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Published: 2006-07-23 21:41:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 7387; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 137
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Description ... I want to give it a more pretentious title but I'm not good at those. XD And no, that's not a typo, it is indeed supposed to be loose and not lose.

ANYWAY so I've finally had a bit of a break between commissions, and it was promptly ALL SWALLOWED UP by this picture turning out to be ginormously time-consuming and labor-intensive (not as much as Your Eden - of course, what would be? XD). But AWESOME. Yes, this picture is AWESOME, because it is Tetsuya and it is full of THOUGHT and some SYMBOLISM and COOL THINGS LIKE THAT. And also Tetsuya's hair is down, though you can't tell so much because he's trying to pull it back and tie it again (in case you couldn't figure that out - which you might not be able to, because I suck).

Overall I drew a lot of inspiration for this from =mythchan , because she has some really incredibly detailed and symbolic pictures, but I'm not trying to imitate or copy her work - I just wanted to try my hand at something with a little detail and symbolism in it myself. I hope I've succeeded without being too imitative.

I'm - not sure if I want to explain the symbolism and who the arms belong to (yes - they belong to specific characters, though I've only drawn three of them before and only one of them has a recognizable arm), because I think it'd be cool to hear people's thoughts, but at the same time I love to explain things to DEATH. So I should probably just let you guess and stuff, and maybe write up an explanation in LJ another time.

Details/progress scans: [link]
Explanation of all the symbolism: [link]
Media: Sakura microns, Staedtler brush pen, Prismacolor watercolor pencils, and touches of whiteout, Prismacolor marker, and Prismacolor colored pencil; Photoshop touch-ups consisting mostly of color correction (why does my scanner give everything a CYAN TINT?!) and some spots/paper creases removed, plus the border.

Tetsuya and associated characters © me. Oh yes. Not that anyone else would have them. XD
Art very DEFINITELY © me.
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Comments: 60

aon In reply to ??? [2006-07-23 23:49:56 +0000 UTC]

Ohhh that look so cool I cant even draw one hand much less 7 I am impressed!

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celleh [2006-07-23 23:49:13 +0000 UTC]

Awesome job! This has a really creepy vibe, and I like it. I think you did especially good on the coins, you pulled off the aged look very well.

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azarath In reply to ??? [2006-07-23 23:02:02 +0000 UTC]

Darlin, it's incredible. Really really. I'm floored by this.

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wiredgirl In reply to ??? [2006-07-23 22:18:18 +0000 UTC]

Ooooh *_* great work~ I love the composition and the concept. X3 very dark and awesome. And nice job with the muted color scheme :3

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jevinart [2006-07-23 22:09:27 +0000 UTC]

marvelous.

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some-art-bum In reply to ??? [2006-07-23 21:54:28 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, I really love this *__* This might sound dorky, but one of my absolute favorite parts of it is how the strokes of marker (?) are done so that they look like motion lines. Dunno if that was intentional or not, but it is really neat

It gives me a feeling of helplessness, which ties into the "loss" of control (or the loosing of it?). The way it reads to me without much background info is that the three arms at the bottom are trying to bind him, or generally they're just a negative force or influence against him. While the others almost seem to help. The alignment of top to bottom and lighter to darker actually contributes to that reading . . . .

I'm really curious to know about this in detail, especially being a huge symbolism nut myself >D

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FrozenIsh In reply to ??? [2006-07-23 21:53:49 +0000 UTC]

Okay I love the borderish kind of the thing... I don't know what I'm trying to say... The thing that the arms are all coming out of. You know. The jagged thing. Anyway I like it because for some reason it really reminds me of a map and I think that is cool.

I have no idea what those rounds things with the characters in them are. x0

Oh yeah and like I said the hands are way cool... The needle pricks totally creep me out in a way-good way.

And I love the expression on Tetsuya. He looks... Kind of melancholy, but not really sad... Like this is just something he has to deal with even though I get the idea he's never really getting anything done. Kind of one of those eternal battle things. Like pushing the rock up the hill and having it roll back down. Or Prometheus and the whole liver thing.

But this is me just making stuff up. I think it's to do with how he's trying to put his hair back up even though it looks like it's just going to be pulled back down again. So anyway I'm retarded. 8D

Maybe I wouldn't be so retarded if I knew what those round things are. That's going to bother me for ages.

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FrozenIsh In reply to FrozenIsh [2006-07-23 21:59:16 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah and this is me replying to my own post.

The other thing I wanted to say is... Umm... LJ name? *begs shamelessly*

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hokuto In reply to FrozenIsh [2006-07-24 02:36:16 +0000 UTC]

kamuishokuto! ... it's retarded, I know, I started the account last year of high school. ;o;

*seeks you out and FRIENDS LIKE NINJA* : D

P. S. Gods, thank you for the extremely gorgeous comment. ;o; I'm going to treasure it for - you know - years and years.

Um - I think I really will do a full explanation-thing in LJ sometime this week, but I'll go ahead and tell you that the round things are coins with the kanji for the seven sins (drawn - really badly because my calligraphy SUCKS) on them. Which I can do non-pretentiously because Tetsuya is Japanese, damnit. XO

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