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Nifty Faces #22
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Dense looping lines build a face-like form that never fully settles into one reading—the eye-like ovals hold steady while the surrounding mass keeps shifting between hair, shadow, and pure mark-making. The compressed, darker lower half carries a weight the looser yellow upper region does not share, giving the image an uneven pull: something between concentration and unease. The flat purple field keeps all of that contained.
Between Nifty Faces #21 and Nifty Faces #23 in the owned title sequence.
Work 19 of 21 in Faces Made of Layers.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-12-01T11:40:50-06:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 100
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 56107
- Logical canvas
- 894.1999999999999 × 894.1999999999999
- Archived PNG pixels
- 894 × 894
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Nifty Faces #21
Both works use black looping lines over a multicolor underlayer to locate eye-like forms, but nnxyz nifty faces #21 keeps its structure angular and open on a white ground while #22 packs the same approach into a denser, background-contained mass.
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Nifty Faces #23
nnxyz nifty faces #23 also wraps a face-like form in layered multicolor lines against a solid dark ground, but its lines are longer and more structural, producing a rounder, more object-like silhouette compared to #22's flatter, more compressed mass.
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