Limrock
29 creative works found
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I love hornets, I don’t like being around them but I’ve always thought that there are much worse jobs if you have to be reincarnated as an insect. / Nobody messes with a hornet. I was thinking of the Book of Kells when I got the idea for this. I worked for about a month burying small details in it so it’d be a decent conversation piece. 100% from scratch in 3DsMax and PS Image copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Closeups / / - /
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Or The man who had a creative block all week and got rid of it on Friday night. / I was supposed to do something about breakups for my friend’s new album. / This oughta sort that. I tried as best I could to recreate those crappy plastic chairs we had in school, because they’re vile. / I was going for a Space Invaders idea first of all but hadn’t thought of what to do for the Invader family. I wanted to show the erosion of someone. This concept blossomed along the way. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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This was supposed to be a practice piece to get me back into it and I got lucky. / There’s precious little thought in the concept but it is inspired by a real person. / Hmmmmm. / I got nothing else, what do most people type in here? / Vibrant colour version to follow, still fixing it but I’ve tidied up this and re-uploaded. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Detail /
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The Champion Moth is actually a butterfly. It’s a common misconception even among lepidopterists who can often be found lepidopting away in ignorance of this very pertinent fact. I started with the idea of opaque butterfly wings. Then I saw a pattern emerging in my work, a bad thing. And I should where it’s convenient always take things one step further with every project, so I had a vacancy for something new. It was then a case of figuring out what is the opposite of what one would expect. I was reading about how sparkplugs work and it was interesting stuff. Why they are the shape they are etc. Very interesting to me anyway. And butterflies could be shaped like sparkplugs with wings, that was credible enough for me. Then there was some minor photoshopping just to bring out the colours that were in the scan already. I don’t know how they get in there but I’m happy enough to use them because they’re an analog effect. I’d like to thank my always-obliging hacksaw blade who did a fantastic job teaming up with a piece of string to make a curved ruler sort of thing. When I was coming to the end of the drawing phase I was reminded of one of my favourite quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams: / It was a large mattress, and probably one of quite high quality. Very few things actually get manufactured these days, because in an infinitely large Universe such as, for instance, the one in which we live, most things one could possibly imagine, and a lot of things one would rather not, grow somewhere. A forest was discovered recently in which most of the trees grew ratchet screwdrivers as fruit. The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit it quite interesting. Once picked it needs a dark dusty drawer in which it can lie undisturbed for years. Then one night it suddenly hatches, discards its outer skin which crumbles into dust, and emerges as a totally unidentifiable little metal object with flanges at both ends and a sort of ridge and a sort of hole for a screw. This, when found, will get thrown away. No one knows what it is supposed to gain from this. Nature, in her infinite wisdom, is presumably working on it. / No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures which live quiet private lives in the marshes of Squornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seem to mind and all of them are called Zem. Bearpaw (a very nice person) wrote this incredible bit about it. / The moth/butterfly represents evolving, the spark plug represents not letting the spark within die, the flower represents a persons’ sense of fragility/purity. / Thanks Bearpaw. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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When I was a kid I really wanted a bike from CHiPs, a groovy spaceship from Buck Rogers, Kitt from Knight Rider and if it was greek mythology I was at then a flying horse was definitely my pick. I got a lovely new A3 sketchbook with horrible nasty paper that didn’t suit me in it. And to make matters worse my 0.3mm pencil jammed and I had to buy these giant fat huge 0.5mm pencils in the only place that was open. I got some point threes yesterday and sorted it out some. The original’s quite nice but I accented this one heavily on the computer as it was looking a bit dull and then the more I darkened it the more I liked it. / I might leave it out in the sun for a while and go over that again but I feel like doing other things for the time being. / I’m still working on a tshirt and just playing around with colours. Indigo doesn’t get much work these days, maybe I’ll use him. