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Published: 2009-09-06 16:11:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 14314; Favourites: 453; Downloads: 399
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Description Four seasons or four minutes? Waiting for buses can feel like an eternity.

(Download for a slightly higher res version)

Always feel free to view on my site as well: 2D Forever

This came about from many different ideas, but mostly after travelling to a remote part of Scotland, where buses come every two and half hours... And true to Scottsh weather, it went through rain/sun cycles every five minutes.

Wanting to do something with seasons I visited an old image and expanded on it. It felt quite daunting to do at the beginning (as do a lot of images recently...) so I thought I'd go the quicker route of big and (dirty?) fun outlines.

For some reason I keep telling myself pictures are better without outlines, but in reality the imapct is still here, if not more with them. I'm constantly having to remind myself what I personally find appealing in my and other peoples illustrations rather than worrying about how technically good it might be.

Lesson learnt.
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Comments: 46

Poes-crow [2012-06-14 06:19:23 +0000 UTC]

awesomeness

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VladmiesserDiVisker [2011-12-29 07:41:55 +0000 UTC]

Waiting for any public transport can feel like waiting forever I really love this, though, the colours are great and the detail you put into this is wonderful

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gersangalang [2011-09-14 07:18:34 +0000 UTC]

[link]

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2dforever In reply to gersangalang [2011-09-14 08:03:16 +0000 UTC]

Umm, thanks for the link??
(Was that link intentional?)

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ozlemkral [2011-05-11 12:17:15 +0000 UTC]

harika, harika, harika..

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kyujinueno [2011-04-03 05:09:49 +0000 UTC]

Revisited this. Still cracks me up.

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RobinSandza [2011-03-03 18:10:16 +0000 UTC]

GREAT!!!

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Mimuffet [2010-12-27 20:39:05 +0000 UTC]

This is just so very true to how it feels waiting for the bus all the time! Brilliant!

And the last panel totally threw me for a loop. Cracked me up. Great stuff. ^^

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Koriandr-star [2010-11-20 20:46:03 +0000 UTC]

Simple concept that sends off a related theme to just about everyone in the world, idea of waiting for a bus seems to take forever. Not that it's a new statement but the beautiful colouring and how the character looks almost an adaptation of real life person(s) of both appearance and fashion makes this a eye catching image.

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2dforever In reply to Koriandr-star [2010-11-24 13:30:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for such a nice and well thought out comment. It's people like you who keep me coming back to DA

As you mentioned fashion in particular, I gotta admit I was inspired by my girlfriends choice of clothing here! I'm really glad you think the image is eye catching, thanks.

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LaDerelict [2010-09-05 07:39:44 +0000 UTC]

just gorgeous

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Kuzunari [2010-08-05 23:01:57 +0000 UTC]

I will keep what you've said in mind a nice lesson to share.

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BedouinRenegade [2010-06-23 05:23:16 +0000 UTC]

i like how you've rendered this piece.

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2dforever In reply to BedouinRenegade [2010-07-03 20:10:24 +0000 UTC]

Thank you The seasons itself led to the rendering

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cyink [2010-06-19 18:43:51 +0000 UTC]

genius!

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2dforever In reply to cyink [2010-07-03 20:11:21 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! But it all just came about from thinking about seasons Says something for simple ideas maybe...

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AngelusNoir [2010-01-28 09:26:15 +0000 UTC]

THIS is why I carry a sketchbook everywhere,otherwise I would look this tragic every day!!I can SO relate to this!!Victorian weather is exactly like this.....I carry a backpack with everything from sunglasses to umbrella
I love the way you get the sense she is welded to the seat,while the weather happily cycles around her!!

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2dforever In reply to AngelusNoir [2010-01-29 23:15:33 +0000 UTC]

Haha! Turns out there's quite a few places in the world that fit to this weather then But we all love to moan about the weather

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AngelusNoir In reply to 2dforever [2010-01-30 00:10:44 +0000 UTC]

..it gives 99% of the population something to talk about?

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Petitecreme [2009-11-15 10:32:40 +0000 UTC]

I really love this. You should make a wallpaper out of this.

