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SilverShadow1711 — 'The Bells Are Ringing...' by-nc-nd

Published: 2011-05-17 04:58:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 650; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 34
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Description "Now I know how the story goes
It was no accident Cinderella dropped them
Now I see we are completely the same
We were desperately wanting your attention
I've always been here; will you ever look at me?"
Romeo and Cinderella
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For contest. The subject- love. I know it doesn't seem like it, but allow me to explain.

The first picture I had drawn was super happy and the "love" element jumped out at you. But I could never bring myself to do anything with it. It felt empty. So I drew this instead. It's the darker aspect of love, the rejection and deciet and general sense of being trapped in loathing at rock bottom. I can't really think of any time when "love" has been associated with anything "good", personally.

If you've ever seen the animated PV for "Romeo and Cinderella", this would probably make alot more sense. But I'll try to break it down. Daveigh (the dark girl) represents the sadness and longing that come from unrequieted love. Silver (miss Cinderella) represents the almost obbsessive, unrealistic standard that we hold love to (i.e., the fairytale ending). The general background is for the mythos of love, the delicate, fancy perfection we expect it to be. The sad, bleak city? Meh, just how I feel about love.

Silver and Daveigh (c) ~SilverShadow1711

Post Script- I finally found my scanner cord, so I added some textures in GIMP. The checker pattern on the bottom was painted, though. And the Cinderella dress? It's the one from 'Nightmares and Fairytales', of course! That's the only version of Cinderella I hold in esteem.

"The thing that dropped was the golden axe on our heads..."
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Comments: 15

Luciferys [2011-06-17 21:32:33 +0000 UTC]

I love it^^ Haven't seen much of your art lately...and this one was among tones of pieces in my inbox(while I was gone my inbox went crazy...I had like 60 000 unread messages:rofl)..So it was kinda refreshing to see something from you among the piles of 99% crap( you know what I'm talking about)
So here's a hug
And sorry I wasn't here when you submitted it. The colors are beautiful. And I bet that wonderful lace took you forever to draw. I like how accurate are the flowers. Not to mention the anatomy that is good.

BTW I featured it in my journal

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SilverShadow1711 In reply to Luciferys [2011-06-18 22:38:55 +0000 UTC]

Well, that makes it all worthwhile. I haven't been drawing (just, all this bullshit , man). And I know how you feel- well, not with comments (I don't get those), but with all that shit. I bet all those commets said "KAWAIIDESU!!!!"

Oh, I don't care when you see it. The fact that it stands out enough in your inbox for you to take a look makes me smile. It did, it DID take forever. Ugh, flowers are hard. And the anatomy is WAAAY off, but I'll take a compliment when I get one.

Oh, so THAT'S where all those faves came from >w<

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Amethyst-Chan [2011-05-17 20:09:37 +0000 UTC]

Haaa, good choice of a song
Hooray for a scanner,
and in additions, even in the Shakespearian Comedy from which modern romantic movies find their roots, there is the aspect of sadness...

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SilverShadow1711 In reply to Amethyst-Chan [2011-05-18 17:46:37 +0000 UTC]

Heh, I figured.
Yes, hooray indeed.
The sad thing is, when people describe a true love as being like "Romeo and Julliete", they don't realize that Shakespear wrote that play to explain that young love is shallow and that teenagers are frickin' stupid. Ah, irony.

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Amethyst-Chan In reply to SilverShadow1711 [2011-05-19 00:39:28 +0000 UTC]

That is a point too-also to note is that there is only ONE difference in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, and that is the ending, one is sad and the other happy-
oh, and the point that people in love are silly, and love isn't happy and has so many conflicts, and courtly love is made of...over the top romantic and ridiculous in the modern view ideals
And this is the guy people look at for the best tragic romances of all time.

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SilverShadow1711 In reply to Amethyst-Chan [2011-05-20 06:04:50 +0000 UTC]

I don't put too much faith in people's views of the world, seeing as how Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga have the most followed twitter feeds (or so I've heard). The phrase "mindless sheeple" comes to mind.

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Amethyst-Chan In reply to SilverShadow1711 [2011-05-20 22:12:42 +0000 UTC]

Mindless sheepie indeed in such cases...
but old courtly love-while suiting to the romantic person,. it ridiculous to a person with practial in their mind.

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shilika-sori [2011-05-17 19:08:04 +0000 UTC]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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SilverShadow1711 In reply to shilika-sori [2011-05-18 17:47:32 +0000 UTC]

Well, I think that's a good thing, so thanks. And if it's not, please stop screaming; I do NOT need the cops coming back here...

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shilika-sori In reply to SilverShadow1711 [2011-05-18 18:06:28 +0000 UTC]

...¬¬' plasta...

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Aydub [2011-05-17 19:04:16 +0000 UTC]

I'm happy your scanner is up now! yay face.

This is amazing in every aspect, it fits well and it does give the different spin on love.

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SilverShadow1711 In reply to Aydub [2011-05-18 17:49:52 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, so now it can go back to butchering my pictures instead of letting the camera do that.

Well, thank you dearie. I was thinking people would think it DOESN'T fit very well, but it's nice to see people are able to read deeper than I give them credit for.

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DesolatePassion [2011-05-17 15:06:55 +0000 UTC]


It's beautiful!
I'm glad your scanner is up and running. c:
As well as my undying love for almost anything Silver! <3
I do think Daveigh is very cute though, is she a new character?

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SilverShadow1711 In reply to DesolatePassion [2011-05-18 17:51:54 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thank you.
I am too- it's been too long.
My ego has missed you, I can honestly say >w<
Well, that makes one of us. Uh, no, she's pretty old. She's Silver human form. I think I drew her a couple of times before.

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DesolatePassion In reply to SilverShadow1711 [2011-05-21 15:48:16 +0000 UTC]


>w< Yeah, I need to start getting on more.
Or at least attempting to contribute more, or something of that sort.
;A; I've missed feeding your ego monster! <3

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