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Description "Some of the flames were high and strong, shone brightly and lively, some other were small, unstable and shaky, their lights were fading and waning.
At the very end there was one flame, tiny and so weak, that it barely flickered, scarcely glimmered, alternately shining with a great difficulty and almost completely dying down.
- Whose is that dying flame? - asked witcher.
- Yours - said Death."

Flourens Delannoy "Old stories and fairytales"

That's an old speedainting. I made once a simple sketch and abandoned it. Lately I felt like finishing it. In total it took around 4 hours I think.

Picture is illustrating a quotation from one of the books about Witcher (those are fantasy books made by polish author, Sapkowski), from vol. 5 ("Lady of the Lake").
I guess that those books are not translated into english, and I don't know if you played the game (I didn't play it, only read the books), and if you're familiar with Geralt of Rivia and his story.

Anyway, every chapter of every book starts with a quotation from fictional book (herbal book, fairytale book, historical book) or a part of song,/poem. Parts of Flourence Delannoy's books were the best, in my opinion (apart of that one, I also loved the one about Witcheress' wishes - "I don't want wealth nor fame, power nor knowledge - said Witcheress - give me horse that will be black and swift like night wind..." and so on ) , so it inspired me a bit
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Comments: 46

temarcia [2016-11-15 23:26:16 +0000 UTC]

Jestem po tym rozdziale właśnie. : D

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FoxxyJones [2012-03-26 04:35:52 +0000 UTC]

Does your awesome flow like a river or do you have to charge it up? Because this is amazing. I can't imagine taking on a piece with this kind of detail at all, much less speed-painting it. You are very, very talented and this piece only proves it.

It's gorgeous. That skull on Death has got to be my favorite part, though the skewed perspective is a close second.

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kunoichi-san In reply to FoxxyJones [2012-03-26 11:51:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much

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luca0483 [2011-12-22 14:53:39 +0000 UTC]

Wow, i didn't know that your english were THAT bad:-P
Oh well, at least the quote only had 5 misspellings in it. LOL
still speedpainting in 4 hours? when i speedpaint i paint for max. 1 hour. LOL again

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kunoichi-san In reply to luca0483 [2011-12-23 00:29:50 +0000 UTC]

Rotfl XD Damn it, I tried so hard and failed XD
Can you point them please?

Lucky you then. I'm not the fastest deviant.

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luca0483 In reply to kunoichi-san [2011-12-25 16:46:51 +0000 UTC]

now i made a misspelling.
ignore the first "is" in this sentence:
But the only IS two REAL misspellings is in the sentence

it should have been:
But the only two REAL misspellings is in the sentence

I'm deeply sorry

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luca0483 In reply to kunoichi-san [2011-12-25 16:43:32 +0000 UTC]

After consulting with Prof. google translate (lols) i realized that it can be written in your way, but if you went to the exam in english (in denmark) it would count as misspellings (but i'm danish so i'm not that good either, thats why i thought that you had so many misspellings, lols^2)

But the only is two REAL misspellings is in the sentence:
"alternately shining with a great difficulty"
it makes no sense because the words are bent wrong
i think that it should be:
"alternately shone with great difficulty"
(note that "shone" is in the past like the rest of the sentence and that there is no "A" between "with" and "great")

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mags-duranb [2011-12-04 04:41:17 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful work. I loved your depictiong of Death, simply beautiful *_* (my nickname is a playful way to refer to Death in my country :3) the atmosphere is perfect, the lightning, the cave... I love what you did here.

Beautiful! <3 To favs!

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DeadCobra [2011-12-03 19:16:45 +0000 UTC]

Cool

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U23Art [2011-12-01 03:15:40 +0000 UTC]

This is a freaking wonderful scene.

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muadkip [2011-11-30 02:41:27 +0000 UTC]

lol wiedźmin

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Mihoshi5 [2011-11-29 20:56:52 +0000 UTC]

Rysunek jest niesamowity Jak dla mnie powinien być wykorzystany jako ilustracja do "Pani Jeziora"
Wiedźmin jest genialny

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Salomea [2011-11-29 19:47:37 +0000 UTC]

Gonna fav it again and again till the hell freezes over!

Świetne po prostu! Klimatyczne, dobrze zrobione *posypuje cukrem*
Podoba mi się, że czaszka nie jest taka zwykła nie wiem czy efekt zamierzony , bo dzięki temu wygląda straszniej.

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kunoichi-san In reply to Salomea [2011-12-23 00:30:22 +0000 UTC]

Dzięki

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Salomea In reply to kunoichi-san [2011-12-23 12:49:43 +0000 UTC]

Proszę ^^

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Inouekuran [2011-11-29 17:27:48 +0000 UTC]

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I fell afraid!!! it´s so real!!!

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Aoi-no-Kokoro [2011-11-29 14:00:05 +0000 UTC]

Marvelous. It's simply great. I love the way you have painted this one.

