Comment on The Contemporary Anybody by ~seriouslytwisted[parent]

the eyes are beautiful. Were the fingers supposed to be so thin in comparison to the hand?
Overall it is a very lovely piece. The only way I am able to draw like this is to look at a photograph. I admire those who can do this from the mind alone.

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What I was should have made me what I am- WHO I met has made me what I can be for I have met the King of Kings and the Lord of lords.

Thanks very much, but to be honest I used myself and a mirror as a reference. I'm simply unable to get anatomy right without some kind of reference, whether life or pictorial. That's not to say that this is a self-portrait, I just used myself as a template to further build on an image I already had in mind.

As for the hands... Well have I thin fingers, and broad palms. Most people think I have really pretty hands until I'm like, no wait, look at my fingers in proportion to my palm. Then they're all, ewww.

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Mooshy Moo, releasing fine music for free

I like this a lot, the odd gesture and the strangely shaped hands. The hand to head proportions kind of remind me of this era [link] ( :

Wonderfully done. The stylization is so nice, and I love the mood you have achieved. It's emotive and simple at the same time, as well as both honest and mysterious. And I totally appreciate what you said in the comments; it's best to be neither overly mysterious/pretentious about a concept, nor overbearing/one-minded about the interpretation of your work. I like the idea of having a framework idea, and then making intuitive decisions in the process. And your concept sounds like it will be really interesting. Lovely piece!

Thank you very much for the kind words and the . Intuition is integral to how I work.

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Mooshy Moo, releasing fine music for free

You're absolutely spot on. A major stylistic influence in my current work is icon art from various cultures and periods, including the Byzantine art.

It not for purely aesthetic reasons, but also in dealing with the nature of semiotics in contemporary society, which prefers the sign to the thing signified. Icon art rarely portrays individualism as opposed to an idealised (or by the same token, caricaturized) representation. The irony of the present age is (in my opinion) the fact that even individualism has been turned into a symbol, and to a degree an illusion.

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Mooshy Moo, releasing fine music for free