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Published: 2007-12-13 05:04:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 20286; Favourites: 1149; Downloads: 248
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Sometimes I feel like my art defines me more than I define my art. This is how it feels.------------------------
My final project for Intro to Drawing. The assignment was to think of something we really cared about, something important to us, and show through a picture just how much we care about that something. So ya know, at first, I thought of the typical things like family and church and friends and stuff, but I really wanted to do something more specific to me. Then I thought, art is one of the most important things in the world to me. So after a lot of thought and sketching, always moving farther away from the blunt or direct approach, I came up with this. Being an artist means the world to me. And this is how it feels.
(watercolor, Prismacolor pencils, graphite - 18 x 24 inches - 10.5 hours) Sorry if the values look a little weird in places. I had to scan it in 8 pieces.
Major props to my roommate for being the best gravity-defying model ever. How did we do it, you ask? Magic.
WIP: [link]
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I saw this... on elfwood, I think (haven't been there in ages). But I love the idea and everything behind it.
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FTW
Y'know? Sometimes it's fun to have the art just get away from you... interesting things develop when a craft becomes sentient.
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Wow, what an amazing piece of art.
It looks great!
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Great job!
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Wow. I know that feeling... like the muses taking over. I've yet to name mine.. I do talk to it though... It tends to change form depending on what I'm drawing.
I love it.
Your art is so beautiful.
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this is really really really cool... very good job!!
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thats soooo cool! I love the thought behind it. Its like, you're accessing something incredible, away from all the grey and boring.
Eeeee now i want to go and be artistic.
x
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beautiful... If I'm right, the use of watercolors there looks really nice.. with the pencil and everything. Very nice shading work, especially on the clothing and wow. Just a dazzling piece in general. (:
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una persona q haga eso debe ser wow t felicito me impacto resto!!
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This is truly an amazing peice, thank you for making this.
Your talent is incredible.
Very well done
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your talent is incredible
Really amazing piece.
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you have a good scanner!
And a beautiful concept of things!
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So very beautiful. The composition is just amazing.
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Usually I'm too self conscious about my own poor and out-dated gallery to leave comments, but I have too for this. I've never seen a piece I could relate to more, you truly captured how it feels to love art. I cried when I saw this. Thank you for being incredible, and for giving a renewed life to my yearning to develop as an artist.
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Oh I know this feeling...
very beautiful and awesome detail-work
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what did the professor say? He/She loved it, right?
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lol He's not really the type to compliment people much, but he said it was "the classiest use of color he'd seen in a long time."
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friggin amazing. it's absolutely beautiful and WOW. i cant think of a good word to describe this...
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very good pencil skills! nice composition and colour accent
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This is absolutely beautiful and so emotionally powerful!
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This is so inspiring 
Whoa. Did your roommate have to put up with that the whole time you were drawing her(10.5 hrs omg), or did you have to take a photo?!
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I definitely took about 25 photos of her in that position, so she only had to hold it for a few minutes. Ten and a half hours would be madness. O.o lol
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If eyes didn't know tears they never would sow the rainbow...
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God, it's a great idea, just as the way you've done it. *_*
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This is really awesome. The lighting and colors are amazing.
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I would have to agree this is an awesome picture. It deffinently shows the feelings behind being an artist and captureing a magic that only you can see. I like it.
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Incredibly powerful. I've been a fan of yours for a while, but this one almost moves me to tears, because I feel that way, too. Thank you.
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I can't say much more than what everyone else has said. But this is amazingly beautiful. I can see how you're so proud of it. Everything about it is perfect!
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Tee hee. Why thank you. And major thank you for the subscription!
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You really did a very amazing job on this. I saw your piece in the popular section. (I keep going back in the pages for hours) and I was immediatly floored.
I wish I could give some amazing comment, but honestly all I can say is "wow."
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Really cool concept and nicely executed. Beautiful work.
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Beautiful work, as always. I need to get me some of that magic
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This is just stunning. Eyecatcing.
I love the serene expression.
The posing of the arms and fingers is amazing too.
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It just caught my eye and wouldn't let go 
Really a beautiful idea, I love the absence of color in one part and then a rhapsody of colors on the other . So simple, yet so strong. Great work!
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So, her torso definitely looks like a photo.
I hate you.
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