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Published: 2014-03-20 20:18:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 7980; Favourites: 131; Downloads: 106
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A while ago I had drawn Elizabeth but it just was complete...you know. So I've redrawn her and though there are some things I'm not crazy about, I'm happy with it. I really tried with the hair this time, taking breaks and being more patient. I think it's an improvement, yeah? Oh, and I gave her ribbon stripes. The design it is originally was just too much for me to even consider drawing.If you have any suggestions or advice, feel free to send it my way. Thanks!
Update: I found it! I found who did the original render and pose. All credit goes to this fine fellow and here is the original pose: www.deviantart.com/art/3DS-Max…
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Amazing !
makes me want to practice drawing to get as good as that
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awesome job I'm gonna say again she's so pretty. I WANT THIS GAME SO BAD MAN! it looks fun..
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Haha, thank you! You should really play this game. It's definitely worth it and I'm seeing it on sale a lot lately so I say go for it if you can! And thank you for the fave as well.
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no prob and okay I will 
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Haha, thanks! Oh, and also for the fave!
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No problem! Incredible work!
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Thank you for saying so and for the faves!
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Hey!
I saw that the Official Bioshock page on Facebook posted this picture!
Congrats!
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Oh, yes, I did see that! I did a horrible version of a happy dance because it was just such a surprise! Thanks!
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Ha! Yay! Happy dance! Whoo!
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Thanks! Also for the fave too!
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Your welcome!! It was a pleasure. 
how long it takes for you to draw this?
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Thanks! I've been trying to improve for a while now and it's very nice to hear what you said. I'm still learning, but I'll keep going! Hmm, this took I'd say about 6-7 hours. I don't know if that's a long time or short, but it's longer for me. I took a break in between right before I got to the hair because that's the most intimidating part for me.
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7 Hours ? Wow, it's kinda good for a portrait drawing like this. no wonder it's so pretty-detailed.
But Yeah, hair is surely a hard work. i can see it myself.
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Is that a long time? I took much more time to do this drawing than any of my others. Oof, that's a long time! But I'm sure it turned out wonderfully. It sure is! Hair tied up is hard to draw, too.
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Long time? No.. it's..... Great. It only take 7 hours for you to draw a full portrait. However, it took me longer than that to draw a full face. 
Yeah, it was a bit long, maybe i need to practice more 
So, is there another problem besides drawing a hair?
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I probably could have taken more time to draw and to really be patient, but...practice makes perfect and practice is what I'll do!
Oh no, I think it's good you take your time to draw. It means a better product in the end, I think. Mm, I understand wanting to draw a background. I'm not very good at background stuff right now so I never include it. I checked out your drawing of Elizabeth and it's very good! (:
Hmm, mainly just getting the darkest parts dark and not having a horrible transition with highlights, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. (:
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Thanks! Oh, and also for the fave!
Yep, yep. She's from BioShock Infinite.
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Ho !! Just see your fanart in the BioShock fanpage on Facebook and, woaw ! I watch all you gallery and... You art is awesome !! Really !
This fanart is so dynamic ! I have the impression that Elizabeth is going to speak, to move !
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Oh my, thanks so much for checking out my deviant page! I didn't realize that this drawing had been shared on Facebook until an hour ago and wow, it's so exciting! Thanks so much for all the nice words, they mean a lot. And thanks for the fave and adding me to your watch!
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This is the only hand-drawn portrait of Elizabeth that IMO retains all the peculiarities that confer to the original tridimensional model its enchanting beauty. I'm gonna keep it because it's the only art where Elizabeth is exactly as she is. You captured her. Well done. Excellent.
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Oh wow, thank you very much! This is one that I really wanted to do well with and to know that it's well receive means a lot. Thank you for the faves, too!
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The magic is in the eyes. By looking at them you can see she's sweet, smart and determined. All the key qualities Elizabeth has. You got right not just her outer beauty, but her inner beauty too. That's what I call a portrait.
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Well I call that an accomplisment then! Haha, thank you and for saying so on Facebook and on my writing.
I imagine Elizabeth got her mother's looks, seeing as she doesn't look too much like *SPOILER* Booker. But Elizabeth is a beauty, and though I don't really favor her in the Burial At Sea DLC, she still has lovely eyes.
