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meteor-echo — a falling star
Published: 2009-07-22 17:48:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1390; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 31
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For a man who has a star in his heart. Shine, my love, and I will reach you, wherever you are.illustration to this poem: [link]
I tried my best while drawing this. Experimented with an eraser))
EDIT: download for full size, I made it a bit more comfy to look at.
Also, this is my entry for 's "Blue" contest. If this one isn't blue, then I just don't know what is ^^'
This picture goes with this song [link] . It, so to say, feels better when you look at it and listen to that ^^
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Comments: 29
Great movement to this piece and superb technique
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Not really, I was experimenting, nothing more >.<
Thank you though ^^
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that's GORGEOUS. I really think the first person who commented got it all down 
And good luck with the contest! I plan to enter as well
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^^ Thank you! I'm really glad when I get comments like this, it means that I'm not drawing for nothing ^^'
This drawing actually has a funny story behind it. Last spring I left my ex for another person, and the ex wrote me a poem while listening to this song. Then I wrote a poem as an answer [link] , and decided to do an illustration for it (addressed to my sweetheart). So I listened to that music that inspired my ex and found out that it was inspiring for me as well.
Since the theme of the original poem and my answer was about a falling star, I just had no problems imagining a star falling while listening to this song ^^'
Good luck to you too! Can't wait to see your art too, my formidable rival! :3
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oh..that's quite a story! It's amazing how big a role music can play for us. I'm somewhat basing mine off a song myself..
for a moment I thought your picture may have been inspired by a book called Stardust by Neil Gaiman, where a fallen star/girl's trying to find her way back home. If you haven't read it already, I recommend it
"formidable"? pfft 
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I've watched the movie. Is the book better?
^^
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I can't really say :/ the plot was altered a bit to make it more dramatic in the movie but I like both equally
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Waaaaaahhhhh thank you!
I'm kind of like content with this drawing. I did it for my sweetheart, and it seems that the whole thing turned out a bit better than I expected.
Photo refs FTW :3
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oh you are welcome
both technique and concept are amazing
luck sweetheart of yours
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^____^ thank you.
It all started when my ex-boyfriend wrote the original poem, addressed to me. I wrote another one as a reply (same theme and verse), then I felt like doing an illustration to it. Also, I was inspired by a totally awesome song [link]
If you like industrial/ambient, you should definitely listen to it ^^
And it's me who is lucky 
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wow
the tune of the song is really cool
the english is not my natural lenguage so i have several problems when listening to a song.
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Lol, it's not my home language too ^^
and yeah, that song, "Glenk Jakomo" is really great. Was the only nice track in the whole album, by the way
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This is seriously cool. Your ideas are so creative and unique and artistically beautiful.
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love makes the world go round and the stars fall from the sky.And TY so much for faving it <3
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That's awesome.
My pleasure!
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This is a really beautiful picture. I think it's the most beautiful out of all of them. The girl really glows...but the glow also gives you the idea of purity, lightness, and cleanness. That was genius, how you did the sky. It's so beautiful...all glittery with stars and clouds. That must have been extremely difficult to do, there's all this intricate shading. What I thought when I first saw it was "This is real art." And the designs for the planets: The planet closest to the viewer was really well done. those clouds are hugging that form, and the planet shines.
What's interesting is that the beam is shooting out into the sky, twisting the gargantuan clouds with it. It's like the picture is saying that this light...this other person...demands everything that the world can give, because it is the special world of the person reaching out. It's like this light has some profound significance. Wow...
Now, I think that this is the girl reaching out to the other "light," only because of the blue color (purity, calmness. but it can also be sadness, so...) and the general feel I get from this. And there's this beam coming out of a planet (reminds me of 3rd impact from End of Evangelion, haha). And there's this soft shading on the girl that I really love, it's like she's so fragile and soft.
What I'm thinking now is "How the heck did you start drawing this??!" because it's so complicated!!
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Thank youuuuuu....omg i tried my best while drawing it, so many ppl gave me small pieces of advice...like Mom, a colleague (who is also an artist), Dad (who also draws), but i still had to figure it all out myself in the end.
Heh... the process of drawing space with a pencil was really...hmmm...challenging, i'd say. First, i sketched both planets and the girl's position. I drew the bigger planet, and then i started thinking about HOW THE HELL to draw the space.
Then i started crosshatching the background and i found an interesting thing: my crosshatching was not really even. In the places where it was intertwining, there were spots and patterns like those on the damascus steel. And i thought: OMG, THIS IS IT! and i started giving them deeper color and dimension. Then, i finished the second planet and looked at some reference pics. I noticed that the planets on those don't have clear contours where they shine. so i erased those andit started looking NICE.
The next stage was not rly easy...i was shading the bg, trying to make it as close to reality as possible. Then i made the stars (i used an eraser), and then i worked on the girl. Part of the bg was undone tho. Then i finished the space.
Lol, i was like "eyes scared, but hands working"
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I think this is my favorite one. Just the thumbnail...is really shocking.
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ty <3
i will have to experiment more with my pencils ^^
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