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Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G, I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill

5 comments – latest 4:

Kloxboy (Apr 10, 2006)

Most excellent broski. Right on.

DeadlyBlondeArcher (Apr 10, 2006)

I salute Sam.

Axil62 (Apr 10, 2006)

Thanks guys. It's a John Prine song that I first heard when I was in the Army.

DeadlyBlondeArcher (Apr 10, 2006)

thank you for remembering it and sharing it and painting about it

Public Boards/Beginner

Facing West

davincipoppalag (Apr 7, 2006)

A bit of playing

21 comments – latest 4:

Mocha_Bean (Apr 10, 2006)

LMAO! This reminds me of ET and this dream I had about him....you know when he says "ET phone home" and points with his pointer finger? Well in my dream he used his middle finger...lol..

hi1022 (Apr 19, 2006)

ET! HOMG! ET rocks!!

Awesome pic! 8DDDD

laurael (Apr 22, 2006)

Okay...really like the shine in his eye...but this is totally freakin weird...interesting, but definitely...weird. Who's he flipping off? (probably 'me' now...lol)

Agoylis (May 19, 2006)

ITS ET EVERYONE PHONE HOME!!!!!!!!

Main Forums/Drawing Discussion

Request

solve (Apr 6, 2006)

Would anyone happen to have a picture of the glass mural that shatters in the movie "house on haunted hill"? Ive searched all over google, couldnt find one. Also, anyone talented in realism i have a request. Would anyone be willing to paint me?

5 comments

Public Boards/Intermediate

asdfadsf

Axil62 (Apr 4, 2006)

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7 comments – latest 4:

solve (edited Apr 6, 2006)

Id love to study under you sometime. You and three (I can think of) others all have this appealing talent i want to eat, and incorporate into future works.

P.S. I love this.

Axil62 (Apr 6, 2006)

Well come on over! :)

Childlike_Vampire (Apr 7, 2006)

Wow, that's cool lookin'.

Sweetcell (Apr 8, 2006)

Looks like Mardi Gras.

Stunning.

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123

comd (Apr 2, 2006)

Trying a bit more than a head this time since I have all this canvas space in the advanced section. I'm just going to try to copy the photo directly this time as closely as possible.
http://www.kristiaknowles.net/images/gallery/fitness/fit2.jpg

I'm not sure I'll get anywhere. Thanks all for the encouragement.

[Edit] This is the opposite of what I'm striving to do artistically as my goal is to draw more loosely from references (using information from the reference to make a completely different picture, not drawing the reference) and ultimately without needing references at all, but I wanted to try a shot at being unpainterly and more photorealistic: the antethesis of what I've been trying to do. To get the line drawing and major landmarks as accurately as possible, I initially started with a grid for the line drawing. This allowed me to shade and color more loosely without worrying about correcting inaccuracies from the previous stages. I don't think I quite got there as I still got lazy on the shading and didn't quite interpret the values correctly. It looks correct sized down, but not up close.

28 comments – latest 4:

Zack (Apr 5, 2006)

You might find it an interesting exercise to take a ref and try drawing it at a different angle. As soon as I have more free time I intend to make a number of drawings that are loosely referenced like that; maybe they have the same angle but different lighting, or they have different shading styles, etc. Personally, I see loose references as training wheels and strict references as crutches, but that's in terms of my own artistic goals and not a criticism of other artists here. In light of your goals, I'd say dropping the grid system is probably a good idea.

comd (edited Apr 5, 2006)

Modifying angles, lighting, or the original 3D form of the reference is the kind of stuff I'd like to ultimately do when using references. Just anything that demands the 3D form is understood so that it could be used to produce other 3D forms is what would benefit me most. I tend to be more 2D-oriented when copying photos regardless of whether I'm using measuring devices or just freehanding, and that's useful for copying 2D images, but not for inventing 3D ones. I tend to ask questions like, "what's the 2D shape of this highlight? How does it relate vertically and horizontally to this other mark?" Rather than, "what's the 3D form of this figure"? If I understood the 3D form, then I could invent my own highlights without using the precise shapes in the photograph.