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Well, no, she doesn't look like like Booker ...But imagine if she did (a female Booker in Lady Comstock's dress... OMG... what a sight... I'll never sleep again...), that would have spoilt the final revelation and Ken Levine didn't want that, he wanted the end of Bioshock Infinite to be the best disconcerting / heart-shattering end of ever in the videogames' history. Think I was shipping Booker and Elizabeth during the whole thing... Sometimes I happened to mentally say to Booker "Why don't you hug her? Why don't you hold her?? Can't you see that she's scared / anguished / in pain??" (and what if Booker really did that? How could that be considered improper?) But no, he didn't raise a finger, 'cause Ken Levine needed you to suffer 'till the end... and even during the credits.
As for Burial at Sea, I don't know, they changed Elizabeth's look and personality in order to write a plot for these DLCs, I don't know if they realize they're risking to spoil her lyricism, provided that they haven't done that already, especially with this second chapter (but no, they won't, after all we can still ignore Burial at Sea and consider BI only to be canon).
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*shivers*
I'd say it's a good thing Elizabeth didn't look like Booker. She'd still probably be pretty, but just not the same. Well, Mr. Levine definitely did catch a lot of players off guard with that ending. Though I wish Liz and Booker were never related, it was still a fabulous ending. Oh, I was shipping them right from the beginning when she hit him with the book! And I'm not gonna lie, I was slightly uncomfortable with the ending because I was still shipping them... Oh yes, there were times where Elizabeth really needed comfort and I was wondering why Booker never really did. He was always consoling her with words though. I'll give Booker that.
I think if I just change my mindset to thinking that the DLC Elizabeth and the main campaign Elizabeth are two different characters, I can enjoy DLC Liz just as much as the original. But I still see the same girl, slightly hesitant with her new look and ways in Burial At Sea. It's sad to think Episode Two will be the last of BioShock from Irrational, but I hope another company picks the franchise up. It's too good to waste.
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Ken Levine is a genius, and a sadist. A genius, because I've probably never seen such a smart, mind-blowing ending in a videogame (but likely neither in a movie). I'm into this multiverse stuff so it all sounded very philosophical and real to me. A game on the true nature of reality, whoa. This goes beyond everything, it makes you question about the real purpose of our moral, ethics and our existence itself. But finding out this evil empire you were trying to defend Elizabeth from all the time is basically your fault (or, to be precise, another universe's you) and that she was your daughter and that you sold her to this hell, and they suddenly turning into Romeo and Juliet, with a double assisted suicide, that was hard to take to use an euphemism. I was hoping that after all the fighting, all those cruel revelations and all the pain they could share at least one bit of happiness together. But maybe I'm too romantic. However, as you said, even if Booker doesn't touch her, the facts talk for his feelings, after she was taken by the Songbird I don't think he cared much about his life anymore. And Elizabeth? She very explicitly stated she was better dead than taken by the Songbird. Well, she gives herself up to the Songbird. No other love's proof was needed. Bioshock Infinite is both incredibly beautiful and terribly harsh. Sorry for bothering you with my thoughts on BI, but I played the game relatively recently and it left me long-lasting impressions that have not yet faded away.
I'm reading the other chapters of your Tending to those in Need. There are some really sweet scenes. I'm not much for marriage, but you dealt with it very well and made it enjoyable. All the sex scenes are absolutely tasteful, they're hot but there's sensitivity in them, you handle the characters with care. There are some beautifully crafted passages, such as when you wrote how Elizabeth's hair splayed all around her head looked like a dark halo.
Don't be sad about the fate of BioShock.
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Please excuse my delayed response! I finished Burial At Sea Episode 2 and I'm left speechless; in a good and bad way.
Ken Levine is definitely a man that's ahead of his time in the gaming industry. He has a knack for storytelling that's so rarely found but also he has the ability to make things that I may not have found interesting in the first place, sound interesting and I want to know more because how he plays it out, how he sets the story in motion, and the details such as the characters in between, very well. Who knows what he's onto next but we can rule out Irrational for obvious reasons. I only hope he continues to produce more creativity and originality in his future projects.
