Masquerading as Originality

[tealin]

I spent Friday afternoon drifting in and out of naps, beset with a bad case of cold head – that woozy, floaty, drunk feeling that comes with some colds and which medication doesn't seem to touch. While somewhere between sleeping and waking, this thing came into my head. I think it came from a combination of two pictures Meghan has up by her desk. Maybe it's even less original than that. I so rarely have an image enter my head that hasn't been put there by a book or radio show or movie, I'll take what I can get.

Comments

[fairy-gany.livejournal.com]

Wow, amazing...
It reminds me the trees of the forest in Snow White, and some of the paintings at the Disney exhibition in Paris.

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

This is just damn cool. Like, I can't even be coherent about it is how much I like it I almost want to write a story about the world it lives in, because that has got to be a cool world but I won't because it's yours.

...so cool.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what world it lives in, but I'd be very interested in what you think its context is. It just drifted in and out of my fevered head. If I tried to write it a story it'd just end up being a feeble rip-off of Princess Mononoke or something.

[eveforward.livejournal.com]

Mononoke was my first thought on seeing it as well. I don't remember such a thing, but it's the same sort of "cool-yet-creepy" feel. It also looks like it would make a great D&D monster!

[(Anonymous)]

Well I dont recognise it from anything, and think its pretty awesome and creepiness indeed. Also lovin the style

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Birch?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Um ... what?

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

You know, how Birch and Aspen-type trees have root systems that are all intertwined. Aspen might have been a better choice for my comment because they are essentially one organism yet they appear to be a grove.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

OK, I thought you were trying to make a pun and I was completely clueless. I suppose it could be aspen but the trees don't look very aspen-y ...

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

I know. I thought it was a pun too. I was feeling very daft there, thanks for the save.

*...waits for one...*

[karwei.livejournal.com]

Woah. The first thing I thought when I saw that was "Miyazaki." Totally awesome image.

[hobbitnat.livejournal.com]

hehe it reminds me of the "moving trees" in the last scene of Macbeth

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Really, really cool, Tealin! My first thought when looking at the thumnail was that these living trees had kidnapped some animal like a cat or something - had it wrapped up tight and were stealing it away - it wasn't until I looked at the "full size" that I thought, oh, of course, that is the creature! How silly! (Launches into warbly parody of Bette Midler's "From a Distance": From a distace...yoooooooour aaaaaacneeee doesn't looooook so baaaaaaad...aaaand your beeeeee oooooo won't quiiiiiite maaaake meee puuuuuke...")

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

This from a man who came to a party dressed up as a tree. A VERY COOL tree.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

AWWWWW...you're gonna make me blush. :)

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

It also reminded me a bit of the monnsters in Bone...
Man, someday it would be grand if I could actually draw something that didn't feel like a combination of weak imitations of things I'd seen elsewhere...that, unfortunately, seems to be the limit of what I can imagine!

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

This looks vaguely like the much-bigger-and-cooler-looking cousin of the walking tree I drew for a story about how nature is sentient and is eventually going to go to war against humankind and destroy us all.

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

Wow! It reminds me of Miyazaki films!

Really cool;)

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

Oh WOW! :D That's beautiful! I'm agreein' with whoever posted above me - my first thought was "hey, that could be in a Miyazaki movie!". S'like ... No Face + random tree things in Mononoke. If this drawing was edible, it would be DELICIOUS. x)

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

As others have said before me, it reminds me of Princess Mononoke. Or some kind of Ent-Ape.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, it's most reminiscent of a creature depicted in the oil paintings in Clive Barker's "Abarat."

[rawrsie.livejournal.com]

Nice one. It's reminiscent of a lot of things I suppose. But to me, it's just freaking cool.