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Published: 2004-08-29 03:06:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1762; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 411
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An idle doodle of a woman with a snake turned into the Judeo-Christian manifestation of the Dark Feminine Principle. This... happens.Text from various Kabbalistic sources.
AI10, nothing remarkable about the technique.
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Spiffers. The background is also neat, but so subtle that you have to avert your eyes completely to notice it.
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Such a rich history of myths there are.... And yes, the feminine has been so demonized in the last 3,000 years of patriarchal domination. Many seem so unaware of the pervasive, continued onslaught of negative messages toward the feminine... Wonderful job! 
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Gorgeous work, as always -
I like the spotty shadowing between her breasts.
-K!
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wow amazing how you produce suck 3D pics with only a handful of colour, spectacular!
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Beautiful work. I like that she's long and twisty like the snake.
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I like the way you did her eyes, and how well you use three (sort of four because of the lighter green on the background) colors only for the whole thing. I like also the delicacy of those lighter green lines in the background.
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excellent excellent excellent! the text definitely gives it more meaning. she's also very pretty.
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a, her description fits so perfectly the snake and apple tree 
I'm gonna shut up completely about torso lenght, because proportions has no place in my art either. And who cares? It's art, and therefore... artificial. I dunno. I like it like this
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The snake had three eyes i my original sketch. I don't know why. I don't ask why. I just go with it.
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three eyes sounds cool!
(don't listen to me, I am in insomniac mode)
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That's awesome I like the cut-out look with the simple few colors. That snake is swesome!
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I love how the serpent gets a halo, too.
To be honest, her twisted torso looks more as if she's part of the snake. Seriously, her ass looks so congruous to the snakecoil around her hips it looks almost more like part of the serpent than her. (snake bum, hehe) I like it...makes them almost seem symbiotic.
I think Dark Feminine principal is so interesting because, maybe, it's feminine within a female's terms. It's not defined by "girlish" or "ladylike" behaviour, but nor is it defined by spurning it and everyone burning their bras, so to speak. Kinda like the reality that exists between the two mythical poles of Madonna and Whore.
I love her eyes, too. They feel almost misleadingly doe-like.
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Well, of course the snake gets a halo! If it's THE Serpent, that means it's Lucifer in disguise. Or perhaps it's also another aspect of Lilith; it seems that in some variants of the Eden myth Lilith = Serpent != Lucifer. Maybe. Either way, it's burning with divine majesty... it seemed wrong for it not to have one.
Good point on the attraction of Dark Feminine. Womanhood that exists outside of what men want to define it as. Not thinking quite the same way, not acting on the same planes, moving on aims that don't always quite make sense to male thought patterns, holding and wielding different kinds of power. For creation and destruction - see Kali!
As to the doe-eyes... well, Lilith is pretty much the Queen Mother Succubus. Or an unabashedly sensual manifestation of the DFP if you try to peel off the demonization that Christianity applies to mirrors of other dieties.
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oh my god! this is amazing!! you are really a great vector artist! well done!
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This is pretty cool, I dig what you did with the typography in the background. Real subtle. I like the spider-eyed snake too. Weird.
Only thing I find a little weird is the shading on her torso which is real smooth and clean whereas the shading on her neck and chest is pointilated, especially on her chest.
All in all, a solid piece!
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The spiralling text is taken from a ritual of invocation for Her. I am the daughter of Fortitude and ravished every hour from my youth. For behold, I am Understanding, and science dwelleth in me...
Partially scaly, partially not. Woman Serpent Alien Seductive Holy Dangerous.
"My little nest of vipers" as Basil Fawlty spat at his wife in one episode of Fawlty Towers.
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This piece has a nice mix of complexity (the font, the snake's skin, and the background) and simplicity. As for the critisism, all I can say is that her body looks a little too twisted up. (As in her body looks like its in a slightly uncomfortable position.) Other than that, I don't see much in the way of quirks that might need to be adjusted or taken note of in future pictures...
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Extreme torsion is one of the hallmarks of my work.
Seriously - browse through my backlog and you'll find that a significant percentage of the figures I draw have their torso at a just-impossible angle to the hips. In fact, in this one, the hips were originally turned towards the viewer, but that strong diagonal in the body told me they needed to go the other way.
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Despite the fact that I've been through your gallery several times, I failed to notice that. Strange. I'll keep that in mind before attempting to come up with any sort of critisism.
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It is a bit extreme in this case. *shrug* I hadn't even really intended to do anything with this when I drew it something like four months ago, but it leaped out of my sketchbook last week. Her lower body was a bit undefined in the rough; I probably should've worked it out a little more on paper or in overlays in AI, but, well... when you've got a goddess demanding to be rendered, sometimes you don't have time for finess. *grin* (Decide for yourself how metaphorical that is.)
The thing about 'desired level of comments' is some new DA feature where you can tell people if you want them to rip into it or not; I just left it at the default.
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I really like this alot! but just a polite lil critical comment: Her torso looks a lil too long.
Great Job!
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Hm, you're right.
I will claim that it's because she's, you know, also maybe the Serpent in some readings of the whole Eden/Fall myth, so she's, you know, long and snaky. Since I did use a little of the same scaly-impression shading method on her body as the snake... but realistically it's because I turned the ass around compared to the original pencil sketch, and because I tend to play fast and loose with proportion.
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Still a fabulous piece I wouldn't change a thing!
(but thats just cause I'm a procrastinater and it'd never get done) lol
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Wow, that's beautiful. I love your style, it has sort of a femme fatal art nouveau flavour, and nice and graphic. That text looks nice aesthetically, and is so intriguing. Lilith is such an interesting arcitype!
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