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Moulin Rouge (is Educational)
Jan. 15th, 2013 05:09 pmI haven't posted any art on here in a while, for two reasons:
1. I've been more than a little burnt out
2. I've been trying to learn design stuff, so I put my own stuff to the side for a while lest old habits hold me back or block the absorption of new information
I had a magnificent curriculum lined up for myself, but failed to factor in that learning new things takes a lot more time than doing things you already know how to do, so I only struck one assignment off the list. It's an exercise I've been wanting to do for some time, but either haven't had the motivation or have had just enough misgivings about its reception to justify putting it off.
Because, you see, in my experience, when it comes to Moulin Rouge, there are only two types of people: those who love it, and those who hate it, and those who hate it aren't content just to hate it for themselves, but their hate extends so far as to lower their opinion of people who love it. I'm not going to get into why this might be, I just want to bring it up because I have friends who fall into the latter camp and I really don't want to lose them by posting this.
It's a design exercise, right? – the cast is pretty cartoony and visually iconic already, so what better source material to push my cartooning/iconography skills? Right? Anyone? No?
I originally intended to do them all Clone High style, but the final product wandered away from that a bit ... you can still see the influence but it's not a perfect pastiche.
1. I've been more than a little burnt out
2. I've been trying to learn design stuff, so I put my own stuff to the side for a while lest old habits hold me back or block the absorption of new information
I had a magnificent curriculum lined up for myself, but failed to factor in that learning new things takes a lot more time than doing things you already know how to do, so I only struck one assignment off the list. It's an exercise I've been wanting to do for some time, but either haven't had the motivation or have had just enough misgivings about its reception to justify putting it off.
Because, you see, in my experience, when it comes to Moulin Rouge, there are only two types of people: those who love it, and those who hate it, and those who hate it aren't content just to hate it for themselves, but their hate extends so far as to lower their opinion of people who love it. I'm not going to get into why this might be, I just want to bring it up because I have friends who fall into the latter camp and I really don't want to lose them by posting this.
It's a design exercise, right? – the cast is pretty cartoony and visually iconic already, so what better source material to push my cartooning/iconography skills? Right? Anyone? No?
I originally intended to do them all Clone High style, but the final product wandered away from that a bit ... you can still see the influence but it's not a perfect pastiche.
