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The Unbroken Wheel Pen and Ink
Published: 2011-01-17 16:44:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 55907; 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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It was done out of so much Love
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oh my god, this is so incredible! very emotional and quite scary from my perspective. i've read quite a lot on execution methods and this one always seemed very horrid. great work!
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Congrats on the DD Orion, this is really great considering there were no reference for this! Your girlfriend must be over the moon when you gave this to her!
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Thank you 
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Wow the attention to detail and shading is amazing and so intense, very well porportioned and I cannot believe you had no reference, this is so realistic and wonderfully made. May I ask how she was matyred? If you had a mini explanation it could possibly make your image a little clearer about what is happening but it is utterly amazing, beautiful and congratulations on the DD, your hard work, talent and dillegence deserve it by far!
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from Wikipedia >>>>>>>>>
"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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wow im shocked that he got into wikipedia, very awesome work he really did
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Amazing work dude. I bet your girl loved it. I do pen work too, but a different style. I use ballpoint pens. Amazing that you got this level of detail and shading with the 0.1mm. SO awesome.
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hey ! thanks, dude... She loved it ! And I love ballpoint pens too.. have a look... [link]
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I think the piece is great, tons of emotion. If you want constructive feedback I would say work on the proportions.
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Thank you! 
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OMG!!! i just looked up the story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria on Wiki, AND THIS PICTURE IS ON THE PAGE!!!!! SUPER FUCKING EPIC DUDE!!
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I could not agree more with what the suggester said. Congratulations!
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Whoa, did you know your image is on Wikipedia's page for St. Cathrine? I'm not sure if you authorized that... It also gives people the option to basically do whatever they want with it... you might want to look into that.
Either way, I love this piece. The classic pen style and design mixed with the slightly incorrect faces and expressions make this feel like an old Renaissance picture. Just gorgeous. Congrats on the DD. ^^
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Thank you!
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"Found your work good enough..."!??
Your work is not 'good', and it isn't 'work'. It is Art, and it's GREAT!!
Don't ever let anybody tell you otherwise, my friend. This is special, this is... Amazingly beautiful. And I can hardly imagine what focus and energy it must've taken to put so much details into it... and with only 0.1mm.
Yes... GREAT!, and absolutely Amazing!... '^L^,
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Wow ! that was so really great... that comment from you... Thanks a million times...
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Thank you, Catherine
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After seeing this, I had to google Saint Catherine, as I knew nothing of her. Your picture is in the wikipedia article about her. ^_^ Amazing work.
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