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Selfish-Eden — Forever Yours
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Published: 2007-04-28 03:46:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 1405; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 15
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I've edited the sky a little bit since it looked so grainy. Thanks to ~nemina for pointing that out.I blame this entirely on *lindowyn-stock , who sent me a copy of the Nightwish song "Dead Boy's Poem." After listening to it roughly 100 times, I went through all my Nightwish stuff and got stuck on "Forever Yours."
I found an absolutely exquisite background I just had to use, and from then on, there was just a lot of repainting the girl. Simple.
So... this is dedicated to the Evil Elf.
Credits:
Nightwish: Forever Yours
Fare thee well, little broken heart
Downcast eyes, lifetime loneliness
Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone
Constant longing for the perfect soul
Unwashed scenery forever gone
Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone
No love left in me
No eyes to see the heaven beside me
My time is yet to come
So I'll be forever yours
Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone
No love left in me
No eyes to see the heaven beside me
My time is yet to come
So I'll be forever yours
No love left in me
No eyes to see the heaven beside me
My time is yet to come
So I'll be forever yours
Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone
Whatever walks in my heart
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Your wonderful piece has been featured in the latest Art Imitating Music news article, found here:
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Thanks for sharing your inspiration!
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Thank you so much for the feature! I really appreciate it!
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I still can't decide if my favourite Nightwish song is this one or Sleepwalker. But one of the weirdest things about Forever Yours is that, although I listened to it hudreds time, it never gave me any particular image. Maybe this is why your work touched me so much. It's just.... I don't know.
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Thank you so much! Sleepwalker is an awesome song, too, but Forever Yours has always been my absolute favorite by them.
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You're very welcome.
I don't know, in this period I'm listening to Forever Yours a lot (I searched related artworks just while listening to it, I wanted to find a visual image of it)... and also to While Your Lips Are Still Red and Long Lost Love, but I still prefer the first one...
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Squee! Thanks again!
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I remember it being a bit grainy, but I thought that was an intentional texture. It looks gorgeous either way, IMO. This is one of my favorites from you! The gazebo looks Elvish, nay?
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Thank you! 
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I totally want to jump inside of your piece and dwell there.
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Eeeeee! That's such an awesome compliment!
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Awwwwwwww!!! Finally--I can see the big version! That really is so beautiful, you know? And the song fits PERFECTLY to the atmosphere you created. Just a kind of soft darkness and small, elegant lightsources...and you gave her a pointy ear!! How cute!! I love it love it! *to the desktop it goes*
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Thank you so much!
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AHHH! It won't let me see it bigger!! Sadness! I'll come back in a little bit...
>.> And, apparantly, I'm Neutral Good!
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It did that to be earlier. 
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Nothing yet...still trying! But in the meantime, I'm thinking we're going to wind up doing a freaking series of musical deviations. LOL
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You have a really great attention to detail in general, but there's just something special about this piece-apart from everything else looking just beautiful, what also contributes greatly are the silhouettes of the birds in the Background. Very nice. 
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Thank you so much! 
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This is so gorgeous! I love the simplicity of the composition, and the use of stock is perfect. Beautiful and flawless work!
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"So... this is dedicated to the Evil Elf." That is mean!
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oh...wow, this is very beautiful. You are a good one with photography. It looks VERY professional! (If you're already one, then, i must be a good guesser!) The emotion you captured in this piece is .. just amazing. I get a very nice feeling when i look at this. AWESOME work. VERY awesome <3
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Thank you very much!
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Super choice in background.. and the atmosphere.. the emotion..s tunning
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This is gorgeous! You have such a way with lighting that I'm STILL trying to figure out! The moonlight on her is so perfect and with the background she looks like she could be sitting on the river shore in Lothlorien wishing for her love who's left for the Undying Lands already.....wow, that was deep, go me! Now you've made me want to go watch LoTR!
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Thank you so much! 
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Oooh, that's what she WANTS you to think! You gotta watch out for that one!!!
Ah, painting. I always use my lighten darken tool. I'm still working on the whole painting thing!
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This is fantastic!!! She really blends well into the scene, as if she was really there...
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Thank you very much!
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Ohh, lovely! Night scenes are especially a little more difficult to do. What I'd suggest though is that you add a source of light. I don't know if it's my display, but the sky looks a little choppy too. I'd use a stock picture of some clouds and layer if over that and then go over it with a smudge tool to work out any photo grain and such. Then, I'd take a moon brush and stick a moon somewhere in there. Other than that, it's really nice.
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