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Ninaviola96 — Killing Them Softly
Published: 2013-07-29 20:25:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 605; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 1
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Well. Fuck my scanner.Anyway, this is based on a short story I'm writing, titled Killing Them Softly (it hasn't got anything to do with the omonimous film though, I just liked how it sounded).
So the guy is River, a young actor and one of the main characters, and the little girl is his 4-year-old daughter Alaia. She seems scared here, but actually she's really brave - braver than her father! The monster behind them is Charisma, a sort of alter ego of River.
When River begins to "see" Charisma, it looks like him, but some facial features and body structure start to get altered as the narration progresses, so at the end Charisma will just look like this, or worse.
The floating faces are Avery, Daphne - the other main character - and Farinata.
I'm kinda pleased with it, beacause lately I've just been skatching, withoud working on serious stuff, and it's exiting when something you simply think becomes concrete. I like how the characters look like here, they're pretty close to the idea of them I had in my mind while writing.
80s music really causes bad effects on me! XD
River's trousers seem just sketched at the bottom, and I decided not to finish them because it recalls the basic theme of the short story: what is real and what is not.
Oh, and his glasses lack one lens. It broke. I saw this model of sunglasses on Cara Delevigne and fell in love with it, but I don't know the name.
I wonder why everytime I think "Okay, let's draw a boy who looks cool", he ends up looking pretty much like Syn Gates. Whatever. u.u
Hope you like it :3
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hei!! bel lavoro ^^ sei brava con quelle manine! bello lo squarcio spazio temporale li dietro = P si vede che ti piace decontestualizzare 
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Ciao! Grazie dei complimenti.
In realtà io lo vedo molto inerente al contesto per sè stesso, infatti quella specie di guscio eploso pieno di buio lo pensavo come l'interruttore dell'incubo onnipresente di River. Ma anche la tua interpretazione è molto interessante ^^ Qualche acrobazia spazio temporale, in effetti, nella storia c'è.
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I like this art style and the story sounds brilliant!
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thank you so much!! I'm still writing it, actually I think it won't take long to finish :3
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It looks like the start of a movie poster, as well as the cover to your story.
The story sounds very compelling, any chance I could read it?
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That was exatly the idea, draw a sort of a cover for the story! And I'd really like to make a film of it, maybe in the future... XD
I'm just disappointed because of the quality of the scan.
If you can read Italian, for sure! 
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Awwww 
Well, I think the scan quality kind of added to its depth in my opinion. I really wish I could read Italian so I could read your story.
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I wish you could to that as well, I'd really love to hear someone else's opinion on it, as it's a pretty uncommon story! Thank you anyway, comments like yours just make my day :3
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^__^ Thank you, I'm glad I could make your day.
I highly suggest that you get it translated to english. If you do, please send me a note. I would love to give it a read
Just to be sure, I'll watch you too
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Aha it would be so weird to read it in a different language! Maybe one day it'll be transalted by someone who knows English better than me. Actually I wrote the story in an unusual style, so I wouldn't be able to vehicle the same athmosphere in a language which is not my own.
But my dream for the future would be to make a film of it :3
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I hope it does become a film ^__^
When you say "unusual style", what do you mean? I'm curious
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Ah, let's see... I don't know if I can explain it clearly, but I'll try. XD
When I'm reading a book, 75% of times, no matter what the book is about, or if it's an essay or a novel or whatever, I get bored and I really have to make efforts to finish it.
Maybe I have concentration problems - probably - but I happen to lose interest quite often, even if the first 100 pages of the book were capturing.
Same thing when I'm writing. If I don't change scenario, characters, my own personality and attitude to the story, style of writing, visual presentation of the story, I lose interest and interrupt what I'm doing. I always need to change, to get impressed and exited, and my style follows this tendence. I don't like when a story talks about "love" and nothing else, or "travelling" and nothing else, I want a story to be various and crazy and deep, I want to see the scene moving and hear the music playing while I'm reading. Like when you watch a film.
That's it.
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I understand that completely
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Now I'm more interested in reading it!!
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Something makes me think that you're into writing as well!
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Well, I had an idea for a story or two but it kind of fell through sadly
In my stories, it was like painting a picture for the mind to see; not only did I want whoever was reading to see everything, I wanted them to feel like they were actually there. But everything where the story became too stuffed with useless details - only the relevant ones, like facial expressions, tones in the voice, the environment around the focus - things that would draw a picture for the reader to see while also pulling them in.
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Ow, I see what you mean, actually it's kinda my own attitude to writing! And sometimes "what you see in your mind" it's impossible to put down into words that give the very idea you had. You know what, music really helped me through it: I think that of you think about words like a flowing and rhythmic thing, they'll just come naturally. So that, when you're talking about something specific, the rhythm will suggest you which details are necessary and which aren't, in a way.
I don't know how to say it properly, but it works for me and every chapter is like... A song, in a way.
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I understand what you mean ^__^
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:3 be a frustrated artist forever, that's the way! XD
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