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Nifty Faces #39
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Stacked rectangular compartments — eye boxes, a nose bridge, a tooth-filled lower zone — pack each region with crossing lines that compete rather than blend. The white ovals and triangular tooth shapes hold their brightness against the surrounding noise. That contrast reads as confrontational: flat-on, loud in color, with the mouth outline closed tight around the tooth row rather than gaping.
Between Nifty Faces #38 and Nifty Faces #40 in the owned title sequence.
Work 8 of 17 in Faces Built from Boxes.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-12-04T12:04:45-06:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 241
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 2
- Sampled points
- 57419
- Logical canvas
- 894.1999999999999 × 894.1999999999999
- Archived PNG pixels
- 894 × 894
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Related works
Nifty Faces #38
Both works share rectangular eye-box structure and tooth shapes, but #38 buries them in near-black shadow while #39 floods the same zones with competing bright lines, making the contrast in emotional weight direct and visible.
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Nifty Faces #40
#40 uses the same blocky compartment layout and tooth row as #39, but replaces the dark teal ground with white and shifts line dominance to black, showing how background tone changes the face's apparent weight.
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