I pretty much knew this picture wasn't what I should have been doing when I started on it based on my goals, regardless of the grid (though the grid made it that much worse). I set out only to draw the reference as accurately as possible and nothing more. In that sense, it's one of my biggest failures since that's the last thing I want to be doing in the future as I progress. I didn't even try to experiment with painterly techniques - I was trying to be as unpainterly as possible in this one so that it would look just like a photo. Generally I get the most comments about the painterly aspects of my works when working from photos, but this time I really wanted to try not being painterly (I tend to be painterly for economical purposes, not intentionally). I didn't even really achieve the photorealism I intended to achieve despite the use of the grid for the line drawing, so I didn't even succeed in that respect. While it's completely against my personal goals, I still admire the artists on here who can make their paintings look just like a photograph. I was hoping to achieve it here, but I think I deviated too much in the shading and still relied too much on lines which gave that sort of cartoony effect in places.

frootcake (Apr 6, 2006)

omg biggest posts ever. great pic and i've been a victim of the grid in the past. when the masters of the past were working on frescoes - they couldn't draw straight from life, so they did their preliminary drawing and they would grid that whole wall up before doing some of the greatest paintings ever made, theres no shame :):)

HunterKiller_ (Apr 7, 2006)

Mmm... (damn you essay writters.)

Public Boards/Intermediate

HAL 9000

Sweetcell (Apr 4, 2006)

Dave: Open the pod bay doors please, Hal. Open the pod bay doors please. Hal... Hello, do you read me? Hal?...Hello Hal, do you read me?...Hello...Hal, do you read me?...Do you read me, Hal?

Hal: Affirmative Dave, I read you.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors Hal.

Hal: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave: What's the problem?

Hal: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave: What're you talking about Hal?

Hal: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it.

Dave: I don't know what you're talking about Hal.

Hal: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea Hal?

Hal: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Dave: Alright Hal, I'll go in through the emergency airlock.

Hal: Without your space helmet Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult.

Dave: Hal, I won't argue with you any more. Open the doors.

Hal: Dave, this conversation can no longer serve any purpose. Goodbye.

Dave: Hal? Hal. HAL!

22 comments – latest 4:

amagic2u (Apr 5, 2006)

WELL i CANT SEEM TO FIND YOU ANY PLACE ELSE SO HERE I AM ...VERY NICE AND TELL HAL TO GIVE ME A CALL BEEP BEEP BEEP ,,,BFFL

frootcake (Apr 6, 2006)

wow. anyone see this at the cinema? must have been mindblowing, its one of my fave movies and great likeness in this portrait :)

Sweetcell (Apr 8, 2006)

Thank you all so much. This is by far my favorite piece. Your very kind.

SYTHE (Apr 8, 2006)

Hal is the best argument I've heard against computerized intellegence....ERROR...Beep, Beep......All Your Base Are Belong To Us!

Public Boards/Advanced

Opium (Apr 1, 2006)

73 comments – latest 4:

patienceisoverrated (Apr 4, 2006)

I like the skin texture you added. I like his wrinkles, too.... people with wrinkles are intresting to draw. It's like, all their life experiences and feelings and whatever are written on their faces.

Sweetcell (Apr 4, 2006)

I think you can be a believer of both, and I am. Being Roman Catholic myself I learned about His creation and evolution, and it's funny it seemed easy for me to blend the two, meld it if you will. I believe He exists and created the Earth and everything around us, but I also believe in the Big Bang and evolution... hmmmm maybe that makes me a bit by-polar. That would explain things.

You can have Creation and Evolution, I believe it. Maybe someone just needs to find the middle where both fits.

Awesome piece Opium, love that hair. He does look tired.....

gerbear (Apr 5, 2006)

Excellent portrait! Very impressed with it.

Opium (Apr 5, 2006)

Thanks Marcello, patience, sweetcell, and gerbear! :)

Public Boards/Intermediate

Delta Gruis

Sweetcell (Apr 3, 2006)

Taken from a book of mine called Spacewreck, this is almost near to what the painting looks like by an artist called Angus McKie. The description of the piece warns the unsuspecting traveller that danger lurks on the planet Eden, a place between reality and madness. The real planet was big and I did not want to bother with it, so shrunk down for my sanity's sake. *whew* My hand hurts.

7 comments – latest 4:

Miss_DJ (Apr 4, 2006)

oh my gosh sweetcell...this is a beauty..now I have to make a ship!!

Sweetcell (Apr 4, 2006)

Thanks DonnaJean, and yes you do. XD

Axil62 (Apr 4, 2006)

I'm impressed, this is really cool.

Sweetcell (Apr 4, 2006)

Oh, thank you so much Axil, a treat to get a reply from you. :)