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Published: 2006-08-29 04:49:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 751; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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And he wondered : "How is it that I die and yet live and yet thirst... and how is it that I am alone in my own self"And he knew all at once it was only his own fault for not reaching a little harder, though the others might have claimed he wasn't able to reach people. All along, God just wanted him to pray and let got of his desert and the flowers he desired to grow there
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Ah yes... melodrama. Saw this view in a daydream I had while I was exitting an olive garden with my sisters, parents, bro-in-law, and my ultra awesome neice (who I hug and love and totally understand better than I do my physics 2 professor)... I was reminiscing on how much people have changed my life... how little I mean without them... and how desperately I search for more people to uplift and goof off with... despite having a total of one friend visiting me this summer (but I still know two or three other people who threatened to visit me after all the corny jokes I've emailed them for a while).
So, the concept: There are symbols here for people, and symbols of my own self. I'd like to remind the audience that the fellow there IS NOT ANY LIKENESS of myself, so as to assauge my own opinion of the painting.
I'm posting this now because:
A) I'm friggin tired of it
B) It makes me friggin' mopey and sulky
C) It's the friggin' hardest painting I've attempted yet.
I don't consider it toooo complete.... but more at the level with my "Ode to Lightning" fellow...
I've been working on this for about two months, off and on... and I got the idea for it three months ago right before my internship or so... everyone was ticked off at me because it was hot outside the restaurant and I was all "Dude! I have to sketch this out! This painting will pwn joo all!" Then my dad jostled me into the car and all (my dad has this thing for punching me in the stomach... "playfully"... but I get him back.... ooooh man, I get him back)
As (should be) always: Thanks to my homie Jesus and God for inspiration, as well as my family and all. And Um... Heh... I'm not saying that to sound like it's great, but that only God could make someone like me do much more than a stick figure... so for me at least, this has turned out rather spamtastic. Sorry for anyone disappointed... be sure to find a woman and blame her... be sure to say that it was your idea and get a photo of the moment. We can put it on the "Women hatin' on men" Monthly magazine. They always do that.
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I was trying to link my physical thirst at the time with my own 'spiritual' thirsts... err... *ahem* *shrug* if you believe in that sorta thing.
Thanks! 
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Well, you did a great job of conveying it~<3
No problem~
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wait a sec... that new avatar of yours... the cake! the cake is a lieeeee! D:
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I love you weighted companion cube~<3
-Wooh someone noticed it, yay!-
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it has a heart on it! who can forget? I mean, dude... I don't even have the game and I know that one (stupid ol' "Let's push back the ps3 release, mwahahahahha" losers... why valve WHY!?!?!?)
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Ahh! I didn't comment on it and I faved it - sorry! I thought I already commented, but anyway...I wanted to say how much I love the colours in this piece - the orbs (especially) look fantastic!
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Women Hatin' Men magazine..sorry...that tickled me. Really great job on the dunes...yellow is a hard color for me to work with. And I really like the higlights on the...well I don't know what to call them so I will call them orbs for now.
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yeah... I guess they're water orbs
On my list of things to see before I die:
Orbs of water defying gravity.
xD
I'm so weird
Thank you for the comment/compliments... I'm highly flattered, and therefore will probably get less sleep tonight. don't worry, though, I'll just take it out on you with more crazy doodles.
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Well when you start seeing orbs of gravity defying water you probably are in the process of dieing anyways :Lol
Your welcome! Huzzah for crazy doodles!
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I feel bad about this... but I'm gonna have to sleep now... but if you like, even though your stuff is out of my league, I can splay out random puns and poor one-liners throughout your gallery... 
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Sleep away. I have chronic insomnia...literally. I have to take medication to sleep. I guess I should do that o_O Sweet dreams and all that jazz.
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man I was looking through your gallery and this was the first thing to catch my eye. I love not only the color, but the detail you put into it! Also the perspective of the guy below. Totally awesome work you've done here. 
