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Published: 2009-12-19 08:54:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1570; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 0
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My last illustration for my sci-fi/fantasy class, #2 of the three paintings I completed this week! The prompt for this was something of a rip-off of that scene from The Mummy:replace the air plane with a hot air balloon. My goal was to follow the prompt but not copy the movie.Consider this my metal-head testament! While drawing the line-work I listened to nothing but Helloween (Keeper of the Seven Keys pt. 1 &2 and The Legacy).
EDIT: I finally got that sunny day I was waiting for! Now I have a better picture to post
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It's a amazing job! Can I use your image in the Naila of Mondo9 fanpage?
It's unbelievable but it represents a passage of the book perfectly. www.instagram.com/nailadimondoβ¦
Thank's.
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Sure! Just credit me and link back here, if you would be so kind!
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Yes sure! Thank you very much! π
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*catches up on inbox*
This has a certain steampunkish feel to it *3*
ANd I've always had a mad love for goggles, he wears them so well
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I'm glad you got that steampunkish feel because the prompt on this was from a story with a steampunk-esque setting. The balloon (and goggles x,x) probably help most to give it that essential steampunkiness. Something about balloons just screams "STEAMPUNK!"...
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Nice! I absolutely love how you always add those little flecks of color. It's so preeettttyyyy. @__@ And that sand/wind face guy is awesome! I love how stylized he is. xD
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I was hoping the splattering would give the effect of FLYING SAND!
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I hate myself for not being able to tell how much I like this one because I'm so damn lazy and the home computer is even lazier with its speed close to the snail's. .____.
Still, I adore this<3 Cool man with a great beard, what could be better? 8DDD
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Thanks, darlin'! 
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You're so welcome
It just explodes inside of you.
Oh my, I knew it!
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awesomesauce! I had actually thought of the scene from the mummy before you mentioned it your description. 
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Sweeet! 
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lol naw, you made it your own. he looks nothing like brendan fraser.
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if Helloween makes people paint like this i should listen to them! @__@ I love the action and the movement^^
i like the colours at least the way they look on my screen
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And Helloween certainly knows how to set a mood
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noooo put it up! darker doesn't mean not-as-good
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omg! it's much better now actually, the blue shades in the sand pops more so there's more depth to the whole thing!
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whoo! 
It would've been tragic to post a closer picture only to have the reaction be "eh, liked the blurry one with the inaccurate colors better." 
Oh, its been a long day. I just spend 10 hours driving in a car. I need sleep! @,@
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10 hours driving = not good for the soul D8 I am impressed, though, in that time I would drive through all of Finland and start on my way back south XDD Do you have the kind of roads there that just go straight and never turn? @__@
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Its like that through the central valley. The road goes straight for hours! with only a few junctions that branch off along the way.
I used to hate driving through the valley because I thought It was so boring. Now its my favorite part of the trip.
The sunset was amazing though. It happened as I drove out of the valley and into the mountains. The light was slanting in rays between the snow clouds and the tops of the mountains @,@ It was great.
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That sounds so pretty! A shame you didn't get any pictures, I'd love to see them <3 But true, they're not worth driding off the road for...
The distances in the States make no sense to me, although the roads were kind of straight and seemingly neverending when driving through Russia as well, but at least there they went a bit uphill and downhill every now and then
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Cacti! (arms) There were tumble-weeds rolling down the valley along the freeway. Occassional they would leap out into the road and people would dudge them madly. Or like me, run into them. They're just timble weeds, people!
I think its because the large portion of flat-lands used to have water over them many many thousands or millions of years ago. The whole mid-west portion of the us used to be an inlandsea! And half of my state used to be underwater at some point...(and one day it might be an island! That's so cool! 
And I think that if I had been a SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHER(tm) I wouldve gotten a good shot..even if it killed me! x,x But I'm clearly not a photographer, am I?
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Tumble weeds!!! Seen them on TV, but they look so cool! I would prolly dodge them too, out of habit XDD Or maybe people do it for the sake of variation if the road is very boring, like, in summer.
Serious Photographers are sometimes too serious, they might not have thought a landscape was pretty or special at all! D8 Or they would indeed have died for it, so don't become one!!
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It's not too blurry, but it must be eating up some details. Brand new scanners do that too -_-(with color rape thrown in!)Doesn't strong artificial light help (instead of sunlight)?
