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Pyroluminescence [2011-02-18 02:52:44 +0000 UTC]

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Your painting is improving, but keep anatomy and volume in mind. Avoid using tools that blur/smuge your values. Try to show a more definite light source, too. Your composition is a little heavy on the right, too. I'd either crop the figure down, or elongate the arm. You could also down the contrast on the figure, since that's what our eye immediately goes to (we, as a species, are REALLY attracted to contrast, arent we? e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b… " width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Big Grin)"/>). I also feel like the background is a little too busy and distracting. Try to rely less on effects and paint your own backgrounds. It's very rewarding. I agree that the blue was a good option, however your value range, while very nice, has a lot of contrast that the veins do not, which busies the eye a bit much and is distracting. Does that make sense? The background is also a little too close in color to the blood/veins, so I'd definitely try and do something about that. But you've been making great strides, and this definitely gives off the feeling of a nightmare sequence.

Out of curiosity, what causes your nightmares? Medication? PTSD? Bipolar? I've worked with quite a few people who had chronic nightmares. One of them had nightmares so bad he developed PTSD over something that never even happened outside of a dream. Scary shit, and you have a way of letting us into your head to see just how scary it is. Nice work.

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Star-Tigress [2011-02-18 00:18:17 +0000 UTC]

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This is a very well done and vivid piece and I think that you should expect a high grade for it. Though unrealistic, your picture really sends shivers down the spine, and puts an unsettling but fascinating image in viewers minds.
The use of tone on the body works brilliantly on the blue, setting it apart from the rest of the picture and the sketchy style of shading contributes to the nightmarish feel. The icy blue gives the body a corpse-like effect, with the veins gushing out from the arms being the only sign of life, which, in itself is rather disturbing, as if they have a life of their own.
The veins, after breaking free of the arm, wrap themselves around the forearm, binding it giving the body a trapped look.
The fact that the veins have a lot of detail, with smaller veins very carefully drawn in, while the rest of the picture is fairly simple, adds to the dramatic effect very well, drawing your eyes to the gore.
One thing that I would say about this, though, is that in some places, the blood falls from the veins in a way that is not terribly realistic and is a little off colour, but this is fairly difficult to notice unless you look really closely, so does not matter too much.
Overall, I think that this is a brilliant piece that is delightfully gory, while not being disgusting, though I feel sorry for you having a dream like that.
This picture is truly brilliant.

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SoundWave99 [2011-02-20 00:51:50 +0000 UTC]

Ouch, looks and sounds painful D:.
Also, every night? You sure you don't watch or play any scary things? What I mean is, maybe you watch something that has subliminal messages in them or something?

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TheRedAndTealEspeon [2011-02-19 04:40:23 +0000 UTC]

FOR SOME REASON,this doesn;t creep me out.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEH?

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Phoenixtheninjacat [2011-02-18 02:06:03 +0000 UTC]

Really? I never dream at all.

Well, a little bit.

I really like this, the cartilage and the tendrils are amazing. I think it would be cool if you made the arm look a little more "stretched".

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K4ko [2011-02-18 01:36:17 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, this is beautiful
-is very morbid-

Last year, I saw some pieces in my sculpting class from a kid who also chose nightmares as their concentration: but seeing this is really different from the childhood nightmares he created.
The drak terror that this exemplifies is truly beautiful, I'm drawn in to this piece and craving moar~

sorry bout the nightmares though, that's got to suck . . . . . . even though I love things like that ;w;

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NinRac [2011-02-18 01:21:58 +0000 UTC]

I really like it and wanna see your nightmares just to actually see since even the most perfect artist still will lose part of it in transition but it sounds like an amazing (but terrifying experience). Definitely gives a "wow" moment. If that teacher still gives you a low grade, you need to march around going "Haters gonna hate" with a big, hearty laugh and forget that teacher's opinion (if you can find a way around that)

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5D-Ray [2011-02-18 00:26:52 +0000 UTC]

great drawing but really terrifying nightmares
like the colors and shadowing, also the details on the veins are amazing
but seriously, for how long have you been having that kind of nightmares?

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Foxy-Sierra [2011-02-17 23:57:12 +0000 UTC]

Dude, that is vivd O_o;

Nice and creepy artwork! Sounds like you need an injection of happy dreams. I don't think I've ever had such a vivid nightmare before.

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Quotation-Marx [2011-02-17 23:56:07 +0000 UTC]

Nightmares are so interesting to me. I didn't have the extra class space to take AP Psychology, but I've went and researched a few things in my free time. Dreams in general are really powerful, enough to cause physical changes in people.

I'll be sure to write a critique once I have enough time to later tonight~

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Eggys [2011-02-17 23:52:05 +0000 UTC]

Fruit gushers are the best things in the whole world.

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kittenfly8230 [2011-02-17 23:39:08 +0000 UTC]

That's..... That's just amazing. I love the textures and coloring on this, it reminds me of bloody lizard-tails..... I've though of those before, and they're kind of... They interest me. I don't know why. But this is really awesome because of the shading and stuff.... It scares and facinates me all at once... Like imagining a full grown gorilla in a diper (I can't spell, sorry for that).

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gooddogsaregood [2011-02-17 23:34:07 +0000 UTC]

that's a pretty elaborate dream to have in science class...o__o when i fall asleep in school, i just dream that my math teacher is a gnome or a boy scout for some reason.

anyway, that's really awful that you have nightmares so often...D: you must have a lot of sleepless nights, huh?

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clarifying-this [2011-02-17 23:30:38 +0000 UTC]

i really like the way this is confusing me.
i like the texture and the obviously organic parts and the strung contrast to the white sheet.

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Lati-CA [2011-02-17 23:28:20 +0000 UTC]

*shivers* this is the one you told me about,
Even the picture gives me chills down my spine
There's a girl who has night terrors and during
Psychology we were meditating, she fell asleep
she woke up and was just in sheer terror
idk It made me think of you and i felt guilty

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