Just a homage to Sir John Tenniel

John Tenniel is probably best remembered for his illustrations in Charles Dodgson's Alice in Wonderland series. But he was also a wry political cartoonist, as well, and I thought I'd try my hand at trying to capture some of the sketchiness of his characters, and add a little color in Xara to make them more dimensional in my own fashion (Tenniel had his, far superior). The life he brought to Dodgson's imaginary characters deserved a little updating in this case of idiotic sibling rivalry:

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My Best,

Gary

Fantastic imagery, Gary. =D>
Though I question the names of the characters?! ;))

:)

Okay, okay, Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum were bound at the waist so to speak (and they had large waists), yet the contrary thing about their fraternity was they disagreed on everything: black is white, right is wrong, real Orwellian fodder.

And I've seen SO many times people in the graphics field argue about the superiority of vector tech over pixel-based imaging.

And today, can one live without the other? You need pixel-based imagery for true photography, and you need vector drawings for logos and all text.


My conclusions are:

1.) a bad relationship is still a relationship, and

2.) Tenneil was a bloody genius with his illustrations of the carpenter and the walrus, the Jabberwocky, and the Gryphon (which is a classic portrayal of the animal, I don't think any other illustrator has surpassed his), and historically, he was ideally suited to illuminate this pair of dumb and dumber kin.

-g

An excellent homage I'd say! They certainly haven't "forgot their quarrel" :-bd

I think vector and pixel are perfect, Gary.

I think you did a wonderful job Gare.

very nice Gary -well done on their contrariwiseness expressions

Tenniel was rather good at the cross-hatching and a genius.. and I am neither.. but I studied 'Alice' back in the day - so whilst I still have time, here's my homage - closer to the original [within my limits :)]...

"I only wish I had such eyes," the king remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"

some they drew in vector:

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and some in raster too:

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