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DragonwolfRooke — Don't Look In Their Eyes
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Published: 2018-10-29 04:29:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1313; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 1
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“If you can reach it, the best stuff is down deep, in the secret places left by the humans. You’re small, kid, just zip in, fill the bag, zip out. Oh, and don’t look in their eyes.”“In whose eyes?”
“The turtles, kid! Jeez keep up.”
Happy Halloween! This is an illustration from a story of mine - Little Dogs, a story about memory and legacy. And dog-people, like Marco here, the main character who is an homage to my late-great dog. I'm having a lot of fun designing it - even storyboarding a scene or two from it for my portfolio. This particular piece is for a class assignment to do an analogous piece (the 3 colors being yellow/green, green, and blue/green.) Color palette stuff is fun!
Fun story, this piece is based vaguely off of a weird dream I had. I was wandering the halls and rooms of this building, where the walls and ceiling were covered in plants, flowers, and turtles. I was trying to find a friend of mine, but the longer I stayed in there the more I started to forget myself and all my memories. So when I painted this piece I wanted to cover the walls and floor in creepy stare-y turtles that steal your memories. Heh.
Pro tip for anyone in art classes - at any opportunity you can, when an assignment permits, do something you can either sell (like fanart) or put in your portfolio. Kill two birds with one stone!
Little Dogs and Art (C) Me
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This is really cool. I really like the atmosphere here. The moss and overgrown flora really give a sense of age and history. I really like it!
(P.s. Sorry for asking, but how do you copyright your own original artwork? I want to upload some stuff like character/story but I'm afraid of theft and the like. I don't know.)
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Well, I'm sure there are legal recourses you can take to officially patent your work as your own intellectual property. But I haven't yet needed to do that.
The reality is, don't worry about art theft. If someone steals your work and claims it's their's...then...what? They can't sustainably create a following off of your artwork because YOU are making the artwork.
There is risk of your art getting stolen by dumb internet trolls. But the benefits of posting your work FAR outweighs any risk. Posting what you create helps you to get feedback and improve. It also helps you to develop habits of posting that will serve you extremely well when you get the networking stage in a professional career - when I got to college, I was stunned by how many of my fellow students NEVER posted any of their art! They were too shy or too worried about theft or the like. But if you never post your stuff, no one will know about it!
A note also on the importance of posting your stuff and getting into that habit now? I know people - SEVERAL people - who were art students, networking here and there, but they kept tumblrs or instagrams where they posted their work. And professionals, in the entertainment industry, found their stuff that they had posted. And called them. And offered them jobs. One of them worked on major animated films for the company that made Song of the Sea. And another got an internship at Pixar. Because they posted their work.
Don't let trolls scare you into denying the world what you have to offer!
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Thank you very much! I'll do my best.
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There's just something beautifully eerie about this that reminds me of this comic:
youtu.be/xLUDWE5ulZU
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Wow, I love the concept! It's so unsettling and creepy... I'd love to read your book, it sounds like it plays with some really cool ideas!
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This seems like an interesting story. I'd love to read more about it whenever you get it worked out.
And that dream sounds scary as heck. Did you ever find your friend, or did you wake up after losing too much of yourself?
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The dream actually had a rather wholesome end! I found my friend, but they'd forgotten who they were and wouldn't come with - and I was getting all frustrated and scared - but then I started singing hymns that I knew, and all the memories came flooding back, and my friend remembered, and we got out of there. 
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Never underestimate the power of music. A good song has a way of etching itself into your very soul, so that a long forgotten tune springs to the forefront of your mind and unto your lips after you've heard only a few notes of the tune.
You'd be surprised how many songs I suddenly remember after who knows how long after just hearing the first 3 notes or so.XD
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That is just so spooky. It feels like nothing's gone wrong... yet.
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This is so cool! I look forward to more of Little Dogs. It sounds like a beautiful story, my friend.
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Oh man, Rooke this is amazing and I'm intrigued!!
I love the colours you used it gives a really mysterious vibe to it!
And my interest is piqued with the knowledge of these dog people!
I love how you drew the turtles!
Gosh I wouldn't want to look in their eyes either!
be careful little guy! <3
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I really like how you did the background ~ so much character with all the moss and those turtles crawling about! And the backlight makes Marco really pop off the screen ~ fantastic work!
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Gosh, this is just gorgeous and creepy. What an awesome blend, and it sounds like an intriguing story, too <3
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