Inteview with Tyshdomos
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He's member of one of the deepest groups of the scene. He got the 7th place at the party IV gfx competition. His handle is the second most unpronounciable one after Posdnuos. Who is he? He's TYSHDOMOS of ABYSS and we thought it was a good idea to interview him. Find out if we were right... Since almost one year I'm 17 years old. I still go to school and got no idea what I could do after leaving it. A lazy guy without motivation. Scene career? well, it doesn't exist, or at least it's very short. AGOA and than ABYSS, but I could tell you the whole story. I played games, saw some demos, got DPaint 4 (with a little virus), tried to paint, thought I was great (but wasn't), tried to join famous groups, got no answer (ofcourse), tried to get contacts (without success), went on painting, still thought I was great (but wasn't), got first contact -Fashion/Static Bytes- (Danke Andreas; tut mir leid, dass ich nicht mehr schreibe, aber Du hattest ja eh nix von unserem "swap".),joined a french group called AGOA (hi there), was dead happy, they didn't release anything, Toxic asked me to join, joined, never regreted it (not yet). You mainly gained the attention of all the scene with two excellent pictures like 'Smell it' and Raped', which have both received pretty positive reactions and flattering comments. Could you please tell something about the making of both these pictures? Sorry, but I really don't know what I should tell you about them. They are ripped. It took ages. It was boring. But the result satisfied me, and that's the only reason why I go on painting. 'Raped' placed only 7th on the final ranking at the Party 4 graphics contest, but was Peachy the right winner in your opinion? If not, who was the right winner? I think the right winner would have been Tyshdomos/Abyss as he really needed the money. (there have been so many great pictures that it is impossible to say who should have been the winner, I can only say it was neither Tyshdomos nor Peachy (Helge is nice, but not great)) How you rank yourself in the todays graphical scene and who's actually the best graphician in the german scene? Concerning the result I'm not one of the worst. Concerning the amount of pictures I might be the worst. Concerning the time I need for one picture I'm surely the worst. German graphician hmm, well, I'm not really involved in the scene, and when I see a picture I often don't know where the artist comes from. As far as I know Cougar is the best one, but his picture for the Party4 isn't that good (taking into consideration that it's no copy it's ofcourse great, but in comparison to his other pictures ... ) -------------------------------------- Only two pictures released as far as I am concerned. Both two stolen. This says a lot about Tyshdomos; he appears to be nothing more than one in the never ending row of artists who actually are able to come up with rather good looking pictures - hell, there's AGA, isn't it? - which in the end is as boring as 90% of all other scene pictures - just because of the fact that the 'artist' very well could have used a scanner instead and saved some of his precious hours. Though, Tyshdomos is not at all in a total lack of talent. The fact that the proportions in the pictures are good doesn't say that much as he could have used (and supposedly really did use) grids to keep them OK. No, what is more important is his choosing rather bright and clear colours and his rather good technique. However, he's somewhat a victim of the 'plastic-phenomenon' (to be thoroughly analyzed in Oepir Risti #5...) caused by the 24-bit palette; colour transitions are so smoothly carried out that all materials tend too look more or less plastic. By the way, why use a motive such as that of Tyshdomos' The Party IV picture? Who can actually with conviction tell that Michael Jackson really has committed what he is accused of. Crucibles (as Arthur Miller calls these phenomena) are more common than one might believe! -------------------------Electron---- Among all the pictures you've drawn, which you think is the best one and why? Among all the pictures you've draw, it sounds like I've painted thousands and thousands of pictures. Well, I think "SMELL IT" is the better one, as it looks deeper with all these wrinkles. "RAPED" looks very flat and I don't like Jackos eyes too. The only negative point on "SMELL IT" is that it's just a head. Maybe I will repaint the picture (together with Peggy and of course with Al's body). -------------------------------------- He has a very perfect drawing style in hires but still the motifs are in the rather simple funny comic style, at least the only