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PyramidHeadxXx — Tears of the Unspoken
Published: 2008-06-07 16:09:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 7130; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 60
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Long time ago I've promised to make the sequal to the two last quick drawings.
I started on a drawing of a close-up of an eye, but it became ugly so I scrapped it... >.<Now that I have some time for drawing again, I got another idea for the completion of the other drawings and this is the result.
This is the third and final part of the recent quick drawings I've made:
#1 "Why is she Crying?"
[link] #2 "Every Rose Has Its Thorns"
[link] This is the conclusion of the triptych and reveals that the theme for the three artworks is "tears". However, this drawing has a more accurate theme, where the main focus is on "rape":
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Rape is motivated by the need to control, humiliate and harm. It is not motivated by sexual desire. Rapists use sex as a weapon to dominate others.
Rape is rape, regardless of the relationship between the rapist and the victim. It can either be a total stranger or someone you recognise by sight, but have never really communicated with or someone you know superficially such as a neighbour or a colleague.
Every 2½ minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. 1 out of 6 American women are victims of sexual assault. 83 % of rape cases are aged 24 or under. 1 out of 4 college women have either been raped or suffered attempted rape. Only 16 % of rapes are ever reported to the police.Healing begins with having a safe place or person talk with about the sexual assault. Since victims may not recognize the assault as “rape” and may be confused by their feelings, it’s important to open a line of communication.
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I've given it the title "Tears of the Unspoken" because I want symbolize that most victims of sexual assault remain silent and do not even dare to speak of it. Those victims live in constant fear of telling it because they might feel unclean, spoiled and guilty about it.
It's so sad to know that such a horrible crime goes unpunished so often
That's why it's so important to have someone to talk to about it all. The first step towards getting over the horrible feeling is to tell someone you trust.The bruises on the girl's skin symbolizes the outer and inner wounds; the everlasting result of sexual assault. I chose not to draw any tears because I wanted to let it symbolize her inner feelings, which she doesn't want to reveal or express to someone else. She remains the truth hidden...
The topic in this drawing is mainly focusing on "rape", however you are free to interpret the drawing the way you want. Please tell me what you can see/ feel through this drawing.
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Materials used:
- Pencil (0.5)
- Graphite pencils (4H, F, 3B & 7B)
Time spend:
- 10 hours
I hope you'll like it
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Comments: 102
Wow this is an amazing work of art, you really hit how someone feels and looks in this situation. The bruises really emphasize what is/has happening/happened. Being a victum of multiple rapes myself this really hits home. Very amazing picture, it's so uncommon to find pictures like this.
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woah thats hardcore dude.
her facial expression is very belivlable and sadening
u did a great job on this and used ur talent as an advocate for rape and the whole cause
u rock
and this looks very gud too!
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What I see....I desire to vanish right then and there...to suddenly awake from a nightmare...a shame of weakness...death of innocence...left alone...tearing of feelings...betrayal of trust...guilt of revenge...pain of despair...and horrible screams of the silent. One word is said throughout all this...."Why?"
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Could I post this piece, with credit back to your DA account, on a forum? You can check it out here: [link]
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Sure you can 
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Thanks! Most of the pages on the message board are viewable by members only, but you can read some of the public ones here: [link] I planned on posting this in the "healing through creativity" forum. Thanks again for letting me share!
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Oh alright. Well, even though I can't see it I'm sure it looks good and useful at the forum
Allways a pleasure to help ^^
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All I can say is thank you. This piece is beautiful.
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Always a pleasure. Thank you so much for the compliment and the 
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I was looking at your recent drawing of Jesus (I'm in the Christians club) and it is amazing, and then I looked at this...I really feel you did a wonderful job at expressing such a horrible thing in a sensitive/reverent way.
I definitely can relate to it...not necessarily rape, but a similar experience with a close friend made this really tug at my heart.
You did a wonderful job. I love the fuzziness of her face, it looks similar to horrific images you see in movies these days and helps with the overall tone of the piece, but it is very sensitive and emotional at the same time.
I am so faving this. This image completely says what I wanted to say in a drawing I did but did not even come close: [link]
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Thank you so much 
Hehe, the reference image was actually taken from a horror movie 
Thank you very much for the comment and the
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You are very welcome! 
Well, I can relate to the emotion in it because I was sooo in love with this guy from my childhood who came back into my life, and he was the coolest hippie ever. We were really great close friends and we would hang and make art together. We both really liked each other, but I was on the straight and narrow and he was well...a pothead. 
So even though it wasn't technically rape, it was rape of my heart.
And your drawing totally captures what I was feeling inside even though it didn't show on my face!
And thanks for faving my drawing! I appreciate it! 
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So at first (before you found out the relation between you two wouldn't last long) you had the thought that he was "the one", but he just didn't cared? The way he treated you was a form of "rape" of your heart and soul, am I right? Was there any certain things he did which caused pain in your heart?
