CHoW Topic Suggestions

[Beeston]

I see what you're saying with this, but drawing a character in the style of Salvador Dali (for example) would just be a pain in the arse and you'd effectively just be adding extra hoops to jump through (not that we have to jump through hoops ATM). Just because you're into art doesn't mean you have to be into art. In that you can really enjoy making art, but you don't necessarily have to like going round galleries or like other people's art. I for one find the old masters' work tedious in the extreme, I can appreciate their skill, but when all their famous works were commissioned by the church, you can see why a modern day atheist gets bored of old women in flowy dresses with a tit out and the baby jesus with a sixpack.
Damian Hurst is a tosser, Tracy Emin's an idiot, and it just seems to me that the only reason they pickle sharks and put their grotty, semen-covered beds on display is that they found actual artistic skill a bit hard to master.
Don't even get me started on surrealism either.

I think a redesign of the classic shooter game character would be a fun one, seeing as we haven't had anything shooty or soldier-y for a while.
so you'd have to design one of these:
- An Assault
- A Heavy trooper
- A Medic
- A Sniper
- An Engineer

You know, the usual default classes you get in a shooter game.

I think the reason they haven't done those in a while is because.. well, they're everywhere. They're generic, they're boring, they've been done a million times, and then re-imagined a million times again. Even though I don't actively participate I'm pretty sure the purpose is to get people using their imaginations, and designing characters that have been done to death doesn't serve that purpose well.

Turner was a Romantic Landscape painter, Manet an impressionist. Neither of those painters (to my knowledge) did the same religious themes that you are quick to dismiss any historical relevance or merit at the same scale as Caravaggio or Michaelangelo. In fact, Manet even went so far to stick a middle finger to Venus of Urbino with his painting of Olympia. Whether that was his intent is not for me to say, but it was certainly the perceived effect.

Salvador Dali, nor any of the older masters who painted specifically religious subject matter were mentioned. What Lord Louis was talking about was the compositions, the gamut masks, the design choices and the subject matter. Damien *Hirst* and Tracey Emin can't paint to save their lives, I don't understand how you managed to come up with them as a potential inclusion in LL's suggestion at all. To me that whole post is a horrid display of willful ignorance.

I like LordLouis' suggestion for this very reason because it encourages people to think outside the box of and do some research into art history and see how they would apply it to their favorite characters. Though admittedly that would be a topic to do for I.O.W, because the C.H.O.W is more relevant to character design. Nonetheless I personally would love to see Link or Geralt of Rivia depicted in an Art Nouveau piece, for example. You're thinking about rehashed ideas that are pulled straight from Team Fortress/COD/Darksiders. You're trying to turn this activity into a fan art thread for your favorite video games and excluding anything else. Stop it.