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Can you hear dying butterfly, falling nightmare?[...]
Dying butterfly never dies, never dies.
-Can, "Butterfly"
A nemesis character I play on the same muck Charlotte resides on. Sosael is a mad shard of self-hate and horror.
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I like the main character and the bold colors. The main character seems to have a two-faced aspect. Don't know if that was intentional, but it's a nice effect.
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Very much so. She's insane, and part of this is that her personality is shattered into a million fragments.
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Oh, then do the red lines on her body reflect that? Because if they do, it's a very, very clever design.
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Wow, that is freaky. I think I like the main character best, and the bit of two-faced aspect to the head.
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This arouses my curiousity... I could love it for a flock of reasons. Mostly for its unpredictability - it's very queer, shattered, chaotic. The rage is obvious. I like the name too, it fits...
All the figures are lohovely~. Some of their most sharp-angeld shapes like that front-wrist remind me distantly of a cartoon network style, although I seldom saw it as a kid and can't remember more about that thought, darn. This dementia begins to annoy me..!! *rrhgrunts at self and fixes head a little*
I enjoy details, like spray-painted/ripped paper-edges, and the eyes of the rightside figure. The colours appeal to me, it's so great in the whole... funny... Messy with strange clarity, an unusual thing. Respect yo! Really, it's a sizzling piece. I'll take it to my picture den.
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sweet stuff, lots going on that makes you keep looking at the picture
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one of the most original works i've seen in a while
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This is awesome, I love how all the colors go together.
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very neat design. it's funny--- as i scanned over your gallery pics i thought O a simplistic painter/nice. but at 2nd, 3rd, and 4th looks at -myslef hell- i was impressed and satisfied to find detail after detail. the brown hand reaching out of the foreground, the daggers floating/falling, the chests being opened on the figures to the right anf left, the head being split open in the center. it's packed and a joy to experience (in a twisted sort of way).
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Oh, nice. Its always interesting to see digital art made in illustrator come out with so much motion and natural type randomness in it. Usually things look so clean and so geometric. I also like how she is shredded and two faced and cant seem to hold on to her knives or flowers. Thats exactly how I feel. Dont know whether my knives are flowers...
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It's a very calculated and artificial randomness, for the most part. I mostly use AI for clean, graphic stuff, but sometimes you've just gotta do what the tool's not suited for.
Since doing this image, the character has changed into a slightly saner butterfly, a coldly calculating and foul salamander, and a cryptic spider. Oh, if only there were just two faces to her...
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Yeah I did notice that the randomness was a bit artificial, thats the nature of illustrator, but since you did what the tools not suited for it made it very interesting to look at - that was my main point.
Hahahah nice. Im going to name myself everything nothing. Ive decided to stop counting the faces. Ill just have them all and let them make their mess. Like alice in wonderland. eating the shrinking mushroom and growing mushroom at the same time and seeing what happens. Im tired of this annoying "sanity"
Do you write any poetry? you seem like the kinda person that might have some soulful insight. Im dying for some contrast to the zombies that i dont have to make for myself.
Did you put up the second verson of that? So we get to see the progression?
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Insane ungrammatical flow... Ive noticed theres usually a lot of profound stuff in the states of mind that cause the strange words to come. English isnt meant for these things. I dont think its insane. Its just a matter of bashing the words to fit something they were never designed for. Have you posted your stories anywhere? That would be very interesting to see...
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Sosael-and-all-her-other-names is something that comes out more in text than in drawings; she's one of the roles I play in an obscure little online text RPG. Often, she is poetic in what she says and how she moves; the horror is easier to accept when it's wrapped in obscuring metaphor.
When she's at her best, it's cooperative improvised poetry about mutilations and torture.
Other characters I play there, other masks I wear in that context, can also be poetic. But she's always had this insane ungrammatical flow to her. I don't write poetry in and of itself, that stands alone, but it's one of the ways I tell strange stories with a few strange friends.
There's stuff in my sketchbook, some online - go here and search for "sosael" - some not. But this is the only finished picture of her.
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I could have swore I replied to this one... its not showing though. I think ungramatical speech can sometimes be full of really profound stuff. Do you have any stories up?
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The rules of grammar are like any other rules for creativity: they're there for the breaking!
No, I don't have any stories out in the world, only half-worked-out plots for comics scattered throughout my sketchbooks, and assorted roleplay logs. Though the latter strays into microfiction territory now and then, it's not something I really call "story". Fragments and improv.
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Hehe rules are for breaking 
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Lol I can see how theyd do that too. It has never been that way for me though. Have you got any poetry? Im still curious about this "ungramatical" speech. Actually, I just wrote some lyrics myself, ill send you them for fun. show and tell.
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They don't seem to help much. Just increases expectations.
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This is quite neat. I really love your choice of colors
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fuck yeah thats gorgeous, reminds me of the art style of samurai jack!
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i do believe this is my favorite of your works. i just adore the bold, bright colors and all the angst and horror going on around her. plus she is just a fantastically unique character - anthro emotion! who woulda thunk it? the design is awesome.
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Well, she's also a butterfly. This explains the four arms and the torn-up wings and the antennae, though it does not explain the double-exposure heads in this image.
But mostly that doesn't matter; mostly she's just about hate. The fact that she's a butterfly is pretty much incidental.
Thanks!
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WOW 
I really love your style.... At first, when viewing this pic, I thought "Whoa, it's like (that artist) Shag" then I thought "Nah, it's more like a German expressionist style painting" and then my mind just kpt going, till I just came to the conclusion that it's not any of those things, just freaking awesome. 
GREAT WORK
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Oooh, I love the form of ^whatever-the-fuck-V-B-U-decides-to-call -it*
*the centerpiece
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awsome style, I love this, reminds me of "Secret of Nimf" or-however-the-fuck-you-spell-it for some reason
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You're not the only person to say that, either. I should get a DA prints account 'cause I'm so lazy and don't want too wrangle with output bureaus.
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Wow that's far out...so trippy, and un-vector like. I really like it. Very psychadelic, I like the colors too.
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... a mad tribal feel to this, especially with the abstract forms in the back that make out as standing figures...
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And the white character in the center feels alive, feels 'electric' if that makes sense
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Such a unique style - I really like the choice of colours here - they compliment eachother extremely well and are very appealing to the eye. What I like the most is how blocky this piece feels - sort of creates a layered effect.
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i like the pointy scratchy jumpiness of that white character. if you know what i mean.
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