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Meredyth — Haunted Attic

Published: 2013-11-12 13:57:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 521; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 0
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Description When my daughter was born, we bought a half-timbered house in a nearby city where we live since. This houses have a lot of history, they have seen wars and changes, good times and bad, and people have died in them over the years.

When my daughter was very young, she had trouble sleeping in her room. We tried to change things, but it still remained problematic. Then I require one moment vividly, where she was standing in the second floor hallway and screamed, staring at a certain point just before the window. When we tried to comfort her, she told that she saw a dark shape there, a man maybe, that she found extremely frightening. Needless to say, my wife and me saw nothing there; but; the cats were sometimes wary.
Our daughter did not have to sleep in her room that night.
This happened some five or six years ago; my daughter has problems to sleep no longer, instead she regards the whole affair as simply boring. She hasn't seen anything frightening in the house again; sadly, she doesn't believe in the dwarves who send her post at Christmas anymore either. She just has grown. But I remember.

The picture shows neither my daughter nor my house, and I doubt the spectre she has seen is similiar to that in the picture, but that's where the idea is from.

HB pencils on tea-stained drawing paper, just some highlighting added.
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Comments: 10

Naffslack [2013-11-15 16:39:55 +0000 UTC]

creepy!

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Meredyth In reply to Naffslack [2013-11-18 11:05:56 +0000 UTC]

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Koiris [2013-11-13 17:56:13 +0000 UTC]

I like this. Simple enough, but haunting indeed!

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Meredyth In reply to Koiris [2013-11-15 11:04:44 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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LoshaG [2013-11-12 14:23:23 +0000 UTC]

Great work!  

I really enjoyed the curve of the staircase, the pose of the girl and of course, the haunts in the drawing.  

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Meredyth In reply to LoshaG [2013-11-12 15:07:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh, thank you.
I sketched it during a weekend seminar, so I had to work solely by hand and eye.

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LoshaG In reply to Meredyth [2013-11-12 15:42:07 +0000 UTC]

Wow!    

I find that quite impressive!  

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Meredyth In reply to LoshaG [2013-11-15 11:05:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank you again

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jackylbear [2013-11-12 14:01:00 +0000 UTC]

very nice pencil work. I'm glad that thing wasn't real!   Great piece!

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Meredyth In reply to jackylbear [2013-11-12 15:07:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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