Master and Servant 2D Entry: Linda Bergkvist

#901

mice are great noob! Know what you mean linda about being more emotionally attached to animals… I certainly get on better with them than theose other strange creatures…erm… humans …thats the ones.

#902

mice ar nice…well noob if you really wana be freaked out you should see the huge rats that lurk in the basement of my apartmentbuilding…those are scary!..

#903

lol

my brain runs away too every time it tries to comprehend
the level of detail and skill in that pic

cold wind blows thru poor squib’s ears, taking a delightful
spin in his empty skull

#904

Gosh Linda, you jsut got me with this mice… :love: So cute (and i have a thing for cute animals lately… I guess it is because of spring, i recently have a urge of ‘‘Man i want a new cat…’’ each time i see one running accross the street… )

Though, and i must add that this is totally not so related to your piece but ah well, i guess you are getting used to my ramble eh? The dead bird kind of reminded me of a part of a documentary i saw just yesterday… It was about the way they raised chicks in industries for the farmers… Either for having chicken that would lay eggs or for their meat… It was awful the way they were sorting the males from females, trowing them in some sort of metal tubes and not caring if they hit it or not, the way they separated them from their broken cockle (is that even the right word? i’m not trusting google’s translator on this one… =¬.¬= ), having the chicks going on a moving thing and making them fall on something underneath. I just couldn’t stand it… Okay enough of rambling not concerning your update.

Those details looks nice, and i must agree that the dead bird does look dead but that it is not a ‘‘happy sight’’… Maybe you should plan on simply add some faded flowers on human’s side so you don’t have to use that much of dead animals or insects… Hmm… Ah well.

By the way, i sent you a pm 2 or 3 days ago with some details about the myth i told you about (Hero and Leander) in your Q & A thread. Did you receive it? I guess your inbox might always be somewhat full…

Ramble ramble… It’s a shame i can’t write and express myself as good as i do in french, i feel so akward and ashamed of trying to explain myself without the exact terms and expressions… Okay now i’m repeating myself, i’ll shut up. :smiley:

#905

I sympathize with you Linda…I don’t know that I’d ever have the stomach to paint a dead animal. shudders
Last time I saw a dead mouse was when I was renting a room in a house belonging to this wonderful german woman. She had discovered a mouse was in her pantry so she kept setting out method after method of trying to humanely catch the mouse. She so did not want to hurt it…
Well she ended up getting pretty frustrated because the mouse would always get away with the cheese, peanut-butter, or whatever Frau Elizabeth had left to tempt it into capture, until finally, days later and full of nothing but contempt for the evasive creature, she finally resorted to the usual snapping mousetrap.
I found out the poor thing had lost the war when I was quietly painting up in my room one day and Elizabeth came marching proudly up the stairs with her fist held high above her head victoriously yelling in a very german accent “Meredith! Ve haf vanquished ze mouse, ya!!!” Poor thing…I never had the heart to tell Elizabeth that I was rooting for the mouse…
Any chance you are putting any rabbits in this painting? (I sooooo love rabbits, but that is a selfish request on my part, so forget I said anything applies correction fluid to her monitor lol)

Ahem…back to the painting…(sorry :)) Only thing I see, and this may be totally irrelevant since it will be so small in the painting, is the mouse’s face. Something about it seems a little off, but maybe it’s just me. :slight_smile:
Maybe the eyes are too round or the snout isn’t long enough? Hope you don’t mind me saying so, just trying to help. :slight_smile:

Absolutely gorgeous work as always Linda, keep it up. Been worried that life had you pretty down lately. Glad to see your spritely dialogue back in full swing.
Take care,
~Ela~

#906

OOOOooooooh… lovely details! :bounce: and I’m sorry you have to paint things you hate (dead animals)… hey, here’s an idea… take some of that blood from ‘into your eyes’ painting and just splatter it on the dead bird, LOL… I’m sure there’s enough to go around! Hee hee, I still can’t get over the blood in that one… anyhoo…

Keep the bloody hand in this piece… I like it! faint :smiley:

Ask Azz her opinion on dead mice (tee hee)

Keep going my dear… you know what you’re doing, and doing it well :applause:

Cheers!

#907

crazy detailed wow:thumbsup:

#908

I think it shows a bit that you didn’t enjoy the dead bird, to be honest. Because I can’t figure out what the thing besides it is. It must be a leaf, but it is too much on the same level as the bird(same depth), too much on the details maybe?:slight_smile:

The blue one looks excellent though! Really spot on!!!:thumbsup:

Any chance we’ll get to see the other painting?

#909

hm Jan Mark, i believe the thing beside the bird really is a leaf… Well it is my thoughts on it too. Ayways, i think it WILL look like a leaf when it is not full size anymore. :smiley:

Artjunkie’s proposition about the blood is good too, but i don,t see this pic too bloody-like, well it,s my thoguhts… But i do also like the wound on nature and the bloody hand of the human… IMO, do not touch it Linda, i think it is the obvious part of the picture showing how human can hurt and be negative for nature, yet being still a little subtle. :slight_smile:

#910

Isn’t that actually the bird skull she had so cleverly hidden in the grass? :slight_smile:
~Ela~

#911

Well even the dresses look like dresses, allthough unconventionally coloured. Just my 2 cents though. But especially at full size the depth at which it is will not seem normal. Randomness always works better in these situations, I’m quite sure of that.:shrug:

edit:could be, if that’s the case it’s one of those finch species, and thus hard to recognise or it’s a raptor, but those usually have dark brown coloured beaks. There’s something wrong with the brow anatomy though. I have seen many bird skulls, I’m a bio- freek for these things.

#912

How the hell did you make the dead bird so cute? :twisted: That mouse is so cute. damnit…

#913

Wow Lynda!!! A really big WOW! Youre drawings are simply amazing! I’m a big fan of ya! :smiley: I’m keeping an eye on you ! :smiley::buttrock:

#914

Thanks everyone :smiley:

Okay, I did a test on the bird… I don’t want it looking much deader than this, it’s unsettling enough as it is, heheh. (not uploading it as an official update, I just want to hear an okay before I move on to something else).

#915

(Oh, and the thing beside it was the sketch of a bird skull left there from muuuuuuuch earlier, I just hadn’t moved it/changed it for a loong while… remember that parts of the picture are still very much in a sketch state.)

#916

Maybe you should dishevel(hope this is the word) a bit the feathers in the red area, they look too “perfect” to me(big contrast between that area and the skull).

-Claudiu

#917

Maybe an open beak and whitish eyes would add to it. Keep it up:thumbsup: .

#918

When I first saw your entry, I fled and to hide in dark corner and considered not even starting my challenge entry. :wink: Well I did then after all. It’s a challenge, right? :smiley:

The details in this one are amazing, overwhelming! The textures in this painting add a lot. Bet you haven’t gotten much sleep lately. I wish I had some useful crits…but I’m too busy wiping the drool off my wacom tablet…will be visiting often to ogle at your progress… :drool:

#919

The skull-face of the bird is going perhaps a bit too far, you captured the ‘dead’ state nicely with the ‘normal’ dead bird and the mouse is very cute :slight_smile:

This is really sparking up my imagination, I can easily imagine this painting to be a small part of a much bigger one, where to the left the dead haunt the world and the path of the white-girl even though she doesn’t notice them, and to the right this incredibly rich, environment with more of the classical fairy tale creatures the further right one looks.

K.

#920

I liked the second bird better, with the skull showing. The first bird can also work if you think it looks too icky, but you should close its eyes, or at least dull the highlight in them, and possibly open its beak.

Nice work, I like how it’s turning out!