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Time: Over a month? (I've worked on it in small chunks)Layers: 46 (after I merged all of the layers from vectoring & painting Sakura)
Hardest Part:Making it look watery o_o
Inspiration: "Watermark" by Enya... It's such a pretty track.
I vectored the outline and base colors for Sakura, then went back and painted the details. Originally her dress had no real detail to it, but I thought it looked too plain that way and added some patterns to her outfit. The idea was to make it look like she's almost in an under water cathedral, but I didn't want it to look too busy and so I kept the tweaked and repainted cathedral hallway somewhat hard to see... Well, I thought it looked better that way and gave it a more illusionary feel.
I know I haven't really submitted much lately... I've drawn a lot, so I'll try to post an original piece rather than a wallpaper soon ^_^'
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Comments: 12
tigerjr228 [2010-06-18 19:37:17 +0000 UTC]
Gorgeous work I'm surprised you didn't get your inspiration from the Titanic soundtrack since the last song has that title-love Watermark too, though, haha
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ArtificialRaindrop In reply to tigerjr228 [2010-06-19 00:29:30 +0000 UTC]
That's where the title came from I knew I didn't want to just call it "Watermark", and given the position Sakura is in I thought the title fit. Hymn to the Sea is a beautiful track too ^_^
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DoomTay In reply to ArtificialRaindrop [2012-07-03 01:08:00 +0000 UTC]
Speaking of watermark, it's a clear indication who did this, especially when [link] made no effort to cover it up.
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ArtificialRaindrop In reply to DoomTay [2012-07-10 18:55:03 +0000 UTC]
They rarely do. And the link is gone, so I guess that means it was removed from their account.
And thank you for bringing it up. I reported an art thief months ago and they are STILL stealing people's stuff.
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tigerjr228 In reply to ArtificialRaindrop [2010-06-19 01:11:55 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, it really is-I just learned how to play it on the piano
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ArtificialRaindrop In reply to TheDarkestBlue [2010-05-26 15:31:00 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much!
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TheDarkestBlue In reply to ArtificialRaindrop [2010-05-27 10:21:23 +0000 UTC]
You're welcome ^^
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BesidesThat [2008-03-12 03:39:52 +0000 UTC]
this is AMAZING!!! your hard work definitely payed off
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Mina7 [2008-03-07 19:13:27 +0000 UTC]
wow, this one is very amazing! You have so much talent! Very, very good work!
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lunenightingale [2008-03-07 17:56:56 +0000 UTC]
Oooooh. That's pretty itoko. I love the use of blues in it. I never would've guessed it was Sakura by the title. I think you have an obsession with water as of late though. XD
I think that you hit your mark on a lot of the things that you mentioned in your comments. I really like that you added detail to her clothing. As a whole, the watery prison comes to mind... cause the water bleeds out any other focus. At least, that's my opinion. But who am I to judge? XD
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