Monday, September 21, 2009

The Second phase


"2a Fasen" - Illustrated by hand, coloured digitally.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is pretty awesome. There's a lot of attention paid to small details too; flames flickering in the eyes, and the little alien (hmm pray I haven't offended it, by calling it "little") that looks like it's got its hands placed quite authoritatively on the waist etc.
Any inspiration/meaning behind this particular piece?
And does fasen mean phase btw?

Martin Rinman said...

Thaaaank you! :).

The flames are actually not flames, its like this ycuky goo u get in the morning in the corner of ur eye. haha no u didnt offend the little alien :D its quite an authoity yes haha :). maybe it's the ruler of that world? or of that machine its flying, or just a small part of a larger being? Yes Fasen med phase, or the phase :)

The main inspiration for this is an article i read a few weeks ago about thoughts of being a man in this time and era and where I am in in my current state of mind, like where I am in life? ..blabla :p and theeen theres a lot of other stuff that goes through my mind. hard to narrow it down to one thing.

Martin Rinman said...

wow, I shouldn't write replies that late. Many spelling mistakes, my bad :p

Anonymous said...

Tsktsk I see it only necessary to edit your spelling mistakes MR! Ycuky for example is spelt..
hehe. I'm kidding :-D

Now that you've explained it, I can see how the illustration explains a thought process - what with stuff coming out the ears. Sometimes we have so much going on in ours heads it literally feels like all the thoughts might ooze out.

PS: I think the alien is negotiating with you (or more accurately, the man in the picture); whether it should let you take control of his planet (for an exchange, of course) or if he should miniaturise you first so you can assimilate with the citizens, see how deal with it and then maybe later consider again about letting you take full responsibility of the place.

Anonymous said...

my turn to make mistakes, and it's grammatical!!
"going on in ours heads?"

Martin Rinman said...

haha :P Ycuky is spellt Ycuky, end of story :p.

Theres also a thing with numbers and even fear and disgust and a lot more. But for me, it's more interesting to hear what other people think that I'm thinking. Coz it usually reflects on what they are really thinking when seeing the image. So in one way, that brings a whole new dimension to it.

But I liked your theory :D. Yeah maybe I'm trying to be in charge of this planet but I cannot fully take control of it yet? That little alien is messing with me :p

ouurz headzorz!

Larry Lindbaum said...

Fräck som fan! Självporträtt eller?

Martin Rinman said...

Tack så mycket! :)

Ja det kan man väl säga :).