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Socar MYLES · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 1:02 am

Another piece of laptop art; another self-portrait. The photo-reference, for the curious, is somewhere on the third page of that monstrous picture/age thread in Random Musings.

Anyway, I'm finally working on the long-procrastinated redesign of my website, and this is part of the front page.... It's also my self-portrait assignment for drawing class. Yay.

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My old man's a dustman
'E wears a dustman's 'at
'E wears gorblimey trousers...
AAAAAAAAND....
'E lives in a council flat!

Hey, I made up a joke:
Q: Why don't goths go to McDonald's?
A: They might get a HAPPY MEAL!

Heh, heh, heh.

tayete · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 2:14 am

That's great Socar!

What does the symbol mean?

-- Transcendent -- · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 4:34 am

Ahh, never knew you were this young and had wings ...

Nice picture - slightly goth, I suppose, but nice nonetheless.

Dean Welsh · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 5:18 am

Where have I seen those reference pictures before? It's a comic book thing I'm pretty sure.

That's a pretty kick-ass self portrait I have to say. Could you post a slightly larger one? or maybe just e-mail one to me? I'd Like a better look.

-Dean

SoMK · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 5:31 am

yahoo ! :) excellent :) I'll cut the "you're cute" crap and I'll say that I really dig the white hatches on the left of the body, stylish :)

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neebhore · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 5:39 am

Awesome, i won't cut the 'you're cute' crap

... you are.
It's a really nice piece, love the colours the wings and the little gloves, all been done very well! Really nice...

MrPumpernickel · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 5:46 am

Looks like you're being attacked by a tattoo. Wonderful design, just wonderful...the monochromaticism (is that a word?) works really well

travis travis · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 7:11 am

like it

Enayla · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 7:29 am

It's great, Socar!

I usually don't like white backgrounds at /all/ (especially not when they're glaringly white like here) but this actually works

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Dthind · member Member # Joined: 12 Dec 2000 Posts: 436

I really like this, you have a cool style.

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PlantMan · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 1:42 pm

I think you look yummy.
I must congratulate you on your cockney rhyming slang. Being a true cockney myself : Here is the proof:
I watch Steptoe and Son
When I'm at the pub I get Brahms and Liszt. All my friends are Merchant Bankers. Everynight before bed i climb the apples and pears. etc

Council flats are actually scary and should not be romanticised through seemingly innocuous poetics.

Socar MYLES · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 5:34 pm

Well, thanks to everyone, again, for your comments. I really do appreciate them....

A few individual responses...

tayete--Symbol? You mean that swirly tattoo-ish looking thingy at the bottom? *G* Sadly enough, it's just decoration. Doesn't mean a thing.

Transcendent--I'm 26...how old did you think I was? (But I don't have wings, unfortunately.)

Dean Welsh--You shouldn't have seen my reference photos before, except in the Random Musings thread. They were just taken a couple of weeks ago, and that's the only place they've been posted, to the best of my knowledge. I've also posted a larger version at the end of this post.

SoMK--Thank you! The white hatches are actually light cast through Venetian blinds.

MrPumpernickel--Nooooo! Attack of the killer tattoos! Hide! HIDE!

Enayla--Couldn't agree more about the white backgrounds. But my website has one, so I needed this to match.

Plant Man--I didn't actually write the rhyme about the dustman--it's a quote from a song by Lonnie Donegan. I know what you mean about council flats, though. My best friend lived in one for ages, and one time when I was round her place, a big huge INSECT fell out of the ceiling, where it had been burrowing, and onto my dinner plate. It was funny as hell, but I couldn't eat the dinner after that....

This isn't the full-size version, but it gives a better look at details & brushwork. I don't want to spam the forum with the REALLY honkin' version, though.

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My old man's a dustman
'E wears a dustman's 'at
'E wears gorblimey trousers...
AAAAAAAAND....
'E lives in a council flat!

Hey, I made up a joke:
Q: Why don't goths go to McDonald's?
A: They might get a HAPPY MEAL!

Heh, heh, heh.

Radiater · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 5:54 pm

Hey Socar,

Really cool picture. There's only one thing I'm not so sure about. Is that your belly button there? If it is, it seems a little out of place (or maybe you've already had a couple of kids

)

Radiater.

Socar MYLES · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 6:14 pm

I have not had a couple of kids! Jeeze! I'm only 26! *Laughs* You do have a point, though, about the belly button. Oh, well.

...

Kids, indeed! Can't stand them, myself....

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My old man's a dustman
'E wears a dustman's 'at
'E wears gorblimey trousers...
AAAAAAAAND....
'E lives in a council flat!

Hey, I made up a joke:
Q: Why don't goths go to McDonald's?
A: They might get a HAPPY MEAL!

Heh, heh, heh.

A. Mount · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 6:46 pm

You do not look like you're 26.

a.

milano_j · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2001 6:00 pm

I like the colors.

faustgfx · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2001 6:47 pm

=|

*shrugs and goes back to staring at the photos*

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