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Title:	Wishbone - Copy
Pixel Artist:	Helm (Level 5 Detective :: 10631 points)
Posted:	10/2/2006 13:16
Palette:	16 colors
Statistics:	20 comments 61 faves 0 avatars
This is a copy of this painting by greek master, N. Gizis. http://individual.utoronto.ca/lackey/loose/giantes_original.jpg I recieved much help in finishing this by the wonderful people at Pixelation. It contains 16 colors, made in Pro Motion, no tricks besides very careful lighten/darkening here and there.

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MetalSlug1988 (Level 1 Rookie) @ 10/4/2013 20:54

Sudenlly i would like to kill myself... amazing!

Flarfy (Level 5 Detective) @ 4/3/2009 13:07

Really nice use of colors, especially in the face.

rockybolan (Level 1 Thug) @ 4/8/2007 15:14

I like it.

Dark Rogue (Level 5 Rokkyu) @ 10/9/2006 04:27

Awesome palette, and great job.

ryumaru (Level 3 Private Eye) @ 10/8/2006 18:03

id love to see you still pixeling at 82 years of age helm, stay healthy!

Helm (Level 5 Detective) @ 10/5/2006 10:30

60 years isn't a long time!

jalonso (Level 11 Godfather) @ 10/5/2006 09:14

Technically pixelled very well and is top notch in quality. It's the level of creativity and vision that always eludes you. Seems like your assesment of 60 years seems correct.

Helm (Level 5 Detective) @ 10/5/2006 05:09

Filax, I am glad I had any sort of effect you deem positive on you as an artist or person. Please don't say I have achieved and state of 'pixel godness' because I don't think so myself. I am no closer to any 'end' than I ever was, and this is good because then I keep making stuff!

There's two new c64 pics on the way also, I hope you'll like.

Filax_666 (Level 6 Hitman) @ 10/4/2006 13:19

I don't really find anything worth mentioning about it, except that it is amazing. Well, the nose bothers me a lot, because you drew it in a diferent angle than the other features of the face (you pixeled it as if we were right in front of it, while the face is slightly rotated to the right). The problem might be my twisted eyes though, but I'm too lazy to compare with the original image you posted at pixelation.
You have been one of my favourite pixel artists for a long time and when I think it is impossible for you to evolve, since you've reached a state of, so to say, pixel godness, you amaze me with stuff like this. What can I say?...you're astonishing. Guess the worst is that we see so little from you...oh well, it all has a price. And, to finish this worthless post, I must say that you were really important in my evolution, not just as an artist, but also as a...thinker. My first contact with you made me see how much I was wrong (or incomplete) in all I thought (that was one year ago and my mind is completely diferent from what it was).Thank you.

AndyOaks (Level 1 Rookie) @ 10/3/2006 05:56

Nice choice of palette Helm. I like the way you've concentrated on the head alone making it the focal point of your picture.
I feel the piece didn't need to extend all the way to the base of the page. It would of been better balanced if you'd faded it out before it reached the top of your signature.
Great piece though dude!

Helm (Level 5 Detective) @ 10/3/2006 02:10

B.O.B. : I fear this rigidity you speak of, which I can't spot myself, is a product of life experience. I simply have no lived the life of a great master, and I do not therefore have the ability to syphon actual animus into a piece of art like they can. I am just 22 and growing up, I don't know a lot about the human spirit. Maybe in 20 years from now I will be able to make this portrait right. Maybe in 60 years.

Thanks, everybody else. Gnarf, I don't know what to say.

ZZZkodi (Level 7 Mass Murderer) @ 10/2/2006 22:46

Nice face! Great work, Helm!

Gnarghite (Level 1 Rookie) @ 10/2/2006 19:51

Well rendered.

Larwick (Level 8 Tengu) @ 10/2/2006 18:06

Excellent! I really don't know what else to say.

Gnarf (Level 1 Depressed) @ 10/2/2006 16:39

You are and always will be my favorite pixel artist Helm, this is one of many reasons. Absolutely amazing color choice and detail. Not much else to say.

The B.O.B. (Level 11 Master Assassin) @ 10/2/2006 15:55

Ahh yes. I've been watching this over at pixelation. Would join, but my skillz aren't up to par with the current talent at the moment. Any way, we all know that you, of all people, understand color choice, as her skin tones are beautifully selected. I just don't like the Purple being in place of the original piece's red. For some reason, the surrounding purple you chose to represent the negative space around the portrait seem to dull it down in my opinion, The piece's original red negative space just lit up her face, which is why I think the artist chose a warm monochromatic color to surround the piece; To give it vibrance. Where as the purple seems to dull her down. IHMO, I would have at least chosen yellow, or orange to help it out.

Also, I noticed her hat has more roundness to it and is slightly pointy at the top of her head in the original. But the main crit I just noticed, that seems to be relevant in all your pieces dealing with the human figure. I noticed that your pieces, whether they be full busts, or faces, tend to be rigid. One of the reasons pieces like this were so famous, was mainly due to the fact that the artist maintained the girls soft skin-like texture, and vulnerability, where as you gave her a rigid like look. But again, this may have been intended, since of course, you weren't trying to copy it pixel for pixel, or else it wouldn't be YOUR take on "an old master's" piece. That, and her eyes and eyebrows are on a different plane from the original.

But like I said before, Great color selection, and near-perfect representation of the piece. Great job overall though...

Atooi (Level 5 Soldier) @ 10/2/2006 15:05

It kind of looks like Drew Barrymore btw. :)

Atooi (Level 5 Soldier) @ 10/2/2006 14:55

Excellent work Helm!

The proportions of her face and hat/hair is a little off (the face being less top heavy and the hat/hair being taller in the original) but still a wonderful piece.

SeanGraal (Level 1 Rookie) @ 10/2/2006 13:44

love it..especially the style and color use

HMC (Level 7 General Manager) @ 10/2/2006 13:37

I'm liking the colors. Very cool. Compared to the picture, though, it looks like her hair isn't tall enough. Regardless, it stands on it's own pretty nicely.

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