A few quick drawings

[Khshayathiya]

Well, there is not much I can say in defence of these four sketches - tear them apart ad libitum!

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Rebel.jpg

This one is supposed to be a rebelious pagan, tired of being wathced from above by a God he begins to find rather annoying


http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/God1.jpg

At a certain time, this is how I was imagining God - too wide to fit into a picture. But too remote, too perfect, too godly to pay attention to us, mortals


http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Martir.jpg

A modern martyre, suffering not by the hand of the executioner, but tortured by his own doubts


http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Menada.jpg

Lastly, a menad - a priestess of Dionysos, the god of wine, but also of dissolution, of the abandonement of self.



They are, I am aware, below the standard of the CA, but I thought I might be bold enough to show them to you...

[Mephistophel]

It is a concept site...and conceptually,we are looking you from down under! You have a profound view of things! In your drawings it can be senced the power of ideeas! Your line is sharp,cutting inside,like your thoughts.I'm impresed,but i admit,more profound by the ideas then by the execution as a work of art!But i like the simplicity of the line...the draw has a lot of air, you hadle with care the space! Your goal is that we can sense your ideas,not to be distracted by effects...That's what i feel now....
I just wait to see more and to see were you are heading now...what solutions do you have for illustrating your concepts!

[Khshayathiya]

Thank you for your comments, Mephistophel!

You are certainly right that my drawings do not fit very well in a concept art forum. But, as I saw many sketches and anatomical studies, I thought I might share something with you as well.

These four drawings are quite experimental. I was trying to forget about volumes and, in sted, try to emphasize the value of the line itself.

I think you are right - they are valuable to me, as testimonies of my internal struggles, but, objectively, they hold little value.

[Khshayathiya]

Another set of drawings - I guess you could call them THE BARBARIANS...

The first two represent the Dacian King Decebalus. My source of inspiration has been the relief representing him, which is to be seen on Trajan's Column in Rome.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Decebalmicmic.jpg ..... http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Decebalmaremic.jpg


This is what I imagine a barbarian would look like during a nocturnal raid (no model for that, I'm afraid...)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/barbarianredmic.jpg


And the last one is a lot more idyllical, since it represents one such barbarian in meditation (since he is a survivor of that raid, he might think of the great plunder he took and the many women he raped or, alternately, might think he was lucky to have escaped with his life when those bastards, the Romans, came to exact bloody retribution...)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Barbarianinmeditationmic.jpg


Yeah, bring it on!

[Khshayathiya]

A quick series of sights from Coimbra, Portugal:

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Architecture4mic.jpg ... http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Architecture3mic.jpg




http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Architecture2mic.jpg ... http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/Vistaspa/Architecture1mic.jpg

My personal favourite is the tower. What do you think about them?