The Anatomy of Illustration

Artist: Paul Vanzella

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The Anatomy of Illustration

Sprawled Traintrack – Dissecting Your Imagination…. a few titles came to mind. Combining illustration and photography to push an idea to the extreme. Really happy with the way the light works off the jeans.

I was actually trvelling through Italy at the time and in all the supermarkets were heaps of raw meat, slami, proscuitto etc on display, so I wanted to do a tongue in cheek combination of my environment at the time, thus combined a not so realsitic salami shot I took in a supermarket witht the body and traintracks. Lots of fun!

peter, about 1 year ago

Ouch!
meanderthal, about 1 year ago

nice work paul! very clean and professional result…. i would have liked to see the slice positioned where the trains wheels had passed but i’m being very picky….. good to see some more of your skills on display…..
Paul Vanzella, about 1 year ago

Thanks guys the train tracks and the body aren’t meant to be too literall, more like two images interplaying with eachother to evoke reaction, the widest part of the body proving to have more imapct… but I do see your point “M”...
alexkess, about 1 year ago

Great piece of work and yummie Ham.
kookylane, about 1 year ago

OOOOOhh my, very raw lookin meat and not much bone =P. Awesome!
Cliff Vestergaard, about 1 year ago

Wow crazy cool!
Ange, about 1 year ago

Great work…
Loredana Crupi, about 1 year ago

meticulously gruesome…
Anthony Begovic, about 1 year ago

Now that’s gotta hurt!
Great image, by the way! I like your style.
Stephen Colquitt, about 1 year ago

Mmmm – Ham
Devan Foster, about 1 year ago

It does provoke a reaction… and does reduce you to two lumps of meat… and looks like you don’t have a spine either! Nicel put together. Very clean.
kathleen, about 1 year ago

icky, shocked me with this one…
Naomi Mawson, about 1 year ago

Nice One Paul;)
Brooke Hyrapiet, about 1 year ago

fabulously disturbing ! great
Amanda J Slack..., about 1 year ago

Lol. Nicely done. It would be interesting to know exactly what was running down between the tracks:)
hatefueled, about 1 year ago

i think they died from lack of a skeleton…
Adrian Rachele, about 1 year ago

Why do i find this funny? Nice one Paul.
Lost Lost, about 1 year ago

Can’t believe i missed this before! It’s fantastic. Looks like a few T-bones under his clothes. Well done.
Kent Palmer, about 1 year ago

very nice! I laughed.
tMAZ, about 1 year ago

Looking at that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time… hehehe…
Alex Girolamo, about 1 year ago

haha thats so cool!
PennyEdwardes, about 1 year ago

Well I must say that it’s different! well done! ( I like the “meat” bits! cool)
Sydney Whitefleet, about 1 year ago

i love the concept. very well done!
Craig Goldsmith, about 1 year ago

Very clever.
Craig Goldsmith, about 1 year ago

Very clever.
Kayla Vernon, about 1 year ago

i love how shes actually not cut on the rails
TopsyKretts, about 1 year ago

It’s great. I love it
Mel Brackstone, about 1 year ago

Wow Paul, your work is always so thought-provoking! The processing here is awesome! I too like the way the light has been used.
Heather King, about 1 year ago

this is beyond creepy, intense and lovely all at the same time.
AMAZING
LiLNeNaD, about 1 year ago

hehehe thats kool
Stefan Trenker, about 1 year ago

fantastic idea and very well executed! great work
Tanya Housham, about 1 year ago

Scary! But very good!!
Panteli Pyroma..., about 1 year ago

That’s what I call, “Taking abit off the waist”...Great work!
Naomi Frost, about 1 year ago

Very cool.
My 4 year old caught me looking at this one. His relpy – “oh, mummy, that would hurt alot…”
Matt Turve, about 1 year ago

That’s funny, I like this.
sharka, about 1 year ago

Cool
Jen Cannella, about 1 year ago

Amazing work!
doppelganger, about 1 year ago

you are so inspiring.
Heather Loster, about 1 year ago

too cool. i wish i was that creative.
Robin Fortin IPA, 11 months ago

OMG!!! Simply Brilliant.
Jeremy Evans, 11 months ago

This is a great concept. Your style all around is fantastic!
Leena Hedman, 11 months ago