Oh, I'm a romanticist too and I was really holding my breath for Booker and Elizabeth to have some moment of content and relief. But if words cannot speak trust or even love, then actions can. And that's where Levine excelled again. Granted, the ending isn't how I would have preferred, but he made it not so painful for it to end otherwise. You described BioShock Infinite perfectly; beautiful and harsh. Enough of both to get you hooked and also give you the promise that you'll never forget this game. I know I won't. Oh, you mustn't apologize! There are few things I can talk about for days and BI is one of them.
First off, thank you very much for taking the time to read my story. And secondly, I'm glad the sex scenes didn't scare you away! I'm very sensitive and protective of those scenes mainly because I'm still awkward with sharing it. I am trying ("trying" being the keyword) to write another story that's more story than erotica. It's difficult not because of the sex, but trying to write something that fits well after the game but also the DLC. It's all hard to grasp something that is so well thought out and complete and then add something from my own imagination in there, trying to make it fit without force.
Sigh. You are right, haha. It's too good of a franchise to be thrown and left alone. Someone will pick it up. All that's left to worry about is if it'll be any good. It'll be most interesting to see what team they gather if there is a future for BioShock. They have a high mark to meet!
I apologize for such a lengthy reply! My chatter is uncontrollable when BI is the topic.
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>Please excuse my delayed response! I finished Burial At Sea Episode 2 and
>I'm left speechless; in a good and bad way.
Please don't apologize, as a matter of facts, I did the same: I finished Burial at Sea before getting back to you. I had to, in order to have the arguments to reply, and, sheez, it did provide me with some. I liked this episode more than the first one: this one is longer, darker, more sophisticated plotwise, and there's more dramatic tension and much more pathos to it. Even if I don't like the fact Ken manages to kill Elizabeth twice in this same episode I can see how it adds the ultimate aura of the heroine to her (even if she was already a heroine, and a martyr, in BI).
One of the best moment of BAS2 for me was when in an elevator in Finktown Liz catches a glimpse of her younger self with Booker, and she comments: "Booker, you were the only one I... my only friend". These suspension points can be easily replaced by "I've loved", so I took it as the evidence Ken Levine finally managed to cope with the fact part of the fans were shipping Booker and Elizabeth, that something more than a father-daughter relationship could exist between them, at least before the final revelation was unleashed upon them, and especially that he came to term with the fact that Elizabeth *is not* his daughter (it seems he drew inspiration from his child to write the character of Elizabeth), which IMO burdened him with a psychological hurdle about her sexuality.
However, everything makes sense now. Since I hadn't played the original Bioshock before, going through BAS made me understand what it was about and so I found out that the political themes were the same as in Bioshock Infinite. I mean, the utopias (sea city, city in the clouds) the criticisms toward both the ultra-libertarian and communist ideologies (it looks like that for Levine, as we say in Italy in Latin, "tertium non datur", a third way is not contemplated), the Big Daddy / Songbird analogy, the Comstock / Andrew Ryan analogy, the Atlas / Daisy Fitzroy analogy... (too many analogies...). But there's more than that, BAS closes the circle (that stays unbroken, just to mention the song), as Elizabeth undergoes a fate specular to Booker's. She's in Rapture to wipe out her debt just like Booker in Columbia. She's gently taken by hand by a sympathetic Booker to her doom just like Elizabeth had graciously led him to his. And, as the logic requires, she meets the same fate. Funny, watching the credits, in shock like you, I remembered I read somewhere in your fanfiction's footnotes you didn't intend to kill Booker nor Elizabeth because you didn't want everybody to hate you. It looks like this isn't Ken Levine's problem.
On a related topic (to the artists' freedom of expression), there's something I wanted to tell you about the chapter "It was the best of times". When I realized Booker wasn't actually going to enlist I was relieved at first: I didn't think this was something someone with a personal history like Booker would have done, but after only a moment I felt guilty for that sense of relief. I realized that was because it wasn't fair. It wasn't fair the readers pressed you to write your story differently from the way you wanted to. I felt you wanted him to enlist because you had some good ideas about it and at the end of the day I think this pressure on you didn't actually benefit anyone because we readers could have read the story as you were originally inspired to write it. Criticisms and such are legit, but they are supposed to come AFTER a work is finished, not in the meanwhile. An artist has the right to follow his inspiration, always. That's why I took position against the music industry, because it put too much pressure on the artists and didn't let them express themselves freely. Today the music majors aren't strong as they used to be but I'm afraid we could end up exchanging the industry's tyranny with the social networks' and this mustn't happen. Sorry for the rant. What the readers did annoyed me.
