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Nifty Faces #8
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The mouth opening dominates the lower half, pulling attention downward while dense crosshatching above holds the forehead closed and heavy. That contrast—compressed marks at the top, an open void below—reads as tension between containment and release. The concentric framing bands push the head forward rather than receding, so the face feels pressed toward the viewer. Color layering is cool-dominant at the center and warm at the edges, reversing the expected figure-ground relationship.
Between Nifty Faces #7 and Nifty Faces #9 in the owned title sequence.
Work 4 of 25 in Teeth and Mouths.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-11-25T18:31:07-06:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 101
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 44136
- Logical canvas
- 894.1999999999999 × 894.1999999999999
- Archived PNG pixels
- 894 × 894
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Nifty Faces #7
Both works show a visible tooth row as a focal anchor in the lower face, but #7 fills the entire field with red and uses square-framed eye sockets, while #8 floats the head on white with concentric oval bands—a direct contrast in how the face is grounded.
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Scrimshaw13
Scrimshaw13 shares the collector-noted visual link: both use layered multicolor scribble lines to build a frontal head on a light ground, with circular eye marks and a visible tooth row, making the cross-collection formal parallel concrete.
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