Eyes on ETH
When the news hit, the NFT rush started. Eyeliens from all over space raced to chase, poke, pull, twist, turn, stretch and try everything to understand the nature of the ETHeric creatures. The evolution to a new era had begun. The high-speed and rapid morphing, multiplication, expansion, and contraction, allowed eyeliens to evolve new and creative ways of living, thinking, collaborating, and working with one another. There was no going back now.
Sketchbook > Digital Painting > Background animation
Eyes on NFT
I created this artwork back in March 2021. The NFT craze started to explode as news of artwork being sold for many ETH started to pop up.
Around that time, my interest on NFTs began to grow, as I started to dive deep into the NFT community that was shaping up. Who would've know back then, that all of this running ecosystem around NFTs would begin to form..
The idea behind this piece was to create ETH as a character that was funky, weird, but also a neutral and innocent character. All the characters are curious and innocent, but the ETHilin, specially, just wants to run around.
Colorspaces
After doing artwork that would suit a CMYK space for years, I can finally use any colors I like! After consuming tons of NFT artwork, I started to be magnetically attracted to the colors that I have been avoiding to use since I started working on my art for print. Further from that, the exposure to all the digital artwork in the NFT space definitely had an effect on me and so I started to experiment with all those light colors in the RGB (Red, Blue, Green) space, not any longer limited by the ink colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow)! The reason why some colors are avoided in CMYK is that not all colors can be printed using those 3 main colors plus black, so specially those very bright ones would become opaque.
I love playing with color, and this piece doesn't lie about it. I took a step further and made an animated loop so that background change colors, and making this into a piece of eye candy that actually reminds me of some neon toothpaste bubble gum I would eat as a kid.
This is the SNES videogame with that same ape - not sure if it was the exact same ape though. The game is called Thrilla's Surfari. This was actually one of my fav in that time, and it still has a high place in my mind and history. I haven't played in ages though. maybe soon?
I actually could find a picture of that bubble gum paste! Wow, that caused a lot in my mind and memory and looks like it wasn't the same ape! lol
Original Sketch
Details
Final Digital Painting
The very first Eyeliens
Eyeliens were officially born on HIVE. The first one to actually appear - on a spaceship - on the steemit blockchain on UFO Bits Post from Feb 12, 2018.
Aliens Found my UFO's. Vector 2018
The first one named Eyelien, though, was my GENESIS NFT on @nftshowroom, Odd Eyelien Encounter.
This could potentially be the very first Honduran NFT.
Watch 'Odd Eyelien Encounter' full video animation NFT with sound in NFTShowroom
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