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**FULL VIEW PLEASE**...locked in a cage of morphine.
My statement on medicated America.
(graphite on 24"x38" illustration board)
Original for sale- $40
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macabre à souhait !! pour ma part , je suis fan
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Merci pour le compliment
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oh GOD... i love this! i love your lines. i like how its reacting on my brain. yeah... i love it... yum.
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Aw see I don't like the lines. I wish i could abandon the linework in this piece.
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oh... but i love the lines. but that's just me. i'v got a weird fascination for wires and lines and intertwined stuff. tis just my brain. but that's why i'm sooo loving the lines. specially the outline on her!
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Well see, I wanted to make it look more art nouveau. Instead it just looks like i broke a stylized mirror in the background
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oh i so want to study art nouveau my self!! i loved that art! and yes, now that you mention it, its got that in it. maybe a few more elements from that genre would help?
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yeah the biggest element i could actually still add is a grey silhouette of an arched window in the background... come to think of it, i should really add that
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that would certainly add to the flavour. but first try it in photoshop to see how it looks.
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great job! creepy work, but very good details and shading to it
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flame.
try this same thing with darker colors!
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I see the need for the full view! Indeed!
I thought it was cool from a distance... but to notice the words and phrases in the 'halo' around the head make the picture! Great. Prolly one of the better grayish things I've seen. The grays work great. Great theme too.
Sometimes people gotta be reminded about all the nastiness they let escape from their heads.
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Thank you for using full view. I have a hard time with black and white art because it limits me. This piece was very time consuming and I appreciate the positive feedback.
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I'm glad to be of help! Positive feedback is better than any sort of negative kind!
Limits in art can enhance one's creativity. I find black and white to be interesting and challenging, because in its own way, it suggests more in the head of the person viewing it. I've heard of people suggesting that perhaps that the shadow of detail hidden behind thick blobs of line and black is just as or perhaps more interesting. That absence of detail, lets the imagination of the viewer come into play.
Maybe I'm just ranting.
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Yep. Thatsa me. Ranting.
Oh well.
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Ha ha there's nothing wrong with that. Some of the best social commentary comes from rants
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You are very welcome.
Peace:
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I get what you're saying, but most of the time (to my knowledge) people only get those medications because they have chronic ailments- not because of temporary ones.
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I don't have specific examples or anything, it's just that psychologists don't perscribe anti-depressants to people who have been having a "bad week", and I'm pretty sure people, in turn, don't go out to get anti-depressants after having said "bad week".
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It's not human nature.
If people DO have a problem, they will fix it (if they feel the motivation to).
If they don't feel that they have a problem, they won't.
It's all up to one's opinion whether the problem exsists or not, and you can't exactly be one to judge, as an outside source anyway.
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I'm just asking questions. No need to assume what my rights are on this topic.
Now for my answer. I was always put into therapy as a child because even as a child I was creating macabre art much like this. My teachers, even the parents of the few friends I had, thought I desperately needed help. No one wanted to believe that maybe I was just a little different. I was diagnosed with chronic depression 2 years ago. I have not taken a single medication and I have managed to live a normal life. In other words the point I am getting at is people use medications as crutches.
Now, a good freind who lived down the street from me took a different path. She was diagnosed with ADD and decided to take aderol on a daily basis. She can't even function without it now and all she does is talk about how much she loved her meds because they make her feel better and if she forgets things she uses her ADD as an excuse.
I have several other examples if you would like to hear them. Everyone has problems. People shouldn't need meds because they can't pay attention in class or at work or because they feel glum all day. I have problems, but I take care of mine the same way people did for thousands of years before meds took place.
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I'm more of a "Whatever floats your boat" kind of girl, but you're right, in a sence.
But I'll just agree to disagree for this one, seeing as it's the art that counts on this site.
You do have amazing art, by the way.
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Thank you. I appreciate hearing your opinion.
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Especially when there's some people who actually need medication to stay alive. When I was in the hospital I was fed way too many medications, many of which I didn't even know what they were. The morphine was the worst. It locked me in a sort of dreamy state where nothing was real and everything was incorporeal, like a dream. That's not natural and I hate that feeling. Off the meds I've never felt so good, so alive.
So human.
I really like the anatomy on its back, what with the stitch line all the way down. Looks emaciated and sick. I like that.
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Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.
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You heard of Rozz Williams? He was more known for his music than his art, but this piece reminds me a lil of his work.
I disagree with your comment to some extent. Drugs, both prescription and recreational have helped me become the person I am today - and I am very happy with this person. Though, there is a fine line between using them and abusing them.
Nice art though.
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"Much of today's American society is made up of people who take medications, MANY of which take them for problems they don't even have."
I don't generalize. Thank you though.
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Oh wow. Love what you did with the background.
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I like your idea of combining different pattern for this project. it's a very expressive work but also it's distrubing to me because of the huge scar on her back and her thin body.
great drawing
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Disturbing was my goal. I'm glad you feel that way 
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I like this. Its a unusual change from the neon pencils. I know what you mean about the shading taking long. What did you use to smudge it?
And I agree about the med thing. I do take anti-depressants, but it was a very hard choice to make. I feel better now in the since that my chemical imbalance is not as bad now, making me feel more human than I did before. Before I felt like the drone trying to imitate emotions 
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Yeah, I'm impressed that you agree with me despite the fact that you take medications. I've never been to a doctor to have myself checked out because I know without a doubt that they would diagnose me with bipolar disorder. I don't want to have to deal with getting a self induced personality crisis. Though to be honest, my main issue is people that are addicted to pain killers like vikodin and oxycotin. Too many of my friend have claimed that they quit being drug addicts but they just replaced one drug with another.. It sucks because I'm the only one I know in real life who has been clean for over a year now. It really sucks when you have to watch your best friend, who had a kid at 18, spending all her rent money on oxycotin
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Yes, I know what you mean. I only started the medication because it wouldn't change me in a bad way, and because I would be dead with out it. My mother is bi polar, its a hard thing to deal with. She was put through every treatment developed through the 70's and 80's until on doctor final said they are all wrong, you only need one form of treatment, she as been on the same medication(Lithium) for 15 years with no problems, she went from being abusive/homicidal, to being normal so to speak.
My friend self medicates. I hate that, always spending all her money on painkillers, the doctors in the city started refusing her. Its sad really.
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Ugh that scares me... though despite the obvious resistance to meds in this piece I've thought very frequently about swallowing my pride and at least seeing what taking meds is like. What I fear most is that they would change my art.
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Yes that is my one regret. As much as I don't punch the walls till I bleed or smash my head till I black out anymore, I have lost my patients to sit and work on my traditional arts. It was the same for my mother. Really goes to the theory of great artist must suffer for their arts. I miss my drawing but I found peace in photography and look forward to getting a new camera since there is now light at the end of my tunnel. Also I have been working more on my digital arts too which I have always loved just as much.
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Mmm... I still punch walls till my knuckles bleed... It's fun drawing with a fist of FIRE.
Speaking of which, this subject reminds me a lot of the daily deviation i suggested that got featured today. It completely relates to this subject and it was accepted! You should go check it out. It's the one with the guy holding the axe ^-^
Regardless, if being happy comes at the expense of losing my motivation to work on art, I'd have to pass. I kind of need that for my college major :/
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I will check it out.
Thats your choice. The only reason why I started my meds was for my daughter. I didnt want her growing up with a crazy/abusive mother.
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heh i dont ever want kids so i guess im safe there.
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