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boscaresque — Let it all burn

Published: 2011-12-09 12:14:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 2063; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 8
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Description Fun fact: Painting fire is really fun.

"On April 20, 1861, the day after the riots on Pratt Street, my governor ordered all the bridges leading to Baltimore to be burned. It was then that I knew that there was no escape, no looking back. I stared coldly as the flames that wrought destruction upon my greatest city leapt from my own hands. I think, in that moment, a part of me wanted to be destroyed." [link]

/argh, so emo. haha.

Inspired by the song "Hurricane" by 30 Seconds to Mars. [link] Thanks for making me aware of its existence. It really is perfect for a Civil War setting.

Tell me would you kill to save a life?
Tell me would you kill to prove you're right?
Crash, crash, burn, let it all burn
This hurricane's chasing us all underground.

No matter how many deaths that I die I will never forget
No matter how many lives I live, I will never regret
There is a fire inside and it started a riot about to explode into flames
Where is your god? Where is your god? Where is your god?

Sorry it's MD again. I haven't drawn her in like a month, I feel so deprived.
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Comments: 30

VenomousButterfly [2013-09-11 04:59:30 +0000 UTC]

Wow. This is...amazing. So intense and dark.

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lavilovi12 [2012-01-15 20:22:55 +0000 UTC]

Woah.... That is all kinda of intense!

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boscaresque In reply to lavilovi12 [2012-01-17 03:56:56 +0000 UTC]

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GryGirl8 [2011-12-10 15:26:51 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is just amazing! Seriously, the lighting is great, the fire is so pretty, and she looks just beautiful. And it's educational too, yay!

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boscaresque In reply to GryGirl8 [2011-12-10 19:09:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much.

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Alexander-Rowe [2011-12-10 03:34:31 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, I never knew this about Maryland. So cool how you wrote that bit as if she was talking to us.
But most of all I really like this piece. The lighting is amazing.

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boscaresque In reply to Alexander-Rowe [2011-12-10 10:15:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you much. The lighting was really fun. FIRE! I could paint fire all day. haha.

I'm always curious as to how states remember things. I think I'll do more stuff like that in the future.

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Alexander-Rowe In reply to boscaresque [2011-12-12 03:56:05 +0000 UTC]

Yay I can't wait to see more stuff like this

Urgh fire, I drew it once a while ago. It was a pain to draw orz.

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boscaresque In reply to Alexander-Rowe [2011-12-12 04:07:14 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial is the one I used: [link] I think it's very helpful.

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Alexander-Rowe In reply to boscaresque [2011-12-12 15:31:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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EclecticCalico [2011-12-09 23:28:30 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely gorgeous!!!!

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boscaresque In reply to EclecticCalico [2011-12-09 23:59:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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yesthisismak [2011-12-09 21:45:00 +0000 UTC]

THIS IS AMAZING.
Oh those riots, I attacking the MA regiments eh MD?

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boscaresque In reply to yesthisismak [2011-12-10 00:01:32 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. <3

Of course Massachusetts blames Maryland, while Maryland blames Massachusetts.

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yesthisismak In reply to boscaresque [2011-12-10 00:28:18 +0000 UTC]

MA was just walkin through! /God MA had some bad luck back then eh? SC beating him with a cane, and ~TopazRaven And I have this headcannon that after getting constantly bullied by MA during colonial days, NY finally snapped when they were starting the revolution and shot MA. Kid just can't keep himself out of trouble!

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boscaresque In reply to yesthisismak [2011-12-10 10:13:44 +0000 UTC]

Poor Mass. No one seems to like him, do they? Poor guy.

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yesthisismak In reply to boscaresque [2011-12-10 19:39:47 +0000 UTC]

Meh.
He has the commonwealths and RI!

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boscaresque In reply to yesthisismak [2011-12-11 04:34:30 +0000 UTC]

That is true.

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American-World [2011-12-09 20:21:52 +0000 UTC]

Whole-y Mole-y this is amazing. Fire and brimstone md. amazing job.

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boscaresque In reply to American-World [2011-12-10 00:01:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much.

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American-World In reply to boscaresque [2011-12-10 04:55:00 +0000 UTC]

you are quite welcome!

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TopazRaven [2011-12-09 17:17:17 +0000 UTC]

Duuuuude, this is SO awesome! The fire combined with the look on her face makes this look amazing. No problem with the song by the way, I still listen to it at random moments sometimes. Poor MD though. 0.o

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boscaresque In reply to TopazRaven [2011-12-10 00:03:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

I actually like the version with Kanye West a bit better. Which is weird, because Kanye West tends to make the songs he's in a million times more awkward. (ex. "E.T.")

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TopazRaven In reply to boscaresque [2011-12-10 02:04:11 +0000 UTC]

No problem! Yeah, I like that version of Hurricane better as well. Though I'm not a huge fan of Kanye West for the reasons you listed.

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boscaresque In reply to TopazRaven [2011-12-10 10:10:59 +0000 UTC]

I think the only actual Kanye song I like is "Homecoming." And that's not so much because it's Kanye but because it's a love song to Chicago. [link] Of all people...lmao.

(lmao that video...they censor the word "downtown." Vevo you perv. )

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TopazRaven In reply to boscaresque [2011-12-10 15:16:58 +0000 UTC]

What the hell? Why did they censor downtown? I mean...it doesn't even sound like it was being used in a perverted way so I don't even...

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boscaresque In reply to TopazRaven [2011-12-10 19:12:55 +0000 UTC]

I mean, I guess it could be read in a dirty way, but with the censoring....

thanks censorship, you officially make things worse.

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TopazRaven In reply to boscaresque [2011-12-10 19:47:00 +0000 UTC]

Indeed it does.

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Angeliserrare [2011-12-09 12:51:41 +0000 UTC]

Wow! MD, you had it so rough back then! The split with VA, Baltimore being thrown into a state of chaos, Lincoln making it clear that if you didn't join the Union, he'd make cannon fodder of you. I love that glow you produced for the fire, and that look of rage/pain on Anna's face says it all. I wonder, does she still have any wounds from that time?

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boscaresque In reply to Angeliserrare [2011-12-10 01:04:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I really do love torturing her too much. muhahaha.

Yeah, she does. They have faded a lot over the years, but they're definitely still there. The most prominent ones are on the right side of her stomach, and another on about the same place on her back, both from where she got shot at Antietam. (in a stupidly symbolic coincidence, once from a Union bullet, once from a Confederate bullet) But now she's kind of proud of them, if only to remind her of how far she's come since then.

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