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[chinese]supposed to be | the unreasonable_
interpret as you please; decipher the unreasonable.
[every single element serves more than decorative purpose]
Illustrator CS: 30 hrs @ lineart + colour
Photoshop CS: 10 min @ bg + framing + typography
Textures: Max Payne [thanks `geckokid ]
Brush: ... I seriously can't remember
Consultants: `adonihs , `blackzer0 , ~crump3t , `geckokid
Special thanks: `musicinmyhead , *eclipsic , `rapidograph , ~MexMarco
IT TOOK THAT LONG BECAUSE__
1. The only things that weren't drawn from scratch are the backgrounds, English typography, and brush.
2. Everything that's drawn here was done with a mouse; no tracing from reference.
3. I like to zoom in at 6400% [no joke] to make sure that every point meets exactly.
4. The left part of the image [aside from the typo] is composed entirely of straight lines.
5. Straight lines are bitches that love to poke their corners out and refuse to be erased.
6. My lazy ass has yet to get more RAM and importing .png from Illustrator takes 2 minutes at a time.
Anyway :[
Thanks for looking <3
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Comments: 274
It's an old piece. Those feelings embodied here seem so far away now, almost like they've never happened.
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This is a very complicated piece and all the elements, the flower, the butterfly, "your voice," the web, the girl in black...etc all seem to represent a degenerating relationship. That the girl is the spider in the web and she longs for the butterfly on the other side but can't break the barrier. It reminds me of The Little Mermaid, how Ariel longs for the prince in a brighter world than the deep sea but he doesn't know she exists and continues to visit various "flowers." :] The green constrasts nicely with the grey and black, just like how you don't usually see dark things in spring because it is a world of life and growth and darkness is for winter. The girl is trapped and longs for an escape that will never come, and maybe she's making peace with it with her closed eyes, saying goodbye. Great work! :]
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First of all: Thank you for all these amazing comments. I can see from your journal that the whole purpose of you joining the site is for art appreciation. So... thank you, for choosing my works. How did you even come across them in the first place? I don't know if you'll even reply... but ya.
What you said is pretty close to what I was trying to say in this piece. It's more like two different worlds, one where everything is dark and miserable and emo and the other is something that the girl wants but can never happen. Hence the butterfly in the web, indicating the impossible. It's a very interesting perspective that you've put forth though :] thank you for taking the time to check this out
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You're very welcome and thank you for taking the time and effort to create art and sharing them online. :] I found you through myangelofmusic because you did the Test Tube Babies with her as the model. I don't remember how I found her though, I just started with the Most Popular Deviants and the Daily Deviatons and the Most Popular Journals. Why did you think I won't reply? :]
The piece felt like the turning point between seasons, winter and spring. The girl longs to be in the spring but she's forever stuck in winter. What interesting perspective? The Little Mermaid thing? I was actually worried if you'd be offended because I compared your piece to Disney. ;]
Have you see staje's work? They are amazing! :]
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Shit I didn't think I'd be on Most Popular Deviants anymore. I don't check up on that kind of stuff very often
I've seen *staje 's stuff, and ya he has a cool style :] A bit too similar though, all of the pieces. I like to see variety. Like =geckokid .
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You weren't on the Most Popular Deviants, I just found you through a network of people. :]
I checked out geckokid's stuff, the piece "Where I Left My Tail" is stunning.
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this is a really cool deviation!!
I love the two frames as well! ^^
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so pretty~~! i love the vecor type look..your a great artist~!
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the ruritania font matched perfectly i think....
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Found this a few weeks ago and have been meaning to tell you how much I love it. Most of all cause it just feels so fresh and unusual.
Every element looks so perfect to me - my only quibble in the whole image is her eyeshadow. But I love the layers and layers of visuals, corresponding to layers and layers of meaning. I especially like her own "shimmer," and the corresponding effect on the lefthalf flowers.
To me, the most surprising element is the web. Something about that really rocks my socks. It's like, I don't get too preoccupied with what an image means, if I don't get it intuitively, but something about that web's symbolic value makes the whole piece more deep and nebulous to me, beckons me to crave understanding.
You're such a whiz at integrating copy, you always do it so well. Love the little thought above the flowers, especially. And the way the smoke looks like it could be copy, but beyond the threshold of coherence.
Most of all, beyond any sum of its parts, it's just beautiful and transcendent, but not at the expense of being uncomplicated. I don't pretend to understand it (beyond any superficial level), but it's definitely knock-out work. I'd love to see you do tons more of it, though ideally in a fashion that consumed less of your life!
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I think it looks good in a decorative way. I like the butterfly.
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You have amazing talent!
I envy your lineart!
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Beautiful work.
It seems like the girl wants to be the butterfly but she's trapped in the way. Maybe she's praying to become the butterfly? Or hoping?
The butterfly is turned away from the flower, so maybe it's going to search for something better and the girl wants that to happen for her. To escape from the web.
I can't figure out the "your voice" part though.
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Yeah. I agree. I do like it that you leave things open for people to interpret.
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... hm. something... of the sort 
k.
<3
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this is really cool. You might want to check out this guy. He went to my school... I met him, wouldn't say we are friends, but he is cool [link]
also I don't think the chinese character says unreasonable. Looks more like the kanji for akira twice, which means brightness or shinning light. cool though.