>First off, thank you very much for taking the time to read my story. And >secondly, I'm glad the sex scenes didn't scare you away! I'm very sensitive
>and protective of those scenes mainly because I'm still awkward with sharing >it.
Yes, I can understand how you feel about them, but you're doing really well. I don't get scared by sex scenes if they're written the way you do. I get scared (actually, disgusted) by those fanfictions where Elizabeth is treated like a sex toy and involved in sadist, humiliating scenes (yes, these fanfictions really exist).
> I am trying ("trying" being the keyword) to write another story that's more > story than erotica. It's difficult not because of the sex, but trying to write
>something that fits well after the game but also the DLC. It's all hard to >grasp something that is so well thought out and complete and then add
>something from my own imagination in there, trying to make it fit without
>force.
Yes, and indeed it's hard to imagine something that could happen *after* the end of BAS 2 as it definitely closes the circle. But you can look at the complete narrative arc of it and try the "fill the gaps" approach. We have a complete picture of the life of Elizabeth, from her birth to her death, and in my opinion the transition from her youth to adulthood was very stretched out and leaves many questions unanswered. What happens between the end of BI and BAS? Did she immediately pursue her vengeance against Comstock or something else happened to her in an AU before she decided to analyse the traumatic event of her kidnapping? Does it sound so unreasonable that after the bloodshed, after all the emotional strain she went through she tries to have at least one chance at happiness? Did she try to meet another Booker in an alternate universe to rewrite her story with him? How did it play out? These are only some ideas, nothing specific.
>Enough of both to get you hooked and also give you the promise that you'll never
>forget this game.
This reminds me of something I wrote in my previous message that I deleted as I considered it to be too sentimental. It involved the background song in the title screen, "After You've Gone". Every time I hear the last part ("someday blue and downhearted, you'll long to be with me right back where we started, after I've gone, after I've gone away"), it gives me shivers. That's when I realize that, even though I've played a lot of games, this one is different, this is the one that left deep traces in me I'll never forget.
>Who knows what he's onto next but we can rule out Irrational for obvious
>reasons. I only hope he continues to produce more creativity and originality
>n his future projects.
Well, now we know! The urge for dismantling Irrational Games stemmed from Levine's frustration about linear storytelling. It was already obvious with the "no choice" theme in BI, it is even more so in BAS 2: Elizabeth never had a choice herself, everything was set up for her to become a murderer.
So now he's experimenting with a new storytelling procedure: "passions-driven narrative legos", that's how he defined it in a sentence. If you want to know about it you can watch his talk, I've already checked it and I promise it's not overly technical and won't bore you to tears, as you said Ken manages to make interesting even things that usually aren't so.
www.gamespot.com/videos/narrat…
So I ended up again writing a lenghty message. I beg pardon, I'll try to be more concise the next time.
Bye and take care
Gianluca
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eyes are the most difficult part imo and this feels perfect
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Eyes are difficult, but they're also the funnest part, in my opinion. When drawn eyes come out right, it's so rewarding, haha.
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Absolutely amazing! Never stop drawing you are Fantastic
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Aw, thanks! I won't, I promise. Thanks for the fave and adding me to your watch!
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Dang son, this is amazing.
Like... I can't even words. The shading, the detail, seriously THE SHADING UGGHGHGHGH.
Fantastic work, I applaud you.
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Haha, thanks. I'm glad you like it!
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That's incredible, the eyes and hair are perfect.
The shading is also fantastic especially on the hair, that's some real talent right there.
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Thank you! I was really trying on the hair and it's the part I'm really trying to improve on. Thanks for faving!
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This is truly incredible! I believe you have drawn Elizabeth perfectly here, especially by accurately capturing her likeness through her expression. The eyes are just downright gorgeous which is so good to see since I'm a huge fan of eyes!
Also, the way you have constructed her hair is just outstanding; the direction & flow of each strand adds a more realistic feel to this beautiful drawing. Job very well done!
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Thanks! I love Elizabeth to bits and I really wanted to redraw her, so I'm happy I got around to it. Haha, I'm a fan of eyes too! I'm so glad you like the hair, I'm really trying to improve in drawing that part. Thanks so much for your kind words, favorite-ing, and adding me to your watch!
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