mr. happy

[foster]

More of "The Uninvited" work.

A diesel powered walking machine. I hoped to have a kind of homemade feel to it. Salvaged bits of dead machinery brought back to life by a fervent imagination couple with technical bravado.

Dubbed "Mr. happy".

Jon

[Smeagol71]

FANTASTIC! Great job Jon, this piece is very cool. Mr. Happy makes me happy!!! :D

[gekitsu]

cool!

hope to pick up lots of things like that with your book :)

[dodowa]

waaaa~~~:eek: beautiful corrosion!

this background is neo fantastic cubism~!!
a geometrical philosophy ...:D
what is this structure?

happy new year!:D

[sparth]

i love that thing! the compo is marvelous!
bravo jon :D

[Mort]

that is amazing..if envy is a sin im going straight to hell :)
more eye candy plz!!

[davi]

very cool, i have a problem figuring out where the "cock pit" is. It almost looks like it can walk, maybe i'm viewing it wrong..

[HoodZ]

wow!

hope to pick up lots of things like that with your book

and what book?

[I.was.ink]

WOW! Just magnificent stuff Jon. Great piece. I too also love that comp. Just awesome!!! Tutorial for this one? jk:D

[Lono]

that is RAD jon!

i cant make out a lot of it,, but as a piece of art it is very dramatic and compelling. as a concept artist i want to see how it functions,, but im sure thats not important to the real purpose of this piece..

great work!

you wouldnt happen to listen to NoMeansNo would ya???? :)

-Lono

[Loga4]

Wow,Jon,
really awesome,thes piece have
very nice atmosphere,this is pure
success!

[facezero]

ooooooh!!!!:electric:
I like you very very~!!!
shocking always...

[N3W8I3]

holy shit /... (bow)

[John P.]

It's amazing what imagination can do. :eek:

I don't think I could've done something like this without lots of references. It looks like it's taken out of a movie(or real life in an alternate time)or something!

Love the perspective, colouring, lighting......

Although at the same time, it's a bit confusing in places; Not sure where all the legs are... I know one of them is "outside the picture" on the left, but I'm kinda missing a leg on the far right side. I can see something that could be the leg going out of the picture on the right, but I wouldn't have thought the hind leg would be placed there. I dunno... Nitpicking, and maybe not seeing the obvious. :D

Amazing work nevertheless! :chug:

[MindCandyMan]

Looks awesome. Great sense of wonder created in this piece. Awesome work Jon.

[ChadTHX1138]

I bought your book over the weekend, very nice stuff, good regardless of being wordless your work should speak for itself anyway.

I do however think some of the pages were wasted here and there with just a small image in a corner and the rest left blank.

Overall it is worth the purchase thanks for all the hard work.

[Bjorn]

damn dude... great!!

[bengal]

jon>> did i ever mentionned i'm really impressed by you, mate? great work, i love it. i'd really like to have a chat with you someday.

[amphex]

Wow..amazing work, as always, jon =)
I cant wait to get your book, but for some reason amazon dont have it yet!!!!
Bastards..=P

[HoodZ]

I cant wait to get your book, but for some reason amazon dont have it yet!!!!

ok im going to ask again what book?!?!? and whats it called? thnx :bash:

[foster]

thanks everyone! this piece was different for me. i would say that it is inspired by the work i have seen on this forum to a great extent.

you might find the attachment with this letter interesting. it is the reference that i cobbled together from tractors, loaders, back hoes. giant machinery, architecture etc. i had twenty or so layers that i moved around to get what i thought i liked. there was much shape changing with the transformation tool. lots of fun but wildly different than the way i usually approach work.

the book. thanks for mentioning and getting the book! it is thin on words. i wanted the book, as a whole, to be an art object and not a glorified portfolio. it needed a changing of rhythm and a sense of surprise with the turning of each page. i'm not sure that is what we accomplished but it is what we hoped for. in the future, if i get the chance to make another book, i think i would like to have much more writing.

hoodz, the book is an art book, called "progressions", or "the art of jon foster".

best

jon foster

[John P.]

Wow, Interesting that you posted that pic!

'Cause I've done much the same thing for the piece I'm currently working on. I photoshopped a couple of images together to get a reference for the drawing i'm making.

Good to see I'm not the only one. :)

[el coro]

nice one mister foster! ya know , i've been doing a little bit of that photo montage stuff myself recently, its fun isnt it? i have a mister happy as well, but he doesnt look like that...a little fleshier...great job homie, i love it.

[davi]

haha that's very cool

[Blackhawk]

Foster, that's a great idea. I think I've heard of the photo-montage reference, but I've never seen it in action, very cool. Nice work :)