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Published: 2007-04-26 04:10:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 6299; Favourites: 217; Downloads: 116
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Weeks later I am finally editing this info to properly, you know, thank people and credit my sources!Eesh.. so much for my notions of artistic integrity, eh?
Righto, then!
Kit wrote four and twenty blackbirds -
[link]
- and after I read it I was ... *tries out and ultimately discards several overly-floofy-sounding statements about being all Inspired*.. well, I drew this!
The Important part of all this, though, is to carry on to Moste Kindlye Thanke Julia-chan and G&M Aku - without their kind words (and lovingly-phrased bustouts) poor Balthier would still be looking like a day-after fratboy. *shudder*
Also, the Silent Hill-ification that the piece required was made possible by two wondermous textures acquired from Mayang! [link]
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This is amazingly beautiful picture for a fantastic fanfiction.
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your work has been featured here
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Thank you! It was meant to hit quite hard indeed; glad it succeeds.
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Just gorgeous...it went perfectly with the story.
Nice work.
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Thank you thank you! I need to go re-read the story; it's been awhile. The author is super, super cool; I still talk to her.
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Oh the story is so good! Um so guess what? I featured this in a small feature in my journal. [link]
Again, wonderful work.
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Just kidding....that's a bad link. 
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Thank you! 
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I desperately want to read this fiction, but the link is broken 
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Huh!! Okay, I dimly remember mournfully clicking at things before I went to nap.. and nothing worked, I think Livejournal was down?
It worked for me when I tried it just now.. I hope you like it! I liked it, as I said, well enough to go OH WOW and draw fanart.
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wow - yeah.....wow.....Gives some real weight to the end of the game and reminds us what they almost sacrificed.
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I simply love it balthier is one of my fav game chara, and this pic is just perfect^^
ch Β΅irrow
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Wow - thanks!! 
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I just love this one.. the coloring is perfect and so is everything else... *faved*
As I just said in your profile: Please do a tutorial, would you? x3
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Wonderful art and the story was a good read! You did an amazing job on this piece and it really has kept the mood that the story carried 
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Your work is honestly some of the most beautiful I have ever seen.
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Wow, that's a real angsty Balthier.
But he still looks great.
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Isn't he, though? Poor Balthier! I refuse to accept blame; 'twas Kit that wrote the story. (Did you read it? It's wonderful!)
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I read it, it is indeed amazing.
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You've done such justice to one of my very favorite fanfics.
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Heee! Obviously it's a favourite fanfic of mine as well; and Kit needs to write a sequel to it. (Are you reading this, Kit? SEQUEL TO BLACKBIRDS!)
I fiddled endlessly with the overlay of the blackbirds; it is So!! nice to hear that someone else thinks it makes the piece, 'cause that's my feeling on it.
Thank you very much for the kind words!
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OH MY GOSH this is amazing!!! i love your stylistics!! this is fantastic! a definite
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Angsty Balthier FTW?!
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I like your style and the colors you've used in this. I haven't finished playing this game yet, but I can say that your artwork definitely makes me want to go back and continue, even though I'm too busy.
10/10 from me
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Do finish the game; the ending is quite wonderful! This piece was done for a friend; she very kindly permitted me to illustrate her FF XII fanfiction. While I do love coming up with my own images, I must admit a certain weakness for illustration..
As for the piece itself, the style I coloured it in was a new direction in Photoshopping for me; one I'm still quite happily (if ineptly) exporing! Thank you for the kind words.
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Thank you very and extra mucho, and have a boogie for the 
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lol, yeah
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Holy..I love the coloring! Amazing. I didn't know this was Balthier until I looked at it upclose! I like this pic!
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Do you know, I finally think that maybe - just MAYBE - Photoshop and I will learn to get along? MAN, the fights we have...! But.. this one (eventually) ended up looking just like I wanted it to - WHO KNEW?
THANK YOU!
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I wish I had photoshop...And when I get it I will be wishing I knew how to work it XD!