two pictures I remember - Al Bundy and Jackson. I'm looking forward to see this graphician jump into higher challenges beyond the ordinary. ---------------------------Mount------ It seems as you mostly like to draw ironic portraits, shall we see from you only picture based on that kind of subject or you have intention to choose other motifs for your future pics? Right now I finished a picture by Salvador Dali, so, more morbid than ironic. But all in all I think there will be more ironic pics or portraits than other motifs. For sure I'll never paint a fantasy picture (only with a knife on my throat). We never seen a logo from you, don't you like to draw logos? Right, you've never seen a logo painted by me. Infact I learned painting by painting logos for an AGOA production called "Lycantropia". I painted logos and the coder always changed his plans, design and stuff and I painted new logos (don't know how many). "Lycantropia" was never released and maybe the whole procedure left some kind of trauma on me :(. To cut a long story short, I never manage to finish a logo. But I'm sure, one day there will be a logo signed "Tyshdomos/Abyss". Is there a graphician with whom you would like to draw a picture together? I don't know how this should work, but ofcourse it would be nice to have a little slave, painting difficult parts for you. If someone should be interested, just contact me. Besides this I would like to work together with the men behind "Darkroom", a 40k Intro released at the Assembly'94 (Dweezil and Strobo I think). If you are interested ... Is there a picture done from another artist, that you'd liked having pixelled? Yes, it is called "Psychade", but I don't know by whom because this asshole didn't sign it (hi asshole, you are always welcome to contact me if you want). And ofcourse almost anything by Cougar and a lot more. The quest for artists -using scanners- has always been an actuality in the scene. If you should necessarily choose a name among these five artists, regarding the eventual use of scanners or other similar hardwares, who could be the one that you think would probably hide a handy scanner inside his drawer? FACET FAIRFAX RA COUGAR R.W.O. Almost all of them are scanners. Facet, because he is so incredible fast (and nevertheless very good). FairFAX, isn't a FAX almost a SCANNER (bad joke, I know) Ra, because only a scanner tryes to provide evidence for not being a scanner by inventing a so called "ANTI DIGIT MODE". Cougar, just have a look at his pictures, scanned, scanned, believe me,scanned, why the hell don't you believe me, scanned I tell you. But not R.W.O. because I'm not jealous of his work and jealousy is the only reason for me to accuse a graphician of being a scanner. Always regarding those five artists, just mention for each of them a quality that they have and that you'll be glad to 'stole' them. FACET: his speed FAIRFAX: I don't know him so well RA: maybe his logos COUGAR: his style, and ... just anything (no, not his logos) R.W.O.: don't know, but what I sayed above was wrong, I'M JEALOUS (a bit) Tell us the names of some past graphicians that you admire and why. I'm not deep enough in this scene to know past graphicians. Well, maybe UNO (is he past?). But I haven't seen so much of his work, I only know that he copyed "The Mystery of Wilhelm Tell" by Salvador Dali, so, maybe I admire him. Tell us the names of some today graphicians that you admire and why. I think it's obvious that I hate Cougar because he is so fucking great. I think it's not necessary to explain why I admire him, but it's necessary to explain how someone can paint pictures of such a quality. COUGAR IS DOPED !!!!!!! And I think I'm also able to explain Facet's incredible working speed. He must be on Amphetamin, no wonder, Flying Dutchman. Well, this is the end and it's not polite of POSDNUOS not to ask me the nice question "Do you want to say something to end this interview?". So I invent it. Do you want to say something to end this interview? Yes,I would like to get some Dutch contacts for swapping some stoned letters. If you are interested please contact me and include your phone# (100% answer). TYSHDOMOS/ABYSS Jan Froehlich Karl-Kunger-Str. 21 12435 Berlin Germany Hallo to Agoa (especially Steel), Fashion and Friendly/Static Bytes (hallo Soenke Du Schneetelefon, tut mir leid, dass ich auch Dir nicht mehr geschrieben habe, vielleicht kommt doch irgendwann noch ein Brief von mir in Winsen an der Luhe an) and Eskimos. Well, this should be the end of this really nice interview and it's not polite of TYSHDOMOS not to tell me the usual final words " Thanks for the interview! ". So I invent it. Thanks for the interview! Thanks to you man...:)