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Published: 2005-08-20 19:04:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 5596; Favourites: 96; Downloads: 757
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"Welcome to the Attic of the MoonPlayground to many a merry loon
Where the dancers are dead
And the horses impaled
Where the souls of the lost
Are eternally jailed
Well come, to the circus of infinite gloom
Hereβs a ticket, come in! Join the revel of doom."
Corny I know. ^^ Anyhoo, here is Friiko inviting us in to the carnival called "Attic of the Moon." The name, if you don't catch the obscure pun, refers to the french words for moon and attic ("lune" and "attique"). Put the two together and you get the idea.
Other portraits of Friiko can be seen here: [link] And here: [link]
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Tempting...very tempting.... 
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i won't be able to get that face out of my head...
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Fascinating character. I have a role paying game running right now based on a crooked carnival. I love perusing this kind of stuff.
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Thank you!
Yes, I, too, have a fascination with carnivals. They're a perfect mix of creepy and fantastical.
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a date on moon attic, would be like a chaotic and lunatic nightmare.
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love, love, LOVE the wings and her outfit. all together, spooky... kinda gives me the willies
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I'm actually thinking of redoing this picture at some point. Rework the character design a little, revamp her costume.
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i see, although i don't see what needs to be redone, it's perfect!
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I love the poem! The paimting is awesome, too!
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Wow it's amazing! and big lol! This must have taken you hours...! Faved
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oh god!!!! that looks like a foto! 
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AHHHH~!! ::squeals:: I love it so much I have to break my urge not to do anything on this site except use messages and -favorite- it! I love love!
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creepy and weird looking..... i'm not saying the pic is bad... it's not bad at all actually.... i love all your shading.... for a second i thought the back ground was a real picture... and you put a 2D image over it... but i looked closer and i noticed your had drawn it/ painted it/ or did it very well. i''m rambeleing in lol .... anyways.......very well done
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I love ho wyou worked wild colors into the dim light and still made them stand out in their own rights. There's a frivolity about the pose but something so dark and serious about the background. Sure, it's a carnival and children delight in that, but put something that children use into an adult context and that immediately gives it frightening connotations. Great work in making it subtly creepy but incredibly visually interesting.
Reminds me, by the way, a bit of a song I like and it might appeal to your tastes too, from what I know of your artwork. There's a song by a Spanish 80's band called "Mecano" that I love to death and have tried to portray multiple times in multiple styles, mediums and formats over the years. If it interests you, I'd LOVE to see your take on it. (Download the MP3 by Mecano in Spanish, Italian or French, as its better than the Sarah Brightman version)
Original Spanish lyrics
Translated into English
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Very nice job with those colors. I like how you have a blur in the background so it focuses on the main part of the piece. Cool effect and good job with the lights too.
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Thank you very much!
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this is so wonderful! i love the charcters pose and the colours are brilliant! i love 'focus' too 
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I always thought Friiko was a creepy-looking character. [shudders]
But a cool one, nonetheless. I really love how glittery everything is! [blinded] But anyway, I'm so envious of your ability to bring scenes to life, and how imaginative and original your characters are.
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Thank you very much!
Friiko never turns out quite how I want her to... I always imagine her as looking more elegant. But I have trouble with that... though I do know a person who is much better at that sort of thing. Except I usually only see pretty boys from her.
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Welcome!!
And you can't possibly mean me! [laughs] I need to work on my artwork a little bit...I'm feeling down about it. It's not what I want it to be. ~le sigh~
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very carnivalesque! very i can't quite but my finger it's on the tip of my tongue. 
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Oh my gosh! She's *so* cool! I love it! And I adore that poem! -goes to memorize it- heh heh -- Very nice pun. I like it also.
Oohhh... Carosel! Those things are so -- weird. Really weird. Look at her posing on that! She's so cool! -grin- I really like the background -- and foreground -- and everything in between! Very colorful. (your art has the tendency to make me talk in incomplete sentences it seems.... -cough-) I love her wings too!
"and the horses impaled" Oh... Wow, neat line... And creepy -- but oh so true...
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Of course I used references! I can't do something like this out of my head. Friiko is all imagination, but the carousel... I took photographs, and used two of them for reference.
Actually, to be more exact, I painted on top of one of them. Of course the lighting was all wrong, and there were people on the carousel, a kid on the horse, stuff in the background, and all sorts of other distracting things... I had to paint those out and change all the colors. The second picture was for color reference, as it was taken at night.
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awesome...
this so convincent - I feel I've been there, I know what she's talkin' about
her posture is quite delightful
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I love your world - and I'm so happy you share it with us - I feel being allowed into it is something special
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