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RYE-BREAD — The Night Train
Published: 2006-11-20 00:56:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 128244; Favourites: 4421; Downloads: 2819
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Full View, please!This piece was inspired by a song I played the marimba on in jazz band last week called "Night Train", a piece that conveys a lazy, slow ride on an empty train through the dark night and into the faster-paced morning light. And so it got me thinking, what would one find on a nearly-empty night train? What lingers there that day-travelers never see? I tried to create an awkward moment filled with both mystery, humour, and fantastical awe. I wish it were bigger so you could all see the details (jacket stitching, stray hairs, etc), but oh well. Anyway, enjoy ^_^
Note: just because they're on a train doesn't mean it's from spirited away
Photoshop CS2 + Tablet
Refs used (middle girl is from Fresh Fruits)
Illustrator CS for background composition
Several days completion
Crits and comments greatly appreciated!
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Comments: 481
I hope you don't mind ^_^
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAxW9F…
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I love their respective postures. This piece is full of character.
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want to share this on my facebook "PLAIN FACED POETESS" may I?
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I went on Youtube and just stared at this picture while listening to Night Ride XD
This is a really cool piece! Its just so random and weird but you make it seem not weird at all? Does that somewhat make sense? 
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Reminds me of the london tube some nights.
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I like the hairy guy. He's cute, in a weird but innocent kind of way.
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Reminding me of Spirited Away. Manga style. Great art but animated bigger pictures are strongly recommended because of several stories to tell.
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Love this! The guy on the left creeps me out, but in a good way
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dont we all feel like this, when we have to sit next to strangers? it my sound weird, but in the end, we are scared of everyone we dont know
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I love thier expressions so much. Also, the line work of this is fantastic!
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I love the idea
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Not entirely sure why, but I'm finding the big guy's expression to be enormously hilarious.
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great drawing
what is that one on the left it looks like a weed
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Would you mind if I wrote someting based off of this? Don't worry, It is not like I'm some published author. I will give you full credit for the idea of the creatures in the train..and I will add a few of my own. 
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This sounds like one of my stories....I love it. Amazing job!
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That hour in the late night before the morning, when the gap between real and unreal seems to fade and one could nearly see his fantasies invading the real world from his mind? Awesome picture
Dunno why, it reminds me of a picture i saw years ago, in a "Almanacco della Fantascienza" (Almanac of Sci-Fi, an annual magazine with all the news of sci-fi from comics, movies, videogames etc etc, very nice), that figured the internal of a XIX century tram, with a couple of normal XIX century people next sitting between lots of strange aliens and creatures of every sorts, like it was a usual and normal thing xD.
Wanted to show that picture, but the almanac lies in my dungeoEHMcellar, and of course on the net it is impossible to find ^^'. "And so?" you'll maybe think... and so grats, this is a great art xD
(psychotic randomness 100% powa, spin on!)
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This is the coolest thing I have ever seen! Freaking awesome!!!
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they seem more normal than most people you see on the train lol
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I seem to like this for some reason.
I don't know why.
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or cannabis works by tatsuyuki tanaka
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Lovely art!
It remembers me to "Totoro" and the train of "50 millimeters per second"!
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it's 5 cm per second
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lmao i feel like this on the train all the damn time at night...nyc transit is the worst XD
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I love this bizarre character on the left!! What such a cute girl would be doing between these two? haha
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Heyy!! it looks just like my sunday morning after-party train home! only that the characters I come across are scarier, stranger and loudier...
it looks amazing
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No matter what you say, I shall always think of Spirited Away when I see this. It's part of the reason I love this so much! Spirited Away was the first Anime I ever saw.
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Its like its right out of a Miyazaki film
Love it Love it Love it!
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I love the personality of the characters. 
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This is so very adorable!!
Awesome style and a really neat drawing there! ♥
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ooh, very nice, excellent detail and a very original idea overall
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Why is that...uh...guy on the left sitting so close to her even though he has so much space to move over? o.o
Unless that girl just randomly plopped between them.
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This is absolutely wonderful. It feels like a dream, and it's perfectly done. Perfect job.
(And yes, it does remind me of Miyazaki. xD)
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