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2dforever In reply to Petitecreme [2009-11-16 23:17:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for all the kind comments A wallpaper could work, it'll just have to be cropped a bit on each cell to make it wider! Maybe one day...

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dH3s1 [2009-09-14 00:49:01 +0000 UTC]

This has made my day.

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Reinhart-31 [2009-09-08 13:18:17 +0000 UTC]

almost warhol-ish XD

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AKAartist [2009-09-08 03:38:03 +0000 UTC]

Do you live in Washington? That is EXACTLY how the weather is here! (quite literally have had all of that in one day) As for the picture itself... it's amazing, I love it The winter one is my fav.

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2dforever In reply to AKAartist [2009-09-08 11:50:53 +0000 UTC]

Haha, no I'm from the UK -- but I know the weather around you is pretty reminiscent of the UK at times...

Thanks for the nice comment, glad you liked it!

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masoot [2009-09-07 00:04:57 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic, I love the color and outfit changes

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2dforever In reply to masoot [2009-09-08 11:51:14 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou the outfits were surprisingly fun to do

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KanashiGD [2009-09-06 21:34:57 +0000 UTC]

I like the simple changes in color which represent the weather in clarity.

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2dforever In reply to KanashiGD [2009-09-08 11:52:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you I wanted to keep the background as simple as possible and simple colour seemed to be the best answer. Many thanks!

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CNZ19 [2009-09-06 19:08:41 +0000 UTC]

A wonderful piece of art...I've put it directly to my favourites! Thank you for sharing

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2dforever In reply to CNZ19 [2009-09-08 11:53:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it

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Kittyillustrations [2009-09-06 17:42:23 +0000 UTC]

the weather in the UK is that messed up XD i love the "werid weather today" that cracked me up

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2dforever In reply to Kittyillustrations [2009-09-08 11:54:26 +0000 UTC]

We have some crappy weird weather, don't we? Still, the weather often inspires me, so I can't complain!

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Kittyillustrations In reply to 2dforever [2009-09-08 11:56:05 +0000 UTC]

only bad thing with the weather for me is when its too cold i cant draw due to my joints killing me from the cold XD man i sound so old lmao

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Nanashi-Gumnaam [2009-09-06 17:33:24 +0000 UTC]

I love how she has the perfect change of clothing for each of those four minutes

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2dforever In reply to Nanashi-Gumnaam [2009-09-08 11:55:37 +0000 UTC]

...she's a girl! Girls come prepared
I was going to make it so it could of been possible to have all those clothes in bags next to her or something, but I preferred it to be more random like it is!

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Nanashi-Gumnaam In reply to 2dforever [2009-09-08 20:55:06 +0000 UTC]

It works better like this

Nice job

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shimmyshammy [2009-09-06 17:26:32 +0000 UTC]

This piece continues to demonstrate how you keep your talent fresh by approaching different concepts and formats rather than sticking to the same thing. In this little four panel comic you express how you understand the alteration and saturation of colour through the different seasons expressed. Seeing the same scene expressed through different settings is a nice touch and i feel it allows us to see how you can change the language by simply altering the colour without changing the foreground too much to demonstrate what going on.

Keep it up.

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2dforever In reply to shimmyshammy [2009-09-08 11:57:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you In reality it was more looking back at what I used to do rather than something 100% new, but it was really nice to do something different like you said.

I'm really glad you picked up on the simplicity of the colour changes too. That was very intentional to keep as clutter free as possible! Many thanks as always.

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shimmyshammy In reply to 2dforever [2009-09-11 10:22:56 +0000 UTC]

Your quite welcome and please keep up the great work.

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Timmie56 [2009-09-06 17:12:08 +0000 UTC]

As ever, fantastic work and great detail!

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2dforever In reply to Timmie56 [2009-09-08 11:58:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Make sure to use the download link for bigger version too in case you missed it

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Inkovic [2009-09-06 16:54:22 +0000 UTC]

I really love this

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luv-me-2maro [2009-09-06 16:21:54 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha that last panel cracked me up!!

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2dforever In reply to luv-me-2maro [2009-09-08 11:59:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you It's not exactly a huge joke, but slightly worried it'll be lost on some people – glad it passed!

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JuartLittle [2009-09-06 16:15:11 +0000 UTC]

really nice man

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