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Published: 2009-03-06 08:36:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 57509; Favourites: 1944; Downloads: 0
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Jenny in her bedroom, listening to blue beats.It was fun to fill up the space with the junk of her life. She never has money, so her television is secondhand from a friend. (Lucky for her LOST is on a basic channel.) Her laptop (an iBook G4, natch) was a present from her momma, and the headphones she swiped from an old boyfriend who had aspirations of becoming a sound mixer. Her fondest memory of him is the day he accidentally knocked out one of his front teeth and she took a bunch of goofy Polaroids of him. He could always make her laugh, but he just wasn't the one.
She's been feeling sort of grumpy and blue lately. Ennui, is the word for it. She can't get her mojo going and it's making her moody and sorry for herself. Her boyfriend Jude kind of doesn't know how he's supposed to handle it, but because he's a gentleman and completely in love with her, he just gives her her space. One of the letters on her bureau is from him.
She'll come around once she washes her hair and gets hungry for pizza. It's no fun to eat pizza alone. Plus Jude can really snazz up a pizza. Goat cheese, tomatoes, crumbled up sausage and some good spices and shit that he won't reveal to her. A man's got to have some aces to play.
What music do you put on when you feel like you need some cave time?
materials: pencil + PS7
music: The Black Keys, "The Flame"
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Gawrsh. Me too now that you said something. :I
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It's currently how I'm feeling, except for the fact I don't have a man right now. But instead a boy is a reason why I'm being moody. I'm not even dating the guy and he put me in this mood!
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Ain't that always the way? Can't live with em...
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I actually kinda like how you have her so relaxed that she can be topless and just chill. =x I know I can't do that. And it's nice that it doesn't look ... pornographic? ... like a lot of the art with topless chicks in it.
Cave time: Anything I can sing along to, mostly Cher, All American Rejects, Good Charlotte, Oomph!, Simple Plan... mostly the depressing stuff =x or the stuff that lets me toss around some energy and get everything out.
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I'm not comfortable enough to just lay around topless, so I like that Jenny feels relaxed that way. Luscious Jackson said -
wearing nothing is divine
naked is a state of mind
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Wonderful. The story just adds to the picture's charm.
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Lovely picture, love the idea of just laying around when in a funk. I listen to The Smiths for my down time
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Holy crap, yes. The girl who Jenny is largely modeled after is a huge Smiths fan. I think you nailed it.
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hahaha that's awesome! The Smiths are good anytime music if you ask me. I can listen to them when I'm happy, sad, or angry.
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this is beautiful. i like the panda book holder.
Daft Punk|Discovery is my alone time music. or System Of A Down.
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wow...this is amazing in every aspect,
truly creative and well thought out.
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Ooh-this is a beautiful piece!! I love everything about it! Especially the glow!
Ah--ennui music is awesome. I love stuff like "Paralyzer," "Mr. Brightside," and "Behind Blue Eyes." And Hamlet's "to be or not to be" speech. I actually have a recording of that.
Anyway, this is an amazing piece!
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The angle, the angle!!! Amazing!
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F*ck me running. Your anatomy is amazing and the "cave" vibe is strangely comforting. We all have those moods but this is the most elegant image I've seen that describes it. I can safely say I love everything about this image.
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Cave time? Opeth, She Wants Revenge, The Dears, The Killers, : P P.S Super sexy emotion packed piece I love it <3
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This is a very cool picture. Alone in her room, drink in hand, in nothing but her underwear... That's total relaxation.
As for my me-time music, I go for the (dot)hack//SIGN OSTs, and sometimes the Azumanga Daioh OSTs (plus the Vocal Collections, particularly Everyone's One Way).
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I feel like if I had a laptop I might spend a lot more time naked, you know what I mean?
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I'm not sure I do. .-.
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Why am I so in love with you and your art? I just don't understand. They're not great masterpieces in the vein of da Vinci's Mona Lisa, but they evoke such emotion in me. I am able to put myself in there. I feel like a voyeur almost.
I love way the light hits her body. Thought she had a mohawk or maybe it's the way the headphones squishes her hair.
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You have such clean lines, and beautiful shading. There is so much detail in the pic. Love the background story too!
