05152013, a digital abstract, personal work.
Živko Kondić, 2013.
I rather like this approach I’ve taken in the last several weeks, as a stress relief. It captures the essence of my SciFi-ish visual style and is really fun to make.
If you like this, be a darling and let me know by liking and reblogging. :)
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Greetings from Novi Sad, Serbia. xD
It was a super-fun evening, there was a concert to commemorate the day of victory over fascism. I was in the company of several Belgrade folks, a few of my friends, I even met an old-time internet friend who I’ve known for years, but never saw in RL, we were so happy to see each other. :)
I’m the guy with long light brown hair and beard, of course. :)
Photos by my friend Slavica.
“Approach”, personal work, digital SF semi-abstraction, Živko Kondić 2013.
I’ve begun working on a new personal digital abstraction series, by making one huge “source” file with a consistent shape treatment, finding interesting compositions within it and working on that a little further. Amount of free time I can afford will decide if I will make more pieces like this.
Yeah, the picture aspect ratio is a little weird, but hell, this is personal work, no one cares. :)
I rather like this way of working, it’s somewhat of a trademark, it’s really free and refreshing too. Also, it’s a good exercise in shape/contrast perception.
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01a-Talon, digital abstract, personal work, leftover from the process of making the 01-Escape.
This last series is maybe a little different from my regular digital art, but I never liked staying in one place for a long time if I’m doing personal work. I find this last few digital pieces refreshing, freeing, and I will probably continue experimenting with this kind of digital work.
02-Docking Station - A digital abstract, personal work, second one in a small series.
Hi, here’s the second illustration in the newest series. First one is 01-Escape. If you appreciate this, please reblog and like, I’ll be glad. If you know of tumblrs where I can submit something like this, let me know via ask.(no anonymous enabled, sorry)
This is really free and personal, I’m sick of rules, i just want to create something without much constraint. the orange-blue-black contrast will probably prevail throughout the rest of the series, one or two more pieces are planned.
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01-Escape - from a series of digital abstracts.
I was improvising again, destroying a pencil doodle digitally and making something different. I wanted to make a huge seamless destroy-pattern but I desided not to after all, rather I will make several digital abstracts like this based on that one big image. As far as this one goes, I see a plane or a spaceship escaping a smokey blast, but you’re free to interpret it as you wish. :)
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The opening date of my kind-of-exhibition is set. Join me on Monday, the 6th of May, around 7:30PM, at Culture Exchange cafe(Jovana Subotića 21, Novi Sad, Serbia).
There will be some post-rock and similar music I will be choosing. The playlist will contain Sigur Rós, Explosions in the Sky, Russian Circles, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hammock, Cloudkicker etc. I promise a nice selection. It’s hard to find a place where you can listen to post-rock in Serbia these days.
You’ll be able to win a few matted prints I will be giving out that evening, and order any of the prints that you like.
I’ll let everyone know if some changes occur.
Red Giant – mixed media(inks, wax crayons and chalk) sketch on plain A4 paper. Proper scan.
I posted a preview of this earlier and just today I saw that I never uploaded the properly scanned version on Tumblr. I went to the framer’s to have this pressed on thick cardboard and it turned out great! Prints up to A3 are wonderful, when I think about the price-quality ratio.
On another note, things went back to normal, the surge of interactions from the art of mine being caught on Radar subsided, as expected. It was really cool and gratifying seeing that huge amount of interaction for once. I sincerely hope I will experience that again.
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Untitled CD artwork, a digital abstract, used mouse only.
I started demonstrating some of my tool presets to my friend, and left the scribble file open in Photoshop, returning to it later and molding it into, well, this.
It’s a complete and utter improvisation, using only my mouse. I see a lot of strange organic shapes intertwined with parallel lines, inorganic treatment, over-the-top high contrast and over-saturation here and there. Like in a lot of my work there’s a struggle of organic vs inorganic.
If someone is interested in using this for CD artwork, give me a shout, gods of artwork theft will rain fire upon you if you steal this.
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The Siege at the End of the World, mixed traditional media, A4, proper scan.
I uploaded a photo of this to my Facebook page a while ago, here also, I just scanned it tonight. The original paper I made this on was really thin and I waited until I got it back from the framer’s shop, cached on a piece of thick cardboard.
Everything was improvised on the spot, no plan whatsoever. Various tools and media were used. Inks, pastel, a little bit of chalk. I made marks with what I had near, a lot of them with then new bamboo dip pens.
I’m still receiving interactions from that day I ended up on the Radar, THANK YOU ALL!
Well, this was a surprise. :)
So, I woke up late, and powered up the PC. Kind of tired, did not sleep so well. My Windows booted and I hear a Skype sound for file transfer. My RL+Tumblr friend Deconstructivisma sends me a screenshot and I see myself ON THE FRIGGIN’ RADAR! :D WELL, THAT WAS UNEXPECTED. I have been on Tumblr for, like 2 years or more, this is the single best thing that happened to me here.
Thank you, grazie, danke schön, tack så mycket, хвала пуно, arigato gozaimasu, thanks everybody for each and every like and re-blog, and whoever decided to feature me on the Radar, I have no words. This is the best wake up so far.
Love,
Živko.
Not fair – Chalk and pencil, acrylic lettering.
Ruining some fine paper. The original of this is better, because the pencil text changes visibility in relation to the angle of viewing.
SNEG, chalk and white acrylic.
Sneg(pronounces very close to ‘snag’) is Serbian for snow, it was a random blurb on the day first snow came to Serbia and EVERYONE was talking, posting, tweeting about it.
I finally got this scanned properly. It will be displayed soon, maybe put to sale, I still have to decide.
Like, reblog, I won’t be mad. :D
Love, Živko.
Untitled – mixed traditional media (proper scan)
I’ve been preparing for my exhibition, and I’m very eager to get these out, even though it’s an non-academic exhibition in a café. :D I’ve printed out about 22 pieces and they turned out awesome, I’m really happy with them.
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Cheers!
Smile… by ~zilekondic
Got this on deviantart today, even though it’s older. Available as a 4x8” print too.
