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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Now that is scary.
I don’t feel Capricorn was properly represented... we’re not water, we’re earth, craggy cliff dwellers who go into the water only when necessary to help our Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio friends out. Our ancient symbol is Mountain Goat with a fish tail.
Indeed.
I much prefer Frazetta’s sense of potential.
Even in a “posed” painting, there are things in the background that convey the feeling that something unseen is imminent.
It gave his paintings the quality of freezing a moment in time, by no means limited to what we were seeing right *then*.
I really like that.
His are more gritty and underworked, compared to Vallejo’s fussiness.
:)
Capricorn has to be the most “WTH were they thinking?” symbol.
Not sure what possessed people to stick a goat’s head on a fish.
At the very least, negotiating craggy cliffs with a fish tail would be very inconvenient.
;D
I do believe that somebody has been playing Warhammer 40000.
Sci-fi ping.
Looks like some 15 year old kid sketching his way through a boring history class. Yawn.
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