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Nothing to say but YES.. Photoshop is a pain at first! Srsly, though, don't let it intimidate you.. it's only a bear at first, then it starts to make sense, then it's actually pretty intuitive, in a way. Corel Painter is the one that's a nightmare for me.. I just can't find anything! 
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I love this- the colours and the colouring on this is beautiful, its a really original and interesting colouring style
Good work!
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This one was cheaty-good texture-fun.. there's not that much actual colouring; I just had to work over the places where I wanted Balthier to cover up the background! Haha, cheating! Ehh...
I can't tell you how happy it makes me to hear that my colouring style is unique!
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Ah, i've done that before (sort of) too! Look at this one: [link]
I just used a load of textures brushes and did some messing around with the layer properties and such...XD
Ah, custom brushes make the world go round! Without them i'd probably be sitting in a ditch somewhere using microsoft paint to colour stuff XD
No probs!
Wow, that sounded geeky...XD
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How on earth do I get so BEHIND? Man I am sorry! THANK YOU! And a dance!
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hahah thats ok, and you're welcome!! i looove it!!
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That's so very incredibly amazing 
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Now, the funny part is how pleased I was to get such insightful commentary on my art from someone self-titled 'DJ Smexy'
Otherwise - thank you very and Highly much! I've said before that I really can't take credit, as such, for the atmospheric stylings; they resulted entirely from the realisation that what the piece needed was Much More Silent Hill - so, bloody, rusty metal it was! And voila' - instant Drama. (Sometimes creating the most complicated 'feel' involves the most simple 'process.' Love that.)
"...almost like his subconcious is moving its way into the foreground, and his reality is starting to fade... "
...and that is such a PERFECT! way of expressing in words the concept that I was trying to get across visually that I.. well.. I wish I'd thought of it! I am tempted to steal it! I won't, though, I only pirate things from people I know it would be rude.
Piracy aside, yes - exactly so. In the story, Balthier is very much coming unglued at this point - utterly exhausted, no longer willing to fight the creeping-in of the madness. Someone pointed out to me that he's even looking right at one of the birds, as if he can see it .... (I had resolved to start lying to people, and saying I'd done it on purpose, but honestly I am equally enchanted with the notion that Balthier, not I, decided it.)
And uhm.. wow, i'm the one rambling, here. Sorry 'bout that! Thank you again!
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Hahaha... yes, names can be rather misleading. Totally goes to show that you can't judge a book by it's cover
Hah, don't worry about the ramblings. I enjoy getting feedback on my, um, feedback. I too am a HUGE fan of the Silent Hill series, especially the amazing number 2. The moment that game made me start to think that *I* might be going crazy, was the moment that I fell in love with it. When the writing Mary's letter had vanished I had to go and sit in the middle of a brightly lit room and be scared for a while. Anyhow. Long story short, I love all things Silent Hill. Which means I love this piece
And thank you very much 
But yes, I am prattling again and shall stop. Although I definitely prefer rambling, but deep conversation over 50 comments worth of "lol luv ur pic itz c00l". One of the perks of DA, you definitely run into all types here.
And by the way, in case I forgot to mention, this pic is still AWESOME. I still can't get over how well you portrayed his mental and emotional state, his despair and despondency, without saying a single word.
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Ordinarily, I don't take.. like.. FOUR YEARS to get back to people when they say nice things to me. HONEST.
ONWARD.
Ahh, Silent Hill... 
/me is interested! What sorts of things do you write? Have they got Balthier in them? I love to read!
As for prattling vs. rambling... hmm.. yes.. definitely a meaningful distinction, there, and I applaud you for recognising it! Mumbling, for instance, is one that - I grieve to state - I am a bit prone to. Muttering, also.. just.. random little sentence fragments..sometimes angry... many ellipses... no real point.....
....
... but you are welcome to prattle, ramble or rant at me, as pleases you!
As for the pic - again, I thank you! 
