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The Unbroken Wheel Pen and Ink
Published: 2011-01-17 16:44:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 55910; 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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This makes my fingers hurt just looking at it! Great Job!
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Saint Catherine is my patron saint.
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beautiful pen work! you captured textures and shades so well!
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i love this piece, the emotion and the detail strike me most. the only thing i have to say is the mace kind of seem to float, i would bring the shadow around the mace more to connect the shadow to the wheel's shadow on the side with his foot. It will make the mace seem grounded.
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Thank you! 
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This is by far the best deviation I've seen all month -april and present may- 
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Thank you!
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some fantastic draftsmanship and crosshatching skill. My only suggestion would be to work a little more on your organization of value.
Lights against darks is the simplest and most effective way to achieve a good composition. This works with a strong light source .I say if you even give her a glow she would be the highest point of contrast in the pieces which is a good start. Right now, there are a lot of mid tones against other mid tones, but a good reworking of the value structure will help you create a great composition and also help you solve problems with what's more important in the piece.
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also, for no reference, this is really good! A well made reference would help solidity your light source and make your job easier in the end! This is a great piece!
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It's a very lovely depiction of Saint Catherine. I like her soft but sad smile. The scene is very nice, especially the parts of the broken wheel are underlining the atmosphere with their contrast to her smile.
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very great! a tough challenge, but you have succeeded. well done
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erm - this is exactly the same as the wiki page... o.0
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The website gives credit to Orion Champadiyil as the artist, which is this deviant's given name as well. XD
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I did note the similarity, but I neglected to check the artist's real name. Objection withdrawn.
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Skill is evident but use references!
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uau! must have took a lot of time!
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Dude, this piece is on wikipedia!
[link]
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Really Beautiful piece of artwork. I don't know anything about St Catherine, but this is very impressive work. Great Work!
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so..they are weeping over the wheels that the girl killed with her body or what?
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I think they represent the ones who were going to beat her. The wheel supposedly broke when she touched it, I think they may have taken it as a sign of God's will and knew that they were wrong, so wept over their own mistake and at the thought of what they almost did. Not that it matters, she was beheaded after the breaking of the wheel.
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wow, those times was really hard for the ladies wasnt it? "be pretty, get married, get kids, then die, the end!" like that? D:
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Actually, her father was a Pagan lord (I believe the title was lord...) & she spoke out against their faith in favor of Jesus. She was put to death for blasphemy basically. Her best quote is when she tells her parents she will marry no one who is less attractive, brilliant or wealthy than she is--and that she's found all those qualities in Jesus. To Catholics she died a martyr.
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wait, she died because she loved jesus? catholics are way out of hand >_<
(is this a true story btw?)
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Catholics didn't kill her, she was sainted because of she martyred her life for Jesus. She was killed by those who did not believe in Jesus. I have no physical proof that she was a real person, but her story is real. The process of becoming a saint is extensive, there also needs to be at least two proven miracles by the pre-Saint before they can be claimed as Saints. So, real or not, people pray to her and invoke her for guidance and help...and she's apparently proven herself.
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about that, i find it highly odd that people pray to dead people when the bible that they claim to follow; clearly states that the dead knows nothing and does not feel anything. most of all that it is god Jehovah you must pray to through jesus, ergo the 'prayer model' which jesus himself gave to us: in jesus christ, amen?
John 14, 6 Jesus answered, βI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
he clearly states that he is the medium to salvation, dont you think?
thanks for the input anyway
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Yeah, not having a biblical debate with you. It's the Catholic belief system, Saints are Sainted because miracles have happened through them, meaning they have been seen/heard and someone was cured of something or other. It's what it is. They don't pray to dead people, they pray to the spirit of the person, who they believe is in Heaven and willing to give alms for them to the Lord. Catholics, unlike Jehovah Witnesses do not believe that once you're dead you're a sleeping corpse in the ground, they believe Heaven is where you go to automatically (if you're judged "good enough" to do so). They believe in spirits and though it's not as widely popular, Limbo. Though they may pray to other people or even angels, the goal is always the same, communion with God.
To each their own.
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John 5, 28 βDo not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come outβthose who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. 30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
just to be a bit more precise than 'sleeping corpse' for biblically speaking the dead are just 'sleeping' until they will be awoken after armageddon and when the earth is prepared as a paradise to awaken in. you see, their body is dead and will decompose but the complete 'memory' of them are stored in sjeol (also alternatively known as hades, or kingdom of death or whatever more); gods memory and by that power they will be resurrected a new looking exacly how they did before they died so their relatives in the line will recognize each other you know.
thought it might have interested you to know unless you already knew
but yes i apologies if my approach was 'sharp' i'm just very interested and clear when it comes to the holy scripts and it's a biblical duty to preach where not so exact faith has taken place in the name of love to our lord = 2 Corinthians 5, 14 For Christβs love compels us...
it is as easy to explain as this: if you have a beloved relative then you wish him only the correct knowledge of course. the truth is for all.
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Yeah. Here's the thing. I was raised Baptist, didn't believe in it. Converted to Catholicism, didn't believe in it. Went to a Catholic college preparatory high school where religion was a mandatory class and learning how to read the bible was numero uno on the list of what to learn as a Freshman. Now there was once upon a time when I actually wanted to be a nun, even went so far as to live in a convent for a few weeks and get the "know how" as to the path to become said nun....but truth is, I never believed. I had Jehova Witnesses in my home for tea on winter days and ice tea in the summer. We would sit in my living room with their bibles and I would listen to what they had to say, ask questions, it was a little bible session...I actually really enjoyed those conversations, and I know my home was like a sort of "pit stop" for them....they admitted more than once that I was the only person on their walk that actually let them into their home, let alone stop to talk to them for more than five minutes at a time.
I'm open to religion, I adore what some people make of it, and I'm happy for those who find organized religion to be a pillar in their lives. I'm not going to knock it. I was merely explaining who the image portrayed, and what happened to her. I do not now, nor will I ever, say your way of thought on religion is wrong or that your interpretation of the same scripts that Catholics/Baptists/Lutherans etc. read, is wrong. Again, to each their own. Though I will always, always, always find humor in the fact that no matter the branch of Christianity, no matter the minor differences in ritual or lack there of....you all talk about the same God, and either pretend it's not true, or have this..."my God is better than your God because I translated this section of the bible this way and you didn't," sort of war. It's one of the main reasons why I gave up on Christianity.
Hell, I've been Pagan at heart since I was born...so it's no skin off my back.
Have a great day.
Please don't quote scripture at me again. For whatever reason.
I'd appreciate that.
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There really are people who have no chance... well done
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I just went to look up her legend on Wikipedia - and your picture is one of the illustrations! [link]
I don't quite understand your depiction though; the soldiers appear to mourning her, and yet the legend says she broke the wheel by touching it and had to be beheaded instead?
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VERY impressive! Well done. I wouldnΒ΄t have the patience.
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Viking times! Awsome! I would appreciate your comment on my gallery ^^
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you must have some serious patience my friend - this is too kewl fer school!
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