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My failed attempt at something French inspired...Story of a girl who always posts sticky-notes everywhere she goes...
apparently she reflects my failure at expressing anything verbally... and artistically...
and Corel Painter was being a pain at loading large files ="=
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a very time consuming picture
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Comments: 15
I adore this style! It's so charming and whimsical, but you still managed to capture that simple feeling of lonesomeness. It reminds me of an illustration for an independent animation somehow; it makes me want to know more about the character.
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"It is there that I..."
Is that what the note says? Anyways, this is a rather nice style; it makes me think of a storybook. But for some reason, the city strikes me more as being in England or Ireland Might be all the green I get a feeling of gloominess and indifference from the city and the people except for the girl.
A little thing that stood out to me is that the car looks like it's driving on the left side of the road; in France they actually also drive on the right you can ignore that last one if it really is on the right side of the road; I might have confused my right with my left somehow... orz The only other thing that seems to bug me is that her glasses she is wearing glasses, right? don't have the bridge or whatever you call that piece that sits on your nose. It's a little thing, but something that stood out to me.
But overall, very nice picture! *Sort of wants to see this in a storybook now*
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AHHH now that you mentioned it, I totally ignored the common sense factors OTL ok i need to fix that glasses and the car .. (or we can just pretend that it's a one way street XD )
the note's supposed to say "this is where i..." pardon me if it's wrong because I just used Google Translation
thank you so much for the comment ;w;
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Yeah, Google translate tends to go for a more literal meaning rather than the human or grammatically correct >_< meaning. "C'est ici que je..." might work better, but it literally translates as "It is here that I..." French is another language that not everything can translate over well in a literal sense; sometimes the "feeling" of a sentence or phrase has to be considered rather than the literal meaning in order for it to have a similar meaning in English. Adding to that mess are idioms... Ack! Sorry for the rant, but this is one of my biggest pet peeves with most online translators, not just Google translate. Sometimes you've got to have a bit of a basis in the language you're entering in for translation just to be sure it's correct!
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well I think all language cannot be literally translated at all, but, i mean, not everyone knows the language if he/she wants to us it so using the translator is the only way. I'm very aware that translator will give me weird translation, but I don't know anyone to clarify it for me 
haha it's fine I'm glad that you're here to help with the translation. I really appreciate it XD
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I don't think its a failed attempt since some parts do remind of of that uh French-design style? XD
You chose very nice colors that match well together and the yellow of the note and the girl make them pop out from the rest of the piece. The green lanterns are AWESOME. I love that color and I also like how they draw you back into the fading city. This looks like it could be an illustration in a book because of the great quality
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thank you so much for the comment ;w; I really appreciate it
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