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Published: 2012-12-21 22:35:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 2392; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 21
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Description Day 18 : Baalhiam's Shadows

"You can run as far away as you can
You can love as strong as you want
You can hope as much as your heart can
But you never can escape
From shadows of Baalhiam's forest"

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It's almost a tradition to draw a Cendre every year !

Maybe because I always drew and saw her as a radiant character, full of love and light, it's all the blackness of this character that interests me today. It's Faust whom she has to support in his curse, while she also carries one, in a less visible way, but as deep as him.

We never can escape our past, and if I hope that Cendre will escape it, it will be necessary to read the story for discover that !

(Ironiquement je me dois de remercier Youtube pour sa contribution en musique de fan gogol qui m'a inspirée cette quote XD)


Cendre-Northern (c) *orpheelin

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Comments: 20

Orpheelin [2012-12-22 21:54:15 +0000 UTC]

oOoh j'ai droit à un chocolat de noël dans ton advent calendar! ^3^ Merci beaucoup miss !! (ah les filles de Baalhiam sont comme les révolutionnaires, sans-culottes!) rofl!
C'est vrai que je suis discrète sur cette maladie, mais c'est pour me la réserver pour Northern. Ca va être intéressant de l'opposer à Faust. Maintenant que j'ai un vrai bureau, je vais pouvoir continuer mon storyboard!

passes de très bonnes fêtes de fin d'année !!

bisous!!

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Amaltheren In reply to Orpheelin [2012-12-23 09:13:44 +0000 UTC]

J'arrête pas de faire des gens à poils dans ce calendrier, Cendre est très bien pour continuer ma gruge "si si c'est justifié de pas faire de fringues C'EST MIEUX POUR LA SYMBOLIQUE C'EST BEAU MADAME !"

(Je me suis quand même bousillé les genoux sur mon parquet devant mon miroir pour voir comment cette pose à la con fonctionnait XD Personne sur Deviantart n'a l'air de songer à faire des shoot de gonzesse assise de FACE ! Y a que des sessions de meuf assise en pose "fairy" à la con è0é)

C'est ce que je me disais, j'avais fait un sketch plus agressif à la base avec Faust pour mettre en scène ces histoires de malédictions, mais j'ai eu un peu peur que ce soit OOC au final, je suis revenue sur quelque chose de plus classique. Et d'ultra joyeux et léger pour les fêtes comme on voit XD (Y a pas mal de questions dans les comments d'ailleurs, t'as bien réussie ta mission de planquer cette maladie !)

Fait péter ton cosmos chevalier, DESSINE °0° Et bonnes fêtes sous la neich' j'espère !

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Jake-Sjet [2012-12-22 14:27:45 +0000 UTC]

Question: Is that a tattoo on her arm, or a cut of some sort. Either one works for the picture, revealing either her choices in life, or the dangers of a wounded but unbowed warrior.

Other than that, more fantastic work.

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Amaltheren In reply to Jake-Sjet [2012-12-22 20:02:43 +0000 UTC]

You don't know Orpheelin's character ? Cendre is not a warrior, she's a healer, and she has an incurable disease (which marks her body). She's searching a cure for her and her people, because they're sick after being banished of their forest, Baahliam You can find more explanations and pictures about Northern story on Orpheelin's deviant !

And thanks a lot

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Jake-Sjet In reply to Amaltheren [2012-12-22 21:30:20 +0000 UTC]

Now her pose and that glare in her eyes is less the anger of a animal cornered, but that of tragic pride over riding reason. Still unbowed, but now softened by context. A still perfect piece of art, as always. And now I have someone else to watch, thank you

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Lweeling [2012-12-22 09:14:58 +0000 UTC]

Elle a la casse! Et une sacrée paire de sein.

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Amaltheren In reply to Lweeling [2012-12-22 09:35:03 +0000 UTC]

Haha tous le monde sait que Cendre est indissociable de ses gros lolos ! XD (J'aurai pu taguer mon post sur Tumblr juste avec "BOOBZ °0°" !)

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Lweeling In reply to Amaltheren [2012-12-22 10:16:08 +0000 UTC]

Oui, je crois que ça l'aurait fait ! Le perso connu que pour ses boobies, ce serait triste quand même.