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Sheesh... thanks! But yeah... I dunno... I guess I needed to put more work into the foreground and all. Plus the guy wasn't everything I wanted :-S
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this caught my eye when I was passing by
I thought they were floating mountain from the thumbnail. but realized that they are suppose to be floating mass of water. is it not?
emotions are very well conveyed. I like the concept within. the concept also can branch out to broader topic it seems. I believe there are often many thing we know we want it or need it, yet we never go and get them because we think they are out of reach. it leaves you with bit of remorse in my opinion
I see that this is not a complete piece but I really like the idea of it. I was going to suggest you something but someone was ahead of me. DAMN.
very clever way to illustrate your concept and pretty accurate color choices for the floating water
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Thanks! Feel free to suggest something twice... actually, it's a good thing. The more someone repeats something to me, the more I'll remember it, and the more important I'll consider it.
All thoughts are welcome.
And I try. Please let me know what you're thinking if you think it's important enough to repeat. I know some of it is rather unfinished, but figure points and stuff are great no matter how small or repetitious. Like, it took me forever to figure out what in the world was wrong with the face on my plow pic... I don't think anyone suggested it to me, but the chin was way misplaced. I don't know how I miss stuff like that.
As for the emotions, yeah. I feel like this many times... especially at night is when I can get really moody. In a way all my paintings are sad. The happy ones are dreams, and the sad ones reality. It's all very agonizing... but still, putting it down makes it seem to fade away. And I try to keep it so that people can relate... and hopefully not only do I help myself, but somehow bring others inspiration. Heck, I wish I was that powerful, but I try.
You've got a clever set of characters, something I don't have yet. Hopefully I'll work on that more, so that something like this will not only have a good concept, but a good character to go with it. It's my biggest disappointment about all my art. They are missing real characters.
I dunno... you agree with that? Or can the art carry on without a character?
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the chine was misplaced? damn I did not even dreamed of it. I have bad eye for some things after all. I will keep that in mind next time I comment than.
I see. many of your paintings have relation to your feelings and life. having ability to illustrate is a fortune in my opinion. where would I let out anything I want to express if I did not know how to draw? I might have done some bad things by now
I believe every art works reflect something of the person behind it. which makes the interesting if conveyed in unique way. some of your works seems to be out of world. for your type of artwork I think a character can do good or bad.
for my case, I have a specific story to go with them. at some aspects the story and the character do have relation to me in person or my experiences however. I am quite not sure what kind of paintings you exactly make in general. but if your works could be grouped in some sort of series, having a character that represent you might be fun. also put some element a viewer can look beyond. heh
and thank you for your remark on my characters. I hope to see your developed character if you decide to make one
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oh! not the chin in this painting, I meant this one: [link]
I had wished someone had told me.
Chin is wayeeee too short and need to fix it some day.
And having a 'bad eye' is like having a bad day. You wake up the next, and it'll be something different. Everyone gets it, and it makes you no worse than me (in fact better, because you didn't make the mistake). But who's tallying points anyways?
Thanks for the feedback on characters. You really have a good point. I need a story to flow with a character. I'm assuming otherwise characters might detract from my stuff.
I'll try to make a story, and hopefully not a half-ass one like so many of us are plagued by. But more than likely, it'll be the weirdest thing ever.
As for my painting style in general... I try not to have too much of a one. But I'm going to go for a loose happy medium of and with of course my own illustration oddities. Eventually.
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the took a look at the picture. yeah the chin is short, only if you are going for accurate anatomy. art often apply "style". if I consider it to be a style, since it does not look very very off, I would still not notice it.
so do you prefer realisms?
heh I like werid stories. do not be so tense. whatever you come up with I will be interested
and is amazing. thank you for sharing
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no problem... mattahan has a huge history and following... good grief his icon packs are glorious.
I guess I prefer surreal over real... but I like to make it hard to tell which is which.
