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Apologies for te lack of recent updates... Been busy - also busy working on my site updates! Have a look and leave a comment!:2DForever
Anyway, as for this piece:
I had a dream the other night of being underwater - typically in these dreams I'd wake up quickly realising I can't breathe, but in this case I could - which was a bonus. Anyway, this stemmed from that dream.
Is he drowning? Is he trying to say something? Up to you, but it was an image that stuck in my head after my dream. Kind of scary, kind of not. He could just be blowing bubbles.
I promised to someone that I would go further into my technique used on my pictures. This particular piece is very simple, I just wanted to draw it quickly so it was typical brush work straight into Photoshop for me. Very similar to traditional painting techniques, I splashed in a base shape of a dark colour then painted in lighter shades to create the shapes. I put the bubbles and the background on separate layers so I could tweak those as much as necessary without ruining the focal figure.
Hope that helped... in some way!
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This is like one of my worst nightmares, but you created this so beautifully there's no way I can't like it!
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I don't know why but it remember me a death screen in the amazing "Another World"
still a crazy illustration!!!
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I don't know that particular image... would you have a link to it?
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Woah! Scary, but awesome drawing. 
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There aren't a whole lot of eye paths in this piece, but the composition manages to avoid banality by having just enough breathing space (pun possibly intended) to the right of the figure. The strongest part of the image is probably the lighting, though. The two light sources in conjunction with the background shafts of light lend tremendously to the overall dramatic effect, far more so than if there were only one light source. Using a subdued color palette was also a nice, unifying touch.
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Thank you for the fantastic comment! It's always great to hear others views and general analysis. It's nice to see you've taken time to think through each piece, wish there were more like you on DA
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nice... i always loove seeing dream drawings/dreamscapes... they always run away from me as i wake up before i can remember anything
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That's true, you have to keep onto them as soon as you wake up, but even then it quickly escapes you... Thanks for the comment
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*bluuurb* (call..the...plumber!) *bluurb*
I used to have alot of those dreams when i was a kid.. tho it would be like just before i'd wake up . . i'd try taking a breathe.. and yup could breathe underwater! Since it felt kind of harder to breathe underwater my theory is that i had my face down on my pillow while i dreamt it : ) Seems logical now thinking about it. So was it like in the middle of the sea? your dream that is. so dark water everywhere?
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As I read though I thought it's probably because you're face down in your pillow - I know that's the case for me as I'd typically wake up lying on my front!
As for this dream, I assume that it was deep, only a few bits of light and one weird looking man!
Thanks for the comment as usual
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kinda reminds me of a scene in The Prestige (sp?). have you watched it?
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No I haven't seen the prestige, but now i'm very curious 
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even if you just see the prologue, you'll see what i mean. but why stop there? go watch the whole movie, ayt?
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Very haunting. That image is going to remain in my head for some time now!
Fantastic as usual.
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Curiously,this image is breathtaking.
The eyes covered of shadow adds him that disgusted expressivity of drowning.The coluring is great,because with a little strokes you made a character and background very smooth like being shaded with an aerograph tool.
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Thanks for the great comment! Although I have to ask, aerograph tool? I'm assuming that's like an airbrush? Sounds cool, either way!
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Sorry,you're right, airbrush, I'm spanish and IU try to say the words without checking the dictionary.
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That's no problem, it just sounded better than AirBrush did!
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Very well done, great atmosphere..
D: kinda like bioshock?
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Haha, not directly - although I may of had the dream because of Bioshock... not sure!
Thanks for the comment
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Yay! I'm the only one replied!
83 I feel special.
xD jokes.
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this is a glorious piece. god dammit though it is scary. i have seen things like this like in movies and whatever, and it always gives me a sensation of shortness of breath. almost like i want to breath for them like I am suffering with them and i cant breathe ether even though i am alive and well in real life. its weird why that happens. but this made that happen to me. i had to step back a second a realize that i wasnt him. that is amazing.
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I always get that too, I find myself sitting in the cinema holding my breath but trying not to make it obvious 
Thanks for the comment!
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wow. i thought i was the only one that did that too. im glad that i finally am NOT the only one, though i might be part of a huge minority of people that do that...
in any case, just remember its not real. you CAN in fact breathe XD
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Brilliant! I've been thinking of this idea to do for my photography for awhile but I haven't got around to it yet. The emotion and concept in this has given me even more inspiration
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