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47ness — Orchestrion
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Published: 2018-06-07 01:43:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 7304; Favourites: 133; Downloads: 19
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Another digitally colored photo from my sketchbook! (I decided to just crop out the edges of the book, but you can see the unedited version on my social media below)EDIT: went back in and dramatically darkened the bg (one of things I hate about these edits is it's impossible to fix on social media because the original file is the one that gets reblogged unless I delete it entirely) -_-
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(fun fact: I was drawing this while Taipei was conducting a city-wide air raid drill)
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Comments: 28
Oh maaaaaan I loooooove the dust motes there in the sunbeams, beauuutiful job with lighting as always man!!!
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Thanks. I still struggle with color, but I'm trying to build off what I know about lighting to make something happen.
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Beautiful colors. I really like your big perspective works.
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This wasn't supposed to be that big, but hey.
If I really wanted to go full-bore on a perspective-heavy scene I have you as my inspiration. XD
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This is so cool! 
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Thanks. 
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And then your artistic instincts took over and you just had to express them!
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And the maestro commands your attention.
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It's based on a story about an alchemist who pilots a musically-themed airship. 
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As if I were about to have the slightest doubt as to what/where this was.......! XD; There's some great-looking steam in there...!
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I'll admit I wasn't entirely sure whether I wanted it to be a more literal interpretation of Horatio's bridge or something entirely surreal/symbolic, but then so many of my interpretations end up somewhere in between...
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I always picture Horatio out in the open air, so this inevitably feels a bit more toward the surreal/symbolic side to me.
I can see why you wanted to put something in that place/get some layering/depth of scene going on, but I can't help but see that as, like, the 'Death Star disco ball' hanging above him. XD;
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It was more of a happy accident, but I realized the platform I placed him on could mechanically extend out into the open air. If he REALLY wanted to be melodramatic about how he pilots.
Yeah.
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Well, sometimes he does, right? XD; Teasing those kids outside the town in Northern Dunnland and such, ha ha
I don't think it detracts from the illustration, really- this is just the 'I'm bound to have opinions' when I wrote about it for several years, I think. It's a waaaaay more interesting drawing on this topic than I could pull off.
...and I didn't notice until I came back this morning and looked at it again, but I love the open air section at the front where you can see all the way down to the ground below! ^^
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No guard rails needed...!
I think I end up having all kinds of opinions about my own art, especially if it's my own creations.
Yup! That it does~
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He’s got a lot of trust in his balance, I guess!
Hmm, that does seem accurate to what I’ve seen/heard from you...
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The things that really sold it for me were the light shafts and dust particles. What a magical image!
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This is a case of "colored sketch that got out of hand"
(I'm also pretty sure all those windows aren't doing the acoustics any justice, but yeah, let's just say it's magic and I don't have to explain anything. XD)
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