? what the hell is it? should I do anything else to it?

For those of you who are still concerned about the technical aspects of it, I assure you that you would be correct in saying it isn't physically believeable. It is what it is. Whether it drips from something or flows, all I can say is that it was originally vertical and was only tilted for design purposes. Think what you like about it. Thats what interests me. It really intriuges.

If you guys want a full sized versioon of this visit:

Deviantart profile, containing wallpaper of 'Suspended Animation'