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oh okay... sorry for the Chinese ummm... me being wrong. I was reading it from a Japanese Kanji perspective. Didn't mean to be rude.
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I didn't say the Chinese character says "unreasonable"
I'm quite fluent in Chinese, both spoken and written :]
I meant for it mean "supposed to be". That particular character carries various meanings, and when doubled, it means just that.
:]
And wow I checked out the guy's portfolio. Very very inspiring 
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Ohhh.really lovely design..I adore her skin, that little flash of the lower curve of her bottom..very vulnerable, very feminine and honestly done (cause dont most of us pad around when we are alone, wearing only something like that?)
The butterfly is sublimely pretty..so simple its like smooth as glass..it gives the impression of being more solid than the girl, trapped in the web....which is great, considering their direct juxtaposition, this pale girl and creamy butterfly.....very intersting plays with color density and opacity..nice work!
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"...which is great, considering their direct juxtaposition..."
Spot-on :]
Thanks so much for taking the time to analyze this
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You are very welcome, it was a pleasurable piece to dive into. Great job on it.
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most of all your works, i love this! it brings lots of feelings and the concept is great, even if im not sure im getting it the way you meant it. what i see on the left side is this kinda spider`web.. and a world of beauty on the right side, which is right next to the web, but separated by a slight line... even if separated, the two side DO touch each other someway.. uh what am i talking here ? i think i`d better stop.
it`s a piece that deserves more than the common comments and 
Cornelia
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Thank you so much :] this is my most personal piece, so far. A lot of other stuff in the works, but this one is definetely it, in my gallery, so far :]
I'm so glad you like this, and that you're able to feel something from this.
<3
thanks for taking the time.
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ok, the first sentence was supposed to be 'from all your works, i love this most', but sometimes i just "entangle" the words..
im glad too, that i 'felt' this piece.. it`s really beautiful, in a strange, unique way. thank you so much for sharing it 
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It's just how my mind works :]
I'm really happy that you see it as that. It means so much <3
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so... now i've a lil' bit time and i hope enough to make comments the devations deserve...
Let's start ^^:
Sweety your vector art is so amazing... i'm always a lil' bit speechless when i see one of those arts for the first time...
I'm not sure but this time the picture seems for me to be something special... i dun know why... the whole and fantastic style and the mass of things in it which trying to tell their own story and meaning... but i'm not able to find what stands behind these things... 'cause unfortunately i dun know you so well as i want and need to...
And i dun want to guess what they are supposed to mean...
BUT every single line is awesome and so wonderful... especially the flowers... yeah i'm really taken with the flowers. 
The moth/butterfly is also very nice done... the wing looks great and the moth/butterfly could be a real animal if it wouldn't have that size ^^
Your self portrait is like your former ones... almost perfect... and your typography is unique...
Sweety this is one of the best devations here on dA... with his full beauty and expressiveness
Destitute
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I love the flowers as well :] thank you so much for the high praise 
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thank you so much for the high praise
Destitute
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oh.....i forgot to say that this is the best deviatation you ever did:
A+
...
+fav
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:']
Thank you.
Jackie hates it coz he didn't comment :D
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how do you know that he hates it, just because he didn't comment!?!?
anyway....i like it
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dunno.
I like to say stuff like that.
But thanks
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beautiful ! i like the tones and the geometrical style, a pure graphic poetry
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What DID you expect though
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Idno. Just something really swanky.
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Almost everything has been drawn in here, now thats impressive. The concept has also been very well worked out, two totally different poles trying to connect with eachother, almost fuse but they dont't because they both can't brake the wall thats in between them. I really love meaningfull art like this, i'll be keeping my eyes on you : ).
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:']
almost fuse but they don't
Precisely
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Oh I love this, speciall the concept and how simple it looks
Do you have a bigger version for wallpaper?
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Why yes. I'm using it now, in fact
It's actually just this one with a thicker black border. You can use a black bg for your desktop and just slap this pic on
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Oh but I use this 1280x960 that was why I asked you that
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ja I use 1280x1024, which is close
I have a larger source file but I didn't do the typography and such on that one. Which is kinda stupid. Are you using this is a bg now? :]
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nah
now i'm at work and at home i still have my desktop all xmas style
but i'm going to format my pc
but still the version you put here is smaller than what i use
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lol I don't change my desktop look according to season so much as I do according to mood and such.
:]
So.
No darling. This version I put here is the only version with the typography and certain finishing touches. Even I myself use this one on a black background. It's not meant [at least for me] to fit one entire screen. There's supposed to be a huge black border and such.
:]
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I only changed it for xmas cuz I found those pretty xmas icons that I couldn't ignore
usally I'm a bit lazy and I only change the wallpaper
Hm oki sweet, thank you for your time
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... I'm in love with the metaphors you've chosen, every bit as much as the 30+ hours of technique you put into this... it's a challenging piece full of emotion and wonder, my eyes never tire from looking at it because I find all these sweet little hiddens in the corners that demand this "oooh, look at me!!"
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Well you know more about this image than the average, so.
WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT.
OH MAYBE ITS COZ I'M RACING AGAINST TIME RIGHT NOW :D
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