Spider-Man Door Poster, Printed, In Color. About 4.5 feet tall.
Location: Neil Hansen, Spyder, Bannen original art
Artist:
Neil Hansen
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Very muscular take. I like your take on the spaghetti web.
i think this falls under the category of " sometimes we are own worst critics". very dramatic and stylized. i can understand your feelinfgs of it but to my untrained eye all i see is a fantastic work of art
Objectively, looking at it now, I think it's a decent quality 'dynamic pose' study. Not a bad illo of a dynamic body in motion.
But as for being an appropriate Spider-Man poster, it should definitely have had a city backdrop, with a dynamic perspective and lighting to that city. And some of my dark architecture. And maybe a villain chasing him.
I was in a hurry to leave, and was unhappy, so I couldn't summon the energy for a good background, something interactive with the main character. Just used the black-and-white spatter effect as a fall-back because it was quick and easy.
Yes, we artists are our worst critics, because we see what we had in mind for a piece, what we might want it to be, and then when the finished piece doesn't (or in my case at that time, can't) measure up to our original vision for it, we feel the shortcomings keenly.
Outside observers cannot see the vision we had inside our heads, so they have nothing to compare it to. They just see the finished creation as-is, and like or dislike it accordingly.
I had a much better vision for this one. But my life at the time wouldn't allow me to fulfill it in this illo.
:)
I think it's AWFULLY good! I recently read an article about Tom Hanks and he said very similar things about some moments in his past work. I'm going to respectfully disagree with you both, so your in pretty good company. There are a lot of cheesy quotes about perfection so here's one. “Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.”
? John Wooden