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Nifty Faces #9
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The face here is less a likeness than a site of accumulation: layer after layer of short, restless lines pile up until the underlying form nearly disappears. The two eyes hold their position inside the density, offering a fixed point against the surrounding noise. That contrast—something recognizable refusing to dissolve—reads as tension rather than chaos, a feeling of pressure held just short of collapse.
Between Nifty Faces #8 and Nifty Faces #10 in the owned title sequence.
Work 10 of 15 in Lines Beyond the Face.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-11-26T19:14:35-06:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 155
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 52498
- Logical canvas
- 894.1999999999999 × 894.1999999999999
- Archived PNG pixels
- 894 × 894
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Nifty Faces #8
Both works center a face built from overlapping colored lines, but #8 isolates its subject on a white ground with a calm rippling border, making the contrast with #9's edge-to-edge scribble density a useful formal pair.
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Nifty Faces #10
#10 shares the same full-bleed face format and multicolor line vocabulary, but organizes its lines into visible diagonal grid bands, offering a direct contrast to #9's non-directional layered scribble.
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