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• protect Mar 03, 2008, 10:29 pm

so much going on here! nice colours, nice style, nice feel to it.

I really like their expressions!

nice job!

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• koloboko Mar 03, 2008, 1:22 am

I think the darkest guy is there on the left with his yellow eye and the huge stash. He's obviously the top dealer. The guy on the bottom right looks like he's showing the bottom left the ropes. Mr Watermelon is set to smash in on their heads. Top Hat wants them bad, Foxguy has done it before many times and the guy at the back, why he's just here to watch.

About the poem, I like how, like adult humour, it would fly over the heads of some people. I like how you can see it however you want. Was it sex, rape, drugs, homoeroticism or just plain ol' fantasy fruit with a moral? I was gonna describe my own take on it but it doesn't really matter.

Incidentally I thought "reared his plate" was a metaphor and typed it into google; all of the results were the poem in full, so if you wanna find it, this is one way.

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• myvan Mar 02, 2008, 10:39 pm

Finished or not, regardless of whether I can decrypt the poem from this piece or not (this calls for a visit at the good ol' Guternberg project though),
and I'd spam you with a billion of these heart faces but that'd break the site.
WOW WOW WOW!!!! The colouring, the people, the bustling market place!!! Totally sold on reading this one day !
Ah damnit. Now I really wish I knew about the darker aspects that ochi's talking about ... the darkest I can go is that those purple calabashes hanging there look suspiciously like the blue-haired guy's put that McDonald's Purple monster to death several times. Horrible analogy, I know =_=.

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• BittenKitten Mar 02, 2008, 9:22 pm

Yes, it's Rosetti and you've really nailed the creepiness of that poem! You could do a series including the blatently gay subtext!

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• ochiba-chan Mar 02, 2008, 9:09 pm

Yep, it's Christina Rossetti. This poem disturbs me on so many levels, but I can never quite put my finger on where and why.

I love your visual interpretation here.

At first glance: the colors and goblins seem innocent enough, but there is a hint of mischievousness. Lizzie and Laura's expressions are quite fitting.

Upon closer scrutiny: the darker sky, the interaction of the characters at the bottom of the picture, and hatted fox-goblin hint of a darker theme.

It's very much like the poem itself. Thank you always for sharing such wonderful works, Jimmy!