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...eyes are the mirror of the soul......butterfly is person's soul, whether they be living, dying or already dead...
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[Technology ate most of the shadows
so I will need to work darker and resubmit this later.] Anjoy! XDTools: woodcasted pencils 2H, F, 2B-5B, 7B, smooth watercolour paper
Original size: A4
EDIT: After it was re-worked - still not the best
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The description says: "[...]whether they be living, dying or already dead..."
Good Lord! I hope you don't mean the owners of those eyeballs!!
As for the picture, interesting composition, indeed.
By the way, are those 'fresh' eyeballs?
You must have kept them in refridgerator...
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hehe You are funny - in some strange way
Of course I wasn't talking about the owners of those eyeballs - those two lines are a symbolic explanation to what does eye(ball) and butterfly stand for.
By the way, nope, those AREn't fresh eyeballs XD I'm not that crazy yet, my family would freak out seeking eyes in the fridge, plus the smell of formalin would be unbearable 
But if seriuos, I saw this box of eye prothesises in the Medicine museum year ago around this time and I had an idea which developed to something you can enjoy now.
Thank YOU for an interesting comment!
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Well, I was a kind of curious about the origin of those eyeballs...
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In my turn, I hope I did get a clear answer of their origin
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Jaa, shis ir kontrastainaaks, paldies, ka padaliijies!
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I agree... butterflies are often souls. Which is why i love this. a Butterfly lying almost impaled on an eyeball? You're wonderfully morbid.
Did you draw this? (silly question XP) I fyou did, great job. Would you hand me some tips? I love the gentle gray you used+negative space. How didyou get the gray so subtle o_o?
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Thank you for your the most peculiar comment I have received on this work and all the good words you wrote!
hehe yup, obviously for submiting itin Traditional category it is drawen by me XD
Will do what I can but first - to what you refer that gray? The negative space or the drawing part? Actually, I'm working /sorta/ on it to make it darker, juicier, 'cos it much lighter here than it is in real life.
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Er, I think I was referring to the actual eyeballs. You have a special way of making reality delightfully droll >.<...
Peculiar? Well, you deserve all the good 
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Sorry, for month long response 
Secondly, thanks once again for the good words 
Now, last but not least, How did I get the gray so subtle? - well, I think the way I work explains it so.. What I start with is going over all the work (shadowing) with F or H pencils makeing the right darkness correspondance among the shadows (but it's still very, very, very light gray). Then I take the darkest of shadows and make it darker, and conforming to it, I make other shadows darker....after some steps of juiceing I take some hard pencil (2-3H) to make objects not entirely white (if they are white, mostly I don't touch them at all) and make light colouring for background, and then again go over the work because I made background darker, right? So what I do I keep an eye on entire picture all the time I work.
Another tip I could give is making not long (unless extremely necessary) strokes and quite close to each other.
I hope this was helpful. Any question, Ms catewigs?
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Why, thank you for kind comment!
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hey dear! 
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ahoey, Lea! 
On August 30th? When does the study year ends to you - or is it the final-final exams - getting your diploma?
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yeah we should yep
no lol i screwed it up... it's september the 30th... then's my final exam.. but it's by my own stupid mistake... i didn't pass in june.. that's why it's in september then... otherwise the study year finishes end may, start of june... diploma is 2 years away
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Amazing. ("Eww, eyeballs!" 
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haha
First I did all the line art - the big forms. Then shading - shading two horizontal upper rows and two vertical rows collumns from left of eyes then it was turn to butterfly with all the details and that eye to shade. Third was going darker over already the shaded eyes and continuing with the rest so that I didn't smudge all the previous shading especially the butterfly. Now - I have no idea how that will be possible but I have to think of something - maybe hanging over the work *hmm..thinking...*....
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So you already did now how it would look like? Sounds really good. I for myself am always like "huh, let´s see, what should I draw today... maybe a- girl?!" and then I have the dilemma with the background. My drawings grow on their own, I cannot stop the process.
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I hope you understand what I´m trying to say
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More or less. Not always, well, almost never
That sounds like some fun.
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I totally agree with that. I have such wonderful ideas- but if I try to draw them, they turn out to be awful, because I´m not skilled in using watermarks, copic markers etc. etc. ... That´s frustrating
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heh I even have no idea what does watermarks OR copic markers mean 
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Comment to your EDIT: "Still not the best"- hah, you´re funny, you know that...! 
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I'm bit confused by your comment 
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Haha, sorry. It´s difficult to indicate irony in the world wide web.
You´re SUPER-GREAT, that´s what I wanted to say ;D
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haha I see...I tought it was irony but you can never be sure 
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i have to wait for that later but even now it's like..
wonderful, i feel like drowning in all the detail.
here, have a 
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That later could take some time
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Manuprāt viens no taviem labākajiem darbiem; neordinārais skats perfekti piešķir idejas esenci *thumbs up*! tehniskais izpildījums neatpaliek no laba vīna baudījuma lol XD, tas ir, superb work! ;]
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Paldiesiņš par tik izsmeļošu un konstruktīvu komentu!
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Omg this is so clever. So after a year uni finally starts to have an influence on your works, right?
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hehe thanks!
Oh, it is - and I'm not even submitting every work here - some are like too medical - perhaps during the year I will submit them after all but..anyway, I think when you will read those Middle Age stories you'll start to draw your own illusrations.
Once again, thanks for kind coment, SS!
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Haha, indeed.
You're very welcome
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Be sure of what you wish for
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That is beautifully drawn, and so unusual! Your shading is brilliant. Where did you get the idea?
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Thank you for every single kind word!
The idea I got long ago visiting Medicine History Museum - they had box of these eyes' prosthesis (what you see is less than 1/4 from that box) and than I somehow connected to my dear butterflies (not really sure how it happened).
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lol didn't expect this! XD I'm used to hear that those look like nipples, berries etc. but yummy - fresh!
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Totally great feeling for this. A bit scary, but very deep thought. 
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I appreciate your comment
In life, the shading is even more detailed *
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It's all my pleasure!
Well, I'm used to cameras/scanners that spoils the shadings... So I'm able to see shadings when they're not very detailed...
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Thank you once again for good words!
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