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Published: 2011-10-31 15:59:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 1422; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Happy Hallowe'en and Hallowmas.This took longer than it should have and I'm puzzled by the results, but hey, I used colour!
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This isn't really a Halloween image itself as this is what it's like most of the year on the islands, but here we have Viv, Will, and Francoise, who all come from very different homes. Viv is shut away in a crumbling mansion with her mother, the Enchantress Chartreuse. Will is the Enchantress' student, and the son of an unlucky hearthwitch and gentlemanly (though deceased) warlock. Francoise is Will's oldest friend, a gypsy in a small rig currently near the edge of the forest.
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Yes, there is a candle on Francoise's hat, à la the Spirit of Jazz.
And the title is because of that circus-y bit in Outsiders by Franz Ferdinand, and because I couldn't think of anything else.
...I think we're done here.
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I do like the colours and texture here. I suppose it doesn't have a huge amount of depth but even then it isn't too bad. Love the hair, as always.
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Thankies
Yeah, I'm not great at depth. The background was just going to be more trees and leaves but I couldn't visualise it well and I suck at trees. This is probably the fifth or sixth time I've thought "oh screw it" when it came to autumn backgrounds. I'll get there eventually.
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Well when I realize I suck at something I try extra hard to stop sucking at it. It doesn't help straight away but it's not like avoiding things you're bad at will make you better. But I think your tree here looks like a good start.
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True. It's a bad habit of mine to focus so much on getting one thing decent and neglecting practicing the rest. Having the drive to try and improve is indeed important.
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It looks really cool. Nice composition, love the small details.
And I'm a sucker for gnarly old trees. ^^
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I love gnarly old trees, too. I wish I lived near a spooky forest.
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I wish that as well. There's some forests around here, but they are not that old or spooky.
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It's all cherry trees and palms around here
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Okay that is kinda vexing I guess.
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It all depends on what can resist a drought here. But I can dream...and watch Tim Burton films.
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It's so good to see new art from you, and one with such detail and warmth at that! The leaf litter (love how you rendered this especially), rose thorns and decorated bare tree really are gorgeous framing, not to mention the clever fish-eye-esque perspective you've wrapped the scene in. The harvest goodies really remind me of scenes from Martha B. Rabbit which I grew up with. And once again your realistic-style rendering of faces is so distinctive and never fails to captivate. Lastly, I adore their outfits, and I really needn't mention the sepia. =]
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Thanks ^.^
I have been trying to depict leaf litter this way for a long time, so I'm chuffed you like it. Interesting that it reminded you of Martha B. Rabbit when I was thinking of Brambly Hedge. I like the idea that the illustrations we loved as children can subtly influence us.
I'm quite pleased with how Viv's face turned out, since she actually has an expression. I'm not sure about Francoise, though. As a character she really ought to have more of an expression that suits her.
Viv's outfit has been updated from last autumn's picture. I'm very much into frills and buttons at the moment. I would have liked to have included striped stockings of course. I was going to make Francoise's underskirt red, but by Victorian convention they would very obviously be her underwear in that case and would make her overskirt too short, hence ridiculously bright orange instead. I put too much thought into it 
Oh and thanks as ever for the favourite
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happy halloween too
you do have a certain styl already,
great artwork as in the drawing
Phill
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