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NonieR [2016-02-07 18:44:34 +0000 UTC]
The art is great, the rhyme even better, but "bless her little fetid socks" would make me your fan for life even if I hadn't seen one kickstand or beard hair of the series that first brought yer art to my attention, you!
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melanippos In reply to NonieR [2016-02-07 22:10:54 +0000 UTC]
I do love Dirge - you can imagine a zombie horse standing all slumped and with sagging, soggy socks over her hooves.
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NonieR In reply to melanippos [2016-02-08 18:16:21 +0000 UTC]
Dirge - curried with the thorns of hatred and groomed by self-hating emo ghosts! (Or something like that.)
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AlectorFencer [2008-03-17 13:54:00 +0000 UTC]
This is great! The colours are so sublte yet so strong. I don't know how to describe how stunned I am.
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Theck [2007-12-04 12:08:18 +0000 UTC]
when you do peices like this, do you paint the white over the red or the red around the white?
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melanippos In reply to Theck [2007-12-05 06:06:58 +0000 UTC]
On this particular one I spattered the pink and purple across the page then found the shape of an equine neck, painted in the head in white gouache then the blood red watercolour. There was not sketching it started as a demonstration on laying a wash with different colours and evolved into Dirge.
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Queen-Le-Fra-Fra [2007-11-20 00:35:07 +0000 UTC]
Would you mind if I borrowed your poem? I wanted to do an art book for my boyfriend and it would be perfect.
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melanippos In reply to Queen-Le-Fra-Fra [2007-11-20 00:46:22 +0000 UTC]
Hrrm...
As long as it's a one-of gift and I'm given due kudos as creator then I grant you permission.
Thats the poem only though. Dirge doesn't get loaned out. ^_^
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Aprilweredragon [2007-05-19 09:44:33 +0000 UTC]
Is that a dragon? Cool picture anyway
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melanippos In reply to Aprilweredragon [2007-05-23 07:07:34 +0000 UTC]
Dirge is related to one of the horses pestilance rides ^_^
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melanippos In reply to dananew1 [2007-05-03 04:41:02 +0000 UTC]
Dirge isn't out to make a person shudder per say - disease is just what she is ^_^
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rynaga [2007-01-22 00:49:05 +0000 UTC]
i love the emotion behind this. nice facial expression and coloring. the blood brushwork is well done.
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melanippos In reply to rynaga [2007-01-22 07:05:40 +0000 UTC]
The blood isn't brush work but Breath work - I fwhuffed the paint across the board away from her face.
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daemon-lover [2007-01-18 07:13:38 +0000 UTC]
I love the way the watercolors came out on this. You are so good at this!
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melanippos In reply to daemon-lover [2007-01-18 07:22:47 +0000 UTC]
This was 7/8ths plain and simple fortune - I blew paint over a scrap of paper - saw a curve of a neck and applied white gouache until it was done.
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daemon-lover In reply to melanippos [2007-01-18 07:37:35 +0000 UTC]
Don't you love those moments? I rarely get them... XD
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Blushing-Mog [2006-09-23 16:16:46 +0000 UTC]
I love the painting.. and the little bits of curly hair. It all looks so delicate... and the poem is grotesquely interesting... love the rhyme scheme.
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melanippos In reply to Blushing-Mog [2006-09-26 04:28:55 +0000 UTC]
I *think* its loosely based off 'a is apple pie. B baked it, D delt it...' Only it got a bit out of hand ^_^;
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koyamori [2006-09-22 21:20:30 +0000 UTC]
Veeery different! The little story that goes along with the picture neat too:3
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melanippos In reply to AsryaKino [2006-09-20 22:56:27 +0000 UTC]
Dirge is more likely to breathe on you than bite - she's fairly fragile. Not particularly vicious, just noxious.
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