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Hoo-boy, what to say about this thing. Umm. Ok.
Well, this was planned as a big one. Like, a good one. I wanted to have it ready to submit to the Art Show for Manifest this year (August 14/15). Of course, with so much to do before hand (three costumes, Anime Idol preparation, Volunteering preparation, Reporter duties preparation, crudload of uni work) I didn't even get it drawn up until very late. I would've liked to fix up some of the errors in sketchwork, but had to move right on to the painting, which is where most of the problems are. I really wanted to take my time to do this properly, and thus considered just waiting to do it after Manifest. You always regret it when you rush, right? But I realised if I didn't do it then, I'd never get around to finishing it. So it's better to have a poorly done painting than none at all. Anyway, it's too colourful; I really needed to work out a colour scheme properly. Characterwise, I actually designed all the characters before hand. Meaning I actually have my very own original characters now. Wow. I feel special. I'll upload some of the character designs to scraps later. I tried to take inspiration from the original Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, as well as incorporating style from other sources. I'll go into more detail about the individuals when I upload the sketches. From top left: The Queen of Hearts (she was a nightmare. I hate her) The Cheshire Cat Alice with the Black Kitten (whose fault it all was) The White Rabbit The Mad Hatter The March Hare The Doormouse I wasn't around in the art show much, but apparently it got some positive feedback. I met one girl who loved Hatter ('omg! He's so bishy!') We had a brief discussion on my view that I had not intended to make him bishy, and was actually horrified when I first came up with his design (I believe my words at the time were 'Holy crap, what have I done? I think I've created... a BISHOUNEN X_x' ). Everyone seemed to be able to tell that it was an Alice-inspired piece though, which was my main concern. All up, sorry for the lack of updates while I handled this monstrousity x_X;; I'm free to doodle again now. Try to focus on the character designs and not how ghey it looks all up. |
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Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to lie
Life taught me to die
So it's not hard to fall
When you float like a cannonball.
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Jess: IM CRAZY n EVIL MWAHAHAHA
Chibi: really now i thought you were just stupid
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~Jack Sparrow
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Hi! I've been banned, because deviantART sucks. You can still find my artwork up on [link] (there's nothing there yet, but that's where it'll go). Bite me, dA. XP
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Stigmataaaa....in your eye!
Doubtless as we speak you are preparing a great rant about Manifest (unless you are like me, and have left ranting for so long that there is now so much to rant about the very thought of ranting sets your head spinning for oblivion) so I won't ask you how it went. Reminds me I need to talk to Liz and ask her if she ever ran into that Jack Sparrow lookalike again. *evil smirk*
Anyway. Great to see your work again, I've missed your style. Take a few weeks to enjoy the sunshine--*A-chan: sunshine? what sunshine? where the hell does she think I live?*--you've earned it.
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