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lksugui In reply to ??? [2006-11-10 01:00:16 +0000 UTC]

Welcome

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annora In reply to ??? [2006-11-09 22:27:42 +0000 UTC]

... But where is Scooby Doo and his Mystery Inc. gang?!?!?!!

well done... very well done

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to annora [2006-11-09 22:51:29 +0000 UTC]

this has nothing to do with scooby

't is actually quite the tragic story!

you are looking at the house, once owned by the mayor of a very wealthy mining town called thunder mesa. He had a beautifull daughter, and she came to the age to be wed. They found her a handsome, nice man, and they fell in love. On the day of their wedding, he dissapeared, never to be seen again. She awaited him, at her dressing table, in her wedding dress, untill she died of grief. Now her spirit still wanders the house, waiting and looking for him. tough she is not alone... nine hundred and ninety-nine ghosts inhabit this house, nowadays, and they are still looking for the thousandt one to fill the last place...

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annora In reply to aLiTaBlondeGoth [2006-11-10 04:05:42 +0000 UTC]

.... Have they called Casper? I hear he's looking for a new place to stay...

Yeah that's a tragic story... reminds me of Great Expectations. Ever read that book?

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to annora [2006-11-10 08:45:04 +0000 UTC]

nope! who wrote it?

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annora In reply to aLiTaBlondeGoth [2006-11-10 15:14:55 +0000 UTC]

Charles Dickens. It was required reading my freshman year in High School.... a bit dry at first but the story as a whole is rather interesting.

It might not seem like it at first but it's a little twisted and a very tragic tale.

There is a wealthy old lady who has worn the same wedding dress for years... (since the day her wedding was supposed to be...) and she wears it EVERY day... the wedding cake, rotten and nasty still sits with everything else on the table that was there since the day of the wedding... she's rather insane but she has a girl, a niece, if I remember correctly.... and the men fancy her quite a bit. The old woman is extremely bitter and begins to teach the girl all sorts of interesting things that cause many twists and turns and painful problems for the suitors....

It's really quite sad at the end... I don't wanna spoil the whole thing in case you wanna read it... but it's not a far cry from this... except there aren't ghosts... it's more like .. an insane old lady who acts like a ghost... I guess... it's creepy and weird in parts - I think you might like it

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to annora [2006-11-12 13:05:30 +0000 UTC]

I found out the other day, that the story is INDEED based on the dickens novel

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annora In reply to aLiTaBlondeGoth [2006-11-13 03:33:03 +0000 UTC]

HA! That's cool

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Tomtemor In reply to ??? [2006-11-09 21:34:27 +0000 UTC]

Well, honestly I know absolutely nil 'bout digital art, and I don't even know what vector art is... But I rather like this piece, the lineart is great, and so are the colours. My favorite thing about tthis pice though, would be how you did the fog- it really looks awesome, perhaps even more so with the foreground of the eh... ground and the plants. I kinda creates the feeling of that you're lying on the ground looking up at a ghost house.

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to Tomtemor [2006-11-09 22:02:30 +0000 UTC]

a vector is a piece of digital art, that is composed of mathematic formula's, instead of pixels. It calculates and recalculates the position of the edges of the object(s), wich allows to expand in size without quality loss (unlike with pixeled art where you always loose quality if you resize).
The downside to it, is that it is virtually impossible to give a soft touch to your feelings, as there is no such thing as 'blur'. every line is sharp edged. So in order to give the impression of blur or gradients (it does have gradients, but in a very basic way) you have to layer and layer and layer.
The fog alone took me 100 layers on top of each other with a 1 or 2% opacy.

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Tomtemor In reply to aLiTaBlondeGoth [2006-11-09 22:18:27 +0000 UTC]

Yikes... sounds like your poor fingers were about to fall off after that

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to Tomtemor [2006-11-09 22:48:42 +0000 UTC]

ahhh yes! you know how gaming nerds have gaming thumbs? I have a vector index finger!

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Tomtemor In reply to aLiTaBlondeGoth [2006-11-09 23:02:15 +0000 UTC]

lol^^ Oh do I know... My lil' brother is a complete gaming nerd, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he one day found himself without any thumbs at all

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TheMinttu In reply to ??? [2006-11-09 21:11:00 +0000 UTC]

I'm not usually into vector graphics, but this caught my eye. What most impresses me, is the misty, mysterious mood in this, and the great level of details. Showing the plants as just silhouettes is very effective. I love the bats, too. :>

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to TheMinttu [2006-11-09 22:06:02 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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turquoiseprincess In reply to ??? [2006-11-09 21:07:58 +0000 UTC]

Great piece -particularly like the sparse plants in the forground and the fog effect - very atmospheric.

I love this ride too!

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to turquoiseprincess [2006-11-09 22:06:32 +0000 UTC]

yay! another fan

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lXlDumbasslXl In reply to ??? [2006-11-09 19:12:08 +0000 UTC]

...could someone hand me my jaw...it fell off when it dropped....

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to lXlDumbasslXl [2006-11-09 22:03:15 +0000 UTC]

I hid it inside the house

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lXlDumbasslXl In reply to aLiTaBlondeGoth [2006-11-10 15:38:51 +0000 UTC]

....

*Goes to rub jaw thoughtfully then remembers its not there.*
....

*stamps ground, crosses arms and walks into manor, grumbling.*

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Ikue In reply to ??? [2006-11-09 15:27:32 +0000 UTC]

wow its been so long since ive faved a vector piece but this one was definatally worth the wait. great i mean the fog the bats the foliage the moon my goodness the moon.

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to Ikue [2006-11-09 16:18:46 +0000 UTC]

thanks and thanks for the fav!
I don't even want to start counting how many layers I used! The fog alone is 100 layers!!!

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Ikue In reply to aLiTaBlondeGoth [2006-11-10 14:30:38 +0000 UTC]

great scott.. wow

i hate counting layers myself ... wish there was an easier way ^^

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NerdXV In reply to ??? [2006-11-09 12:16:30 +0000 UTC]

Awesomeness!!!!!

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to NerdXV [2006-11-09 13:57:07 +0000 UTC]

thanks

sorry it was too late for the halloween contest tough I started drawing, and drawing, and then it started having so much detail, I wasn't able to finish it in time anymore... I think this is the most detailed work I have ever made.

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NerdXV In reply to aLiTaBlondeGoth [2006-11-09 14:50:25 +0000 UTC]

Well if you had enough time to enter, you'd sure have my vote^^ better luck next contest!

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EnVyiNbLoOdDrOpS In reply to ??? [2006-11-09 01:46:37 +0000 UTC]

i love that

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aLiTaBlondeGoth In reply to EnVyiNbLoOdDrOpS [2006-11-09 10:42:40 +0000 UTC]

thanks
I think I worked 40 hours on this piece >_<
slaved my index finger to the bond

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