We're At My Favorite Day, Gente! Alec Fanart Sunday!
This brilliant God's Own Country fanart is by creator artofdillon, a freelance illustrator whose work can be found at www.dillonchen.com. He is amazing.
I, once again, cannot tell if this is digital art or not but it really feels like it captures that moment in the film. I've spoken about how particular I am about representational realistic art depicting them. I know, okay.
But, look: IF your art is realistic as opposed to, say, another style: manga, illustration, pop, abstract, SURREALIST, pick an art style, that is one set of expectations and elements. If you draw or paint a picture that is recognizably them in a real setting with depth and perspective, OR just a study of one aspect of them: a hand or a profile, those are specific elements and present specific expectations. One of those expectations to me is that they look like themselves. That when you see them you think, 'there are Johnny and Gheorghe.' And if I don't think that when I see an art piece, no matter how pristine the technique, then it's kind of a miss for me?
Which tl;dr THIS IS SO GOOD. The artistic license with the cloudy sky looking background behind the tub really works for me because I read it as symbolism for the shift that has happened between Johnny and Gheorghe. The open sky to how open Johnny has to be to sit in the bath with his boyfriend; how there's no way the Johnny at the start of the film would be open to this. I love Johnny's hand and his cheekbones and the slope of Gheorghe's back.
And can I say (I always go on about really good realistic art) how masterful the foreshortening of Gheorghe's arm holding the cigarette is? Foreshortening is to create the illusion of an object receding strongly into the distance or background. Foreshortening is a BIIIIIIITCH, gente. If you do it wrong the painting looks all janky and like the person has a broken limb or something weird. This is excellently rendered.
So thank you to artofdillon for sharing this with us!
Truly a lovely piece.
Thanks for reading and see you tomorrow, gente!
