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PhantomSeptember — To Reach
Published: 2011-12-29 21:12:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 674; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 16
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This turned out kinda plain. I wanted it to be really black and white. Guess I didn't figure on that not working very well with the piece. Oh well. I've had this sitting around unfinished for weeks. Finally finished it.Still not doing very well with anatomy. XD
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plain?
i think it's rather eloquent.
not to mention beautiful and a bit gothic.
and a touch of art nouveau no less.
sweet.
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Beautiful composition! very awesomely beautiful.
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I really love the "swirls" on your work, like the one in the hair and specially those around the moon. 
I like the composition of this picture very much
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After reading the comments, I feel so ultimately stupid I cant describe it in words... for one thing everyone thought it was a man, it looks like a women to me... and the orb/moon thing, it seems to me a bit like an ultrasound of a baby, like its head or something, with some smoke coming of the sides as if its like this mysterious special object.
I honestly thought it was a women who had, had several miscarriages (represented by skulls) and is very ill (thin body, bones showing) and she was reaching out for the life this unborn baby (orb thing) would give her... I like the texture thing you did for the grass. So that's my weird interpretation on your art... sorry for making it seem not... supernatural.
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It is a dude actually, and the black stuff is supposed to be water, not grass. 8D
I like that you can get something different out of it though. 
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Ah okay, that does make a lot of sense
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Ouuu... This must be your handsome vampirey dude. Man... You are so talented. This is plain, like you say, but I'm still in awe at the vast amount of detail poking around every stroke of your pen.
I love the orb in the corner. The wispy, hairlike flowy stuff emanating from it gives me the impression that whatever 'it' is, is leaving him. He could be releasing it, maybe... but it looks more like he's vaguely beckoning for it to come back to him.
Not quite ready to succumb to the skeletony blackness that's swallowing him up, I assume.
Also, I may have discovered his name via comment stalking.
<.<
>.>
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It's da' moon. He's trying to reach for it. Doing his best, but there's so much still pulling him down. 8D
Ou... note me! I want to know whether you've actually found out! You may have only discovered his pseudonym though.
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This is really just beautiful. Gotta say my favorite part is dat hair. I wonder how the overall flow of the piece would have been if the hair were going upward with his reach?
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Ouuu... that's an interesting idea!
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Hm, a ton of favourites but only one comment so far?
Looking at this picture again, I think his hair might look better with a few wavy white lines in it - mirroring those seen in the clouds around the moon - instead of just plain black? Maybe that would help with the plainness you were talking about.
I've always liked way you draw skeletons.
Poor Aramu...don't let yourself be dragged down! >(
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Oh the irony. :\ It makes me sad.
Yeah, that would be cool-- but you have no idea how impossible that is to do well with traditional media. I know nothing should be impossible with art... whatever... but dude. Digital media yeah, because you can draw perfectly white lines straight through black... but with traditional media I can't do that. And I can't just leave uninked areas of white through it because they never look quite right. XD I used to try it a lot.
He's reachin!
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I'll help you!
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Maybe you could try...what's that stuff called, the white stuff used for priming handmade canvases? Oh - GESSO. That stuff is super-hardcore opaque, and brilliantly white! Maybe with a teeny paintbrush and some water to thin it just a bit, you could get the effect you wanted? Maybe?
...I actually love the way you used to leave un-inked areas through your hair. D: You're able to make it look so nice and shiny....<:3 Whenever I try it it just kinda. Ends up looking like stripes. XDD
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Mnnn... maybe. It just never looks right to me.
Ohhhhh... well, you just mean making shiny places? I chose not to do that on purpose with this one except that little bit in the bangs.
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Yeah, I guess I mean the shiny places...I know more of them probably wouldn't have worked in this picture, I'm just sayin. I think those un-inked areas of hair actually look nice in your other pictures
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The shiny places and the uninked places I was talking about are two completely different things. I like doing the shiny places, but they wouldn't have worked here. It would make the picture too busy. The uninked places I was talking about are something else entirely. I stopped doing that so long ago, most of the pictures I did that with I've probably deleted. XD
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Sou desu ka.... mkay.
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Everything always seems like yesterday with my art...
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Much better with anatomy than I am hehe it looks great
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