Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Alice-in-Wonderland by-David-Revoy 2010-07-21.jpg

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File:Alice-in-Wonderland by-David-Revoy 2010-07-21.jpg, featured[edit]

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Digital painting depicting Alice in Wonderland
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Non-photographic_media/Computer-generated#Drawing
  •  Info created by David Revoy - uploaded by Bensin - nominated by Bensin -- Bensin (talk) 19:14, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support This digital painting is both of high artistic merit (being a wonderful example of its particular type or school of art, i.e. digital paintings), as well as of high illustrative merit (illustrating the setting and some prominent characters of Alice in Wonderland). It is also, as I added to the Wikipedia article Works based on Alice in Wonderland, a fine example of how works entering into the public domain allows them to be freely remixed or adapted. This image is also one (of many) examples of how a public domain work provides furtile ground for new culture to grow in an artist's imagination, and how the resulting work helps promote the orignal work; old and new culture forming a positive feedback loop. For more information about the image, see the file entry with links to the artist's blog post about the image and links to an article about the making of the image. -- Bensin (talk) 19:14, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I don't know how to judge this. The existing FPs in this category (except for the one that shows an anime work in progress) all have more normative space in them, but of course it makes a hell of a lot of sense for an artwork intended to illustrate Alice in Wonderland to be surreal. I guess the most sensible way to judge this work is to be wowed by the composition or not (or for people who unlike me are familiar with the techniques involved, whether they're wowed by the technical achievement of the work). One question I have is: Why was the upper part, and especially the upper right corner, made unsharp? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:22, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the distorted space was intentional. See the blog post and the black and white picture of creating the distortion. In the cgsociety.org-article, Revoy says he wanted to create a "feeling of space and time distortion."[1] As for the unsharp parts: Good question. Since it is not a photograph, but rather a digital painting, it appears to have (as you correctly write) been made (or created) unsharp. All the foliage is a little softer than other aspects of the image. Maybe it's with drawing foliage as it is with drawing hair: Sometimes you don't want to draw individual hairs but rather chunks at a time. Maybe clever brush selection helps achieve foliage rather than many leafs? I can't speak to the artist's intention in this regard, but his brush selections does not appear to be accidental. On the contrary, availability of appropriate brushes seems to be something he cares about.[2][3] I must admit that the upper right corner was not what first captured my eye in this picture. :-) Thank you for commenting. It allowed me to discover some new aspects of this image. --Bensin (talk) 01:46, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The cat is sharp, thus I suppose it is voluntarily created in volume so as to evoke a DoF like in a photograph, or perhaps to draw attention to the elements in focus -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:54, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 00:43, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic_media/Computer-generated#Drawing
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