In that case, I can deeply feel what you've been going through.. So sad.
But it's so good that you found another one, who really loves and respects you and your needs
I'm very glad to hear that you can relate to my drawing the way you just shared with us. I'm glad you told me about your experience.
You're so welcome
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I certainly wished he was the one, but I tried not to focus on that because even though we were so alike in many ways, we were very different..we had troubles dealing with his need to do drugs all the time. That was so incredibly hard to take, and heartbreaking to watch him decline. But he has a big heart and I would guide him with total compassion, which he really appreciated. I knew that I couldn't change him, but I wished sooo bad that he could be mine forever and I just couldn't stop loving him! But if that's going to happen he's got to come around and fix a few things first. Even though sometimes it hits me really hard and I get angry at him, I've forgiven him and hopefully it will be a happy time when I see him again.
But now I've learned for the future to really guard my heart.
I can't wait to see more of your amazing work! All of it makes me want to break out the drawing pencils again
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Yeah, we could talk about anything, on one particular occasion he spilled everything to me...he was only a young teen when older high schoolers influenced him and it grew to just take him over so it's almost like the start of the whole thing wasn't his fault, even though he could have made the choice to stop. But it's never too late! And I pray for him every single day. It's not a chore or anything, every day I do it with my whole heart.
And I was really lucky, because my bf was really supportive and helping me get through it when we started going out.
Yup! I just got some charcoal pencils, and want to do a super realistic portrait or something soon! I have a habit of smoothing out things so ridiculously, but I want to try to challenge myself and keep it pencil-y while still looking realistic.
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Yes, you pray for him 'cause you love him. Praying is something we don't do because we necessary have to, but because it feels right and it helps us all in the end
That's great
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You're always welcome
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Yes, sometimes wishes is all we have left..
Did you talk to him face to face about the problem behind his addiction to drugs? Did you ever feel that the drugs took his focus on you away from him? I can deeply understand you love him, but sadly at times love has its costs..
You're thoughtful and caring person. I'm sure that you someday might find a solution on how to deal with it all
Wow, my work did that? 
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Oh my what a powerful drawing, and it goes great with the description as well as, you are RIGHT! you are so right with the statistics, I was sexually harrassed daily back in October, or what ever you want to call it, and I would be scared to go to class, and I could not feel better untill I told my friend about it, whom is an adult. He threatened me sometimes, and once followed me into the bathroom, and would do some sick things, I never reported him because things like these are embaressing to talk about face to face with people.
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Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. I'm very glad you told me. It really made my eyes wet.. Oh man, what kind of sick things did he do to you? =/
Your feelings are normal and deeply understand what you mean. I can already tell you that there's absolutely nothing to be either scared of or embaressed about. Such horrible things which has happened to you is nothing to be embarressed about telling to another person. Believe me, as soon as you start talking about it all to someone you trust you feel very much relieved. Then the biggest part of the burden is gone. Don't fear to talk about this.
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Yeah,I told my best adult friend and she said that she wont tell, but if I need help, she'll get me help from somewhere. I was not raped, though he threatened to do so if he caught me alone somewhere, and he said things like he was going to come to my house with a few of his friends, and do things. Me and him got put together for math projects, by the teacher because we were the only ones left in that room with no partner, and he would stick his hands up and down my shirt and under garments and start feeling around, and then pull the front of my my shirt down completely. there are only 6 other kids in our math class, and 26 seats, we were paired up and around the room, I didnt want to draw attention to this though because if I yelled, people would turn around and see things. Later on I find out this kid is bragging to his friends about how I let him do this. The months of school after was not good at all, this continued untill someone took him out of the class for failing everything he did.
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Every single victims, including you, need the best of help they can ever get.
Threatening with rape is almost just as worse as rape itself. You must have felt so terrible by getting such a thing told to you by him.. =/
Oh man, what a pervert >.< Getting touched in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable is no good... It's your body. Nobody has the right to touch it if you don't want them to. In such a situation I would prefer to shout out that he should stop doing it. Believe me, it's better to tell what you feel, mean and stand for than to keep it hidden. That's what my drawing is reflecting.
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Yeah, right when he said it, it is as though I didnt want to look at him. And when I got home I would sleep for a long time and could not get it out of my head at first, it was not that I was sad, more so fearing school, and wanting to not go. Yeah he was, and I told him many times to quit it because it is embaressing. He is luckally going to a different school that I am next year. And yes Your drawing reflects well! I think what you drew for was real cause! A good one to open the eyes of people, most people let things like this slip their mind, because they dont think it will happen to them or someone they know when clearly, the chances are always there.
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Indeed. It's in horrible situations like these where fear plays an even bigger role than sadness. Fear takes control and destroys your courage. But deep inside yourself, you know what's right from wrong. There was a little voice inside your head telling that what he did to you is totally unacceptable. Good thing that he's gone now ^^ However, do you feel that the inner wounds, which he has given you, still does exists today deep inside yourself?
