Video: Humorous fantasy in drawings. Paradoxical plots by Lior Arditi
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Humorous fantasy usually comes from three sources. The first is an ironic style of storytelling. The second is a mockery of the stereotypes and cliches of fantasy itself. The third is absurdity and paradox. And all this "trinity", it turns out, can act not only in literature, but also in painting. The proof is - humorous and paradoxical works Israeli artist Lior Arditi.
Lior Arditi (1974) - experienced (with 10 years of experience) professional designer, 3D animator and illustrator; that is why many fantasy lovers are familiar with her drawings "in absentia", from books and computer games. However, all fantasy illustrations usually seem painfully familiar: more or less the same dragons, elves, princesses and, without fail, half-naked women in armor inhabit the paintings of this genre. Only true masters (like, for example, the adherent of the baroque in the art of fantasy Sean Murray) manage to somehow escape from the vicious circle of "dungeons and dragons". Lior Arditi also did it, mainly due to his mastery of the plot.
Humorous fantasy element In Lior's paintings, Arditi is based on creativity and absurdity: as soon as you come up with an outlandish creature with a fist instead of a face, the idea of a "watch hunter" is born. But what if you hunt with a trap for the hunter himself? Another source of the artist's imagination is the rethinking of old subjects, like "the princess and the dragon".
Lior Arditi also loves to invent strange creatures … But not such as is usually unusual in fantasy - nose-fanged or eared-chain mail, but ordinary ones: for example, from soap bubbles and cacti.
The artist's method and style, the dynamism and clarity of her creations are an undeniable sign illustrator, who should make his work understandable even at first glance, without looking at the halftones and details. Because of this, some of Lior Arditi's drawings seem too simple - but these are the laws of the genre. On the other hand, not all laws and cliches of a genre are equally useful - and if humorous fantasy, including drawing, will help add originality to modern fairy tales, then all progressive humanity will benefit from this.
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