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Published: 2007-11-16 04:11:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 39676; Favourites: 1660; Downloads: 577
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For some reason I've been singing "Wake Me Up When September Ends" while I've been drawing this picture of Millie. I think it's because she is the epitome of innocence, and little children grow up way too fast. Then it hit me, I could enter this into Cataclysm-X's contest for songs - I had something else in mind, but I think I like this better!
Contest info: [link] I'm really proud of this drawing. The ref pic has such a special quality and I really feel like I've been able to translate that into this drawing. Whew! My hands are tired from all that dark dark shading. A couple of years ago I would have never thought I could make a drawing so dark, but I've learned what patience and layers of different leads can do.
Ref pic by the talented Claire Bradshaw : [link]
I can still remember the first time I heard this song...It was late summer/early autumn in New England - we had just moved there *again* and we were in our hotel room (6 people in a hotel for THREE MONTHS) and that song came on and I immediately fell in love with it. I can't describe the feeling I get when I hear this song...it's about newness, adventure, but also about memories, some of them which fade with time despite our best intentions. I still feel as young and innocent as Milly sometimes, and yet, here I am, with four kids, and life is just speeding by... Sometimes I just want new adventures, and sometimes I just want to be young again, with no health problems and even so, want life to slow down, so I can experience these moments I will never be able to get back....
This image just captures it for me.
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"Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends
summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when september ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends
- Green Day
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I took you off of my watchlist due to the advice of my therapist to 'stay away from things that induced thoughts of suicide' but I'm back on crack and thinking positive...I also have a vcr for 2$ if you're interested. * scratches neck feverishly* Your shading skillz are to die for! * pulls out gun* ....just kidding. But I'd kill to have them! * shoots you*.....muwahaha another victim to the wrath of my supersoaker 2000. If I had money I'd buy this print...well ok I'd buy more crack...but if I had money and was not addicted to crack I'd buy this print...you get the idea. This is the kind of genius that makes me want to draw...alas my pencil's on strike until I agree to stop chewing him...ironically he also wants dental. Absolutely fantastic work. You should get a medal for this...I'd give you one myself but I sold it for crack...
NOTE: No artists were harmed in the making of this comment. All characters/crack addictions are fictional and not to be used as evidence in a court of lol.
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Now *that's* what I'm talkin' about!!!! How I've missed the most memorable comments *ever*... You should get a medal for your comment-making ability!!! 
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this is just stunning. i would give my left pinky toe to be able to draw like this. maybe even more toes than that. who would need them? i would be sitting and drawing all day long. bravo! i favorited this and the original photograph, which is stunning too!
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this is amazing, you are so talented, and i still cant believe this isn't a photograph! incredible work
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Incredible...the lighting, the emotion, the clarity of the picture and it's depth...her innocence shown here evokes the same hollow ache in my heart that the song does, you matched them well. Beautiful work!
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I love the feeling of this picture... the innocence and everything. You did such a great job!
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Congratulations on winning the contest! This is a truly amazing piece.The smile and the eyes with the freckles sold me when I saw it.
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What beautiful freckles she has ^^ She's gorgeous hehe Congrats on the contest!
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This is such a breathtakingly beautiful piece
- wow is all I can say
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Oh Lordy, it's fantastic! It really does portray the reminiscent feel the song. I like how you made the outer edges darker, and the shading of the irises sharper, so the focus is so totally on the face.
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Wow! This is amazing--it really fits the song!!! Good job on winning the contest as well.
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This is an amazing pic to compliment an amazing song!
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wow, this is stunning! when i first saw it i thought it was a photo. i just love the freckles and her big eyes.
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brilliant!! wow, when i saw it in somebody's fav i thought it was a real pic!!
wonderful job, it's amazing! and she's so pretty!
cheerss!!!!!!!
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Happy New Year!!!
Featured this in my new journal --> [link]
Hope you don't mind
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I can imagine that you're proud of this one, it's just perfect.
I love the pose of the girl, it makes it perfect for something other than a standard portrait pose.
The drawing itself is awesome too, well done mate!!
Only little thing I would say is the hair seems a little stringy, but it somehow suits the girl, with her frekkles.
(sorry for the late comment, still getting through my almost 300 deviations)
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Amazing drawing for an amazing song.
Great work.
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hehe... Thanks!
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You are very welcome.
^____^
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That looks great! Nice job on the drawing
I just finished a portrait the other night and was sad that it was so light...like the dark tones just weren't there so it doesn't look as realistic as it could. But it's hard when the ref was light too :S
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Hi!
This work was been featured here: [link]
Happy new year!
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This is seriously good! Her expression is just... captivating would be the word.
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her face is so sweet and i love her expresion ^^
very cool song ^^
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I don't have much time to comment, and I'd love to write something more detailed, but I shall simply say that this is absolutely gorgeous and I adore the freckles.
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for moment i thought it was a b&W. That had to take a while. Its simply wonderful.
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Thanks! It's nice to hear from you...how have you been these days?
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finally doing nothing... XD
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hey dear! it looks so astomishing!!!!! did you draw it with charcoal? I adore how it looks, it's just amazing!
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you really captured the look of youth and innocence in this. Im in love with Millie's face
so pretty
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your so amazing with that graphite >.< lovely work
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such a beautiful girl... and your technical style is soooo nice!
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This is a drawing?!? Awsome!
At first i thought it was a photography!
You're amazing artist!
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