Original Art: Market Upset

[honorat]

by Honorat

Summary: My very own Art! No Photo References. Somebody's going to get run over. Two horses. Five different time periods. 25 cultures. In my imaginary world, I can put anything that amuses me. A lot of the detail in this goes missing at this size.




Copyright 2000. All rights reserved.
8 1/2 x 11 inches, mechanical graphite pencil 0.5mm 2B on printer paper.

Comments

[bohemianbeauty.livejournal.com]

whoa this is awesome! there is so much detail and so many things happening - my eyes can't decide where to look first! i would love to see the real version, i bet it's stunning.

btw, you draw horses EXCELLENTLY. awesome art!!

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. This is highly chaotic! LOL. I love details,so I put hugh amounts into my pictures. On the other hand I hate putting in all those cobbles--maximum boredom. But somebody had to do it. The background people's faces and expressions are much more clear in the original.

When I was a kid, horses were the only thing I drew. I'm glad you like them.

[galadhir.livejournal.com]

This is excellent! You really should sell this stuff you know. Surely you could make a career out of drawing, since you do it so well?

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. Now that I've got the scanner working and a quality photo printer, I may start selling prints over the Internet. I'd like to at least make a summer job out of art.

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Like everything you do, this is beautiful. I love the sense of action in the picture. I really feel like those horses could run right off the page and bowl me over.

It is a chase? It seems like the riders are pissed off at each other. I very much want to know their story, how they came to be here, and why they're angry with each other.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words. The story behind this is a little foggy in my head. I knew I wanted two horses galloping through a market with chickens flying out of the way, but I wasn't clear why they'd be doing so. Eventually these people became the characters riding the horses. I think he's been harassing someone, and she's a sort of mounted guard who's telling him just where he can take himself and his attitude. LOL. I'm not sure.

[hendercats.livejournal.com]

(Started to comment on this last night and then had the 'puter whisked away from me)
I love this drawing! The detail is so rich, I could get lost in it - the tiles 'round the door, the loaves of bread, the squawking chickens, the grain in the other door, the distance you can see through the archway. Has the feel of illustrations in some book I remember from childhood - pictures I could stare at for what seemed like hours.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

I have certainly been influenced by children's book illustrations. I love drawing pictures that tell stories. And since I do these to keep myself amused when I'm forced to sit still, finishing them is never a goal. Hence the tons of detail. Thank you for commenting in spite of run-away computers.

[rennie1265.livejournal.com]

Love the richness you get out of the pencil. Very much in line with the best illustration artists, especially the super ones in children's literature. They, and you, manage to capture a tremendous amount but the picture still satisfies whether with a quick look over or a more thorough inspection. Like the chickens scattering for their lives, btw.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

I'm thrilled that you think these worthy to be related to "real" illustrators' art. I like every piece of my art to be full of little stories. This is one of my busiest. I'm rather fond of the chickens myself. Thank you for commenting.

[rennie1265.livejournal.com]

Ah, define "real" illustrators. I work in a large academic library with a substantial research collection of children's literature and have always loved good illustration, probably beginning with Howard Pyle and N. C. Wyeth back in the formative years. Still love it madly. Children see a lot of the details in a picture whether we are aware of them doing it or not and those images tend to remain with us throughout our lives. More power to those who can do it and do it well.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Real Illustrators. Well, if you go by the Velveteen Rabbit, real ones are the ones people love. :) If you go by the economics, real ones are the ones that get paid for what they do. Pyle and Wyeth are wonderful. I also love Maxfield Parrish, John Waterhouse, James Christensen, James Gurney, Gennady Spirin, Ruth Sanderson, Paul O.Zelinsky, Jan Brett, and Trina Schart Hyman. To name a few. I wish books still had illustrations like they used to. But I'm glad children's books still provide scope for illustrators.

Eh? ROTFL!

[erinrua.livejournal.com]

BUAHAHAHAH!

Oh, this is a hoot! This simply begs to be art for some Sci-fi/Fantasy magazine - Have you ever thought of submitting?

*chortle* This drawing is so absurd and so busy and so FUN! Amongst all the other details, one simply has to wonder what a baker (or is he a cook or what?) who can't really ride and a female Hun-type warrior might have to argue about, whilst at breakneck speeds on horseback! ROTFL!

Ooh, and lookit the Dutch-type tiles around the door frame! You had wayyyy too much fun here, m'lady. *G* Thanks for sharing!
Cheers ~

Erin

Re: Eh? ROTFL!

[honorat.livejournal.com]

*Snork* This was a fun picture to invent. I just love drawing the different reactions on people's faces. I don't know what the fight is about, or even who the man is, although the woman shows up regularly in my art. But it is clear who is going to win this little contretemps. What is not clear is how much of the market is going to get squashed in the process.

I would enjoy getting into illustration. I've just never gotten around to submitting anything.

Thank you so much for the lovely, detailed feedback.

[mermaidinblack.livejournal.com]

"Five different time periods. 25 cultures."

Heehee. I love it. It's charming. It reminds me of a book plate to some fabulous adventure book.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. I had fun designing this. I've always loved adventure stories and illustrating them. I'm so glad you enjoyed this.