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Ashelflaed — Auburn Compulsion

Published: 2006-12-30 02:29:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1419; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 14
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Description A companion piece to this one (sort of), this is once again part of a much larger painting (*sweatdrop*) that is as of yet incompleted. Joy.

My rendition of Compulsion, one of The Three (a trio of goddess-like figures) from my novel Destinée de la Lionne via my pathetic description of her:

The second one, a slightly shorter woman, reached out to brush the first’s elbow, her hair the color of ripe chestnut hearts, falling in wispy curls around a heart-shaped face, a short silver and green cape wrapped around her upper body over a paler dress of soft turquoise silk. Where Fate was a dark-touched shadow, an unearthly beautiful being – fey, almost, this younger woman was not. There was an earthy feel to her, a living feel to her.

She looked like a song, or maybe a cat. Not that there was much difference.

Eh, a fairly important character, Compulsion tends to hold herself apart from her sisters' (Fate and Destiny) constantly waging wars; thus the symbolic color of her hair - auburn/brown, a color somewhat inbetween the black of Fate and the white of Destiny. Once again, The Three are neither good nor bad.

Brown hair....blargh....it looks more like a blackish auburn than brown...I can't paint brown hair to save my life.

Yes her eyes are demented; I'll probably redo them at least once before the end; although I still have to repaint Destiny *choke* and edit the rest of the painting....gods help me.

Once more, the background is filler space, due to my uncanny inability to post anything without one. Joy.

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"Compulsion" character (c) Me
Image (c) Me
Destinee de la Lionne (c) ME! PAWS OFF!!
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Tools used: Wacom Tablet, Adobe Photoshop CS, Patience
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Comments: 5

Element-Girls [2007-01-03 13:36:41 +0000 UTC]

ohhh i love her eyes!!! and her hair almost looks like mine!!!

-Liz

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Fantasydreamer1004 [2006-12-30 07:09:00 +0000 UTC]

purple eyes? UBER KAWAI! <3

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Yuskity [2006-12-30 03:26:41 +0000 UTC]

What do you mean? I love her eyes! And her hair is perfectly marvelous...a few weeks ago, you were saying the same thing about black hair, weren't you?
And yay--another picture of the Three...are you going to post Destiny? She's the most important one, right? After all, the novel's named after her. Sort of. *wink*

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Ashelflaed In reply to Yuskity [2006-12-30 05:32:08 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, fine, I'll leave them...for now...*mysterious look* her hair isn't fit to wash potatoes with, and you know it besides, I found a new style of painting black hair ^_~ maybe I'll get lucky with brown hair too...who knows?

^-^ hehe, they would be happy to see that someone likes them. As for Destiny...well, I'll stick her up after I get a decent picture painted of her. I really have to redo the one I have now...

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Yuskity In reply to Ashelflaed [2006-12-30 23:32:01 +0000 UTC]

But then, I've realized that black hair is hard when you don't want to only use black and white. Real black hair (like the kind I have) actually gets bleached near the ends--especially if it's long, 'cause that means it's been around a while, and sun and shampoo can do that to hair. So, it may be jet-black near the roots, but at the tips, or whenever the sun strikes it a certain way, it turns kind of russet red. I've experimented with different styles, but I never seem to quite capture that color mix effectively.

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