"The great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."
~ Herman Melville
~ Herman Melville
The final line of Moby Dick, and Melville crushes us under the weight of the meaningless of it all. Oooof - a literary gut punch.
The whale design was originally taught on Dave Brenn's first "Rounds" instructional video, and later revised by Matt Falloon in a webinar on BAC. I'm including the versions and variations I have made between the two of them.
We learn things and go off to our respective corners of the world, a very specific focus group spending 500 hours refining something with a distinct set of styles/limitations/ideas.
Dave came up with the clever distortion that makes a good whale form and is perfect for linework and what he needed at the time, Matt elevated it by giving the whale more personality with simple body fins and face shape but did so in a way quoting Dave's original work.
Sidewall bubbles in 10 year old rounds helped weed out some of the balloon colors that did not survive... thankfully one of the first steps.
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