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The Last Dissection
Published: 2004-07-13 03:59:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 29043; Favourites: 511; Downloads: 8576
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My best Dr. Frankenstien impression.A composite of engravings from Henry Gray's "Book of Human Anatomy" published in 1918.
A vein here...a couple of orifices there... and a few weeks later its finished.
parchment stock from ~temabinastock
thanks to *wicked-eve for the pointers and suggestions
thanks to !derivablezero for the drunken proofreading
Enjoy the high quality print. To view some of the actual size images, visit my journal. [link]
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Comments: 291
wow. that's...that's just wicked. it's so well done, and the notes make it so personal.
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Woah, how much time did you spend on this? Amazing! O_O I thought the text was just like Dr. Frankenstein before I read the description. But still.. incredible detail. o_o
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This is a very effective piece. The detail in the drawing alone is admirable; it shows you have a tremendous amount of patience. I love how you incorporated the text, and the scratched out words make it particularly effective. The holes and burn marks are an especially nice touch, right down to the left side where the paper would have met the spine. It actually reminds me of a book i have on my shelf called Unicornis, where a supposed manuscript written (i'd have to check the book to tell you exactly when) by a man who has had experiences with unicorns is analyzed. The pages are similar to this and the drawings are lovely, and there's a wonderful companion to the book called Draconis. I'm not sure they're still in print but they're worth taking a look at if you like that sort of thing. Anyway this is a very beautiful piece. I'd buy the print if I wasn't so backed up in bills.
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thanks for the wonderful comment... i really tried to make this less of a work of art and more of an actual document that was found... having a sense of realism... i will have look into those books
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Very very clever. I like the authentic look you've given this.
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Wow, it's truly amazing...it's so difficult to remember it's artwork, and so very easy to believe it's a real documentation. You make for an amazing Frankenstein!
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Dr. Frankenstein? nononono. some dark spawn of H.P. Lovecraft's worst nightmares, yes. if you haven't read lovecraft yet, I recommend that you do
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Wow, this is pretty incredible.. what an imagination! +fav
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As comment #110 I doubt you're going to get down to reading this, but the whole piece is absolutely fantastic - first the wonderfully gruesome quality of the artwork, and then the creepy development of the dissector's notes. You've managed to capture the Dr. Frankenstein vibe perfectly.
Damn you, now I'm going to have to go and read that again...
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i read every comment... especially those that time to write more than 5 words 
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Mein Gott in Himmel...
That is really great. That is REALLY REALLY great. I salute you.
*salutes, goes back to state of awe*
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a very beautiful piece of art right here... it just blew me away and i found staring at it for a while... the style of the picture is very well done and the picture of the disection is both bizarre and almost natural...
Though the notes surrounding the image is the best... revealing the story of Francisco Mibigatti... who seems more mysterious than the beast itself... a true story of science and the unknown.... the notes in context of the picture gives it more detail as well as adds to the time and atmosphere... engaging the readers mind and attention... i can talk for ages on how vivid my imagination was thinking about what happened to him after... i can imagine him in a dark room, with the smelling corpse behind him, bent over a desk writting and scribbling away under a dim and eerie light... my theory is that he was driven to insanity and locked himself up with the cut up monster and burned the whole place.. destroying him, the beast... and what he thought.... the volumes of notes/sketches of his study of it....
...stupid not to fav this
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ha!.. thats a great interpretation..it most definetly fits...i should write some story behind it... but then again i think ill let the viewers imagination take over
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heh, no problem.. and yeah your right... writting a story will only spoonfeed the readers/viewers imagination and sor of destroys the element of mystery
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This is truly amazing. The shadowy writing, the parchment, the margins and side-notes, the authentic sounding words ripe with the scent of Lovecraftian feel, all grotesquely perfect. I'm going to have to reverse engineer this into a Dungeons and Dragons creature.
*faved*
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This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen on DA since I signed on here. The way you put this piece together is just absolutely stunning. It's really feels like something that could have been found and scanned rather than created from scratch. That's really an accomplishment.
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thanks for the lovely comment... i tried to make it a cohesive work... like a scan... hence there is no "border" or "frame". thanks
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wow.. really disturbing.. *puts on an old-fashioned, english accent* "what kind of monstrous creature is this?!"
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Great manipulation. NOW THIS IS WHAT MANIPULATION ART LOOKS LIKE PEOPLE!!!!
Cheers
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holy crap thats amazing... keepup the good work...
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wonderfully distrubing! 
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that's so cool. A little disturbing, but definately cool!
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the sketch of the creature its great by it self, but all the text brings it together, for a momment i imagine the anatomist doing the procedure, this really is a great oiece of work *nods*
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Oh, wow! I really do find these sorts of things VERY intersting. I love making my creatures more realistic by doing these sorts of things. It's just so much FUN! This is so neat. I wen ton ahead and added it to my favorites right away! VERY nice job. Keep it up
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this is one of the most intriguing pieces i have ever seen...it is absolutely amazing
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I don't normally coment on thse types of things. Just because I always feel my comment being 40th, or 100th down in the list will be useless. But what the hell, I can alway just give it a shot. I Really like this, and you know even though the drawing is great, my favorite part is the whole life you have created. And I don't mean the creatures. I mean Mr. Mibigatte there. I can just picture this person sitting there pacing with a bloody apron and this dead thing on the table trying to figure out what those little circular things are for. The way you wrote it it seems like he's an internal type of guy. I don't know if you did it on purpose, but it's like he's being tormented inside yet he can still write and control himself perfectly, untill his temper gets the best of him and he starts to cross things out and question his God. To tell you the truth, when I stand back and picture the alien , it's kind of commical, but I tried to just stick to the horrible insides so that it wouldn't get in the way of the feelings. Good work here. Good work.
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thank you so much for the lovely comment... as you can see 90% of the comments consist of 7 words or less... so its a pure joy to receive a comment like this... i love hearing peoples interpretations... i tried to tell a story here... but leave enough out for the veiwer to get their imagination going... and you certainly have... i applaud you. In my mind Mibigatte's future is very grim indeed
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'Twas my pleasure. I agree , poor Mibigatte... poor poor Mibigatte.
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two thumbs way way fucking up!!! it rocks majorubersocks!!
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Really amzing, you have dome some fantastic work here i love it!
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Mmm... Do I smell dinner? Deep fry! DEEP FRY!
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Wow! Great work! U can concoct whole stories based on it!
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Very reminescent of Eternal Darkness. Very stylish, freaky enough and masterfully executed.
Excellent.
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This is really awesome! I seriously love the look of old, burned parchment - and you captured it perfectly. 
The font and the words you wrote are a great touch. It reminds me a bit of Jekyll and Hyde almost, the sad, desperate feel to the words. Really awesome stuff! If you don't mind me asking, what font is that and where could I find it? It really looks as though it was scrawled with an ink pen.
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thanks for the wonderful comment.... all the "organs" came from Henry Gray's Book of Human Anatomy from 1918... and it was very fun to create... i was almost sad when i finished.. perhaps ill make another... ya'know lil fetuses gotta grow up
ill get that font for you in a bit. thanks again.
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OMG, you could do a section with the development of the fetus!
Thanks in advance about the font. I seriously appreciate that - asked an artist the other day about the name of a font and got "uh, its a secret" as a response.
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Great work, haven't seen anything like this before. Very original.
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somehow - looking at this work makes me think about Lovecraft..
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