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Chengui aka Brian Cook is a 28.22 year old boy, has been a member since January 2, 2007, has scored 123,436 submissions, giving an average score of 1.65, helping 1,099 designs get printed.

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AIM: chengui

Mar 16 '10 by Chengui
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Initial sketch done on scrap paper...

My blue pencil mock up of it...thinking about putting a hint of the cottage in the background.

Ink! I'm doing the background as a different layer so I'm inking separately.

Working in Illustrator now - I've Livetraced all my inked layers after scanning them and I'm separating the layers.

Still testing out colors - Need to mock it up on a tee and I'm considering adding an oval shaped frame of thorns/roses...but haven't made up my mind yet. I think it may look better as an illustration with the frame, but worse on the shirt.

As per your excellent comments I am trying to weaken the color a little bit to match Magritte's palette a little more. Still working but thinking this version is an upgrade. You?

As per all your suggestions I'm trying to work up a digital painted version. So far I'm sampling direct from Magritte...the colors will need to be altered but we'll see...

I threw a background in now (roughly for now) - I'm adjusting colors and still have quite a bit to go. I need to put in the background and do the dress and the bird as well. Hopefully darkening the color will help avoid any Disney legalities. I'm going to brighten the red just a tad though...

Still working...

Getting fairly close to being finished. I masked out the layers and colored them in so they were no quite as harsh, I think it's working to emphasize the paintedness of it.
I'm going to mock it up on a tee next (should have done that LONG ago!)

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ivejustquitsmoking on Mar 23 '10 at 1:40am

Really clever! Hv a snow white idea in mind too by way diff.. This one's on the money!

Kim456 on Mar 23 '10 at 1:50am

loving the magritte reference.........maybe the apple should be green?........I know that means another colour but it would really kick the disney, 'fine' art ref home

scenetk421 on Mar 23 '10 at 1:56am

So cool!

*rethinks if he should sub his snow white apple desgin*

Chengui on Mar 23 '10 at 1:56am

Was it green in the Disney movie Kim? Originally I had thought it was green but changed it to red because of the color thing. If I can spare the color I may change it.

mgill52 on Mar 23 '10 at 2:03am

still so good

scenetk421 on Mar 23 '10 at 2:08am

was only green when it was being poisoned. when snow white had it it was red.

Kim456 on Mar 23 '10 at 2:13am

sorry my posts are vanishing.....

not green in Disney, but Magritte's is green. Just thinking you should play the cross reference up some more.

Green may not work, but worth a try in terms of your brilliant idea methinks!

againstbound on Mar 23 '10 at 2:14am

I would very much prefer a more Magritte palette, give it a better balance between the 2 intertwining elements. Right now it looks like a shitload of disney with sprinkles of Magritte.

Kim456 on Mar 23 '10 at 2:19am

Perhaps if you used the blue for the background to ref the Magritte sky (stealing ideas from againstbound here) and the green apple.............or not, I like the disney feel just think a bit more Magritte could be played with

Kim456 on Mar 23 '10 at 2:57am

bump for other feedback coz I want this shirt

Chengui on Mar 23 '10 at 9:56am

Thanks guys! I think you're spot on, I will mess with the palette.

Captain Kickball on Mar 23 '10 at 9:57am

I agree, plus it would help with copyright issues

Chengui on Mar 23 '10 at 5:22pm

Thanks Capt!

Skintribe on Mar 23 '10 at 5:58pm

I think this is going to score really well, my man! Great idea!

psykomakia on Mar 23 '10 at 6:27pm

againstbound on Mar 23 '10 at 2:14am

I would very much prefer a more Magritte palette, give it a better balance between the 2 intertwining elements. Right now it looks like a shitload of disney with sprinkles of Magritte.

Chengui on Mar 23 '10 at 8:13pm

As per your excellent comments I am trying to weaken the color a little bit to match Magritte's palette a little more. Still working but thinking this version is an upgrade. You?

Chengui on Mar 24 '10 at 9:50am

Opinions anyone?

Seabs on Mar 24 '10 at 9:54am

Hmm, I think its an awesome idea. Though I think it only works if done in the same painterly style/palette of the Magritte one. Looks a bit to Disney to me.

evan3 on Mar 24 '10 at 9:58am

the illo is nice and i understand the apple

but it just doesnt look flattering

an apple just chilling on the face?

maybe make the head in the shape of an apple?

psykomakia on Mar 24 '10 at 10:20am

^ hahah. don't listen to him.

