The Humpty Dumpty conspiracy.

**StephenJ** · December 16th, 2009, 11:15 PM

This is for an illustration project I've been doing over the last 9 weeks. Basically we took nursery rhymes and tweaked them into new stories. I did Humpty Dumpty. My theory is that Humpty was either shot off of or pushed off of the wall for protesting unfair treatment of eggs....

**vardoburrito** · December 17th, 2009, 02:28 AM

lmao ... uhmmm, lol.
I'd say pushed off. Double agent sort of deal.
Untrained (noobly) eyes, but I do have to ask.
Is this in oils? Those highlights looks sweet.

**StephenJ** · December 17th, 2009, 02:56 PM

An acrylic underpainting with oil painted on top. Actually some parts of the wall and sky are just acrylic.

**SAGIR** · December 17th, 2009, 07:07 PM

Imho this is an adorable piece and the acrylic highlights really are easy on the eye.
I'd say that the eggs themselves, however, look a little too orange and flat to me (accept for Humpty)
I mean those are spherical shapes, thus, there has to be a distinguished darker side to the spheres and a lighter one, but instead all the eggs at the bottom kinda blend together.

**WhiteWingedDemon** · December 17th, 2009, 11:15 PM

I agree with Sagir. The eggs don't really stand out enough, and the arms look unfinished. More distinct shadows on the eggs below the wall would help.

I love the concept though, by the way. Pretty cute and funny.

**StephenJ** · December 18th, 2009, 10:05 PM

Thanks for the comments.

**trevissg** · December 18th, 2009, 10:14 PM

ah, so that's what really happened

this is great. you gotta saturate those eggs so they pop more

**StephenJ** · December 25th, 2009, 05:13 PM

No Eggs served here.

This is another piece from the same project.

Merry X-Mas everyone.

**ovicristo** · December 25th, 2009, 07:48 PM

Hey there! I like the tone of the work (conceptually speaking)... I also like the color contrast between sky and eggs. Wish you had a better picture of the second work though.