I had no ideas for Illustration Friday's theme of pale, and I wasn't set on doing much of anything in the next little while as I prep my spare time to do some work for the local chapter of the GDC.
But I was putting away clothes and caught a glimpse of the Smurfs All Star Show LP I won in the fall during a quiz game at Cinemathèque's second cereal-and-cartoons marathon. I pictured a portrait of a smurf matched with its closest-matching Pantone swatch – "Smurf blue" as it were – and also paler varieties with their own companion swatches. Kind of neat, if not a bit gimmicky.
I tried instead to make my own take on a sickly-looking smurf (a caricature of a cartoon, harder than it sounds), using "pale" in terms of illness. The absolute palest, sickliest, smurfliest smurf-smurfing smurf I could come up with – in a fairly short time span.
Currently my Smurf remains nameless, so if you have a suggestion now's the time to pipe up.
13 comments:
i love smurf and love your version of them. great!
lol! he got a big nose :)
he doesn't look too happy
Cool smurf... I will go with "picassian-smurf"
:-)
really great idea, very nice!
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Really great! I'm thinking "Boozy Smurf." You do such awesome stuff every week!
Since most of their names were descriptive, I'll go with "Lushy" or "Hungover" Smurf, (interesting that the word Smurf doesn't register as a misspelled word in my browser...) *Ahem* Just with the nipples exposed and the underpants, loopy eyes and swollen nose, blotchy skin...see?
Dave
Love your style and color! Great job!
he looks a bit evil! well illustrated, but evil.
His expression reminds me of Sloth from the Goonies. I mean that in a good way.
Ha a- great!
I wish I could remember who it was that said it, but I was watching TV or possibly listening to the radio and a guy said "If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?"
Now we know...
Terminal Smurf is my suggestion.
Love the stylization. It reminds me a bit of John Kricfalusi's version of The Jetsons for some reason.
Trainspotter Smurf.
This Smurf chooses life!
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