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Japanese Fairy with Yokobue FluteFaeries are so popular nowadays, they're practically everywhere. But I noticed that they all look more or less the same, employing the same basic concept and nationality. What would its Japanese brethren look like, I wondered? And what if for once it wasn't a girl?
Thus I was inspired with the idea for this image. ^_^
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Thank you GermanCityGirl and cosmosue for the Daily Deviation feature! And thank you all for your wonderful comments.
I'll try to reply to each one as time permits, and here are some answers to the recurrent questions: This image was drawn & inked on paper, then colored in Photoshop. The paper texture was created in PS as well. The whole thing took about a week because I was in a rush for an art show. Usually I like to take my sweet time. LOL
Thanks cousins!
—Olga, 10.24.07
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Comments: 211
Everything in this looks so unbelievably elegant.
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Ooooh! I'm slowly working my way up to writing a novel featuring fairies (which will, in part, be an answer to all the annoying books featuring fairies I've read over the years), and this is *precisely* the kind of thing I've needed in terms of getting my head in the right place. Wonderful! The colors are gorgeous, too, and the clothes are eye-popping.
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Ooooh! Novel about fairies, you say. That won't be anything like the current stale representation, you say. Mmmm! I can't wait.
Like with the elves, I llllooove the concept of fae but am bored to tears by 99% of the content featuring them these days. I know there are no truly new ideas and everything's been done, but c'mon, we can mix it up a little.
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Yes, really! I mean, obviously there are all kinds of people who like the old-fashioned stories about faeries, but they really don't have a lot of room for people like me in them, and I'm sick to death of that in genre fiction. There are queer Black women in the world, writers! I know! I'm one of them! Anyway.
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I would totally volunteer to be a sounding board for that. I mean, modern faeries! Just the thought of it makes me tingle with curiosity. I wish you best of luck with the story. Wreck some chaos in the genre fiction! \^_^/
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I would totally volunteer to be a sounding board for that. I mean, modern faeries! Just the thought of it makes me tingle with curiosity. I wish you best of luck with the story. Wreck some chaos in the genre fiction! \^_^/
*ahahahaha* I'll remember this when I settle down to write!
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O My GOSH! AN ASIAN FAIRY! I'm in heaven!!! 
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I have a yousei character... who's name is so original as to also be "Yousei".... and he looks extremely similar to this. What a lovely piece, I can't believe I never saw this before!
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very beautiful so simple yet refined i really love your gallery
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Very lovely. I love your style, kind of 'delicate' (in lack of a better word, must improve my English XD). It's worth a fav!
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I'm glad to see a diferent kind of fairy, well done.
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I really love your art style! This piece is beautiful!
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Really balanced drawing!
I especially like the way you did the flowers and the nice background.
The details from the person are incredible!
Could be in an Anime.
What I don't like is the thin bough; Nobody would be able to sit on this without breaking down.^^
But devoid of this, the 'fantasy' is missing and I think this was your clue. (If so, please let me know 
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thanks for the compliments!
What I don't like is the thin bough; Nobody would be able to sit on this without breaking down.^^
Not even a fairy?
But devoid of this, the 'fantasy' is missing and I think this was your clue.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that. What would make this a truly "fantasy" piece?
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The 'fantasy' part is the thing with the thin bough
Sry for my bad English... ^^
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it sucks.............
naw im joking, its great. im so glad it doesn't have wings and all the other typical fairy traits. although i think you could have made it more mythical or magical. it kinda looks like a regular person more than a fairy. but i dunno, im not an expert.
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I do like wings, just not everywhere all the time. ^_^ Well, what would you suggest for a more magical feel? (sparkles? 
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gosh i don't know im not the artist lol. but i suppose if you changed the facial features a bit, like making the face longer or the eyes a bit more narrow, something like that. and yes sparkles would be fantastic! jk, jk
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it doesn't take an artist to know what you like.
I see what you're saying about elongating the features, what does that mean to you though? To me it would make the fairy look more western-like, with the traditional long and slim pixie face, slanted eyes. Since the whole point of this piece was to try for an asian feel, would the exaggeration have to be reversed, making the features more round?
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i kinda said that half jokingly and because usually artists would have more experience and therefore more valualbe advice, but you are right.
as for the elongated features, maybe you could keep the roundness of the face but make the chin more pointy, that way it won't look more western. or maybe you could change the skin color/texture and maybe add some oriental tattoos. that way maybe you won't lose the asian feel that you are trying to make for the picture. im not too sure, because to me the picture looks great but it doesn't really look nor feel like a fairy. maybe you should add horns lol.
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This is very beautiful!
Good to see a male faerie, and most of all a faerie that is different from what we see often.
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thank you very much!
I agree, there should be more male faeries. ^__^
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I really like the idea and the clean, pretty style. Reminds me of those ukiyo-e prints, but with a modern kinda flavour
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So glad to hear that! That's exactly the look I was going for at the time. ^__^
Thank ya!
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Way cool, I love the colors, expression, the pose. Everything came out wonderful.
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Thank you so much for the kind words! ^_^
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omg. that looks absolutely gorgeous~! <3~ and is he NAKED under thar? *__*~
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well, we're all naked under our clothes, so I guess he is too. ^_^
Thankya!
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So would I! ^__^
Thanks!
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I've got a large collection of whistles and flutes from around the world, and although I've got a Chinese dzi and an Indian flute, a pungi and several other Asian instruments, I haven't got a flute from Japan yet.
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wow, that sounds amazing! What does the Indian flute look like? (After Japan, Indian culture is my favorite. ^_^)
You could even do a series of photographs, of all the different wind instruments you have! That'd be quite something to see. ^__^
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The Indian flute is made of wood, and has seven holes, not the most ornate instrument, but the ends are bound with coloured thread. I have a an Indian whistle too and that is painted with pretty designs. I draw rather than photograph and I might just do a still life of a collection of my instruments. I'm not going to draw all 37 instruments in my collection, but I will draw a lot of them.
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Wow, that'd be even more neat!
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I'm not sure whether to draw them as a still life in their own right, or as props in a more ambitious painting, or whether to draw them as a still life first, and then include instruments in a later painting.
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