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Drawn using pigment ink fineliners, colouring pencils and metallic gel pens.Imagine you are a grain of sand, one of billions that make a great flowing mass,
counting interminable seconds from an unknown past into an unknown future.
beneath the vast machine that is terra firma, Mother Earth.
Your very essence is playing a part in this great conundrum.
Who you are, What you decide to be, who you decide to hang out with...
all have bearing on the result.
(C) simon park 2009 - 2013. no unauthorized copying, redistribution or usage of any kind.
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wow, thanks!
i am humbled by your awe!
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you can probably tell by my works, i do love trees. people dont respect trees enough.
sometimes i think if people could just learn to love the world they live in, everything would be alright...
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I totally agree with you!
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Once again, impressive work on your part.
Trees are truly awesome. Β 
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I like how something with so much detail is somewhat simplified into clear shapes ..if that makes any sense..Β
Again the whole piece looks wonderful, again great detail, composition; having the hourglass slightly to the side instead in middle of the piece really helps making it look more ..natural? otherwise with such clear shapes it might come off as too precise and logo like, at least to my liking.
However for some reason the tree trunk and the roots are my favorite part..I love how their color is so much in contrast with rest of the colors. Not to mention the neat lining done all across them and the strong shading. oh and as a cherry on the top, I also like your thoughts behind the work 
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thank you so much! this was one of those pieces that just seemed to draw itself, using me as it's outlet.
I never liked perfectionism, I like making things non-symmetrical because in nature nothing is perfect, everything has lumps and bumps - and of course, with shaky hands my lines are a little wobbly anyway, so it fits better that way too-
I think im finally getting this used to this drawing thing, its getting easier
for years and years i struggled to get things looking how i wanted, and even if people praised my work i was still very critical of it. but the important thing about art is to put your heart and soul into it, and that way it shines through when others see it too
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I love that kind of artworks, makes it also feel like they take very little time to complete 
My lines are a little wobbly as well, but I like the look.
how long have you been drawing then?
I tend to do that a lot as well, but as long as it doesn't stop you from continuing, i think being critical only helps to improve.
Well, I can definitely see how much you u into your works ^^
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well, i have been drawing my whole life, so +25 years...
but only doing it seriously and considering selling work for the past six years or so, since i was about 22.
before that i was just drawing manga girls, skeletons and robots and not really putting enough effort in... it was once i really started pushing myself that it became obvious i could go further with my drawings than previously thought.
Then the material i was drawing evolved into something a lot more mature and a lot less media based and sexual.
I think a lot of artists get stuck in this kind of mindset these days, but it means you spend less time considering what it is you are drawing on a serious level;
once i started taking it seriously, i could fill a whole page with a single tree and amaze myself with the amount of thought going into it.
definately being critical of onesself is important to become an artist; you only push yourself if you are determined to do better than last time!
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so you started doing seriously art when you were as old as I am now.. 
That's true, putting more thought into your work and pushing yourself further can really help to change the material your draw... or at least the quality
I hope I will be able to improve with my art still.. considering it is my dear hobby and very important to me, even though my studies and career options will have very little to do with art (and thus.. take away time from making art)
that's true
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always take criticism as a challenge, even criticism from ones'self.
as long as this holds true, every failure makes us stronger, and takes us that extra step toward our ultimate goals.
i'm still not completely happy with the results of my labour, yet i know i am ever getting closer to my desire, of being able to show people something they have never, and may never again, see.
keep up the great work! its paying off, and you get better every day!!
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i have sent a note
I'm pleased you like my art
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i loved how this one turned out too. thanks for the praise my friend - hope you have a wonderful day!
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my interpretation of world events....
even though I live a million miles from Fukushima DaichiΒ or the middle east, I can see very easily where mankind is heading.... unless they butch up and start giving a care. these sort of pictures are my way of trying to spread awareness.
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thank you so much! means so much to me that people love what I do.
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Very interesting, and beautiful. We give just as much as we take from the earth in the end.
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kind of.... I bet we will leave behind some interesting and questionable artefacts for future denizens of earth to find archeologically.
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Interesting impression. I've thought about the cycle of life, the earth beneath us and trees a lot lately. The way that the roots pierce the glass and make the frame of the hourglass at the same time emphasizes the mystery of life that encompasses us entirely and that cannot be avoided. Great work.
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thank you! you pretty much surmised everything I was going for here.... mostly
as a pagan, the earth's life is important to me. oil spills, nuclear waste and other such idiocies are only tightening the nails in the coffin of mankind.
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I'm glad my interpretation was close to what you were after! I also consider myself a sort of Pagan and tend to greet the trees. Hmm yeah I get it, it seems like we're driving ourselves in the completely wrong direction. How can we keep making and burying more nuclear waste? Digging our own grave, indeed.
