FEARSMELLER... Stop Making Scents

This was meant to be the cover for a book featuring a character (inspired by Gaiman & McKean's version of the Sandman) named Fearsmeller.... more

by Del Gaizo

Title

FEARSMELLER... Stop Making Scents

Artist

Del Gaizo

Medium

Digital Art - New Media/ Digitalchemy

Description

This was meant to be the cover for a book featuring a character (inspired by Gaiman & McKean's version of the Sandman) named Fearsmeller.

Fearsmeller-- an elemental spirit of both the most pleasing perfumes and stinky stenches, who finds the macabre through his olafactory inputs. Short form: he's got a nose for the spooky.

That's him, in the picture that's been sewn/stitched into the skin that makes up the fleshy background of the artwork. He's employing his paranormal snoot in sniffin' up the evil creatures-- manifestations of the malodorous-- generated by the stinky souls of the cigars below, to entrap them in the prison of his netherwordly nostrils. The lit cigar is bookended by a box of tissues, with just a hint of blotted up blood, and an old copy of the arcane grimoire "Les Prophecies de Nosetremendous." Which, in fact, the Fearsmeller possesses: a Nose Tremendous.

The first story arc was "Stop Making Scents," a nod to the Talking Heads (Heads? Nod?) in which the spirit of the Fearsmeller is invoked to combat the preternatural Rigoletto of Raunchy Odor: Mephitis. The next story-- Mephitis miasmic revenge-- was "It Reeks for Thee."

And the graphic, of course, is in the tradition of Dave McKean's Sandman covers. Check 'em out (Google images, right now! keywords McKean and Sandman,) they're magnificent and masterpieces.

Olafactory... ?

Hey! Olaf Factory?

Does that smell funny to you?

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February 24th, 2013