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I'm not a big fan of any type of nude pictures. Drawn or photographs... But this is one of the few that really kind of inspires me. Inspires me in the sense that... I can really feel the emotion and understand what the character is going through. The little story you wrote up help a lot and fit the picture very well. Two thumbs up! :]
I also just listen to some smooth dance/electro music when I'm feeling like that... It almost always lifts my spirit
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You're definitely not alone in feeling that. I also don't care for most of the nude art I see on DA -- it feels so empty and exploitative. It's nice when I find an artist who makes naked look comfortable and natural. 
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Definitely! Keep up the good work ^_^
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Haha I hit enter at the wrong time - continueeeee
I do that*
Oh and my cave music depends on the kind of mood I am in... its normally a mix of tonnes of songs... Liek 'Jesus Christ' by Brand New...
Or Birthday Massacre/Enter Shikari... to get lost in the background noise... I like to disconnect in my cave time... and their music really makes my brain go blank.
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I like your description of your cave time.
Heh, annoying good... Man, do I know how you feel. I don't know if it'll help to know that I did the lighting really half-assed...
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Lol... okay to say that makes it even more annoyingly good? >.< Youw weren't trying so hard, and it still came out rather spiffingly... /shakes fist
After mucho practise, I hope to half as good as you lol.
Now... I am going into a sugar filled cavetime <3 lemon drops and haribos
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I adore this picture so much
The lighting is so subtle, its marginally annoyingly good
She looks, to me, like she is the exasperated cave time... and I like that you've pulled it off in her face.
And I adore her leg... up on the drawer, I
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it's a nude, but it's art. sensual, but not sexual. it's the best garment to spend time alone, but not lonely.
what I mean is: why did you add filter in this picture?
don't need to answer, I wonder (but I won't read) some people have asked you the same question.
and I use Lee Ritenour and Miles Davis for those moments ^^
see you, artist!
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I totally agree, but I added filter because a filter gets slapped on every drawing I do where there are naked breasts, no matter how inoffensive it is. Some dickhead's got it out for me. (Oh man, you should have seen the hooplah when I put up a drawing that depicted CENSORED oral sex. So many women were expressing their appreciation of it, and it gets dropped and I get banned. RARGH.)
Miles Davis, oh man... "Blue In Green" has to be the all-time quintessential cave-time song.
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^^ I saw that beautiful drawing, of course. It's one of my favourites, and I did read comments and opinions, and contributed... banned?????
that is,the hypocrisy of those who promote the "art expression". why don't they ban pornographic and sexist images but do detach your masterpiece??
the picture you made is the glorious expression of femenine pleasure, and doesn't hurt anybody! meanwhile, fake open-minded people injure our sensibility, our feelings about what means sex, with the shit they create with a camera and a plastic girl with plastic breasts and plastic brains!
sorry, I got annoyed with the world.
btw, what I mean is: thank you for being an artist ^^
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i love the detail and especially the lighting, i'm talking about the whole piece not just the boobs : )
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But her boobs are cute, right?
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i saw this, and felt a huge connection to it. I do this so often. her stance is so soothing and lax.
I listen to buck 65, and Marconi union. I'm always in a cave mode I think.
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im in stalker love with your stuff. I creep myself out.
never ever stop.
I might die.
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funny story: guy was stalking me, for real. I confronted him, he was really cool. we were together for 2 years.
stalkers can be great.
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Ha! That's one to tell the grandkids.
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Goddamn I love your vignette stories with your lovely artwork. <3
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Alright! That calls for a goddamn.
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uh-uh now! for a min. i thought it was you! i ws about to ask where the lovey-dovey hubby is.
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Ha ha... I think Jenny's a long way from matrimony. She's too fickle to settle down yet. Whereas if I wasn't married already, I'd be married already, you know what I mean?
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oh don't tell me you're like everybody else out here--afraid of being alone so you'll settle for less? i know that's my biggest fear (dying alone, and from what it looks like it might happen) but still i won't go out like some sucka homes.
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Hell no -- my problem is that I fall in love with everybody. I mean, that's Jenny's problem, but she don't kinder to serious commitment.
Don't say that, brother. I believe your perfect pair is waiting for you still.
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yeah you already told on yourself now honey--too late!!!!
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