3 designs I created recently
 

Well, shown below are 3 pieces, all created this week.
What do you think?

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1357/redwoodls1.jpg








http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/502...yblakehmc0.jpg








http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/475...yblakehaf4.jpg

Looks funky, I like it ;)

I adore that first one.

Any significance behind these pieces of art?

There's always significance, but it's for the viewer to discern.
Meaning is created through both intention and personal experience.

People make assumptions. You are the artist, so you should have the correct interpretation of it, considering you made it.

I'm of the opinion that there is no such thing as a correct interpretation. I see what I see because of my past experiences. Every interpretation is equally authentic.

Maybe the first one is a blood vein. Or maybe it's a tree. Or maybe it's love. ect.

What do you think they mean ?

in my opinion they seem to get progressively unnappealing, the tree is really cool the hair is okay, the last thing was just blah, but this is my opinion, im a little rusty on art to actualy critique it fairly.

1 and 3 look awesome

2 is like WTF IS THAT WORM

-_-
I love the work...but I was never a fan of trying to be so ambiguous about it like that...the modern art way of thinking "Whats it mean?" >>"Um...you tell me"

Well then lets rephrase the question. What do these pieces mean to you?



By the way...welcome to the forums :D It's great seeing a new artist around here

Nice art, and the first picture, can I use it as my Desktop bg? ^^

They look cool, especially the 3rd one

Man would you shut up moaning.

Those are cool.
The second one reminds me of a winding road going up a mountainside.
Nice job.

What were they designed for?

Good quality, but i only like the top one. The other two arent my type of art :P

But still good art.

Very very creative
the 1st and 2nd look nice

And artist that tells you that they don't know the meaning to their own creation, but rather, it has multiple meanings depending on what people think has absolutely no clue about what they are talking about.

People interpret art in different ways BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THE MEANING OF IT. I'm not moaning, I'm speaking with some sense, which you seem to lack if you couldn't read the context clues and figure that out.


There is so much controversy behind the Mona Lisa because no one knows exactly what it's supposed to mean. I bet if Da Vinci would have finished it and explained his reasoning behind making it, then there wouldn't be so much hype on it.

Even abstract artists know what they're creating. Other people might think it's something else, but he/she knows what it truly is.

You just didn't ask the right question - refer to mine for an example of what the right question is.
The Mona Lisa isn't mysterious because "it wasn't finished" (uh, sure) but because Leonardo Da Vinci was involved in a lot of very complex stuff and some very unique thinking.

I don't see how asking him what it means was an incorrect question.

If I painted an abstract heart and an arrow, I would say that it is a heart and an arrow, and that it meant pain, sorrow, heart-breaking.

I'm taking Art History this year, I think I remember hearing that he supposedly never finished it, not sure though, might have been another painting since we brushed up on it at the beginning of the term ;P

You can look at it however you want to, but he never openly stated what the picture was about.

Then it wouldn't be abstract, would it? Abstract art is bull ****.

Da Vinci rarely painted his work - when he started he did, but as he collected a following of students they often did the hard work, he just composed the art.
They didn't really care back then, most of them were just like "OMG JOHN OF ITALY GO HIS PORTRAIT PAINTED, ME 2 PLZ."

But this is a discussion of Ems work, so lets not discuss Leonardo Da Vinci.

chill out guys

For my design class. I actually made 12, but when I made them they were 1500x1500, so I had to change the composition and crop them a bit to make them work as backgrounds. So, I might post more later.

Well that's the purpose. If you want a high res version (1280x1024) go to the deviant art page and click download.
Red Wood
Red Head
Flower

Well i'm not actually new to the forums, so I guess you just haven't seen the other stuff I posted in the Graphic Design forum. Eh, you didn't miss much :P The other stuff I posted is all pixel work anyways, and it's not amazing.

To me Red Wood signifies new life, growth, and the inevitabilities of existence. Emerging from the death of the black coil, into the new life of the tree, and eventually falling back into the death of the red coil. And repeat.

When I was making Red Head, I was thinking about the unidentifiable many headed overseeing beast that is government. I was thinking of the tentacles as displaying how far reaching and manipulative it can be.

It's a flower; it jumps. Actually a lot of people see different things in this one oddly. It totally looks like a flower to me, but other people seem to see a wolf, and a mountain. Odd.

There's only one design which has any strength visually, and I would say it's the first.

And there we have it Gambet, he does know what his own pictures mean. If you read the entire thread completely you would have known why he avoided the question; it was the wrong one.

What do you mean by stength?
They are all successful from a design point of view, but granted the first one is probably the most attractive.

I don't see why everyone is jumping on Gambet so much. His questions were perfectly alright

Em, the first image owns :D ( PSST! I'm using it as my desktop background ^^)

How are we jumping on Gambet?

well if you like them do me a favour and favourite them on deviantart !! :P

Red Wood on Deviantart!!

The style of it... it seems much more refined than the others.
Probably by singling him out... not that I mind :blush:

lol in the battle of Stephen vs Gambet on Art History Stephen takes round 1

Hardly a battle; more so an intellectual exchange of facts, and the information about them. But once again, I don't want to discuss anything within this thread aside from Em's designs.

Well each piece has it's own style that was created intentionally, but you're right, the first one is the most aesthetically pleasing. As I continue to work on my different approaches to design, I'm sure the others will become more pleasing as well.

I'm gonna work on another design now.. so check back in a bit

I'm also taking art history actually. We're studying the Wiemar period, which occurred post world war 1 / pre world war 2. Expressionism, New Objectivity, Modernism, cetera. I'm actually kind of hating the course, I find I prefer post-modernism a lot more.

I love my art history course, although it may only be because I have a strong knowledge of art histoy beginning in 1500's.

Hmm yah, I have a vague knowledge of that period, I remember something or other about the renaissance. I've never been big fan of art movements, I prefer learning about the thinkers, philosophy, and politics. Thomas Hobbes! John Locke! Decartes! Although, it is all kind of intertwined..

inspiration is from the great blue in secret of mana (i believe it was that game ? I can't quite remember)
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/321/bluesightyz2.jpg

Looks nice, there's potential for a element which demands attention - as it stand your "blue sight" seems to grab the most attention.

Yah you're right, there's no hierarchy or sense of direction. I might add some more stuff later, but I kind of like for that reason. It's really undemanding on the senses. Placid like.

that looks nice =)

Very nice work! I really like the Blue Sight one =D

looks great man.