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Published: 2010-12-10 01:39:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1676; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 0
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self-portrait, drawn for the new joint artblog I've started with some friends of mine! It's called Tonight, We Draw and will be featuring the work of such talented freaks of nature as *heyleeloo , ~squirrelmafia , ~rainELL , ~diCagliostro , and more. so scurry on by and check us out.
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I love this. It does represent you well. I love how it's like creativity exploding out of you. The graceful lines are lovely and the colors complement each other well.
OMG I just realized that the coloring style I'm going for right now is an awful lot like this.
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Thank you Payna. 
And haha, you and I tend to have similar aesthetics a lot of the time it seems xD By all means finish whatever it is you're working on and post it, I'd love to see.
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I think all artists know that feeling all too well.
I did a Christmas/holiday speedpaintthing. Still working on how I really want to do things.
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I love this piece, Swifty. Wow. Wow. I think it's a good symbol of your artwork, too! Your drawings and paintings are so filled with joy that they might as well radiate from you. Plus I see a familiar yellow scaley face from your animated piece! *scritches between his (her?) eyes*
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Aw thanks Scy. <3 and it's nice to hear you describe it like that, I let whatever I'm feeling bleed into what I draw and 'creativity' is the best thing to do that with.
Heh, of course! She's a big milestone for me. I mean to do more with pangolins - and other odd critters I like - in future.
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TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL DRAW. Nyahaha I like that. Bookmarked the link-- I'll be sure to visit it every now and then!
This is a lovely lovely little picture you've got here. The pose is natural, your work on the face and expression spot-on, and the general motion of the picture-- with all the wavy animals and flowers and hearts-- brings it all together nicely. Very relaxing! My favorite part, besides your style of drawing humans (which is adorable, seriously fff), would be that pangolin. AAAH. It's little eye and tongue. The fella looks kinda mischievous. :]
I honestly can't find any critique to point out on this one, haha. I would clean up a few places: in the lower left corner, to the left of the monkey and to the right of the squid's ink there are what looks like weird, jagged corners. It looks like something you forgot to clean out of the original sketch. This isn't particularly distracting, but after I noticed it my eyes kept going back to them. Haha!
Ah I like that there's that little monkey in here, too. As a primate enthusiast I think that's really sad that there are LIKE NO monkeys in art. Nyaww...
...but yes, anywho, good work on this picture. I think it's pretty dang cute. <3
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Hahah thanks, I thought of it. It was a stream-of-consciousness choice but I'm happy with it.
Thanks also for the awesome comment, I hardly ever get comments anymore from more than a few people, and it warms my heart that you'd take the time to write all this out. You're right -- I hadn't cleaned it up properly and it's probably what I get for working on a laptop screen. Fortunately it won't be an issue to fix. I'm thrilled that you like this so much! And I'm going to have to help remedy this lack of monkeys in art issue, I've been meaning to for a while anyway. I made some monkey characters for my animated thesis to challenge myself a bit, and have been doodling them again lately.
<3 thanks so much, again! always good to converse with you, Ribbs.
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Ahaaa, you're most certainly welcome. Don't you hate it when that happens-- you finish a picture and failed to notice a flaw, all because of the screen. Whoops. 
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Ooh check out ~complaint-dept , I know she loves monkeys and has at least one character.
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its amazing! I could never be as good as u! ANOTHER great job
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Oh please, don't sell yourself short! If you put in the effort you can be as good as you want to be. But thank you.
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Yes ma'ma. Lol And i would comment on everything but its just easier to say i love all of ur gallery and u dont have to say thanks cause u just did!
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Well I appreciate it anyway!
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Very neat! I love the creatures. So randomly awesome.
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aw dude no pressure! there's no real deadline, this is just supposed to be a way for us to relax and have fun so the last thing I want to do is make it stressful for anyone
p.s. accept the blog invite so you can post! and let me know if you need it sent again. should be in your gmail.
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