Weird & cool!
martin venit, 11 months ago

I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS. I JUST DON’T FEEL RIGHT FOR DAYS.
midzing, 11 months ago

brilliant image,,, well done Paul
Mister, 10 months ago

Ah… ew.
Melissa Carroll, 10 months ago

haha oh wow.
this is humorous to me.
its very cool how you did it.
ltruskett, 10 months ago

LOL, great imagination and talent.
Travis Seale, 9 months ago

My brother used to work for a morgue and he was once called to a site where a drunk man had stumbled upon some railroad tracks and made himself comfortable so he could fall asleep. Long story short, he feel asleep and had an encounter with a train. His accident wasn’t so lighthearted but I do think this is a very creative idea.
Winslow357, 8 months ago

EXCELLENT!! OUTSTANDING!! AWESOME! You put this together perfectly, the masking is nothing less then perfect. Also perfect shading and placement of shadows!
dendoo, 8 months ago

i could never even attempt to do anything like this, you owned it. i just wish the slice was were the train would have met the track you know? but this is cool…like someone moved it or something
Robxavier, 8 months ago

Pass me some wine I’m gonna need it Verrry Clever Work
Jaeda DeWalt, 8 months ago

Beautifully Disturbing . . .
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serena, 8 months ago

Ahhhhhhhh this is crazzyyy!
LOVE IT :)
Robyn Lakeman, 7 months ago

Ouch, that’s gotta hurt, brilliant DA work Paul
blamo, 7 months ago

choptastic …..........
Paniti Marta, 7 months ago

wow! Very cool work! LOL :)
stephfine, 6 months ago

Band aide anyone? LOL cool good job
chasingsooz, 6 months ago

I love the use of colour in this photograph it makes it look painterly and softens the blow of seeing a person cut in half. Very well done.
Kiko Kairuz, 6 months ago

Brilliant!
Vicky Byron, 4 months ago

OUCH! Thats HAS to hurt! Great photo!
aglaia b, 4 months ago

wonderful title and genius thinking behind this idea.
very skilful and somewhat surreal feel to this image.
love it!
GoreGlam, 4 months ago

haha I love this!!
maxiphotography, 3 months ago

Local girl where I live lay on the track a couple of years back, train didn’t kill her immediately, lost her legs, died later. Crap for the driver too. A relative of mine had two suicides jump in front of his train on London Underground. Wrecked him too.
Passengers get so grumpy these days when it happens, delays everything and everyone.

I do like your work on here, but not so keen on this one.
David Symons, 2 months ago

WOW! So I am not the only one doing “anatomy of” photos. I think you may get a call from Dr. Gunther von Hagens soon. It is going to take me a while to get through all your images. When are you going to bring out a book ?
Paul Vanzella in reply to David Symons’s comment, 2 months ago

too kind…. a book hey! Sounds like a plan.. thank you!
LauraHartley, 21 days ago

Paul, so many things come to mind here, where to start? FIRST, PERHAPS, that you laid upon this track LIKE THIS! WOW. Then ,that you bring to life the very horrific notion we all have thinking of what happens when lying on a train track – disection! And then, the somewhat over-the-top and waaaay obvious, tidy, meat layering at the cut point is is wonderfully B-movie, John Waters, or David Lynch!!!

This is so thoughtful, shocking, and yet manageable because of your specific artistic and creative treatment of it. Again, you bring to life our greatest fears, and force us to look. AND, god DA%^....you make it look like art! You make the hideous palatable, accessible, therefore bringing it round to the mind, no longer hidden, and frankly, you leave me watching and wanting for more.
Paul Vanzella in reply to LauraHartley’s comment, 21 days ago

this has to be the most superb comment written.. love how you acknowledged John Waters and David Lynch – heck – i think we share the same brain Laura! Love the intensity on which you write – you so get me!!!! Thank you!
LauraHartley, 20 days ago

Paul, I feel, when I view your work, that if I could BE you, I would do exactly what you are doing. Since I cannot BE you, I UNDERSTAND you, and that is a true thrill. Every time I come here and see a new piece, I am left feeling an odd sense of familiarity. Clearly, man, we’re both just SICK!!! HAHAHA! LOVE, LOVE what you do!