Thank you
Indeed, no one is safe. That's why I always fear if something like this should happen to my beloved girlfriend.. =[
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Kind of, not so much inner wounds it is more like, a scar because the wound has healed, like a bad thing that happened. that scar will I hope fade (I am 15 right now I have time.) He threatened that he will come on halloween not just to me but other people as well, while I think that threat he made is all talk, I sometimes wake up and look out the window at night to make sure. I learn not to be so nieve (sorry if spelled wrong) and I am more aware that bad things happen like this, and it can, and did happen to me. I pray your girlfriend will NEVER have to go through that.
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I hope so much too that the scar will fade. I'll pray for that.
Oh my,.. that guy is insane! I hope that he one day will be put behind bars, where he can't do any harm to you and others.
You mean that you've learned to take things somehow more serious, right? That you realize that no one is safe and that anything can happen even when you least expect it? However, don't let your fear take the complete control. It's always important to remember that.
Thank you. I hope so much that she never will.. It will break hers and my heart if such a thing happened.
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He has been put behind bars enough times, I know he is not sorry for what he did, he is what you call sociopath, yes I learned not to make things seem so innocent, and not to think everyones okay. I watch around and is aware when going plaaces, I am not susspective of people just more... alert, and walk away from anyone I get ideas may be not a good person/ people (gangs)
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Oh, so he has been behind bars before? Indeed the term "sociopath" fits him perfectly.
That's good. Better to be alert than to feel completely paranoid. Since you know how to predict which person is the bad one and so on, you're doing the right thing. I'm proud of what you've achieved =]
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Apart from the amazing deep surrealistic expression of total helplessness and desperation and the usual perfect quality of the image,I must say "thank you". This really touched me. For years, I've been feeling this blind hatred for rape,and all similar actions. I've never been raped, but often physically/mentally tortured and beaten by my father... Still, I guess that's a million times better. I'm glad someone stood up against rape and dared to express it with art. Rape is one of the things in life that makes us doubt whether people are living, feeling creatures, or monsters.
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I'm very glad you told me about it the way you've experienced such horrors in your life. So awful.. Has the mental torture been leaving inner wounds on you which you still deal with today?
I've noticed that people don't really about it as much as it was meant to be spoken of, so by this artwork I wanted to wake up the world, telling everyone how horrible this kind of abuse really is. I want to change and help the world, make it into a better place for everyone to live in
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You're welcome,it's not very difficult to tell...I've been used to it,I've come to say it as a by-the-way thing,and I guess it looks more horrible from another point of view. But yes, it's left may scars,mostly in the way I see myself and the way I feel unable to overcome a lot of things, among which my enormous feeling of guilt for anything most of the time and my unusually low self esteem and confidence. Sometimes I feel unworthy of talking to most people,even,simply because I was taught to bow down,obey and never speak out or stand my ground. It's a great thing that you're doing here. It's people like you who truly have a chance of saving the world bit by bit,simply because they try.
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Wow, this is almost scary... Ever here the song by Toad the Wet Sprocket called "Hold Her Down" This reminds me of that 
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Then my drawing works
Never heard of it, but from out the lyrics it fits a lot.
Thanks for the
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ohh I love it! You are still the master with the pencil!
Well done work
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Awwww, you make me so happy by saying that
Thanks for the sweet compliment and for the
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Aww believe me, to draw like that without having lessons, thats only the masters that can do that
Aww you're welcome, I just HAD to collect it
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Hehe, well yes I guess so ^^ But the ones who've taken lessons and create ultra-realistic things are the only ones who gets noticed, where I'm just a shadow..
I'm so glad you can see and understand the true meaning of this drawing
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Aww yes, even that I'm a great student and a great tattoo-designer, I'm a shadow too, but I guess its because people are blind for our art and talents so its only some people that can see what we are and what we can create
Aww you are welcome once again, I hope to see some more great art from you
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Yes, and also the fact when it's an artwork of something/someone beautiful, which EVERYONE likes, gets all the attention where artworks with a strong meaning/ message gets unnoticed because of the "beautiful" artwork's popularity.. I'm so tired of this. People have become so objective in their perspective.. -.-
But those who notices us are in fact the best people of them all
I'm almost done with a new drawing, which also is strong in its image like this drawing. I hope someone will like it
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yeah and material too-__-
they are just blind for the messages..well it almost ruin it all when people can't see it!>_<
Aww really? Can't wait to see!
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Whoa great job!
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Thank you!
I want to shout "HEY! WAKE UP!" to the world with this drawing, showing everyone how awfull and horrible such a crime really is. And also to show how big the problem really is, when so many victims keeps it hidden and doesn't report it to the police or tell it to people they trust.
Thank you so much
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Your very welcome
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Glad to hear that
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