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Amaltheren In reply to Lweeling [2012-12-22 10:17:31 +0000 UTC]

Et pour ses cheveux de Rapunzel, la morue ! è0é

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Lweeling In reply to Amaltheren [2012-12-22 12:01:12 +0000 UTC]

Ah oué faut la scalper!!! Comme ça Faust la trouvera plus aussi sexy! Je blague hein, c'est pas mon genre d'être meuchante.

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M-Jenai [2012-12-21 23:09:20 +0000 UTC]

Wow i really love your take on her here. She seems a little less dainty, a warrior type almost.
>,< I hope i'm not offending anyone by saying that. i love Cendre. I never knew she had a curse. This is lovely work as always.

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Amaltheren In reply to M-Jenai [2012-12-21 23:39:35 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ! Maybe because we see often her as Faust's lover or a healer, we don't think a lot about her background which is rather sad ! And for being Faust's woman I suppose you need to be strong ! XD

I suppose Orpheelin want to keep this detail of her a little bit secret, for surprise the readers, but it's draw in Northern sketchbook and write in the plot on Northern galery

"The Elves closed down their borders. They concealed the pathways through Baalhiam with magical spells, driving humans away from their territory. From then on, Baalhiam became a forbidden place for foreigners. Cendre and her family are among the banned people, who soon discover what tragic curse has befallen them. While the immemorial forest is a mighty source of magic, those who are expelled after being born and raised there stand condemned. After several years spent far from the forest, they fall inexplicably ill. Try as she might to fight against it, Cendre loses mother and sister to the strange disease. Knowing herself doomed to the same fate, the headstrong, insubordinate Cendre decides to head back to her native soil, in order to find an antidote and cure what is left of the exiled people. "

This part of her personnality is discreet, so I'm curious to read how it will influence her !

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M-Jenai In reply to Amaltheren [2012-12-21 23:47:06 +0000 UTC]

Wow!
That's really interesting! Cendre I like you more now ^u^ She's a very strong character and i love that about her

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Amaltheren In reply to M-Jenai [2012-12-21 23:50:10 +0000 UTC]

Me too ! Even if I like to draw her boobz too :3 (I draw a lot of naked people in this calendar ô3o For the next it will be great to draw characters with clothes ! X'D)

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M-Jenai In reply to Amaltheren [2012-12-22 00:28:51 +0000 UTC]

XDD nothing wrong with naked people! it's natural XD

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GPhoenix [2012-12-21 22:49:10 +0000 UTC]

Heeeeeello gorgeus! I'm still hopping that Orpheelin will finish her comic and put it to sale It's a surprise to see her that pained as in your drawing, as you said, she does have a curse but you never see it, or all that much, on Cendre art.

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Amaltheren In reply to GPhoenix [2012-12-21 23:30:36 +0000 UTC]

It's planned for this year if I remember well, for Japan Expo 2013

Yes, in my mind Cendre is a very positive character, in opposite to Faust and his berserk's curse, and I always draw her like that. But at the end I'm more interested by the contrast of her personnality ! A young woman alone on the roads is obviously a strong character who can defend herself, especially in a medieval world. I'm curious to discover her journey and how she will survive without her family and her people !

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GPhoenix In reply to Amaltheren [2012-12-21 23:42:08 +0000 UTC]

Yes me too, so I'm waiting on the comic, I bet there are a lot we don't know about her and even Faust. I'd love to go to Japan Expo, France sure is closer than other countries with major events, but though luck lol I'll wait for the sale announcement.

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Amaltheren In reply to GPhoenix [2012-12-21 23:48:05 +0000 UTC]

I hope you can come in France one day ! It will be a pleasure to meet you ! (Even if my english is terrible ! XD)

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GPhoenix In reply to Amaltheren [2012-12-21 23:59:10 +0000 UTC]

And my spoken french is non existent LOL I mean, I can still understand some, but I just can't speak to save my life anymore. One a friend of mine and I really want to visit Paris one day, maybe after I get a job and have some money of my own, it's totally in my plans. Japan Expo would be a huge plus One day

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