Heeeehe! Helloween 
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Ohohoho, Helloween certainly knows how to set a mood
My apartment is the land of perpetual night, so I have no strong artificial light! My instructors always talk about their studio set- ups for taking photos of their work, and they include hude lights, a wall painted bright white and a fancy camera. I have none of those! So, a fall-back plan is just taking the picture in natuarl light. It words much better that trying to use the camera flash or my dim, yellow bulb lamps..or that ONE florescent one on my desk...x.x
My scanner was always very loyal, actually, and scans colors wonderfully! The propblem is...my paintings nowadays are all too big for my tiny 8.5 by 14 inch scanner bed...x.x
Hm...I don't believe I've listened to anything by Anuuubis Gate. This required investigation! (dash)
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Heey, it looks darker (and sharper too?). Natural light is always the best, camera flash is the worst! ugh! I can't even take pics of people with it.
I'm gonna have to have a serious talk with my scanner now, or at least mess with it's settings more
Anubis Gate is evil, has enslaved my ears -_-.
And your sig... Yeah, forget him lady, he's taken!
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Indeed! Much sharper now. I hope the color change doesn't cause you woe. It really is much closer to the original now...
And alas, I couldnt really get into Anubis Gate! The singing style completely throws me off. He sounds almost 80's power metal but also modern at the same time...but I did enjoy Shadow Gallery
Its a bucket full of laughs, the old Elric books. I think I'm reading the Stealer of Souls collection right now and it makes me laugh in public places (the train). Elric spontaneously bursting into tears at every opportunity? Awesome.
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The colors look better too actually o_o, more contrast? Why didn't you post this first time around 
It's the opposite for me, I find his singing style strangely addictive (I generally like that blend of 80's power metal and modern) it's stuck in my head as I type D:. Shadow Gallery, yesh
Been digging through my photobucket account, found something fitting 
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Buahaha!Is that orange-headed dude supposed to be Moonglum? Is there a reason why he looks like he's offering himself for a hug? "Oh noes! Elric had a nightmare! Let's hug it out, man!" @.@ Also, Elric's bed-head: accident or eighties band throwback? You decide!
And I've listened to the Room V album and nothing else >.< But "Torn" is awesome,followed by "The Archer of Ben Salem" which is a totally weird song. It starts out sounding all medieval and old-timey and the longer the song goes on the more modern their conversation becomes, until theyre talking about blood plasma and bilogical warfare and the US special forces. Its so bizarre.
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Yes, yes, that's Moonglum, hugs indeed, no way a gay artist's gonna draw awkward manly back pats! It's probably an eighties band throwback, he has the same hair throughout [link] (btw lady that's master, not mistress (sez Freud
Oh, lookie what I found, another whiny dude! [link]
Oh yeah, SG's concept-album-ness . Wikipedia to the rescue [link] Torn
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Who is the dude that drew this comic? It looks old-school, but at least its better looking than that other one I saw wherein Elric is built like an American comicbook super-hero....x.x Ridiculous, I say! That might also be the one where Yyrkoon is a tubby bald guy? I only saw a few scans and the covers. It was traumatixing enough...x.x
Oh yeah "mistress". Who are you kidding, lady? Its A SWORD.
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Bald yyrkoon and muscle-elric are from the elric: making of a sorcerer comics. the artwork just doesn't work with the authors ideas and writing style :/. I think P. Craig Russell's (that's the name of the guy) style looks much better, though his version of Yyrkoon is equally bad (if not worse). But the Stormbringer comics are nicely done 
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A worse Yyrkoon? That hurts,dude. Right in my spleen. I didn't even think it was possible @,@ I always figured he was more like...Elric's non-albino twin cousin (hey, it happens in korean manga all the time it can surely happen here.x.x)They had matching swords 'n everything. 
Let us maximize our geekiness, you and I!
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Worst Yyrkoon ever! Something like a deranged Leprechaun! where's that fancy waved and oiled long black hair?? Yes, yes... matching ...swords
Me wants Elric manwha nao!
I'll send 'em over when get home. should I upload them to megaupload or e-mail them to you?
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That would be swell
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blurry photo is really blurrryyyyyyyeeeyyyyyy
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Haha! Not so blurry anymore, fool!
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