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I just read Speaker for the Dead, of the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. Great series, I really recommend it. In the book, Ender's in his mid-thirties, somewhat peaceful, and has memories from over 3000 years ago. So I wanted to make his eyes look old, and yet have his body young.This drawing was a 'cloud practice', where I just practiced drawing scenery, the sky, and birds. I'm rather happy with the finished product.
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I like it a lot too! Good enough to do a revamp, maybe.
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very poetic (weird way to describe it) piece! that series is great!!! my favorite out of em though has to be enders game, but Speaker for the dead was pretty awesomo
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Thanks. I think my favorite was ender's game as well.
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Oh god, I LOVED that series to death, and to think that there would be Ender's Game fanart on dA!
And even if I didn't know this series, I still would have loved this picture simply because of the amazing perspective you have there. That head angle is also very hard to draw, and you pulled it off wonderfully.
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I remember being super ultra proud of this picture when I first drew it, but now not so much XD It's weird cause once in a while I still get pictures of people who like it and it's really refreshing every time.
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I never thought to come across other Ender fans while messing about on DeviantArt. Huzzah!
Sorry, I'm not enough of an artist to give a proper critique.
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I'm sure you'll find em if you look. I guess there's not much art of it though, it's a bit of an "semi-intellectual" book, hard to draw stuff from for us visual peoples.
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I think the sheer height from the top of the picture, with the circling birds, works very well in symbolizing the years he's seen. It's as if he's looking back through them....and the space is a long one. (I was suddenly seized by the desire to see fanart of Ender Wiggin, and your picture stood out from the rest.)
Nice job.
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I think the sheer height from the top of the picture, with the circling birds, works very well in symbolizing the years he's seen. It's as if he's looking back through them....and the space is a long one. (I was suddenly seized by the desire to see fanart of Ender Wiggin, and your picture stood out from the rest.)
Nice job.
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Wow! I'm quite happy to recieve your comment, though I wasn't thinking of any symbolism when I first drew it, I'm glad that people can interpret a picture in different ways. Thanks!
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Great depiction of a middle aged but 30,000 year old ender, i am guessing from the sky with birds that he isn't on Lusitania here?
Would you be willing to submit this peace to the gallery on our Enderverse community site: [link] ?
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Sure, I would be flattered. Uh, I was kind of vague about where I choose the setting to be, and I haven't read the series recently enough to be able to answer your question accurately, ehheh. I've been planning to redo this picture for a while because of the skewed anatomy.
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Thank you. I am glad you like it.
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this is very neat^-^ i like how you portrayed ender. although i havent read speaker for the dead i just finished reading enders game. the clouds are beautiful^-^
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Thank you. I'm glad you like it, I think the whole series is a seriously fun read.
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looking forward to it^-^n and your welcome
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I really like your picture - I think it conveys the spirit of Ender/and the whole series very well. I like it so much that I made it my background and am interested in making part of it my gmail buddy icon. Seeing as you copyrighted it at the bottom and gmail has policies on that kind of thing, I decided it would be best to ask your permission. Is it ok if I use part of your picture as my gmail icon? Thanks.
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No problem, go ahead! I'm really flattered that you like it so much. It's really part of my dream to have people enjoy my art to that extent. Thanks for the consideration; I really have no qualms against it.
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Thank you! Thank you for drawing anything Ender. This so amazing and the colours are incredible. It's exactly how I imagined Lusitania. Yay. Mean old Card though, makes you fall in love with every one of his characters.
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Er, thank you XD. I'm glad you like it - this picture doesn't get much traffic compared to my others, but I've always liked it the most. I like Card's characters, they're so 3-d.
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Yay! Something to crub my craving for Speaker for the Dead.
Great job, I love it just as a picture.
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Thank you, your comment means a lot to me. Speaker for the Dead was a great book imo, but I personally don't think the rest from "Ender's Side" are up to par. I own them all anyway
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Yeah, "Speaker" is a total stand alone book. Arrgh! Now I want to read it again!
Anyway, you're welcome.
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Wow...love it...I just ordered Speaker For The Dead, can`t wait to read it!
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I hope you like it, it's quite an interesting story. I personally think the originals were better, but whatever
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I always like these kind of angles. (: The birds are hecka nice~
Is this kind of... scratchy style (lol I have no idea what it's called) simply your style? Or are you too lazy to like... blur/smear/blend? o_O
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Birds were taken off a photo! Nothing like reference (read: blanant tracing) to make your drawings look better!
Er? Scatchy style? That's just me being too stupid to know how to make it look neat. And since people seem to like neat things, hopefully this will be corrected soon.
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lollllll genius.
Haha, it looks fine this way. It's like... organized messyness. 8D It looks cool.
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<33 damnnn nice O_O! yeah the angle, the composition is sweett. hmm i just notice something.. you usually use one or two main colors for this piece.. was it done purposefully?
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It's because I'm retarded and my brain asplodes from too many. I don't think I could deal with more than two >>...
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lol. -pat pat- :] i bet you are sitting in your room dieing from the heat right now... muhahaha... while im at internship with AIR CONDITIONING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 <3 this place for it. but somtimes >__>;; they turn it up wayy too high.. its like a frig in there at times..
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Nah, I'm in Graphic Design Class where it's perfect! Drawing killer whales and stuff...gah..
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oh cool. what programs are you using in there? is it even helpful? the class? hmmm if its useful mayeb i will go take it. where you taking it anyways?
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Fremont high. It's really helpful, imo. Even to someone who already knows how to use photoshop.
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ooh awesome. i will go check it out next summer then. how long is the course? for how many weeks?
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My brain has already rotted from summer inactivity, but I will try my best to leave a decent comment.
The flow of this piece is very nice :] I nearly fell out of my chair looking at it. But what bothers me is his neck. The way you shaded it made it look like his head was hollow and the neck was inside the head or something O.o But I really love the colors, and the detail of the background *o* I would sell my soul for drawing skills half as good as yours X__x
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Thanks. I'm glad I could knock you out X_x. Yeah, everyone's told me about the fucked-up neck, haha. I really need to work on that. If I knew how to fix it, I would. Maybe I'll go take a look at it again.
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grawr bitch! so good so good <3 i have to get back into my drawing modes. but oh need inspiration.
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I always look at people who are amazing at drawing, like ~tobiee . He's my DA crush, because I love his art soso much.
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Ooooh. Wonderful. I do believe you pulled off the clouds /really/ well.
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Thanks! I'm still hoping to get better in such BG aspects, and the prehaps I can do more than puffy cartoon clouds.
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Wow. Well, like everyone else, the neck seems sort of...odd...to me. BUT zomg I can't believe you had the balls to do that. I sure as hell wouldn't've. And the perspective on those clouds...is SO nice.
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Thanks so much for your comment. I don't know what the hell to do with the neck...I think it's werid as well. If only I knew what to do with it. Prehaps I will learn one day. And as ~sophiac said below, :devAquasixo: has a really good cloud tutorial.
I've always wanted to make dynamic, interesting pictures. Hopefully this is the first step in the right direction.
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