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Nightwish: For the Heart I Once Had
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Heaven today, is but a way
To a place I once called home
Heart of a child, one final sigh
As another love goes cold
Once my heart beat to the, rhythm of the falling snow
Blackened below, the river now flows
A stream of molten, virgin snow
For the heart I'll never have!
For the child, forever gone!
The music flows, because it longs!
For the heart I once had!
Living today, without a way
To understand the weight of the world
Faded and torn, old and forlorn
My weak and hoping heart
For the child, for the light
For the heart I once had
I'll believe and foresee
Everything I could ever be
For the heart I'll never have!
For the child, forever gone!
The music flows, because it longs!
For the heart I once had!
Time will not heal a Dead Boy's scars
Time will kill...
For the heart I'll never have!
For the child, forever gone!
The music flows, because it longs!
For the heart I once had!
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Been listening to Nightwish last night and I though there is a ton of songs I can tie together with Neptune this song stuck out the most. to me the song can be compared to his troubled past, His childhood use to be very bright but was quickly shattered when Whalers came into his life and took his family away from him.
why do I give my characters such fucked up backgrounds!? Even though they help bring more life to characters, because honestly nothing is ever so "Happy go lucky and perfect life" that would be so bland. 
Another Picture of Neptune I adore
was a great idea to upgrade his look. 
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thanks and yes Nightwish has some awesome songs
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This is very beautifully done. You've captured emotion in cetacea.
Have been a fan of Whales since I picked up and read "Soundings" by Hank Searls.
I saw an episode about whales where they entered an area that had a long, red history of whale hunting. It got to a point where the whales, cognitavely conscious of being slaughtered, where known to be aggresive and violent to any shipping entering the area. The Whale slaughters were curtailed if not banned for some time and now, the whales (some of whom are old enough to remember the murderous bloodbath) became curious and friendly again towards human shipping. As though they understood some sort of truce. There is so much we still don't know about these giants of the earth.
Pasting of a short critique on a related show I highly recommend follows:
Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World.
Having had a profound interest in the seafaring adventures and misadventures of Antarctic Explorers, C S Forresters' Horatio Hornblower books, And Nordhoff & Halls Bounty Trilogy, I happened on to this PBS American Experience and was about to switch when I heard mention of the 'Essex' and Melville.
What followed was a wonderfully metaphorical narrative (spoken by Willem Defoe) of the US Whaling Industry including the Essex 'Incident' and Melville's personal account of his whaling experience (Whose "Ishmael" is beautifully voiced by Robert Sean Leonard of "Dead Poet's Society" and "House"-I think).
It ends with beautiful words from Herman Melville that evoke humanities shortsightedness in the circle of life on this Planet.
Released May, 2010 PBS Video
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thanks 
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I feel sorry for all those cachalots, pretty much from the 18th century onward. 
Say, have you ever read "White As the Waves" by Alison Baird?
It's a novel about Moby Dick from the point of view of the whale.
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No I have not 
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The whale fishery helped fuel the industrial revolution and the expansion of America, but at what cost?
I'm nearly finished with it, and I found it quite wonderful so far.
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I just got to get the inspiration and patience to pick up that book and read it.
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This one's worth it.
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I've found it almost impossible to find a copy of "White as the Waves", as it was released only in Canada, and I live in the US. I've known about the book for years, but very few US libraries seem to carry it, and when I look for it on-line to buy, like at Amazon or on eBay, it's always a collector's item as it's been out-of-print for a while and they usually want 50-100+ dollars for it. To steep for my budget.
Beva, thanks for the watch. So this sperm whale is an original character of yours. Cool. As you know if you read my profile intro and some of the comments/replies on my art, I'm somewhat of an expert on sperm whale anatomy (I've been drawing and painting and researching sperm whales for over 40 years), and your artwork isn't too bad, but you need to work a little on your proportions (I realize that this style of art is somewhat cartoon-like, and I haven't looked at all of your sperm whale art, yet). Realistically speaking, a sperm whale's flukes are the largest of any cetacean's, with their span being about 1/4 of their body length, so on a 60 foot whale, they would be @ 15 feet across. Also the front of the head is way too flat. As a male sperm whale matures, the top half of the head, corresponding to spermaceti organ/case inside the head, which is indicated/divided by that crease on the middle outside of the head, keeps growing, and on very old males it protrudes out from the rest of the head. Go take a look at my drawing entitled "Bull Sperm Whale", as well as my painting "Leviathan" and you'll begin to see what I mean about proportions and other aspects of their anatomy (a lot more bulges and shapes to them, especially along the bottom last third, from the genital area back to the flukes-yours is too smooth; eye should always be placed behind the back edge of the mouth where it curves out/up like a smile, that sort of thing). Yes, I know that it's very hard to tell a sperm whale's age just by looking at it, aside from wrinkles and scars, like you have with the edges of the flukes and pectoral fins and around the mouth, but there are other ways.
And the only reason I mentioned this at all, is these are common mistakes that many artists that are well-known and published for their whale art, such as Richard Ellis, make all the time. So if you are looking at some of their work as a basis for yours, you really aren't aware that theirs are wrong in the first place, and you're just repeating their mistakes. It's only after many years of very careful study of sperm whale photographs and scientific studies, that I have been able to piece together my extremely accurate drawings and paintings of sperm whales, and even I will admit that I'm still learning, all the time.
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I downloaded "White as the Waves" onto my kindle for like three bucks.
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Don't have Kindle or any other type of pad device; just my trusty Mac. Besides, I prefer to hold the actual book in my hand when I read.
Thought both of you would enjoy looking at some images done by artist Paul Lasaine a few years back. He is a professional movie production designer, who has done quite a few projects for Dreamworks, among others. These were pre-production paintings for a proposed animated film that showed the undersea world from Moby Dick's point-of-view, much like "White as the Waves", although there is no indication that the film project had anything to do with Baird's book; just had a similar concept as the novel. To see these paintings, go to [link] . To bad the proposal was shelved, would have loved to see the finished project.
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That is pretty cool. Thanks.
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Nice underwater effect!!! I really enjoyed listening to that song you mentioned. Nightwish also made a song called, "Sleeping Sun" [link] and the original version of this song is awesome.
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Thsnks, i am aware of all nightwish's stuff.
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Gah, I'm quickly becoming very fond of Neptune! He has such a gorgeous design
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Thank you 
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No problem ^-^
I know that feeling - I didn't like Akua's old design, but once I revamped her, she became one of my favorites
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Epic song! *had to listen before commenting*
And epic art to match. 
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Thank you 
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