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"I am Despair.
My reach is long
and my grip strong.
My weight will crush
all those who oppose me."

Since this is the first time I've done anything with digital painting, this took far longer than I expected it to. So it's... sort of a speedpaint. Minus the speed part. It's all on one layer, though! (Except the background, on accident) I've discovered a new love for the Smudge tool. Yes, indeed.

Um... so this... thing... was a dream for a while. It would start out in the distance and gradually get closer. I would never see it move, but it would slowly and surely close in. It looked ominous and putrid and dead - very disturbing, to be honest. But the most upsetting thing about it was that I would periodically wake myself up and drift back to sleep... only to have it waiting for me in my dreams. Needless to say, I slept very poorly those couple nights.

The verse at the top is something that just popped into my head as I sketched it the next day. (original sketch for the interested)

I used a lot of brushes with this piece. A big thanks to the brush artists here!

Grunge Brush A by ~Metal-CX
Grunge Brush B by ~thppt-stock
Grunge Brush C by ~10grams-stock

Time taken: about 5 hours? (Speedpaint my ASS)
Photoshop CS3 w/ Wacom tablet
Fueled by jelly beans. No, really. The juicy pear ones are the best.

Stay tuned - more Nightmares to come~

Description
"I am Despair.
My reach is long
and my grip strong.
My weight will crush
all those who oppose me."

Since this is the first time I've done anything with digital painting, this took far longer than I expected it to. So it's... sort of a speedpaint. Minus the speed part. It's all on one layer, though! (Except the background, on accident) I've discovered a new love for the Smudge tool. Yes, indeed.

Um... so this... thing... was a dream for a while. It would start out in the distance and gradually get closer. I would never see it move, but it would slowly and surely close in. It looked ominous and putrid and dead - very disturbing, to be honest. But the most upsetting thing about it was that I would periodically wake myself up and drift back to sleep... only to have it waiting for me in my dreams. Needless to say, I slept very poorly those couple nights.

The verse at the top is something that just popped into my head as I sketched it the next day. (original sketch for the interested)

I used a lot of brushes with this piece. A big thanks to the brush artists here!

Grunge Brush A by ~Metal-CX
Grunge Brush B by ~thppt-stock
Grunge Brush C by ~10grams-stock

Time taken: about 5 hours? (Speedpaint my ASS)
Photoshop CS3 w/ Wacom tablet
Fueled by jelly beans. No, really. The juicy pear ones are the best.

Stay tuned - more Nightmares to come~