And yeah... I guess I should adopt a style before I assume anything about anatomy. Hmmm.... I mean, hey, if we went by anatomy, then I'd have to tell you that Cromas doesn't have very human ears.
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Ooh great, same with the concept.
Some on purpose-blurring of the foreground, but the thing that nags at me is that it seems to seemlessly blend into the background, maybe if the valley just above the foreground where darkened a bit more, it'd be easier to see the foreground from the background, & thus even more depth!
The peice provays emotion though, & that is more important then eye candy, the point is fairly clear & well illustrated. Nicely done Duuuuudymas!
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I love that suggestion! Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed this! And I've been making sure to slowly take in your recent piece "Instigate"... I'll hopefully be able to repay ya. I did prematurely stop working on the dune that appears in the lower left... and I must say, I'd also like to better my dust in this one so that it seems more like a desert. Thanks so much! And I'll be posting more of a nebula style arty bit verty soon if I can finish it before all college lets loose or otherwise (life is going nuts on me). Thank you again!
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Hehe all sounds good! 
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Vhat! I should buy you a tablet! *counts his money*
Thankew again and again! I'm still waiting for a good session to critique that last beautiful thing you did *hats off*
Must..... sleep.....now....... *kathunketh onto pillow*
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An honourable gesture!
Sleep well.
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funny how a depressing place like an olive garden causing this stuff
poor itallian cuisine
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yeah... buggers once served me half-cooked chicken... was all "Dude! Pink gooeyness!
My mom gave me the STFU-n0ob look of doom.
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but yeah... I was feeling a bit of a downer since I had yet to see a single friendly face outside of my fam... who all simply thought that a good meal and a mall crawl would fix. Instead, it did sorta make it worse... then going to the internship sent me into a spiral. But I swear, I just sat under some trees in the rain for a few days, and you just learn to shake it off. I knew brighter times would come. I got bigger fish to fry on this emotional ground, too. But I have yet to get the guts to do em... gotta finish others first.
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I do try to portray what life can be like
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Little capsules of water floating above the desert so in need of rain. It's beautiful!
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Thanks for the comments! I believe you've got the basic message... and that for me, people are what I made water my desert. I've since learned that God is the rain maker... but it's been a long process in learning and healing.
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It is the same for me. It's sometimes hard to not look at the drops of rain but at the cloud from which they come. God's still trying to teach me that.
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Well, each day I think God draws nearer... I hope and pray the same for you. I bet he wants us to eventually see the sun behind the clouds and beyond. Thanks for encouraging me!
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Sheesh! Thanks for being Jesus to me xD
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Very nice! Really interesting (as always) techniques you use when you color things. Great shading (as always, too). Nice floating brains! (j/k I know they aren't brains)
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oh no! you're on to me! *quickly informs brains to body snatch Nyc's neighbors*
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i love the bubbles...i think its the ripples that im drawn to. i also love the sharp yet smooth lines of the sand dunes....nice work!
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thanks!
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lol unfortunatly i think i've given up on more drawings than i've completed
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I am having trouble pinpointing why... but I really like this piece. I apologize for being so vague.
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Hahahah! Thank you! A ton! And be as vague as you like... I tried to be vague on the meaning because I do so love for people to capture as much of their own heart as possible... so it's more valuable to others as well as myself.
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wow that looks so perfect!
everything fits great to the other parts of the pic
the desert style in contrast to these kind of waterdrops in the sky is a great idea!
and the technique is just perfect!
the reflecting effect on these drops, reflecting the ground and everything around it
very plastic!!and the details on the man sitting there... whoo
mhh... he's giving up reaching it? :C
but at all another stunning work just amazing!!
i wish i had your talent!!!
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hah! Thanks a ton! I'm glad you like it, and please know you have every bit of talent you need... practice whenever you can but most of all, have fun... I didn't stop working on this one till it stopped being fun.
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