Impress Me! by Dr. Subtle
November 8th, 2007 11:27 AM1) It must be badass.
2) It should have horns
3) It should be somewhat personal to me, but in a subtle way.
4) It should reference my current artwork, a series of fliers written as a madman obsessed with Pittsburgh history.
I've been working in my art lately with the idea of a holy cyclops- a one eyed man of justice serving a higher being. I see a lot of myself in such a man. And like the apostles have animals that represent them, so to could my 1-eyed angel have an animal- a bull with the same mark.
And so the character of Henry Clay Frick from the fliers became a sort of Minotaur/Cyclops mask, an externalization of my own badassitude.
I wear it proudly.
Henry Clay Frick
He's the Angel with the sword of fire, and very much represents the stronger, badass side of me.
What to do w/ a bull's head?
From my sketchbook...
Wire frame
Steel wire hurts your hand when you bend it for a few too many hours.
Cardboard and duct tape
I covered the steel wire frame with handcut pieces of cardboard to match the planar geometries the steel wires implied, and duct taped it all together.
Finished product
Spraypainted black with a white underlay i did via tape. The one-eyed bull with the Wings of Fire!
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This doesn't fit the task at all. It would have been better submitted under Make a New Face or something.
It's an excellent mask though.
But, something cameron wrote just struck me....
Early on, someone once told me that the only wrong way to play, is to tell someone else how to play. In the end, taking the piss out of everyone's pretensions,
True. The effort put into making the mask certainly deserves a vote, I don't know why I didn't see it before.
And the metaproject it relates to continues here
Talking from GY0, AKA Cardboard Completions Ltd, I love this.
Votes for you.