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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I can do hair now. / I was doing this all week. My pesky job kept me away from it for long periods. But one sleep deprived headachey weekend sorted it out. I don’t know what time of day it is now. I tried a coloured one. I’ll try again. / See the reprise here Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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My explanation. / I tailored this to someone using a few details about her as the different elements. / Her name begins with L and she works as a builder. / I needed a straightedge to do the hacksaw blade. To neglect the absolutely straight line would have been unacceptable. / A hacksaw blade fitted the bill quite nicely, I don’t have a ruler. Might be an idea to get one. / I like things to look as real as possible so I looked on the net at hacksaw blades and found a lovely orange one with the words Bi-Metal on it. / I decided that’d work. The Times A was such a nightmare I had to find a suitable replacement. / The flower was going to make a pentagram but once I started doing the petals transparent I had to drop the idea and devote that patch solely to the flower. / I went a bit Vista on it. Detail shots / / Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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I was asked to do something for a local metal band. / MySpace here / I figure this is pretty metal. / I busted another automatic pencil doing this one. / Good thing I bought a spare. Stay away from Staedtler. Pencil and PS Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Pencil and Photoshop. / One of a few esses I’ll eventually do. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Or Fuckit, I’ll just scan it Six weeks I was at this one in between being really busy or not in the humour to do it. Loads of mistakes are buried in there from times when I went at it but shouldn’t have. It got pretty mucky for a finish. There are heaps of symbols in it and its a continuation of one of my earlier works / I’m glad I finished (or near finished) it and I can finally move on to something else. / The name is but a ploy to appeal to arty farty types. / But it is really about a revelation, to be truthful. Pencil and PS Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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This is literally a year’s work. They’re not totally in chronological order. I loosely arranged them to suit the moods of the months which in some cases happens to be the months I did them in. / January / February / March / April / May / June / July / August / September / October / November / December All images and text copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of these images without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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This was a great day. / I had collected a lot of information and proceeded to sign a treaty with my mind allowing me access to the resources of the wasps. / Wasps do all the maintenance and construction work in my mind and they can be called on to deal with any nasty threats that encroach on my beloved machine. They’re a powerful workforce and I had been granted the use of them, after submitting my designs for careful scrutineering. / First we had to build a giant deck so we weren’t working where the problems were. Then a big Science and Technology building went up. Its the one with the flag showing a microscope. (I had a microscope when I was a kid.) / All that was needed then was someplace for the wasps to go on break, a few admin buildings and a giant dredger with which to haul up bits of mind. These could then be processed and healed in the S&T wing and put back. / Things are well underway here and the success of the project was off the scale I had set for it. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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I started with the word POWER done up in vectors. Changed them around a little and extruded them then heaped stuff over it til it looked like this. / Very high res. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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I was picking at this all week and finally yesterday I spilled a recalcitrant cup of tea over it and decided to start again. No amount of computer editing was going to put it right.. It worked out much better the second time round. / The letter O in Amazonistas was originally an image of pachamama who if I’m not too far off is the spirit of the Amazon forest and has a lot to do with Ayahuasca where she takes the form of either the jaguar or the anaconda who in the course of my research I found have similar markings, I took the overall shape of the eye from a different image of her. I had to replace the O because I was unwittingly using a copyrighted image. That sun of mine deserves a bit more press. / There are three guys in the eye of the snake and they’re part of the Amazonistas project. / The letter N is there for a girl named Noemi. And the anaconda represents her and Pachamama too. And if my own sister’s name wasn’t Naomi I wouldn’t have spent so much time on enns. / The last S is me. / The original idea was to have something to raise awareness so an open eye was obvious enough. / I was asked to put in the prayer at the bottom in Portuguese and then English. / I should put a few little glitches right but it’s going to take a lot of messing around with splines and this is needed fo a conference in a few days so I’ve rushed it a bit. Seamos fuertes con la verdad. Podemos saber amor y nunca saber hambre. Podemos vivir bien en nuestras convicciones y nunca saber un dia de violencia o sufrimiento. Que todas nuestras acciones de gratitude y ofricimiento sean para un mundo mejor. May we stand strong in truth. May we know love and never know hunger. May we live well in our convictions and never know a day of violence or suffering. May our every gesture show our gratitude and be our offering for a better world. _______ / You can contact Embrace directly to find out more. There’s tons of info on the Amazonistas at the other end of these links http://people.tribe.net/rareworlds / http://www.myspace.com/rareworlds / http://rareworlds.blogspot.com photo collections: / http://www.flickr.com/photos/tillyblye amazonistas page at tribe: / http://people.tribe.net/0afb1e8d-6e8e-4356-b9b6-344d93007fe1 _______ Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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At least that’s the idea I started with in pencil and then I mashed this together out of a 3D program and PS. I changed the background. