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Published: 2007-12-27 15:58:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 58171; Favourites: 2199; Downloads: 115
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A few notes.+ The whole schmeer is inspired by the cover of Ray Lamontagne's Trouble, which is a great album, by the way, and which is why Sarah has no eyes. She's too pretty to blindfold, so I just blinded her. Just for the sake of metaphor, of course.
+ My shadows and shit are all willy-nilly because it's just a sketch and I save the good skills for the final minutes.
+ Jareth's coat is based off that kickass bomb-leather number in roughly the second act of Labyrinth, but I was working from memory and I jacked it all up, and then I decided I didn't care because I like the teeny-weeny bird skull buttons.
+ Yes, he is secreting an apple in his left hand.
+ I'm not making his package any bigger, so QUIT ASKING, JARETH. I don't care how big it is, leave me alone. Crazy goblin.
My sister and I agreed that Jareth reminds us heavily of the devil in our favorite mythology of him–––lonely, angry, arrogant, a bully. When he meets Sarah, who defies and rejects him, he tries to scare and trick her, and then to tempt her with false treasures. He represents every sin and she resists in favor of the best thing in the world: family love. Is Jareth too far gone to have any concept of real love? Does he just want her, like a toy?
Most women, I'm told, imagine the devil as a handsome, charming man. It speaks to our weakness and to our secret belief that we–––that love–––can fix and change anything.
You know, lookin' at this now, I should have given him some horns. I think I will. He would wear them well.
materials: pencil on bristol, hue in PS
music: Joan Osborne, "Man In The Long Black Coat"
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I love this drawing! The look on Sarah's face is just priceless. And Jareth is indeed both a devil, handsome and a charming man. I really think he would be a devil on the dancefloor!
A wonderful idea and an amazing drawing!
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-Is currently in major awe- This... is brilliant. o.o
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Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL linework. So precise, so clean yet with just the perfect amount of detail. You captured both Jennifer and David wonderfully. . .
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FYI : I've been playing the song on repeat half a hundred times, and can't bring myself to remove this from my DevWatch page.
The poses, and the portraits... everything about this is so inspired and so RIGHT - gah... I lust after your lines.
Mad Skillz, I say.
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*^_^*! Where did this come from?
I have such a huge admiration for your work that compliments like that are sort of humiliating (you know, amid all the flattery and LOVE). I feel so unworthy. But thank you.
P.S. Which song are you playing on repeat? "Devil's Dancefloor" or "Man In The Long Black Coat"?
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Swing a little more’ little more o’er the merry’o
Swing a little more’ on the Devil’s Dance Floor!!
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No bigger package, also, no horns, it looks PER-FEC-TLY hot just like that.
oooooooooouuuhhhhh take me for a dance kiiinnnggg *3*
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you have a pretty amazing gallery !! i really like your style
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This, and I don't know if you've heard/listened/gotten comments on, reminds me of the song by Flogging Molly.
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I'm making a music vedio, as of now, to that.
Becuase your picture inspired me. Lol. I'll send you a link.
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Looking through your gallery! *waves*
Devil's Dancefloor is a song by Flogging Molly.
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Thought so. You didn't say it but, I'm such a nerd I knew! *headdesk*
That and I was listening to the CD at the time.
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I love the way you have these two mirroring each other it looks awesome, and i love the little details too, like sarah tugging at her shirt and the skull buttons and the apple....
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This is absolutely lovely. Startlingly lovely, even.
I love the delicacy of the lines, and how perfect they both look.
o 3o
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I agree; so many young women have been tricked by that sneaky sweet sugary voice, telling them love is the key to anything as a cure and that it can change everything and all that shit. Of course part of it IS true; any powerfull emotion can be a key, a cure and it can make big changes. But where does it say those things can only happen for good? Love can be a key to set you free from the authority of your parents.. it can cure you from thinking your whole life you´re just meaningless piece of shit.. But changes.. they always hurt first, because they´re so big and when you get something, you have to give up on something else quite valuable to you 
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It's sounds like you've had some bad experiences. Take it from someone who's been heartbroken and who is also really happy and contented; love is the best thing there is about life. Don't let your opinions be soured.
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Shit... that comment that the Labyrinth Club left you was from me... I forgot what account I was logged into. I swear, I struggle sometimes.
Da dun da da... Super Dumb Ass strikes again.
