Monday, November 19, 2007

169. Found Skull #4: Apartment Grayskull


My friend Russ reminded me a while back about this apartment building in town that has a strikingly skull-like exterior which he liks to call "Castle Grayskull". Below my interpretation in ink which I digitally colored...

13 comments:

  1. Another one that I'd put in my top 5. I wonder how it would look if you animated this one.

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  2. Perhaps that was the inspiration for the cartoon "Monster House".

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  3. I love how the screen in the picture looks like eyes. What is the history on the architecture? 20th century mid/late? What is the area like? what does this building look at?

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  4. Oh, I hope they have a beanbag that looks like a brain...

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  5. The houses in the area were built mostly in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It's in the middle of town on a college campus and that face looks onto a small parking lot.

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  7. Okay, that's pretty freaking fantastic.

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  8. How cool! It makes me want to incorporate this design into my house I'm going to build.....someday.

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  9. what program did you create the digital version of this image ? it looks awesome .

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  10. Thanks Beefdip! I scanned my pen drawn illustration into Photoshop and converted it into a bitmapped TIFF (which allows it to have a clear background). I then placed into Illustrator and on a separate layer behind it I drew in the shadows and background colors as solid shapes.

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  11. One of my favorites so far - keep up the great work!

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  12. this is amazing ilove ur work

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  13. Dude! I lived in that building! First floor, Apt. 1.

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