Yes, I'm serious.... it was really, really awful... but I did fix it, and I am proud of me, I must admit.
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Hehe, s'okay. I'm not offended that replying to my comments isn't at the very tip-top of your priorities. If I was offended by that, I think I'd need to invest in getting myself a life
Mmm... SH4. I loved, yet was also disappointed by it. I liked how at first it unfolded like a murder mystery; when my friend and I played, we avidly wrote down the victim numbers, searched out references to past games, etc. I loved it, and it scared the hell out of me!
However I found that eventually it fell flat on itself, instead of picking up momentum towards the end like the other games did. It also doesn't help, that while being a nice bit of eyecandy, Henry is about as emotionally responsive as a piece of plywood 
Playing SH in small doses? *Le gasp!* I should have thought of that. It really would have been conducive to my mental health
Hmm, for writing, I mostly do my own ideas, I don't really know what genre they fall into... I haven't done any fan-fiction yet, but I'm inspired to start now (I've been wanting to ever since I played FFXII
Yay! Now I feel better about rambling at you 
Bah, your "messes" are far prettier than anything I can produce
I saw the this picture first, and easily saw the meaning in it without reading the fic. Actually, because of the order I did things in, I find that the story fits with the painting, not the other way around... Either way, they go hand in hand, yah nailed it!
So yes, be proud. Very proud. Do a little dance, even
And six is not a lot of broken sketches. My book is full of badly-behaved drawings, it makes me sad 
BTW checked out the nice biiiiiiig version
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okay the blackbirds threw me off...in a good way though, they make the whole thing utterly surreal and hallucinatory (is that a word?) and, I'm pleased to tell you, Balthier no longer looks hungover but semi-irate and very, very tired. The colours are delicious. *runs off to re-read fic*
I suppose you could say I'm terribly impressed
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Actually-a-word or not; 'hallucinatory' is a perfectly Awesome whatever to apply to artwork, or at any rate I think it is, and being that it's my artwork in question at the moment, isn't my opinion allowed to count for extra?
ISN'T IT?
CAFFEINE-FUELED, I AM READY TO DISCUSS ARTWORK.
Did you happen to notice that he's looking right at one of the birds, as if he can see it? I actually didn't do that on purpose, although in the future I may lie about that because frankly, I think it's the coolest damned part of the whole piece!
You say 'terribly impressed' as if things don't often terribly impress you! In that - or any case - I am Deeply Flattered. No, really, you shouldn't have!
Last statement is that I find the colours delicious myself, although I can't truly take credit for them: they came from the realisation that what Balthier needed was about 1000% more Silent Hill, and thence came the delightful rusty-metal and dried-blood palette.
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Yes! Silent hill was EXACTLY what I thought when I saw the colour scheme. I think Balthier really does suit that particular dark, brooding, dangerous colour scheme *experimental fiction calling!* And yes, you are correct, it takes something special to impress me terribly, and this is it...the birds were a touch of class
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.... do people on dA like/dislike/hate it when nuts like me find two-week-old comments and reply to them? Do you? Will you send Kaa after me? (Given a whole damn year to make a list of people I thought likely to ever have a Disney Avatar.. you still wouldn't have been on it!
(I also associate you with that which some call furry porn. Do you mind?)
Well, now I've forgotten what I was.. OH! YES. You'd had a Very Nice thing to say about that bit o' scruffy Balthier art, and I was highly pleased. The colours brought Silent hill to mind for you - truly? You've played it? (Did it scare the pants off you also?) I lack the verbal gymnastics to truly express how flattered I am that you were actually Impressed to any degree by this.. so I'll just stammer "OH THANKS YOU!
... experimental fiction? Really? Now, you've made the mistake of revealing your Delicious Talent for it, and as such you're now even more likely than before to be subjected to heavy-handed attempts on my part to get you to, you know, indulge the muses.
...... would it sway your hand if I offered you a link to a Stupid Huge version of seventeenth blackbird, that you might see all the nifty little details?
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