I think this is really great. Funny, understated, clever (though not entirely original) concept. Cartoon figure is cute, very minimalist but shows emotion. Unlike one of the reviewers, I think the use of heavy, dark lines is good and helps the stick figure to "stand on his own," so to speak. I really like the addition of the jagged, sharp grasslike surface which in a subtle way seems to add to the perilousness of the stick figure's environment.
The only thing I think might be missing is a sense of motion or movement. I'm not entirely sure how you'd do that without upsetting the simplicity of the work, though.
In any case, I liked it so much I'm using it as this week's wallpaper on my iPhone
I love the angle that this scene is shown. The tilted view adds to that topsy turvy feeling that the world has gone crazy and is being disappeared out from underneath the character. The artist has also really succeeded in a strikingly engaging line style, despite (or because of) extreme simplicity. I like the varying line widths, but that nothing is really "thin." The tiniest hint of shading on the figure and nowhere else also really charmed me.
I think the darkness of the lines is too much, though. I understand that it was made so dark to make the figure and scene really "pop" against the blue lined paper, which was indeed a necessary step, but I think it's gone just a little bit too far. The only place I really see the texture of graphite (barely) is in the text. I spent a long time staring at this picture trying to decide if it had been inked at some point it looks so dark, and really having trouble believing that that eraser was such a big threat to pen. I know that there are some erasers and some pens that will do that, but certainly not all and it's certainly not the traditional "eraseable" medium, and the entire point of this piece is erasing. Even if the linework must be dark in order to fight the blue lines of the paper, I really wish we could still see a little more texture in it, or perhaps it was a shade lighter so it still looked like pencil. I found it an unfortunate distraction to what was really meant to be a simple, light, humorous piece.
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The only thing I think might be missing is a sense of motion or movement. I'm not entirely sure how you'd do that without upsetting the simplicity of the work, though.
In any case, I liked it so much I'm using it as this week's wallpaper on my iPhone
I think the darkness of the lines is too much, though. I understand that it was made so dark to make the figure and scene really "pop" against the blue lined paper, which was indeed a necessary step, but I think it's gone just a little bit too far. The only place I really see the texture of graphite (barely) is in the text. I spent a long time staring at this picture trying to decide if it had been inked at some point it looks so dark, and really having trouble believing that that eraser was such a big threat to pen. I know that there are some erasers and some pens that will do that, but certainly not all and it's certainly not the traditional "eraseable" medium, and the entire point of this piece is erasing. Even if the linework must be dark in order to fight the blue lines of the paper, I really wish we could still see a little more texture in it, or perhaps it was a shade lighter so it still looked like pencil. I found it an unfortunate distraction to what was really meant to be a simple, light, humorous piece.
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