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NNOTB #185
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Against a flat black ground, a face built from hard rectangular blocks holds the frame with a wide tooth-filled jaw and mismatched eyes — one gridded, one coiled. The surrounding lines do not stay behind the figure; they cross it, loop past it, and press in from every edge. The rigid geometry of the face sits in tension with the loose arcing lines that refuse to stay in place, giving the image a quality that is both fixed and restless.
Between NNOTB #184 and NNOTB #186 in the owned title sequence.
Work 8 of 15 in Building the Head.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2022-07-19T06:40:00-05:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 124
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 2
- Sampled points
- 34573
- Logical canvas
- 742.05 × 742.05
- Archived PNG pixels
- 742 × 742
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Related works
NNOTB #184
Both center a large frontal face with a wide toothed jaw and zigzag line bands, but #184 layers marks over a busy mid-tone ground while #185 isolates the same structure against pure black, sharpening contrast.
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Nifty Faces #17
nnxyz nifty faces #17 also builds a face from stacked rectangular blocks with dense internal line-fill, but its open teal ground and green-dominant palette produce a lighter effect than the black-grounded #185.
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