Qsilv

lol... oh polenta!!!

chelydra's done right by you -- I remember when you first showed up in TD, I was absolutely stunned by your sense of strong pattern and enchanting color combinations! Still am!

clorophilla

OMG - I missed so much of your work polenta! Yhanks to chelydra for showing it to us!

GingerNinja

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=103928
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=101020
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=87233
These are some of my pictures with slightly cubed objects

Chinky

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=103991
As told by Qsilv.

danila

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104069 THREE...

MAY BE MORE ON SURREALISM?

mrozowski

At Shanley's encouragement...enjoy, critique, dissect, etc. Mild cubism, I don't know, but I like it.

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104074

mrozowski

Definitely out of control allergens...was fun to draw any way.

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104085

clorophilla

Definitively the last one... at least, I suppose...
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104097

chelydra

Delightful to see all these new entries!

Doug, Since you too are saying you don't get it... Here are some mildly Mild Cubist samples from your own gallery. As I said to polenta, none are EXACTLY what I had in mind, but they'll do, and if this helps you get the idea, maybe you can whip up a couple of fresh ones... The common denominator is that all these contain some space, and like the classic examples (from Villon et al) there's something 'musical' in the ways you assembled the forms and colors...

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=96669

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=103895

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=101981

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=101504

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=94419

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=94258

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=93999

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=91223

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=89743

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=88410

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=87904

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=83720

Doug

Thanks chelydra, I must be a brain surgeon..lol. If I have time before your challenge expires I'll try to whip one up for you. It might have to be after the challenge though as I just found out that we are green to go for the house closing in two day! Yeah!!!!!

Doug

Sorry one more point.... I must say that this challenge of yours and the instructional value you have brought forth has really been a joy? Yes a joy. Are not challenges to be a challenge? Your's definately is and you have done more than your fair share of guiding the others on. Thanks!

Dreamy

I've tried to get it, but maybe there are elements of "it" in this...
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104172

chelydra

One from me:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104194

marky

said i'd add this one
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104199

marky

Plus another! http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=103807

chelydra

Lots of good stuff is rolling in! Were almost there!

marky

and i'll take shot with this also! http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104232

Qsilv

chelydra's bridges feel solid, with grand mass and lovely details....

Mine (from over a year ago) are way more sketchy, but I'm not sure that that in itself limits their ability to fulfill the mild-cubist premise.

And if it's really about examining multiple perspectives, and emphasizing various geometric aspects of the structural elements of the subject, then it seems to me a decent argument could be made for using the TD bits rather coarsely (as opposed to hiding all but a few pixels of each bit) WHEN each one shows integrity in its position.

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=30822

mum23

At your invitation....
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104089

I'm still trying to come up with something original for this, but this challenge is REALLY challenging me. Abstract thinking and letting the picture go is so difficult for me. Did someone say control freak?

Just once, when I started "Mildly Amusing" I saw 'something' but then overworked it so that it was no longer abstract, just weird!

So frustrating, but I think I'm learning something! I can at least appreciate this style of art!! Thank you..

Full credit to all those here who have really got this! You have my whole-hearted admiration!

five

Chelydra's bridge channel Villon -- probably comes the closes to what he was after with his challenge -- but he can't pick himself as the challenge winner.

Good insight, Q. Even outside of TD, cubism tends to use marks rather coarsely while each mark shows integrity to its position -- high Cubism, included.

That said, my sense is that our liberalizing here as "mild cubism" seems generally to move away from fragmenting forms themselves into their multiple perspectives (as opposed to the relation of one form to another) and does away with figure & ground interpenetrating, both of which are hallmarks of cubism and both of which Chelydra's bridge moves back toward.

Here's my earlier bridge: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104116