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Two of my friends have uploaded self portraits today. / Here’s one I did in 2003 straight from one of my old notebooks scanned and uploaded while drinking my morning cup of tea with no particular care and a hint of a flagrant lack of it. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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This highly detailed image can be printed at very large sizes. 5000×7070 pixels max. / Thanks to EC for the use of her face. Image copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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This one’s straight out of the sketchbook so its a bit rough and there are drawings on drawings. I really wanted to show it off though. I believe its conceptual virtue will see it through. / Here’s the idea: / I first got limited access to my subconscious leading from an agreement with my mind that it’d let me in to try to fix it. We were having a few problems my mind and I. / What it didn’t tell me was I wouldn’t be allowed to remember very much of what I’d seen there. There was no arguing, I was very lucky to get the access I did. Any time I’d dream or have lucid waking half dreams I could go there. My anonymous handler gave me a computer in a nice enough room to work in and I asked to be left alone. / After a while I used some other bits and pieces to construct a device that could project an image of what I could see on the workstation onto the wall. It still needed to be patched into the main securtity network to make it “live,” I never had any problems there though and I’m still not sure how I got away with it. I reckon I was the beneficiary of the good nature of some member of the security staff who saw what I was trying to do and disregarded his or her orders for the greater good. / I hid a large sheet of paper on my person on the way in one night and was able to draw over the projection and secrete the paper and have my escape with the precious data which I was then able to make into art. This then is one of the places I get my art from. / My mind wasn’t too impressed when it found I’d been at the restricted media but but I told it to remember who was in charge and to shut up or I’d stick a pencil in it. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Closeup /
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I had to retouch this , it was annoying me. And I had to submit it fresh because I had been waiting half an hour and the new image hadn’t uploaded yet. / Apologies to all who commented on the earlier one. / I can do any letter or word anyone wants by request. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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I’d rather not explain this one. Its a bit personal. Finally uploaded after working on it all night. Its now 7:35. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Lets hear it for bass. / The most important and overlooked part of rock bands if they want to stand out from the crowd. Bass has only come into its own in the last 20 years or so with the electronic revolution. There is no analog instrument anywhere that can achieve bass as clean and booming as Elektrobank by The Chemical Bros. / I first noticed bass when I was young, pre-ten. I’m not really sure, but I was upstairs in the family home and knew what song was on the radio downstairs on a big old guffer of a Philips HiFi system but it was different to the song I was used to hearing downstairs. It was the bass getting through the floor without the melody. So I was aware of it. It was much later in life that I developed my taste for it though. The title is kinda what I’ve done here. I work at it like etching but build up shapes instead of cut them away. I started with just the bass clef and added everything else in as I went along. I wanted a whooshy kind of buzz and took care that things are where applicable as close to perfect circles as I can draw and that the curves continue through the different elements. Its mostly freehand but I needed a small bit of help from the top off a can of WD-40 to get the two dots right. The oil lamp is to balance out the bottom right and because oil lamps are cool. Pencil and PS Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Detail / / /
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I have no idea what symbols either side of John’s head are but I’d love to know. / I found them in some font. / Any idea anyone? Update 24/03/08: I just found out. John ysee is in China and he got them translated. Here’s the message straight from MySpace: hey man,i dunno if you know what the writing on ‘johnsense’ means, but me and my Chinese friend have looked at it and this is what we got – / All characters are upsidedown,the first on the left means kindness in Mandarin,the second is a mystery(possibly Cantonese),the third means Evil,the fourth means Burning or infected skin…you probably already know it, so i guess it’s just some useless knowledge for your devoted fans! Image copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Pencil on regular printer paper. A tribute to one of my favourite letters. It looks like a weapon. I’d hate to get a slap of an eff. A lot of people have been at me to get back into the manual stuff and this is just a practice piece. I think Its time to get a proper sketchbook. Image copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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This is the first time i ever drew the Brainship, around 1998 and I’ll do it again too. I scanned it and I was in the middle of this dirty trick I had to develop to get a bit more detail. It requires inverting the image and while it was inverted I thought I’d keep it that way Image copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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