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ThenAgain [2011-11-29 11:22:27 +0000 UTC]

I love the point of view in this one...
The way you depicted Death is also very interesting; coupling this to the contrast between the feebleness of the candle light and the darkness of the sourroundings and the eerie green light emanating from the background (and from Death eyesockets too it seems), gives off a pretty amazing atmosphere...

Good work...

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kunoichi-san In reply to ThenAgain [2011-12-23 00:30:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, dear

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Kordan [2011-11-29 08:01:18 +0000 UTC]

amazing! cool concept absolutely love the flames everywhere and death looks creepy as fuck! hope u make more like this

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Yikari [2011-11-29 07:59:28 +0000 UTC]

Image looking good!

As for the translation, our awesome russian translator got to afterlife a bit early, so the quality of the last two books was lost along the way...

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kunoichi-san In reply to Yikari [2011-12-23 00:31:11 +0000 UTC]

Well, that's life

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Chocoaguila [2011-11-29 06:05:13 +0000 UTC]

Great work!

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TheNextHokage [2011-11-29 04:05:58 +0000 UTC]

This is B.A.

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mcjazzman32 [2011-11-29 00:54:52 +0000 UTC]

*shivers* - so creepy! I love it. I like the green a lot. Most artists choose to give skulls red eyes. It's a nice touch. I also like how hazy it is, with the curling flames. It's like the world is spinning just a bit, as if the viewer is waking up and finding a nightmare.

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kunoichi-san In reply to mcjazzman32 [2011-12-23 00:33:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Really? I think that green or blue is more suitable - red is too "bloody" for a skeleton

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creepella [2011-11-29 00:36:14 +0000 UTC]

This is AMAZING!!!

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Aexalven [2011-11-28 23:16:31 +0000 UTC]

Forgot to say, amazing!

Dat skull and mood.

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Aexalven [2011-11-28 23:16:09 +0000 UTC]

As far as I know, Wiedźmin, Witcher was translated as book. I just don't know if all of them were, bot for sure, the Elven Blood (Blood of the Elves), Krew Elfów, was.

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CherryInTheSun [2011-11-28 22:57:29 +0000 UTC]

Wiedzmin !
jak zawsze fantastyczna praca ! ale mam wrazenie, ze tym razem inny sposob malowania niz np przy mangowych artach. mimo ze 'szybka' praca, to i tak efekt powalajacy, wspaniale cieniowanie, dobor kolorow, uwieeeeeeeelbiam ten zielono-seledynowy mix ^^
dobra robota

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MandyUzumaki1 [2011-11-28 22:20:22 +0000 UTC]

Wow I'm tired just looking at this picture XD It must have taken a long time just to do all those details D:

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LynxKitteh [2011-11-28 22:05:06 +0000 UTC]

Plain awesome

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mortalshinobi [2011-11-28 21:08:02 +0000 UTC]

interesting image here.

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getdownvik [2011-11-28 21:02:20 +0000 UTC]

a po polsku to jak to sie nazywa? xd Czarnoksiężnik? o.o czy chodziło raczej o Wiedźmina? xd

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kunoichi-san In reply to getdownvik [2011-12-23 00:33:39 +0000 UTC]

O wiedźmina się rozchodzi

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getdownvik In reply to kunoichi-san [2011-12-23 00:37:45 +0000 UTC]

ha! wiedziałam xD ale ang tytuły polskie zawsze gets me confused

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Minato-Kushina [2011-11-28 20:59:21 +0000 UTC]

It seems different than your usual drawings, yet it's really breathtaking! It could be a scene from a real movie!

Well done once more!

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Youkai-Meimi [2011-11-28 20:58:27 +0000 UTC]

spooky

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Werewolf-PL [2011-11-28 20:09:01 +0000 UTC]

Witcher! Poland! Sapkowski! RLZ
rządzisz

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TheSUNGlassKid [2011-11-28 19:56:27 +0000 UTC]

A speed painting is four hours for you?!

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kunoichi-san In reply to TheSUNGlassKid [2011-12-23 00:34:48 +0000 UTC]

Well, I can't tell exactly, cause it was done part by part (15 minutes here and there). But yeah, it took some time.

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MadHouseProductions [2011-11-28 19:28:37 +0000 UTC]

How long did it take you to do this one?

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kunoichi-san In reply to MadHouseProductions [2011-11-28 19:36:09 +0000 UTC]

I wrote it around 4 hours.

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DarkSamuraiX1999 [2011-11-28 19:18:57 +0000 UTC]

That is some truly amazing detail. And the above line goes so well ^^

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kunoichi-san In reply to DarkSamuraiX1999 [2011-11-28 19:36:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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DarkSamuraiX1999 In reply to kunoichi-san [2011-11-28 19:43:48 +0000 UTC]

No problem ^^

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