ext_311167 ([identity profile] yuletart-mods.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] yuletart2008-12-25 04:14 pm
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Giftart for Sleightofhand!

Title: Happy Hogswatch
Gift for: [livejournal.com profile] sleightofhand
Artist: [livejournal.com profile] coell
Rating: G
Fandom: Discworld
Characters: Death as Hogsfather
Artist notes: With such a huge canon to chose from, I let the season do my picking for me. Hope you enjoy photoshop silliness. I'm diggin' it -- I was tempted to print this out and use it for my holiday cards this year. ^_^
Summary: Excerpt from Hogsfather by Terry Pratchett:
"All right," said Susan, "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need ... fantasies to make life bearable."

No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers?"

Yes. As practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

Yes. Justice. Mercy. Duty. That sort of thing.

"They're not the same at all!"

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through with the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act as if there were some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

"Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point


ext_872: eye with red flower petals as eyelashes (plenty of wholesome nutritious alcohol)

[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2008-12-28 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Not having much experience with photomanips/collages other than really ... primitive ... ones, I had no idea what to expect here. So what a delight to find something so incredibly-crafted and whimsical and high-quality! This really captures the spooky-yet-hilarious Hogfather feeling. Wonderful!

[identity profile] coell.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, thanks! I agree, Photoshop can be abused a lot -- but it has power for good too! If you ever see real "Photoshop art", it's incredible- so I aspire to be 10% as awesome. Plenty of the primitive ones are good for a laugh though, so we all must not take ourselves seriously. ^_^ I usually use my powers for evil, making more CRACK!ART than art. Anyway, glad you liked it -- and thanks for the comment!

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