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Dahkur — ... to lose my mind and find my soul

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Published: 2018-01-19 09:09:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1293; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 0
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Description What I so love about Star Trek Discovery (apart that it is the first TV series in about 2 decades that "glues" me to the screen) is the way the passion for the series and the characters pushes me onwards art wise. I feel like I improved my way of painting quite a lot since I started painting for this series and got a better grip on the digital medium. This piece now is the first time I tried to bring my own emotions into a painting (not only the emotions of the charas like I normally do).

Reference: Screenshots from the episodes "si pacem vis para bellum" and "despite yourself"
Painted with Corel Painter 2016

Star Trek Discovery (c) CBS
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Comments: 19

the-skeletal13 [2018-03-05 21:38:40 +0000 UTC]

This is really great.  You brought back a lot of emotion from that part of the series.

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Dahkur In reply to the-skeletal13 [2018-03-06 10:50:09 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad to hear that. Cause somehow emotionally I'm stuck in that part of the series, so I had to get my emotions into a painting.

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Damon1984 [2018-02-10 16:36:01 +0000 UTC]

*klirr* Die sieben Jahre Pech hört man dem Bild regelrecht an. Die Bruch-Effekte sind auch das, was mich hier am meisten begeistert, das sieht - einmal mehr - richtig echt aus. Ich kenne jetzt den genauen chronologischen Ablauf der Ereignisse nicht, aber das Motiv ist wohl in mehrfacher Hinsicht zu deuten. Das da etwas zerbrochen ist, und eine Anspielung auf das Spiegel-Universum interpretiere ich da jetzt auch mal hinein.
(Hat Stamets tatsächlich weiße Augenbrauen?)

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Dahkur In reply to Damon1984 [2018-02-10 17:23:24 +0000 UTC]

Die Brucheffekte sind erst im zweiten Anlauf entstanden. Ich hatte das Bild anders gemalt, und dann ist mir der PC mit der Arbeit einer Stunde abgeschmiert (ich habe die automatische Speicherfunktion deaktiviert, weil Painter sonst auf meinem Rechner nicht gescheit läuft). Also musste ich einen guten Teil neu malen, und beim zweiten Mal kam mir dann die Idee mit den Splittern. War in dem Fall also gar nicht so schlimm der Datenverlust (auch wenn ich zuerst mal etwas aus dem Fenster werfen wollte).

Zerbrochen ist hier etwas, ja, aber mit dem Spiegeluniversum hat das nichts zu tun. Das ist eine Barriere in Stamets' Bewusstsein, die zerbricht. Er liegt in einer Art Koma und verliert seinen Mann. (das war der Moment, wo mich Discovery dann doch beinahe als Fan eingebüst hätte. Das Bild hier war meine Therapie-Arbeit)

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Vangi [2018-01-25 00:33:58 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful ♥

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Dahkur In reply to Vangi [2018-01-30 08:23:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!  

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AloiInTheSky [2018-01-23 08:13:02 +0000 UTC]

Such raw emotions... Like we could touch a bit of your soul.
*hugs you tightly*
This series certainly speaks to your heart...
*hugs you once more*

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Dahkur In reply to AloiInTheSky [2018-01-30 08:25:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!
This damned series is playing with the souls of a lot of fans at the moment. Imho Star Trek has never been better and never more heart wrenching! I'm still not sure if I should be looking forward to season 2 or not.

Problem with this painting ... it was the first time I got my emotions into - and immediately went into a painter's block afterwards - as if showing my emotions just was too much. Now I'm doing some easy comic style portraits to get out it again.

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AloiInTheSky In reply to Dahkur [2018-01-30 19:21:15 +0000 UTC]

Argh well... Strong emotions are quite the salt of life, aren't they? I hope the good ones were enough to balance the painful ones...

Sometimes we need time to process things...

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AmberMondfisch [2018-01-21 06:40:38 +0000 UTC]

Hab's dir schon auf TN geschrieben, aber doppelt hält besser. Ich bin ein absoluter Fan von deiner Liebe für Details und die kommt hier gerade wieder sehr gut zum Ausdruck bei Stamets Augenpartie und der Hand. Ein wundervolles, emotionales Bild. Ich mag mir gar nicht vorstellen, wie du grade durch die Serie leidest.  

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Dahkur In reply to AmberMondfisch [2018-01-22 13:05:11 +0000 UTC]

Es ist gerade eine ganz fürchterliche Achterbahnfahrt. Aber ich hab das verdammte Glück, dass ich einige Mitleidende gefunden habe. Wir trösten uns gerade gegenseitig.

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QueerTrekker [2018-01-21 02:37:40 +0000 UTC]

Love the pic! great emotion!

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Dahkur In reply to QueerTrekker [2018-01-22 13:04:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! It is the first painting where I was able to bring some of my emotions into it. I think, I never did this before.

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QueerTrekker In reply to Dahkur [2018-01-22 17:53:39 +0000 UTC]

Well it turned out really well so no worries.

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Dahkur In reply to QueerTrekker [2018-01-22 17:58:19 +0000 UTC]

 I have no worries, cause emotions is what I'm striving to do. This is the first time, so this is definitely my personal masterpiece.

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summerartistart [2018-01-19 15:31:28 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful! Your Discovery art definitely has a lot of passion to it. You can tell that you really enjoy it.  

Well used effects! It really adds something extra to the piece. Lovely blue and pink harmony too.

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Dahkur In reply to summerartistart [2018-01-19 22:27:13 +0000 UTC]

To borrow Tilly's words - feel so much feelings with this show. It really is astounding. It pushes me into realms where I didn't want to be pushed into. But once there I realise that it helps me to get better. I hope I can keep that impetus once the season ends and there will be a year without Discovery.

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sumenya [2018-01-19 09:12:58 +0000 UTC]

i love this piece so much!! the way you painted the skin almost makes it look like it's glowing, i love the idea of the broken glass, and poor stamets in the bottom in so much pain a very sad painting, but great job!

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Dahkur In reply to sumenya [2018-01-19 22:24:52 +0000 UTC]

The glowing is the effect of a luminance layer (thanks to yours truly). I played around with it a bit, and it is really nice tool.
I thought more of a bit positivity in the painting - the layer that starts to splinter is not the loving kiss, but the grey wall that lies over it. So Stamets starts to reach out of the grey prison walls of his mind.

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