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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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The colouring really reflects her mood- she looks to be stuck in her past rememberings.
Its a fragile but striking image full of feeling.
My cave music? - tends to be thought provoking stuff on the quiet side - I tend not to have a music type but some of the quieter foo figter stuff, Some my chemical romance, Show tunes, - Stuff I have listened to today (totally need to be in my own space not at work) was extrodinary girl - green day, tears of a dragon - bruce Dickenson, Shake -Kirstin Hersh, my rollercoaster, sleep, looselips - Kimya Dawson.
In a dull mood I will sometimes listen to music that makes me smile Shine - Take That, trash music, Everlong - Foo Fighters
Gotta listen to Russian Blues thats just cool!
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That's a serious list of cave music. I'ma have to go exploring.
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The list is like most things to do with me ecclectic. I had a friend compare me to delerium from sandman!
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I love your jenny pictures - I just do. There's something so thoughtful and human about them. Like slowly watching someone life unfold before you're eyes in sepia, and quiet expressive music.
I love you're use of line in this picture, the curves and the shape, it feels so real and three dimensional. It's beautiful.
As for cave-time, which I am currently enjoying, it depends heavily on why I'm in the cave.
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I'm glad Jenny feels real. She's my little cathartic voodoo girl.
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I really love the tone of this, especially the soft glow from the lamps and her laptop, it really adds to the atmosphere. And I can't stop staring at how well drawn her anatomy is, at first glance I thought the position would be extremely uncomfortable, until I realised that I actually sit/lie in a similar position myself quite regularly. I also love seeing all the little peices of her life around her (and reading your description of them) it makes the character feel that much more real.
During my own cave time I usually listen to The Doors and HIM. They always seem to do the trick
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I was worried that she'd look too contorted, but I love twisting her up.
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Asides from the drawing itself, which you 've received enough comments to pretty much encompass whatever i would say, I would like to comment on the narrative you had set up. going through the elements of this characters life grounds them, and we can relate to these things even if we didn't have a chance to experience them ourselves. its these little touches in the drawing and the description that can draw a person in. even reading the bit about the mac, its there in plain sight for me to see but when I read about it I go and look for t again, and explore it and go "oh yeah, it is a mac" and try and find more things in the picture from what you've described and more importantly what you haven't.
I just thinks its great when people put these little idiosyncrasies and character development in a image and it makes yo want to know more.
Illustration wise you've already been told how great it is so i don't need to go into that. being said, the magic started to work for me with your comments in the Artists comments box. Its a character development that I've found lacking in a mainstream sense that has this whole heart warming fuzzy feeling thing cos it shows the character in their down time when they aint doing the characterful things that characters do if that makes any sense
so yeah, total win on this one
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Thank you for this really lovely comment. I appreciate getting heavy feedback like this, and I'm glad you dig the drawing.
I know, I like when artists fill up a space and you get to voyeuristically explore it. And you're right, I think too many artists don't write any artist comments -- for their own reasons, but I love when artists share their experience in a piece, or tell you about it.
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great perspective!!
she's hot!
(I like doing that too...hehe
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quite a natural feeling piece, must say im a fan of the use of sepia here.
cave music for me lately: royksopp, mstrkrft remixes, wintersleep and Boards of canada
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Nice to see you posting again.
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Thankya! Nice to be posting!
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Superb job with the lighting. I just love how you add light to area rather than shadows.
For that kind of mood its definitely going to be a Cat Stevens and Andrea Boccelli night. Maybe add in a little Sarah Brightman "In Mandarin's Orchid Garden"
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The light rather than shadow? Is mostly out of laziness. 
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Ooh, I love this. It's so, "my time, back off," which everyone needs to do at some point. And that lighting from the monitor is splendid.
My "cave time" music? Lately, I've really been into Lucia Micarelli's experimental violin stuff. Her first album was standard easy listening fare, but the second was this ambient flow that half the time didn't even really have so much melody as emotion. It's really brilliant. Tiesto's chill-out stuff gets the job done as well.
