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Published: 2008-01-18 03:48:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 13186; Favourites: 415; Downloads: 201
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Description It's time for my January tradition - an Astrida painting!

Every January I paint a new portrait of this character of mine. The only major goal is to outdo the previous year's painting. This year I added an extra goal of sticking with a limited color palette, orange and purple (and some yellow and red, a bit). I really don't like orange or purple that much so this forced me to use some colors I don't often paint with.

This is the fourth year I've done this and every year I look at what I made and say to myself I can't possibly do better next year, and then I always manage to surprise myself!

Annual Astrid Painting Series:
January 2009: [link]
January 2008: [link]
January 2007: [link]
January 2006: [link]
January 2005: [link]

As for what's going on in it.. well, I just thought it would look neat. She's a very day-dreamy and apathetic character, so I imagine she'd stand around playing her violin while her city went up in flames. It fits. V V

Close up: [link]

Edit: Oh WOW a daily deviation!!!! I was out of town for the week and didn't know what to think when I came back to 640 messages in the inbox! Thank you =cryingsorceress and ^JunkbyJen ! And thank you everyone else for enjoying my art.

1.26.08 Image Update Sorry folks, I'm not a violin player and even though I used a few references, I missed some nuances about the violin's design. I've added some of the violin components that were missing and reworked the placement of some elements. I hope all you die-hard violinists find it a bit more accurate now. If not.. well, just pretend Astrida is from a far away place where violins are different.

Also, some people have pointed out that she is playing it "backwards". I didn't realize that both lefties and righties are taught to play the same way, though I did find a budding "movement" to change that! [link]

I realize I could just flip the picture and make everyone else happy, but I rather like it oriented this way and I don't think playing it "lefty" is such a bad thing. Perhaps in her world, violins come in both left-handed and right-handed varieties. Score one for handedness equality!
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Comments: 71

tecnophreak [2008-01-22 15:19:27 +0000 UTC]

lookks good man, the only thing i can complain about are the tiles. they aren't in perspective, and therefore, don't suggest a sense of distance (1, 2, and 3 point perspective rules aren't followed)
other than that, pretty darn good i must say

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Rellim [2008-01-22 14:56:27 +0000 UTC]

its really good, she looks nice and realistic, also the background is really nice.
It only looks like she plays the violin left-handed, or was that your intention?

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Majoh In reply to Rellim [2008-01-27 02:34:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the kind comments She is indeed playing it left-handed, which was an accident on my part, not realizing all violinists are taught to play the same way regardless of handedness.

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gawdammit [2008-01-22 14:23:55 +0000 UTC]

cool. the entire perspective appears to be skewed to the right -- but it's very pretty indeed! congrats on DD!

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vimark [2008-01-22 14:21:46 +0000 UTC]

Nice! Congrats!

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Eternal-Midnight [2008-01-22 13:43:24 +0000 UTC]

i love the 2006 one

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toya4kuro In reply to ??? [2008-01-22 13:08:12 +0000 UTC]

So beautiful...

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Wytherwing [2008-01-22 11:59:14 +0000 UTC]

congrats on your DD for this very lovely piece.

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Ardel2W [2008-01-22 11:51:24 +0000 UTC]

OMG...

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RikkuKitty [2008-01-22 11:23:33 +0000 UTC]

Goodness.. this is really pretty. I love the background.

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KirstenLane [2008-01-22 11:01:50 +0000 UTC]

I love the contrast of the serenity in her room to that of the raginf flames outside - bravo

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iluvar [2008-01-22 10:58:01 +0000 UTC]

great picture
I wanted to comment on how when scrolling this page flor tiles seem to move, optical illusion created by perspective tiles.

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MarcelaBolivar [2008-01-22 10:52:47 +0000 UTC]

beautiful colors

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femketje [2008-01-22 08:54:10 +0000 UTC]

lovely

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Wanequelle [2008-01-22 08:27:31 +0000 UTC]

The folds in her dress are simply stunning. Wow.

Although I was wondering where the f holes in her violin (viola?) are? Maybe my laptop screen just doesn't show them. Also the space between the bridge of the violin and the fingerboard is too short... and she shouldn't be playing over the fingerboard... though she might just be that apathetic and doesn't care. Her left hand position looks good though I don't see the tuning pegs on the violin... Her hand position for her bow looks a little painful.

Errg, sorry for going off like that. I play the violin.

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IdrilAlcarin [2008-01-22 08:22:48 +0000 UTC]

I like it, interesting conception

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AnaViegas [2008-01-22 08:22:19 +0000 UTC]

What a so well deserved DD!!!
So amazing details
This wonder truly deserves the promotion!

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cryingsorceress In reply to ??? [2008-01-19 04:01:37 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing. It deserves more favs!

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Meechemax In reply to ??? [2008-01-18 17:36:19 +0000 UTC]

wow..... that all i can say... such a emotional picture.

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MigrantJ [2008-01-18 03:53:15 +0000 UTC]

I love the composition of this. It's so roomy and spare, you would think it would lean too much to the right...but it works wonderfully.

It's amazing how far you've come. I can't wait to see what next year's is like!

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