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Glass Masquerade · Original Short Story ·
Organised by RogerDodger
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The Strawman and the Jacks
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#1 ·
· · >>GroaningGreyAgony
Boy, this one's complicated.

Aight so -- this is three pictures; I'm assuming you took them yourself, Author, or you found them somewhere or yaddah yaddah doens't matter. It depicts two characters related to the story and also Jack Skellington.

Not really sure why Jack is there? Skellington, I mean. Didn't appear in the story that I remember, although I guess his name IS Jack, and he also has a pumpkin as a head -- so he's somewhat related to Jack Pumpkinhead in that regard.

I don't really have much to say about this because, plain and simple, I have no idea what comment I can make. If this is an arts n crafts sorta thing and you yourself made these things, Author, then shit -- that's a cool scarecrow. I like how the background of each photo is different and sorta follows the palette of the character, and I like how they're all framed or zoomed-in in a way that makes them all roughly the same size.

But there's no real meaning I can get from this other than 'Look! It's them!' And, I mean. Look! It's them! But that's as far as I go. Not to say that this is a bad picture or anything, just that I'm drawing blanks over here. It's a cool arts n crafts depiction of the characters, but there's not a whole lotta analysis one can make, I'm afraid.
#2 ·
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Here there’s a lot of virtuosity on display. I take it you are stoning two birds in one bush by getting your Halloween decorations done at the same time. Nice mouseover, you wise guy. Upper tier.
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The Strawman and the Jacks

>>Aragon

Thanks for the review, Aragón! I’m glad you stepped up to the plate.

With the serendipity to which the world is sometimes given, I was given the task of making a Scarecrow-painted pumpkin head for a curbside Oz display, and then Baal Bunny’s pretty tale came along and made it appropriate to also execute it for the art round.

Oz is a place where you have to be careful when building things, as they tend to come to life. The Scarecrow and Jack Pumpkinhead have this in common. Slipping over to the real world, as the story does, Jack Pumpkinhead is given as one of Tim Burton’s inspirations for the character of Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas. Since I had access to pumpkins of all different colors, that’s how this came out. All are hand painted with acrylic paint. I put the most effort into the Scarecrow, as his face texture needed to match the burlap around the back of his head.

The Scarecrow is currently residing in a nearby town as part of a display, Jack P. is on my porch, and I’ve taken Jack S. to work.

I confess to being disappointed that this placed last, even though there was a lot of good art in this round. However, the Scarecrow has drawn a number of positive comments from peers and passerby, it has already made a TV appearance or two (:49 seconds in at the video above), and a pizza party is in the offing, so things have worked out well. See you next round!