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Published: 2006-05-05 01:04:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 2553; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 268
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This image, I feel, has many meanings, many past stories that led up to this one particular moment. When I first drew this, I was feeling alone and frustrated. I felt like hell due to some bad recent events. The other side of me felt calm, nurtering. I want to be soneone's shoulder that they could cry on, relieve stress, relax in general.I feel like that is something everybody should do, should experiance. In my mine, it is a rare thing now a days. You get this unique feeling when someone you care about just leans against your shoulder and cries. You are helping that person relax by just being there, lending a body part for him or her to rest on and calm themself down.
I did not really know the whole story of this picture when I drew it. I just felt like shit and calm at the same time that made me draw this image.
What do you think the story is in this picture? What kind of background story would you give this image and two characters?
- Ookami Kemono
ImageOfManyThings © 2006 Alex Cockburn. All rights reserved.
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If I were to guess, I'd say both of them have suffered a great loss...a close friend, a parent, someone important, and now one of them is trying to comfort the other.
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i think its a girl who got out of a really bad relasonship and trashed her room and her brother came to comfert her siblings rule
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I have been on this site for a long time and few have ever crossed my eyes as your work has. I have had similar burdens and pains through my life that mount as I get older and stronger. Your work here is never going to be a single event but many from now and then. I have been both the shoulder and its recipient in my time. Your work gets it out there and the many events you spoke of do not need description. The fact is we feel "like shit" at times so we can be incredible later. Taking a shoulder now helps give one later.
Your art means many different things to me and the events represented are what you wish to make of them. I could never figure mine out, only that there are some things people really should not examine too deeply. I am sorry if this message is a little strange. But my point is, when it comes to what we feel there is little that can be explained. Your art is what you feel and reasoning its origins is not important as long as you understand the pain and pride. You have your art for all to admire. As long as everything works out and life moves on whether good or bad days have passed, look for whats to come.
Life has a bad times in many places. Just move through the bad and use the good. I truly am amazed by your work and I have seen these places in my own life and others. It always gets better if you work at it.
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Artistically this is great. The variety of shading and great use of pencil and ink is fantastic. The description is very true, everybody should have someone to lean on when things get bad.
Very nice drawing. You really captivate the emotion of the characters.
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Aww, I love this. I am often the person, even the most cheerful of people come to to cry on my shoulder, at least online. Somehow I feel sad, but at the same time it's a pleasant sort of sorrow to know that at least you can help someone.
Anyway, I love your inking, it captures and reflects the mood of your pieces.
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in this photo of anyones sorrow, just like my organizationally challenged room. to depressed to care but to want a friend. Want sumone to hear ur pain. but the only words that can be spoken is tears. Sumtimes, one loses all that she can hold and that makes anyone not want a single thing. A feeling of loss and dispare. Will the sunlight through the window ever shine on the bed i cry.
wonderful picture i love every inch of it
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How could they do this to you?
It's not that bad, there has been worse...
...not bad? ... not bad? Your room is totaled-
(interrupting) -But I'm fine. This has happened before and if things don't get better soon then it may happen again. All I know right now is that it could have been worse... *mumbles* much worse than you realize.
What was that?
Nothing. Come on, let's get something to eat.
You're just going to leave itlike this?
For now, yes. I can take you home after we eat and I'll get this done.
How can you be so strong after this?
It's not something I enjoy but it's something I've become used to...
I see most responses leading to something happening to her. But with different ideas and another way of looking, he could be the one with the wrecked room. A lot of things can lead to this, enemies, friends, anger, depression, even sleepwalking. With no true background all things are possible. Anyway, very nice piece. The emotions shown are strong, but not set. There is a lot to take hopefully everyone can think of something.
Good luck in whatever you do.
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she receive the letter saying about her boyfriend, who just died.
And the other is her best friend helping her...
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She got the letter....she couldn't believe it. In a panic, she called her best friend, her only friend....who confirmed that it was true. She lost it....not even bothering to hang up the phone, she cast it asie and flew into a blind frenzy....He could hear it as he drove to stop her. She finally stopped, on the brink of exahustion, just as he came in to comfort her...
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I think someone broke up with her and told her of all the betrayel that went on...
At first she cried on her bed and then lifted her arms, pushing her claws through the walls. Everything else just eploded from there. Her mom might have called the boy who came in and wrestled her down till she calmed down and cried on his shoulder, spilling everything that happened.
I've only felt betrayel once... when that happened I just cried and looked for people to comfort me. This is an awesome work... enough said. You continue to capture pure emotion in the most unfamiliar places... it becomes intimate. It's an unusual feeling when you comfort someone. I feel like I want to fix everything for them... even though I cant somtimes. Then it becomes regret, even though you're not guilty. Two people become on the same emotional level at that time. They both will rise together
x.x sorry for a long post.
Please feel better soon...
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...well, looking at the diffrent things in the picture it could be anything... a torn up letter on the floor...picture with what might be a bullet hole in it...torn poster...lamp on the floor... a well loved teddy bear lying dicarded...obvious the female has been or is crying. The male is trying to comfort her. That's looking at it from a intelectual point of veiw. Emotionally, it's too charged to get a real picture of anything other than the fact that she is not happy.
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You're right, this is an image of many stories can link to itself...
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I don't exactly have a story for them but I can relate I've recently lost someone due to a misunderstanding and I can't even try to fix it becasue they've cut off all contact from me new phone number new email and I don't even now where she lives right now and all I can think about is making things right and now I have no one to turn to because she was all I had if I ever see her again I'll probaly collapse crying at her feet. your picture kinda of brought my delema to mind so I would say something similar had happened to them.
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Female: "Where did it all go wrong?"
Male: "I don't know... I don't know."
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I could say so much about this, but then I'd be writing a small book in the comment section of this!
I know what you mean by simply lending a body part to let someone cry on. It doesn't matter what kind of turmoil you may go through, as long as your helping that someone calm down... your troubles seem to disappear for that one moment. This has a lot of messages imbedded in it, which makes it really special.
So take it as you will, you can't be wrong.
Nice work.
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I know this feeling very well. It even looks kind of like the room I used to have. I will note you my response... but for now. I will fav it... This piece is awesome btw
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A rough experience with the girl losing what sense she had at that moment, due to the look of the room, and she was just so frustrated, so sorrowful that nothing could calm her until he came. It's true with alot of the things that you put on your comment up there. Sometimes we do need someone to lay our heads against, or need someone to place their head on our shoulders. It makes it feel as if we are doing something helpful when we're that shoulder, and it makes us feel safe when we're the ones to be laying our head against that shoulder. I'm not sure what it is.... it's just... something in the nature of us, our wish to be held, and cared for. Another great piece Oki-san... I really like what you're able to do. Another fav to add to my collection of them. Keep it all up, and I hope that times become better for you.
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