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am in total agreement with you.
perhaps either humans will figure it out before its too late.... or we will extinct ourselves, and the next generation will dig up our irradiated bones, and wonder at our plight like we do the dinosaurs.
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Perhaps yeah, hopefully there will be someone left to learn from it.
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beautiful
it makes me think of Roger Dean, Japanese line art, Mucha, and other intangibles, at the same time
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I don't know if I deserve such praise, but I take it modestly. I try my best, im so pleased others love what I do
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you're very welcome
you do great work
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thank you! truly honoured that you think so.
your gallery is very good also! great attention to detail and muscular structure, as well as how the skin sits on the body. lovely work
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I absolutely do - i admire your work greatly.
Thank you for your words!
I'll see if i can come up with a list of galleries with models that are more naturally beautiful, and pass them along in a note
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aww shucks, thank you!
that would be wonderful! its a hard slog trying to find anything on the internet these days, like looking for a strand of hair in a haystack O.O
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thank you!!! 
have you checked out my other works!? if not, please please come see!!!
each pic takes me ages, so I love to collect feedback
have a wonderful day my friend!
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thanks so much! this was the first in a while that I really did from my own inner mind, rather than from what I thought I "should" do. felt good creating something fun for once...but with a serious message of course
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
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that quote's Blake, right?
its a good quote. sounds kind of like whatΒ LSD feels like.
I often wondered what he was getting at with this statement.
Blakes stuff always arrested my attention, and made me want to try to see the world differently.
He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.
The questioner, who sits so sly,
Shall never know how to reply.
He who replies to words of doubt
Doth put the light of knowledge out.
I listen to the great thinkers of modern times a lot these days. Terrence McKenna was full of untold wisdom.
I think more than anything, these days, people are trying to understand the people, not the words being spoken, and try to take everything so very seriously they leave themselves no choice but to blindly follow whatever philosophy they find along the way.
as the French philosopherΒ Goethe once said, "he who cannot look back on 3,000 years of human history is living from hand to mouth." . . . . and I fear many have forgotten what our forefathers have taught us (and by this I mean all forefathers, the gurus of India, the witch doctors of south Africa, the Kalahari desert people, the native Americans, the founding fathers of America and even the philosophers of ancient Greece, Rome, ChinaΒ and Egypt.) and need to remember what pearls of wisdom have been left to us.
thanks for reminding me of William Blake, I hadn't looked at his stuff since a long time ago.
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I think Blake was someone who could actually see the world differently - Terence McKenna did it with exotic chemicals, but I think they both saw the same alternative world!
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I agree! having tried the mind altering substances route as a teen, I can say for sure we can achieve similar results without, using just deep meditation and life experience;
however, I would heartily recommend psychedelics to anyone who hasn't tried them, just so they know how it can be different.
a comfortable environment and the right psychedelic, and the world's oyster is not just yours, it takes you on an epic journey beyond the event horizon!
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Terence's accounts of DMT and machine elves are fascinating and terrifying at the same time...
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...and isn't it curious, that under the influence of only DMT, does everybody wind up seeing the "mechanical elves".....
Could be that Grays really are from around here, just a little to the metaphysical left hand side of us...
either way, it poses interesting philosophical questions... and makes me want to go on an ayhuasca quest myself.
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I think there is a lot of life all around us, and different chemicals (or spiritual practices) allow us to 'tune in' to their frequency. (I think this is one of Terry's ideas!)
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Wow!
It's a good colouring for this picture, my friend. I thought about something this way too... maybe more colourful (of course, in computer graphic is easier to get colours)Β
I think it's a very good artwork in your gallery 'cause it doesn't show any agression, /mature content/ or fear. I like works like this for feeling quiet and calmness when you can hear your heart and sounds of nature in one time.
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wow, thanks mart! I do enjoy being innocent once in a while....
but most of my works are designed to make people think of the varying grotesquery's of human nature.
(that means talking about the worst parts) but definitely I like to use happy images too when possible. this one I felt had to be pretty in its colours, as the message is very bleak.
you will love the pics I am working on for my family for this Christmas though! they are all "pretty" images, nice pleasant things to make people happy.
hope you have a nice day, here in England the sun is out but is very cold outside.
winter is definitely here now!
always, I know when my birthday approaches it will get colder and colder...
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Yep, that picture shows how fragile life is.
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the idea was to create a colourful representation of what it feels like to be hopeful while addressing the issue.
the pacific problems are very worrying right now;
fukushima is a particularly bothersome problem for our world. about time we laid down all arms and started pulling together for the greater good.
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Too true, if only we didn't act like collectivist borgs
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