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yellowworm
12-18-2002, 07:27 AM
i started dabbling with the "anxiety" concept a few months ago and then let it down for other projects.

she's a friend of mine, the girl in the field, who suffers from anxiety and depression.

in the real world she's beautiful...by looking at her you'd never know the torment she undergoes within. it is that torment i wished to illustrate.

she has no arms, so she can't work, pick up the phone, drive a car. when she looks in the mirror all she sees is the hideous mask of fear and self hate marring her delicate face; she never sees who she truely is. and even in those moments of courage when she tries to see beyond the mask, she can't, because she has no hands to employ in the mask's removal...

oil on masonite/photoshop.




http://ignisfatuus.3dup.net/navel/masque_web_copy.jpg

Filipe Pina
12-18-2002, 09:22 AM
I love the concept of it all, but i don´t like the way it´s painted, i can´t tell you what it is, it just doesn´t click.
And what about that house in the background? What is it doing there?

yellowworm
12-18-2002, 02:27 PM
what about that house in the background? What is it doing there?

it's where she keeps her dreams, locked away in the windowless
room.

keops
12-18-2002, 02:29 PM
this paint really disturb me, maybe because i have to deal with this kinf of girl everyday (who suffers from anxiety and depression), but beside this is a very nice work, with a lot of thinking behind...:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

yellowworm
12-18-2002, 02:35 PM
thanks keops!

having someone in your life who suffers from these
chemical imbalances is one of the most soul wrenching
trials...you love them so much, and you want to help them...
but no matter how much you try, unless they find some
miraculous spark from wihin, sometimes all you can do
is hold them, love them, and cry your heart to pieces inside.

keops
12-19-2002, 02:16 AM
i'm agree with you, my so loved best friend is just here near me destroying herself, i've tried everything, but nothing..

now i'm just trying to love her as much as i can...

but that's life, everything that don't destroy us make us more powerfull..

beside this i find yourk work really meaningfull, i really love to see more of it, have any website?

btw just a question are you frenchspoking? :

Navel_Lint a l'extreme

if so it would be a pleasure de continuer la conversation en francais parceque il faut l'avouer j'ai un peut de mal en anglais ;)
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

2cool
12-19-2002, 07:27 AM
Nice work! Cool colors & shaders , I love your style , keep up the great work :buttrock: !

yellowworm
12-19-2002, 06:34 PM
ouais, je suis francophone.
c'est a dire que j'ai passe
quelques annees a Marseille, et
suis tombe carremant amoreux de
la culture, la facon dont on s'exprime...
bref, j'aurais voulais etre francais si
j'avais ma vie a refaire.

tu te trouves ou? en france?

Carl
12-20-2002, 11:22 AM
I think this is excellent. However, I do not get idea that the mask is causing the figure pain. There are also some very nice decorative marks on the mask that make it even somewhat attractive. Maybe if the mask was painfully attached? I also associate looking upwards with closed eyes with ecstacy, as opposed to pain. Great job though.:thumbsup:

Xilica
12-20-2002, 02:17 PM
hmm, very very interesting.

keops
12-20-2002, 11:35 PM
OK, je comprend, non je ne suis pas en France, je suis a Montréal pour mes études, mais je suis originaire de Tahiti (french polynesia), on ne peut malheureusement pas refaire sa vie, mais ça ne t'empêche pas d'être sensible a la culture francophone, et donc de t'en imprégner..
En tout cas une chose est sur c'est que tu semble avoir beaucoup de la sensibilité artistique qui est souvent attribue a l'europe.

Au risque de me répéter je troue ton travail très intéressant, et je serrais très curieux de voir d’autres choses que tu as fait.

Dans tous les cas je te souhaites bon courage pour la suite, et encore une fois bravo :applause: :applause:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Hookflash
12-21-2002, 01:30 AM
Originally posted by Navel_Lint
thanks keops!

having someone in your life who suffers from these
chemical imbalances is one of the most soul wrenching
trials...you love them so much, and you want to help them...
but no matter how much you try, unless they find some
miraculous spark from wihin, sometimes all you can do
is hold them, love them, and cry your heart to pieces inside.

I suffer from depression & anxiety, and I can tell you no amount of "miraculous spark from within" can cure it. The brain, like any other organ, can get sick & require medication (incidentally, I've been off my medication for awhile, but I plan on going back on). It really hurts when, despite their external show of support, I *know* my friends and family are thinking "Why doesn't he just snap out of it?". It just doesn't work that way, unfortunately. Anyways, nice painting. I think you did a good job of depicting a very complex subject.

Danoid
12-21-2002, 06:14 AM
Very nice work!

raden
12-21-2002, 11:18 AM
Hi Dickie,

I really dig the theme within. That kind of stuff that I havent seen for a while here. I can see you got all the skill to communicate it. All of this rendering, these colours, these textures, the composition. Good job:thumbsup:. However somehow you missed the feeling here, you dont feel her pain enough, you are not being sensitive enough. I'm not an expert and I must admit what you have accomplished here now way farther than what I have. So I'm not critisizing about the way you did it technically. I got the symbols...it just I dont really feel it..all these anxiety and pain, and low esteem, and fear, frustation, suicidal, darkness...The struggle. No? Perhaps it just me..sorry.

Anyway this is a goodjob. Once again I have to say I dig the theme and I like the way you came up with all these texturing/colouring:thumbsup:

Regards

Raden

PS: I truly sorry for all the things your friend is going through, hope she'll survive it. And I truly sympathize knowing that you care. Love from a goodfriend will guide her.

Cheers:beer:

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