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RomadE — Part II- Obstacles
Published: 2012-03-23 04:11:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 416; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 4
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Although there may be hope of escape, no feat is without obstacles. Despair may push you back down in the dark, but give up? Nay, you just try harder to reach our for hopeHere is a continuation to my previous piece, Reaching Out. Here's the link- [link]
This is yet another art project for my art class. This took me some time to do (procrastination and all that
) , which resulted in this being late. We were to do a hand study, consisting of at least five hands being involved in the picture. I chose to do a continuation of my previous piece.Okay, now for the story behind this drawing:
As someone tries to reach out for a hope of a better world and a better tomorrow, there are things trying to get in the way, such as corrupt government, crime, war, disease, etc. All of those things being represented as the four 'Shadow Hands' trying to pull the 'Hand of Hope' back down into Despair (underground).
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Wow~! That's so cool! I love it 
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I greatly appreciate your feedback
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lol where u get the idea for that
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Did you get the explanation?
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So, if you were to look at the picture WITHOUT a description of any kind, how would you interpret it?
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i see it as thought provoking
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That's not what I meant...
Let me rephrase it: If you were to see this picture without any description, what message would you have thought it was trying to convey?
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Could you describe that a bit more?
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what a poor soul being pulled down into a place of torment
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But which do you think fits more, your interpretation or the intentional message?
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I see...
It's intriguing how there are many pieces of art out there that can be interpreted in more ways than one (this being one of them ^_^)...
Do you think I should remove the description as to let others interpret what *they* think the message is?
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yeah
let people think
that what art does
provoke thought
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Should I also do the same for the first one?
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Then I will explain. *ahem* Here goes...
Before I go on explaining Part I, let me explain to you the Season Pieces. You see, our art teacher decided to provide us each with a bulb, which we would then draw in each season (hence 'Seasonal Pieces'). When we started this project, it was fall (or autumn?), so some of us started drawing the bulbs before planting them. Mine was just a simple Pen & Ink piece (which as you can see, is not submitted on dA).
Then winter came. However, the bulbs haven't sprouted yet, so the teacher decided to leave it to our imagination (though it must involve the buried bulb somehow). In my case, I decided to use a hand; this was because I thought it had some deep meaning that I had no idea what it was other than just 'breaking free' at the time. So as time went on, I kept thinking about the meaning behind my own drawing, and figured them out.
Weeks later, our teacher decided to have us do a 'Hand Study'. A hand study was basically a piece (whatever medium we use was our choice) in which we are to draw at least five hands somehow involved in the piece (though a foot being included is not unheard of. Heck someone in our class even did that).
Originally, I had the idea of drawing one of my characters (who has these four robotic arms sticking out of her back and appears in my manga series Henshin). I liked the idea, since it gave me a chance to draw robotic arms (and, of course, hands). I however, I kinda blushed at the idea of drawing my character (I haven't thought up a name for her 
That's when it hit me; I could do a continuation of my hand-bulb thing! Originally, I thought I was done with that drawing. However, I thought it would be something deep to do, so I went on ahead.
As I was finishing going over it in charcoal (I was doing this at school), one of my friends looked at it and thought that it involved a person wanting to be who he is, but society (the shadow hands) did not allow that, and the human hand didn't want to give up, so it kept going. I kinda get where he's coming from on that one, as society can get its people drone-ish (I mean the people would follow everything in society like drones), and this person wants to be different. That's how he interpreted it.
However, after explaining what it was meant to display, he thought that it also made sense, and that it was cool that there was more than one way to interpret my drawing. I also liked how my drawing could be interpreted more than one way ^^. Say if I were to have left the artist's description blank, and the title irrelevant to the drawing, how would you have interpreted it?
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