Filter Abuse: The Art of Kohl Glass
It’s been up for a bit but I haven’t officially announced that the Eventide Creative Gallery is fully armed and operational.
I started Eventide Creative in 2000 to showcase my creativity. It was a time when 90% of my creativity was: 1. Sketching a picture 2. Inking it with a standard household pen 3. Scanning it into PhotoShop, and then 4. Mercilessly abusing the picture with filters.
In 2003 I made The Promethean and all my creative energies suddenly started flowing into filmmaking. I all but stopped drawing and I no longer thought of myself as an artist in the literal sense. So, like an old abandoned carnival, my Gallery is now more of a roadside curio than a representation of my current creativity.
My Gallery is set up into three sub-galleries: Sketch, Illustration, and Storyboards.
Sketch has my most recent drawings and since I still sketch sometimes, I will probably be updating that section the most. You’ll notice that most of art in Illustration was done between 2000 and 2001 and, yes, they are rancid with PhotoShop filters. I had a problem. Maybe that has something to do with why I don’t “color” my drawings in PhotoShop anymore. I have a good number of boards up in the Storyboards Gallery but they aren’t organized yet . . . nor are they all there. I’ve gotten permission to put up the storyboards I’ve done for other people’s films, including The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang . . . except I’m still waiting to get those.
One of my favorite pictures of Batman right there. It’s a sweet design. The proportions, the boots, the thigh utility belt, the classic batman colors, all ace. And you are true to the character with one hand grasping a grappling rope while the other holds a tiny piece of evidence in his bat tweezers. IT reminds us that he’s not all batarangs and kung-fu moves, but that at his core he’s a detective. Good work.
jake said this on April 8th, 2009 at 6:53 am
[...] In this picture, a then blond, Agent 44 is firing his gun at an off screen enemy while Katana holds onto both Agent 44’s tactical harness and a towline coming from what appears to be a red Bell X-1 flying over New York City. Notice the photo-real detail on the buildings, the plane, and the bottom of the boots compared to the comic-book like rendering of the pictured CRAABs themselves. This was done intentionally to cover the artist’s inability to draw geometric shapes and backgrounds. Notice also the Gaussian Blur aura popping our heroes out from the background. This was a technique heavily used by this artist during, what has been dubbed, his Filter Abuse Period. [...]
The Art of CRAAB: Buddy Pass 1999 « CRAAB.com said this on October 17th, 2009 at 1:17 am