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Published: 2004-04-07 09:22:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 3452; Favourites: 56; Downloads: 455
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In order to keep my brain from spontaneously combusting the second I start working on my next AP piece...I decided to take a small break from my painstakingly tedious AP concentration stuff and do something entirely free.So I put on the RotK soundtrack, opened up painter, started painting to the music, and came out with this.
I don't know what it is really...I mean it's obviously a dead tree...but I mean, I don't know why it's there, why it's dead, or any of the significance in general. It's 2am and I just needed something to help me relax.
For the record...the RotK soundtrack is teh awesome.
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I've added it to our 
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Nice effects! Looks like it's post lightning storm or whatnot 
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YAY! confusion!
when i saw the name I thought it was a take off 'The Red Tree' by Shaun Tan (must read)
...but bleh, my mistake
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Wow, really neat. YAY! for free music-inspired art!
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Wonderful job! Do you know where I could find a trial of Coral Painter? I'd be so happy if you could tell me. ^^
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Sweet! ^_^ I love how the twisted branches contrast with the background and how the clouds make the sky more textured.
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I love this! For being dead, the tree has so much...life to it. I like how twisty and angular it is as well. ^^
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Ooooo, verrah pretty!! RotK soundtrack KICKS...but I had to say, maybe the music and the story were unknowingly influencing the art. Y'know, the book RotK does explain a lot more about the White Tree, dead in it's courtyard, of when it was once beautiful...odd coincidence, maybe?
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I'm actually still working on the books, and I've not gotten to the part about the white tree yet, but I'll be sure to keep my eyes open for that. I'm pretty sure the concept for this picture was influenced by my memories of the white tree in the films though. 
I remember some symbolism about it being dead during the rule of the stewards...and then flowers blooming once Aragorn became king...or something of that sort.
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Eeee! Yes, it was dead for a very long time, thought to be extinct, and as much as I want to spoil and tell how the trees return, I'll keep my mouth shut!
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Awesome
I can't use computer programs for crud!
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I love the dark feeling
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Wow, this rocks! ^_^ RETURN OF THE KING RULES FOREVER!
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Very nice use of black... I love it! It makes you feel very relaxed.. well, at least to me it does.
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That's a beautiful, I don't know how to explain it, but it's so serene.
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I love the Two Towers soundtrack...I want RotK really bad! *loves "Into the West"* 
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awesome!! i LOVE that soundtrack!! esp when pippin sings
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Beautiful, the tree looks almost like a whisp of smoke.
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you know the RotK soundtrack is awesome. I have it too. Many of my drawins got inspiried by it. :3 My fave song is The Black Gate Opens, that one with the flute solo. It's teh best.
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it almost looks like the ghost of a tree....very good job for like, spontaneousism
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oh man, I love the rotk music... and I don't even have it yet! *sobs* I need to buy it soon, but I just spent money on season 6 of sg1, so... need to get some money outta the bank.
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It might be just me, but did u creat that tree by using white an purplish noise in compination with the .... oooo what's it called 
but if anything else, it looks great ^^
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Nope, no filters used. I just painted it with a watercolor brush in Corel Painter 8
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Wow...very moody, though i suppose with the RotK soundtrack it would be ^^ I'm really liking this though...maybe that tells me something about my mood? oO'' lol j/k Nice work!
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very awesome, that looks like one of my trees, in my games * claps* i like it
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BAH...ignore the previous link, i really meant this one: [link] , check this out instead
~dana
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holy shiot...this fits so PERFECTLY with this: [link] check it out, lemmie know what you think
~dana
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Whoa, it does, very weird!
Very nice poem by the way.
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Nice. The tree almost feels like a ghost. Still-lifes are hard to do, but you pulled this one off well.
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very nice and dark, the tree looks allmost translucent which gives it a great ghostly effect
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Great pic! And yuss..the RotK soundtrack has me addicted..I was just listening to it last night as I fell asleep. 
Great job on this one, spirit!
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