{"id":1516,"date":"2009-11-29T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2009-11-29T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T02:00:22","slug":"octopus-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"octopus attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fiddled with this idea about an octopus attacking a guy underwater for a long time. \u00a0I finally decided to try it out on one of the long pieces of wood I bought a few weeks ago. \u00a0First though, I took all the sketches from my sketchbook and tried to combine them and bring in some other elements. \u00a0I did initial sketches on layers of transparency paper.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMiekII57I\/AAAAAAAAA4Q\/qIs9JazMhHc\/s800\/octoattacktracing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After toying with that enough I decided to make a more serious drawing on actual paper. The dark box on the left is just the shadow from the camera.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMid33W9LI\/AAAAAAAAA4M\/c3bFaU16_V4\/s800\/octoattackdrawingfinal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>next, it was time to grid the wood and sketch there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMicgQBq7I\/AAAAAAAAA4I\/5LXtatn5Jm4\/s800\/octoattack4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMibUJ5CvI\/AAAAAAAAA4E\/35cTyLrSXDM\/s800\/octoattack3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMiaYUl2rI\/AAAAAAAAA4A\/OmKBFDn7D1I\/s800\/octoattack2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So here I have a lot of the main elements getting fleshed out. \u00a0It looks very cartooney, but in a way maybe that would have been more appropriate. \u00a0I decided it didn&#8217;t look right and tried outlining everything with ebony pencil, which was a huge mistake:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMiZTZGukI\/AAAAAAAAA38\/nEVYfTTE3ig\/s800\/octoattack1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, I tried to pull it back together by getting out the teeny tiny brush and putting in details (more contrast on the body, bubbles, details on the tanks, light, etc.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMiXLFeTAI\/AAAAAAAAA3w\/WwSV7YhXiAw\/s800\/octopusfinished.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I might go back and fix the jellyfish&#8230; as they don&#8217;t really look right. \u00a0It is hard to see the detail in the above photo, so I took a detail photo and another detail photo of the original sketch, to compare:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMiYfDR_3I\/AAAAAAAAA34\/W-kpmOfPsUo\/s800\/octopusattackdrawingdetail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_ft-qCjvrMks\/SxMiX8-s_yI\/AAAAAAAAA30\/Pl8z1dBlYZw\/s800\/octopusattackdetail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it looks more alive in close-up, the piece is somewhat dull in person. \u00a0I think part of it stems from my overuse (or just the use at all) of the ebony pencils. In my head I wanted this to be sort of like one of Julian Callos&#8217; wood pieces, but it didn&#8217;t work out that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fiddled with this idea about an octopus attacking a guy underwater for a long time. \u00a0I finally decided to try it out on one of the long pieces of wood I bought a few weeks ago. \u00a0First though, I took all the sketches from my sketchbook and tried to combine them and bring in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}