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Published: 2005-03-22 09:04:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1555; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 100
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Description Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest
gleamed like water, but when she stepped out onto it,
away from the trees, she felt how hard it was, and how long.
She almost turned back then; but instead took a deep breath
of the woods air that still drifted to her, and held in her mouth
like a flower, as long as she could.
The Last Unicorn - Peter S Beagle

The Last Unicorn is very special to me...very much my favorite book and movie of them all. I've been working on this drawing for a while...a practice in patience just as much as a labor of love. I only wish i had a scanner big enough to scan the whole blasted thing. as it is, my scanbed is only slightly larger than 8.5x11 and this picture is 11x17. You only get a glimpse of the trees that took me forever to do. but! Once I get an appropriate compilation scanned and glued together I will most likely reupload it. *^_^* I was so excited to get it done though that I had to upload it tonight. Please fullview!!

Update: I was able to get a decent full scan put together and have uploaded that image in place of the original.

Pencil + 11x17 bristol plate
The Last Unicorn and all characters © Peter S Beagle
Art © me
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Comments: 22

erin-richards [2007-05-19 02:57:48 +0000 UTC]

This is really fantastic! *Goes off to check out the rest of your gallery* ... wow, your drawings are beautiful - and your photos are gorgeous as well!

~e *.]

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lafhaha In reply to erin-richards [2007-05-19 06:16:13 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!! I'm glad you liked it and thank you for looking at the rest of my gallery too! I really appreciate it!!

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erin-richards In reply to lafhaha [2007-05-20 14:09:09 +0000 UTC]

No problem! Really great stuff there ^_^

~e *.]

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vagrantvulpes [2005-10-16 08:50:51 +0000 UTC]

that really does have a reminiscent feel of the last unicorn..

it's also a very special book and movie to me too. it's strange to find such happiness and understanding through such a sad and bluntly truthful story.

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lafhaha In reply to vagrantvulpes [2005-11-01 18:40:09 +0000 UTC]

It really is. the beauty of the story is so simple and seems so effortless...i can only imagine the amount of work that went into its creation.

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NightsofShade [2005-08-23 20:04:00 +0000 UTC]

Wow.... I am so awful at backgrounds and dislike doing them so much that this is just awesome. The atmosphere and sheer amount of detail are mind boggling @.o I can see why it would have taken so long, and I'd say it was deffinatly worth it. I loove the shapes that make up the trees. +fav! ^^

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lafhaha In reply to NightsofShade [2005-08-23 22:20:15 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much for the comment and ! wagh this thing took FOREVER. The tree on the left was the biggest lump to get over...after I did that the rest of them pretty much flowed right out. It's just a matter of figuring out what you want to do and having the resolve to finish it. I almost always poop out on a pic if it takes longer than i want to spend. backgrounds are beyond me unless I've had some spectacular idea brewing for ages. Usually I get stuck trying to figure out what to do with the white space surrounding my finished character because i don't devote half as much time thinking about the surrounds as i do the subject

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Toralynn [2005-07-23 11:09:35 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow.. great detail in that one, good job!

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Kairillia [2005-03-23 02:59:32 +0000 UTC]

Wow.. that's beautious laf! The Last Unicorn used to be one of my favourite movies as a kid, and this definately has the same kind of feel

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lafhaha In reply to Kairillia [2005-03-23 20:15:04 +0000 UTC]

mine too...^^ i watched that vhs to death

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Kairillia In reply to lafhaha [2005-03-24 10:18:06 +0000 UTC]

I really aught to go see if we still have ours... hrm

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lafhaha In reply to Kairillia [2005-03-31 01:42:42 +0000 UTC]

i doth command you to find it and watch it at least ten times. or.....or the boogeyman will eat all your clean socks.

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taekwondogirl [2005-03-22 14:08:50 +0000 UTC]

This picture is awesome, Laf!

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lafhaha In reply to taekwondogirl [2005-03-22 18:51:52 +0000 UTC]

and thank you for the

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taekwondogirl In reply to lafhaha [2005-03-22 19:18:47 +0000 UTC]

Quite welcome! It's well deserved.

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lafhaha In reply to taekwondogirl [2005-03-22 18:50:10 +0000 UTC]

thank you, sweets!!

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taekwondogirl In reply to lafhaha [2005-03-22 19:19:39 +0000 UTC]

Aye aye!

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Gwenwhyfar [2005-03-22 13:38:06 +0000 UTC]

ah the last unicorn! i love that story too...and i think your drawing connects to it. the trees are very good...i'd like to walk in such a forest myself.

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lafhaha In reply to Gwenwhyfar [2005-03-22 18:49:43 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much! I've been rereading the book recently and prematurely preparing myself for the movie that will never come they pushed it back to 2006 a while ago...and still haven't announced who will play Amalthea and Lir.

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MeiChild In reply to lafhaha [2005-08-30 00:16:53 +0000 UTC]

oh i knoow! they said aug 2006 (the last time they changed/announced it) and its almost september! i want to see it so bad!

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lafhaha In reply to MeiChild [2005-09-01 17:22:51 +0000 UTC]

totally. i don't think I've ever followed the preproduction of a movie for this long. but i'm sure it'll be worth the wait. I'm also quite eager to get my hands on a copy of the new short story Peter S Beagle released...it's touted at the sequel to the Last Unicorn, but things i've read say it's more along the lines of a story set in the same world? I don't know. It was announced back in Feb-May and is going to be published in the October issue of Fantasy Sci-fi magazine this year. weeeee I can't wait!!!

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MeiChild In reply to lafhaha [2005-09-02 02:35:54 +0000 UTC]

ooohhhh cool! i shall have to check that out too...

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