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Your music sounds cool. Makes me think you'd dig Kaki King.
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I love it, I was I could lounge around naked, great sketch, fanTAStic lighting. Cave time music? Metallica and R.A.T.M. when I need to be angry, the killers always calms me down....
Like the fact this had a little story
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I love the fact that you chose this type of view. Its awesome, no one really does art from this angle too much so way to go!
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There are a lot of great artists who are creative with perspective, but man, it's hard! I wrestled with this one.
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This is an incredible work! The description really pulled me into the visual. Awesome job!
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wow, this is really nice. I think its really soft and simple and peaceful to look at. I enjoyed reading the back story to the image and character as well.
When i'm in a mood like that, i usaully turn to Coldplay, mostly their first album "Parachutes" its my favourite cd to mellow out to...
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"Parachutes" is one of the best driving-at-night albums ever, I think.
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man thats a niiice angle! I want her lights and book stopper!!
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This is great. Like all of your work, very well-drawn...I don't know if you feel this way but your linework is so confident. As if the lines go exactly where they should, and nowhere else.
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Thank you for saying that! I know what you mean, but oddly, I never feel that confident when I draw. And I almost never have a plan, I just start going from point A, you know? So it's a triumph whenever it looks confident.
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This looks like something I would do. Just lie in front of my television or sit in front of my computer and ponder what's wrong with me. I've been in similar situations, trying to figure out where my circuits got crossed. Music does help, but the kind of music I would listen to would depend on my mood. Once when I was feeling particularly pissed off my cousin and wouldn't tell her why, she suggested I listen to Hanson. While I like Hanson, I wasn't in a mood for that to "cheer" me up. Something nonsensical, something that didn't demand my attention. I also ponder a lot in total silence, but that might just be me.
I do love that she's got a drink in her hand. And sometimes, cave time is what it takes to deal with yourself. If anyone knows that, I do.
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You beautiful girl. 
Obviously, I've been going through some self-centered cave time recently, and all the people in my life have been so cool to me. Makes it awful hard to mope around. ;D
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I know exactly how you feel about the moping.
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cave music.... ennui? Definitely Songs: Ohia or Bon Iver. And that's what I've been listening to obsessively in my cave the last week. hm.
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My dad put some Bon Iver on a mix for me and I dig it.
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haha, then you have a hip dad! My dad's still stuck on Springsteen and tom Petty. And they're pretty hip dudes, too, of course...
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I love how you've drawn her all sprawled out and relaxing. Also, this is going to sound odd and maybe a little pervy, but I like how you've drawn her breasts. Nice, but not unrealistically perky, if that makes any sense.
Cave time? Hmmm. If I'm chilling out I'll put on some Dead Can Dance. If I need to let off steam I'll put on some LOUD Dresden Dolls and dance around the flat by myself, like a madwoman.
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Doesn't sound pervy at all.
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love this - the vibe is immense and the ac only add to it
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mmm something trance-y...not that techno stuff, necessarily, but something low and hypnotic
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Gorillaz, or something really hard core. Either mellow and sad, or fast and rocky. Love the pic. Everyone needs some time like that!
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That's really realistic xD
I'm the same in my free time :#D
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amazing, perspective and atmosphere and just everything.
i listen to Brand New (only the Deja Entendu album)
(i love how one of her books says CLEVELAND and she has roots in Cleveland. yes, i remember things like that. i have no idea what a hydrogen bond is even though we spent like 4 weeks on that but i can remember Jenny has roots in Clevelend. sad.)
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You do have a good eye!
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Bjork usually, and I love Jenny
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I think I've listened to more BjΓΆrk while drawing than anything else.
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I really love the atmosphere, the lighting and the amazing perspective (I wish I could draw that sort of things !).
In her case, I think I will listen good old music that gives me happiness and will makes me sing ! The beatles or the police maybe ...
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