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One of my favorite things about this piece is trying to imagine how this scene would sound. Like the two kids laughing, and then Boom! an explosion of twigs and sticks amidst the low growl from the wolf. There's a lot left to the imagination.
I don't know if anybody nitpicked the oblong-shaped moon, but it took me a while to notice, and it doesn't really pull me out of the piece anyway. Like they say, if it looks right, it is right.
Great work, as usual!
Yeah, I think a few people did give me a hard time for not making the moon a perfect circle. Which seemed weird to me because I just think of all the horror illustrations and horror comics and Halloween art that has influenced me over the years, and it seemed like they were always doing weird distortions of the moon, to make it creepy.
I don't know what to say to those complaints, because when I hear something like that it's obvious that I'm talking to someone who doesn't "get it" and no answer I give them will make any sense to them either.
I just go for mood and atmosphere. But I think a lot of folks just simply equate "realistic" with "good artwork" and don't think about it any further than that. If it doesn't look like an imitation of reality, then they jump to the conclusion that the artist has made a mistake. And the artist can try to explain that he was trying to use surrealism to create an emotional effect, but such people just ask "what's surrealism"? or simply dismiss the answer as if you are making excuses for your shortcomings. It's funny to me how different the minds of artists and non-artists often are.
There are definitely artists out there who get seduced by the photo-realism thing. Not a jab, but I see that more in comic artists than other mediums.
You can always tell the nitpickers that the moon is actually the underside of a UFO, or distorted by swamp gas, and listen to them go, "Ohhh...."