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The Unbroken Wheel Pen and Ink
Published: 2011-01-17 16:44:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 55887; Favourites: 840; Downloads: 585
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The Illustration is based upon the martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. It's completely done using my 0.1 mm Rotring Engineering Drawing pen on A3 cartridge paper (I gave myself a challenge to complete the whole thing with the 0.1 mm). I have been working on this for over two months now. No references has been used. I would very much appreciate feedback from all...OH MY GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A DD FOR MY WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'M SO FREAKED OUT RIGHT NOW THAT I CAN BARELY TYPE THIS... I'M FEELING SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW THAT THEY FOUND MY WORK GOOD ENOUGH.... THANKS TO THE SUGGESTOR AND TO THE GM AND ALL OF YOU FOR THE AWESOME SUPPORT !
I'm sorry that I am not able to reply to each of your comments, but I AM reading them all and appreciate it very very much... The encouragement and feedbacks and criticisms that you guys are sending me is a great push towards better art for me... Thanks to you all...
And if you guys find this work in Wikipedia, it's ok... It has been put there with my consent. It is not stolen from me...
Peace !!!
People have been asking me to add a short description about the Saint herself. So I copied the content from Wiki. here it is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
"According to the traditional story, Catherine was the daughter of Costus, a pagan governor of Alexandria, where she was born. She is said to have announced to her parents that she would only marry someone who surpassed her in beauty, intelligence, wealth, and social status. This has been interpreted as an early foreshadowing of her eventual discovery of Christ. "His beauty was more radiant than the shining of the sun, His wisdom governed all creation, His riches were spread throughout all the world."[1] Though raised a pagan, she converted to Christianity in her late teens. It is said that she visited her contemporary, the Roman Emperor Maximinus Daia, and attempted to convince him of the moral error in persecuting Christians. She succeeded in converting his wife, the Empress, and many pagan philosophers whom the Emperor sent to dispute with her, all of whom were subsequently martyred.[5] Upon the failure of the Emperor to win Catherine over, he ordered her to be put in prison; and when the people who visited her converted, she was condemned to death on the breaking wheel, an instrument of torture. According to legend, the wheel itself broke when she touched it, so she was beheaded."
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Comments: 438
wow that's amazing. looks like something that should be put inside history of art class.
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The detail on this drawing is staggering. You should be proud of how accomplished it is.
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I love the expression on her face. Excellent work!
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Wow, that is incredible. It reminds me of those old illustrations from the middle ages. That 90+ hours was worth it.
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First of all, I'd like to say... Congrats on the DD!! 
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The detailing in this is really remarkable... I think it's great to see such outstanding traditional work awarded with a DD, it's a shame that it's all mostly digital now. Anyway, flip wicked awesome work, I love it.
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Wow. All those details, this is really a wonderful piece of art.
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woooooooooooow 
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This is amazing. Congratulations on the DD. I'm very impressed by the work you put into this. St. Catherine of Alexandria is one of my favorite saints.
I really like that soldier kneeling and covering his face. That's quite powerful. This whole picture is styled really nicely, it looks like an old illustration. Very very well done. 
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FYI the beheading was quite gruesome, it took more than one stroke to kill her... she prayed for her executioner in the process... and people think the Catholic church and it's saints are stuffy....
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Had to come back to fave this. Thank you for sharing!
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Beautifully drawn. Story telling like the old masters. Well done.
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Wow. This work has so many levels of story. Great job!
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Would love for you to join my group #DA-Art-Gallery
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