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I just went through and looked at all your Mr. Bowie inspired work and came to realize... I love you in a strictly platonic... envious of you... lock you in my basement and make you draw Bowie... sort of way.
Draw on, sister.
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Oh Jareth, how I love thee...I named my computer after him, and it lives up to the name >> I don't think I could have been as strong as Sarah, but I might have been a better actress XD
I love your artwork, and now I have a craving to listen to some Flogging Molly. "..Swing a little more, on the Devil's dance floor!"
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I really love the details here, especially the wrinkles in Jareth's jacket. All the clothing folds and wrinkles, really. Very nice. : )
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the birdskull buttons are most excellent, and I love the "doll" look for Sarah. very fun and dark at the same time :3
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Thank you! I really dig the incorporation of animal bones into costume. Maybe that's my big attraction to voodoo.
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I really want that coat now...*wistful* ah well, can't have it all. It wouldn't go with anything in my wardrobe anyways. lol.
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I was thinking how much I'd love to have a piece of Jareth's wardrobe from the film. Well. Barring the obscene trousers...
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I dunno...obscene trousers to treasure forever? seems like a nice deal to me. lol. but seriously, the wardrobe for that movie was exquisite. I can hardly agree more.
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As a child I remember being made extremely uncomfortable by his package. We don't prominently display our private bits in my family. And at the same time it was totally fascinating. You wanted to look but you didn't, you know? Ever since then I've had a giddy, embarrassing relationship with the male Batch.
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I know EXACTLY what you mean. or...I did until i met Organization 13 fanart...then many of those innocent, naive little notions were shot down with gatling guns O_o
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I can't stop staring at this picture. You've rendered Jareth and Sarah so well...
Definatley a fave
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I want to watch Labyrinth now....
Simply, utterly fantastical <3
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Everytime I hear someone come up with the "devil" theory for him I automaticalily think Persephone and Hades.But maybe that's just because I read Persephone by Xaviere Jade so much
Ingrained into my head.
later!~ace
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I've never read that, but I totally feel the analogy.
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Read it!Wow that is one of my absolute favorite books/Fanfics(feels more like a sequel than anything else ever!)
here's the link if you wanted to check it out...
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I didn't write it or anything but I pretty much am the prime obbessor.ha I pride myself in that.
Well anyway read it,it's a Labyrinth fanfic that is really amazing.(kind of long but that's what I like)
much love!~ace
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I love it. I really do. omgosh... Both his and her outfits are so good. I envy you. You are going to color this, arn't you? And I really like the Jareth/Satan analogy. It's really fits him.
(Oh and Jareth came to my window saying he had given up on you and wanted me to ask you to make his package bigger. He gave me a crystal ball. I couldn't say no. lol)
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You realize, of course, that he'll come back for his crystal after you fail. And I say you don't give it up. ^_~ Make him work for it.
I wasn't planning on coloring this, actually, mostly because I'm lazy. Some very talented people have been taking cracks at coloring my lines, tho, which is fanTAStic.
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He came back to retract is gift but I sold it. haha I think he was mad. Mumbled something about, "not growing on trees." I got a pretty penny for it at the fortune tellers, too. He said I was wasting his time and stormed off the balcony. There was glitter everywhere.
haha You should make a Labyrinth coloring book. I would buy that.
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Crotch! *cough* Sorry. I love this. The bird skull buttons, the expressions on the faces. I just go SQUEE all over. hee!
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I find your style amazing. It's also so interesting to me how you have the two mirroring each other in pose, as if to convey how they are each not only a figure of opposition but that they oppose each other as equals. But i digress, stunning form and amazing attention to detail. I love this piece to the tenth power! Thank you creating it!
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I'm unworthy of this compliment, but thank you so much. 
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My boyfriend says that he really likes this, and so do I.
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Those tiny skull buttons are the cutest thing I have ever seen. I adore this piece, Jareth's hair is beautiful and you got his facial proportions perfect...
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Somehow I like how his hair hikes up at the top of his hood. It's a really small detail, but strikes me as really well considered. XD
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I like it, too. That hair is so preposterous, but I like drawing it because it's so downy and messy, like baby fur and feather.
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Wtf.... this totally didn't appear in my deviant watch. reljnfgkjgrljgr. Dumb DA >_>
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh you have the anatomy and everything done perfectly! Even Bowie's skinny legs, but massive thighs (hahaha) <3
I find it a little interesting that the "devil" would want to seduce a 15-year-old.. hmmm.
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