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A Question Or Twoby `smashmethod

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How very curious.
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Critique by `zeruch Jun 18, 2009, 12:38:15 AM
There is a very solid effect that can be gained from the use of a repeating motif; be it in the geometry of arabesques, the spiraling repetition of fractals, or in any other method that can be reduced to a single, discrete set of building blocks...or in this case, block.

The viewer is introduced to a meta-question, in the form of a question(s) enclosed in a box desnoted with a question-mark. Nothing says if the blocks contain something unknown, or if they represent something exogenous to the image. Why they are clustered also gives no hint.

The viewer is otherwise left with a symbolic representation of the very nature of inquiry or an engima. The technique used to render is clean, unobtrusive and grabs the eye, but does not lack subtle detail.
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Mood: Artistic ~Tukotih Aug 29, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Haven't seen that shadowing technique anywhere...
What program are you using, the shadows are all fadish.
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Mood: Astonished ~RaymondRawr Aug 9, 2009
zOMG there has to be like at least 100 coins in there >: O
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~DragonessD Jul 14, 2009
Boy, that's familiar :D
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~invisiblephob Jun 29, 2009
OMG how cuuuuute!
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~FiftyOne Jun 28, 2009
Part of me feels like Mario and Luigi would be in la-la land if they stumbled upon this.
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~Rawk777 Jun 25, 2009
Good ol' smash render.
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=vonzott Jun 21, 2009  Professional Interface Designer
Beautiful work! The shadows are completely dead-on ... even with a computer, that's hard to do!

Love the subject matter, too.
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~check Jun 19, 2009
Whee, You still exist.
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`zeruch Jun 18, 2009  Professional General Artist
So I wrote a critique, and spared the Mario Bros references, as I figured if you are going to take this totally meta, I may as well be as stuffy and artsy-fartsy as possible :}
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`smashmethod Jun 18, 2009  Professional Interface Designer
Hah. Well thanks for taking the time out to do so, I don't think I've gotten one before -- I just check the request critique by default now.
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