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Warren's Pub Table: REMAKE/REMODEL: Digambara Samiyar
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CommentAuthorwarrenellis
- CommentTimeJun 14th 2009
There was, way back in the mists of... 2007... a recurrent meme among several comics art blogs. Reclaiming characters from their owners, I guess it could be broadly described as... people were reimagining abused characters (chiefly Supergirl) as artistic call-and-response various places, chiefly LiveJournal. In the aftermath of that, I did a similar thing on old messageboard The Engine, called REMAKE/REMODEL. They were embraced as technical exercises, bits of fun, ways to get the brain moving. I think most people's favourite was the dear late Mike Wieringo's wondrous retro-aristo Buck Rogers...
I thought it might be an interesting thing to bring back here. So, once a week, I'll call a character, and you art types here can post images of your reinterpretation of that character. Photography and digital art is also fine, before anyone asks.
The point is REinterpretation: remake/remodel.
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This one is just me being cruel. This is half of a description given by Jess Nevins (the other half is uninteresting). Make something out of this:Digambara Samiyar was created by Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar and appeared in Manjal Araiyain (Mystery of the Yellow Room), Ratta Sottu (Blood Drops), and Digambara Samiyar (Sky-Clad-One Healer), which were published in the 1940s.
Samiyar was a sanyasi, a holy hermit (usually living in a forest) who had sworn a great and mighty oath to fight crime...
Ha ha ha. Hahahahahaha. HahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Your task, as ever, is to re-invent that into something a 21st Century audience could enjoy.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with, but bear in mind this is an ART thread. No pen-portraits. This is ART ONLY. Posting just a bunch of text, or a scribble and a vast number of words, will get the thread closed and your account banned.
You have one week. Go.
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CommentAuthormister hex
- CommentTimeJun 14th 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines ...
were these comics or pulps? -
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This is going to be interesting.
I'm looking forward to seeing the entries.
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Just to help out. I think Sanyasins are supposed to wear orange robes, and lots of beads.
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- CommentAuthorlooneynerd
- CommentTimeJun 14th 2009
@Oddcult
It depends on the specific order. The most common colors are dark red, orange, and yellow, or some combination of the three. Bindi's (the dot on the forehead) are common, as are Malas (groups of beads). The Sanyasins give up everything in their quest on the spiritual path. This means money, grooming (except for bathing),etc. They also only eat enough to survive. -
WHAT THE MEAT IS THIS
well, leaves it open to variation, i guess!
edit: wait, what kind of crime is there in a forest...? -
@ Lordmitz: Squirrelmek sexcrime, obv.
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- CommentAuthorlooneynerd
- CommentTimeJun 14th 2009
Banditry mostly. Thieves and highwaymen and the like. -
I love these ones with very brief descriptions!
Less is more.
Let's RAWK. -
Ooh. Y'bugger.
Hur hur hur... -
Okay, done a pencil idea just to get a stake in this one, I keep coming late to these and being afraid to look in case someone's done my idea. Will work on ink & colour version later.
Because criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot and the idea of an unwashed, scarred man in a nappy tied with a blackened baby skull on a gold rope oughta scare the kidneys out of them.
Apologies for low quality, uploaded thru a torturous mobile phone process. By heck I need a working scanner. -
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CommentAuthoroutlawpoet
- CommentTimeJun 14th 2009
for those without Google-fu, the rest of the description, boring as it may be: "...To do so he used many different disguises (he was good at it) and tracked the criminals across India’s geography and society, without regard to caste or social class. He was not skilled in the ways of detection, but was brave, intelligent, and had the assurance that devout faith brings." -
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CommentAuthorAndre Navarro
- CommentTimeJun 14th 2009
Samiyar was a sanyasi, a holy hermit (usually living in a forest) who had sworn a great and mighty oath to fight crime...
Ha ha ha. Hahahahahaha. HahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, keep laughing...
*opens Photoshop* -
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My version is, of course, sans disguise. But he could if he wanted to.
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CommentAuthorPaul Sizer
- CommentTimeJun 14th 2009
Andre, only YOU could make the initialization of a computer program read as a threat. You are a bad-ass. -
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Ooooh, interesting stuff! I'm liking the whole frail-man-fighting-crime thing.
Looking forward to attempting this, but most of all to seeing what the geniuses on this forum come up with. -
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CommentAuthorEncephalo Ray
- CommentTimeJun 14th 2009
I will watch this with great interest. The wonderful entries these past few weeks were really impressive. Good luck, all of you. -
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Five seconds after I read that I had an idea. Alas, my artistic ability is in the negative numbers.
So, once again, I'll be waiting impatiently to live vicariously through all of your respective pens! Can't wait! -
(obligatory entry so that this is in my "With me")
Hmmm. This is going to be good. Pens at the ready! -
@SamRiedel - do it anyway! Everyone's gotta start somewhere, right?