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Posted on 03/02/2015 6:38:41 PM PST by EveningStar
Just because a character has been around forever doesn’t mean there aren’t new ways to reimagine it. Damon Hellandbrand, a talented artist based in the U.S., has created a series of images that portray the symbols of the zodiac as twisted, surreal creatures straight out of a nightmarish realm.
Hellandbrand does much of his art with various digital illustration programs, but some are born as pencil drawings or watercolors – or “basically whatever medium I’m in the mood for.” He writes that he is inspired by artists like Ralph McQuarrie, Boris Vallejo and Frank Frazetta, and it’s easy to imagine that Guillermo Del Toro might number among his influences as well. Read on for Hellandbrand’s answers to Bored Panda’s questions about his work!
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Leo looks kinda gay....Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’ve seen so much art that looks the same. Really not original at all.
I just can’t get into this digital medium look. Obvious and special talent, and I’m not saying manipulating digital art effects don’t take a tremendous amount of skill. But when I look at a Frazetta or a Jeff Jones the digital medium stuff loses every time. As far as I know Frazetta never got a chance to mess around with any digital medium, it would have been interesting to see what he would do with it.
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That’s one of the problems, the digital medium techniques generally don’t seem to be affected by the individualism of the artist as much as other mediums. Maybe that’s just me. And of course there are exceptions where there is a lot of unique style.
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I take it his name is a play on the brothers Hildebrandt?
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Crowley designed his own Thoth Tarot.
I don’t know.
“But when I look at a Frazetta.....”
My first impression. Poor Frazetta clone.
Hobbes, Gone To Hell; The Post-Calvin Years.
Vallejo did a *lot* of snakes and though I like his work [especially prior to Julie showing up] his stuff always seems more posed and polished.
Frazetta was *never* static.
Neat stuff by both.
The other end of spectrum
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