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When the lord's daughter was displaced from her own body by an angry witch, her wandering spirit immediately sought the aid of her family's champion vassal - the Armored Lion.The Armored Lion was a knight of renown, famous for his lion-like valor and his armor-like armor. He was a very large man who could plow through ten armed opponents with ease (eleven, if they were unarmed). Also, he died a long time ago.
This is a problem. So ghost girl instead enlists the aid of his armor which stands over his grave. Begrudgingly, the armor leaves its post to perform its master's duty in his stead.
And so begins the Armored Lion's final quest: to find the witch and destroy her. His quest does not end, because I am only half a story teller and don't know how to wrap things up. But if you believe in yourself, you can imagine it!
Sometimes people ask me "John, where do you get your ideas from?" Usually I fail to answer or make one up, but this time I can say with all honesty that I got it from stucco!
You might be able to spot it if you look in the upper right quadrant of this image here: [link]
My buddy ~Rakugaki-otoko also tried the same technique, with different results. Check it out! [link]
It's fun stuff.
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This is awesome! I'll definitely have to find stucco to stare at and try this myself. XD
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WTF?! it really does look like the stucco! wow, file that under "weird ass inspirations"
great work as always btw
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I always see such images in stucco, ceiling tiles, and carpets. Coloured tiles turn into games of Go (it really irks me when there is an impossible move made). Probably from when the kids in the factory get bored.
I wonder though. If The Armored Lion can defeat eleven unarmed opponents, and plow through ten armed opponents, how many opponents could he defeat if they had weapons? You should ask the stucco.
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the stucco answers with a ghastly unicorn
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Darn. Once again the stucco prevails and afflatus is given in such a manner that I can not properly process it with all my cognitive might.
Curse you, ghastli-corn.
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John-su. I love you. I mean uh... I love your brilliant characters. yeah. that's it. *cough*
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These stories are always so much fun to read. :3
I like the mood of this piece.
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I love the idea of "armor-like armor". Does that mean it's twice as armor-y?
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The evil witch is clearly Lin-Lin, Tankmage Petia's companion in Eurasia.
Turns out that the overlord of Eurasia was the father of this girl, so Lin-Lin displaced her from her body in an attempt to psychologically damage the overlord (or just to troll him).
The girl was none too happy, however, and decided to seek help from a MAN OF DESTINY, except he was dead, so she instead asked his armor and ordered him (it?) to punch Lin-Lin in the face until there was no more face to speak of, obviously dispelling the curse this way.
Or maybe none of this happened and his quest does not end and has no relationship whatsoever with Tankmage. Sniff.
ANYHOW, I love the flame-mane effect on Armored's helmet and the smooth lights on the girl. Very pretty.
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So I'm not the only one who does this! I see images in textures from doors and walls all the time, but whenever I point it out, people are just, "Wtf you talking 'bout girl?"
Nicely done, Mr. Su. I like how the girl kinda blends in with the background.
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Brilliant work, hard to believe it was done on flash.
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yeah im always looking at my walls and finding images all the time its pretty awesome heheh especially when i was little and always had to stand at the wall >_>
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I used to look up at my ceiling (made of a similar material)
and draw images from the pattern.
I was in that room for 17 years and I knew where every single one of the patterns were without marking them out 
...
the ceiling was painted and sanded when I left for uni~
Really good and imaginative idea, I can imagine this turning into meme
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Such a beautiful story.
And that Stucco. I am inspired.
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You sir, need to let me harvest your brain if you're getting such ideals from a stucco wall. Don't fret, I'll let you keep for for a while longer.
Let it season like a fine wine.
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or ferment like a stinky tofu
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Looks amazing !!!!
Sounds really interesting!!!
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You know you're out of drawing juice when you get your inspiration from a piece of stucco. It's amazingly well executed though, so props to you.
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stucco! awesome! so many times have i stared at the ceiling or carpet or an ugly couch and had ideas pop into my head XD
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I actually like the story. It reminds me of how Al's soul got bonded to armor accept in this case its the lord's daughters ?soul? manipulating the armor.
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The inspiration is brilliant! x3 I love those things, though I don't think I've ever actually acted on them before!
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Nice work and interesting concept
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"his armor-like armor" LOL'd soooo hard
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I would actually go to the length of writing a one-shot about this, but I think it would deserve more than just words on a page. This would need to be a short manga, or at least a short story decorated with illustrations, to convey it. Nice story, even if you couldn't finish it.
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...WOW!I use my....EEMAHGEENATION~ ...The lion died and the witch ae him.... ewe. Awesome work!
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haha cool story. armor like armor funny line haha
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wow like the story would make an intersting manga or anime
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Haha. That's so cool.
When I was little I used to make up stories based on the things I saw in Stucco too! When fun that was. Man, but none of my stories where ever that cool or worth drawing
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That's amazing! finding images on a wall, really cools. I really like your stories, this one was very enjoyable! e U e
The artwork is really awesome and of course goes really well with the story you wrote in the artist comments.
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The ghost girl reminds me of the work of Leiji Matsumoto.
Gotta be the eyelashes.
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That armored thing has the face of a Yuke from Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.
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Your imagination never ceases to amaze and amuse me. Lovely work.
I should print out that image and try this myself this weekend.
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Hahaha, I have totally done this sort of thing using my own stucco ceilings. I've been finding pictures in them since I was like 7. (So, 11 years of pictures. Sheesh!) I totally have multiple dogs, a giraffe, a wizard, a ton of tiny dancing people, random ladies, a cool mecha robot head thing, various cartoon people, an old man, and many other things on the ceiling above my bed. Stucco is awesome. It makes me sad when people have smooth ceilings.
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Wow, you drew this from looking at stucco? That's a great idea! 
As usual, you've come up with an intriguing story to go along with your characters. Sounds like a story I would read from beginning to end, if you ever got around to writing it.
Love the colors you used in this. So many soft blues.
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the palette would have been even bluer had the armor been greened from verdigris, too! But then it looked too much like the Statue of Liberty so I didn't.
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I love how you think up all these backstories for everything you draw.
I would try the stucco exercise, but I noticed that the stucco pattern looked like a creepy face, and now I can't unsee.
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