It's an improvement, yes, but push it more in that direction.

Kim456 on Mar 25 '10 at 11:03pm

Much better.... might be worth trying the colours on Snow White with desaturated tones moving towards the grey palette of each to try and get that 'dank' feeling of the Magritte.

Again.....it might not work, but worth a go!

band-it on Mar 25 '10 at 11:14pm

omg evan

ecsu on Mar 25 '10 at 11:37pm

Here Evan.

ecsu on Mar 25 '10 at 11:46pm

i know that this has the whole disney twist of style... but i'd really love it if it was made like a painting...

the only thing i'm not feeling brian (and i'm talking about me solely) are the halftones. :(

Boycey on Mar 25 '10 at 11:46pm

Wow, looks cool!

A Snow White Magritte!-great! Maybe put in some stormy clouds, to give a more sombre tone about the piece?

Chengui on Mar 27 '10 at 1:11am

Update!

Definitely needs more contrast...

Kim456 on Mar 27 '10 at 1:58am

Awesome move towards a real merging of the two! Don't think it needs more contrast..... can't wait to see the finished product now!

FRICKINAWESOME on Mar 27 '10 at 3:25am

evan3 on Mar 24 '10 at 9:58am

the illo is nice and i understand the apple

but it just doesnt look flattering

an apple just chilling on the face?

maybe make the head in the shape of an apple?

Evan is once again pissing me off by sullying my good name with comments like this.

Also, this ain't no Shark Hands, but itll do. hehehe.

jstumpenhorst on Mar 27 '10 at 8:28am

awesome!!

Hildy 42 on Mar 27 '10 at 8:39am

awesome! but maybe she could be a little more white? she looks kind of Hawaiian right now...

ecsu on Mar 27 '10 at 8:46am

zomg. on the way to even more epicness!

love that you kept the hard outline so you'll have the right point between disney and classic painterly.

awesome brian. just awesome.

maariaa on Mar 27 '10 at 8:51am

awesome way to paint brain, keep going cos this is a print :)

evan3 on Mar 27 '10 at 8:54am

nope

never seen that painting before

sorry

i mean it looks really good painted

jenraskopf on Mar 27 '10 at 8:59am

I love it, but I am fairly certain that Disney has copyrighted the outfit. When they did 9 to 5 there is a scene with a Snow White fantasy and they were required to change the colors around to avoid a lawsuit.

jenraskopf on Mar 27 '10 at 9:12am

:(

Sorry if that's a downer.

For the show I believe they used the same colors, just in a different order.

alvarejo on Mar 27 '10 at 9:16am

you can change the colors slightly, and yet remain the snow white pallete. There are other distinctive elements thar make your snow white recognizable as such. So don't worry about the colors. Go for it man!

davidfromdallas on Mar 27 '10 at 9:22am

^ Agreed - all the time you are spending on his one WILL pay off in the end! The painted feel already adds so much more! Keep it up, man.

Chengui on Mar 27 '10 at 10:04am

thanks guys! Guys! How can I find out if the colors are an issue? Email Rachel?

Seabs on Mar 27 '10 at 10:52am

painterly style is so much better! Are you going to paint out the dark outline? i think it may improve it.

squeegebeckenheim on Mar 27 '10 at 11:42am

Oooh I like this!

Chengui on Mar 27 '10 at 11:44am

Adding the sky is making it look way better! I may try to make her torso like a dark blue/black to mimic the guy's suit in the painting/avoid copyright? Do you think that would be enough?

huskylohman on Mar 27 '10 at 12:16pm

cool to see and read about the whole process...

Kim456 on Mar 27 '10 at 3:59pm

was going to suggest a blue/black for the torso.....also you might have to muddy up the yellow too or it will dominate......maybe more grey with yellow highlights???

Those changes should be enough to get around copyright

Keep the red and white crisp like the tie and shirt in Magritte though.

Chengui on Mar 27 '10 at 4:13pm

Chengui on Mar 27 '10 at 4:14pm

Whoops! I was saying that I'm hoping to get back to this later today after I'm done with taxes....

Kim456 on Mar 27 '10 at 4:18pm

phew......thought I had insulted you somehow then.

Taxes suck, hope the beans you count add up and leave 'the man' owing you $

Chengui on Mar 27 '10 at 5:33pm

^No chance the man owes me money....not working freelance!!!

:(

Chengui on Mar 27 '10 at 10:41pm