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HorsefeathersArt — The Lights in the Basement

Published: 2013-06-09 22:39:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 478; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 2
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Description The basement is a small, yet elaborate cage of exposed wiring and various humming machines. With the amount of electricity bouncing around within its concrete walls, nausea and migraines are the least of Wu's worries. She knows for a fact that something is down there, feeding off of that wasted energy. And, whatever it is, it likes turning on the lights in the mechanics room.

Unfortunately for Wu, the basement door has a large gap at the bottom, allowing the persistent light to peak through. Her father always notices, and has her go down to turn them off each time. The presence of whatever dwells in the basement is easily felt by Wu, and thanks to that, she's able to roughly determine where it is in the basement while still on the first floor. She'll wait hours, if needed, for the presence to shift into a convenient room before making her reluctant descent. It's always a race, though, to hit the lights and quickly hightail it back up the rickety wooden stairs. All of her bravery is exhausted on the descent itself, so looking back while making her ascent is never possible. However, each time, she can feel it. Right there. As soon as the lights go out, it's on her heels.

Sometimes, it even has the audacity to turn the lights back on before she makes it to the stairs.

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Traditional, Paint Tool SAI & CS.5
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Comments: 9

ShesaMystery [2013-06-28 13:09:02 +0000 UTC]

O_O Is her basement haunted!?

This is really excelent work. I've always wanted to get better at backgrounds, but I never seem to get around to working on it. So a big virtual high-five to you on that!

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HorsefeathersArt In reply to ShesaMystery [2013-06-28 19:55:53 +0000 UTC]

*virtual high-fives back* Thanks! And yes, her basement is very haunted. I'm glad you like the background -- it was fun, yet difficult to make all at the same time.

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Naoto1 [2013-06-13 08:11:23 +0000 UTC]

I wish you had a print available for purchase...

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HorsefeathersArt In reply to Naoto1 [2013-06-14 04:05:47 +0000 UTC]

I may have to look into that, especially if there's a demand...

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Naoto1 In reply to HorsefeathersArt [2013-06-16 04:08:45 +0000 UTC]

Let me know if it does become available!

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LunarArtemisia [2013-06-09 22:55:04 +0000 UTC]

This is so cool :3 you make me want to get better at my background scenes.

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HorsefeathersArt In reply to LunarArtemisia [2013-06-09 23:22:49 +0000 UTC]

Heheh, well, there's nothing stopping you. I just tried to have fun with this, which explains why it's extremely messy.

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LunarArtemisia In reply to HorsefeathersArt [2013-06-10 00:06:30 +0000 UTC]

I don't see it as messy ^-^

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nadien-esta-aqui [2013-06-09 22:41:36 +0000 UTC]

esta vine mira voy a dibujar esta imagen

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