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PatrickHonnen — Dark fortress
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ink pen on papermade in 2015
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Thanks and welcome to dA
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What inspires you to draw pieces like this? Seems like you have some experience with hallucinations 🌚
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Actually, I'm not experienced in hallucinations at all 
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Nice. I particularly like the way the pattern of the bricks folds around the eye.
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A very well-thought piece.
- The path is framed with trees and plants which almost seem like inviting doormen
- A negative was chosen which turns the doorway into a lit portal, as if there is life inside
- The eye and tentacles generate a curiosity of what is going on in that lit tower
Every aspect dares the reader to enter in spite of the danger which is quite in the spirit of Lovecraft's work - curiosity and insanity. This is a well thought, well done, and very simplistic work that can easily be seen as something that would have been printed in the Call of Cthulhu Role Playing Game.
Kudos. Big kudos.
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Wow, thank you very much for writing down and sharing your interpretation on this piece, it means a lot to me! It's very interesting to read and helps me understanding my work a bit more..
You make me very curious with your Lovecraft-comparison! Funnily enough, I am not familiar with Lovecraft's work yet, just heard of his name and titles of some of his works, but haven't read anything yet.. But that's going to change soon, definitely.
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My advice: Begin with "Call of Cthulhu," then read "A Shadow over Innsmouth." After that, just read whichever works you find: "A Colour out of Space," "The Thing on the Doorstep," The Dunwich Horror," or anything, really. Others may have other favorites as well. Here's a good example of his writing - The opening paragraph to "Call of Cthulhu:"
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
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Thank you very much for your advice! The opening sounds interesting
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Thank you very much
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You're quite welcome!
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I really like the line work, contrast, and balance. Nice job with the eye and bricks.
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Thank you, I really appreciate your comment
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