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Published: 2008-06-24 23:05:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 18395; Favourites: 604; Downloads: 521
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What is A Flock of Ravens? 
I finally finished this stupid thing This was one of those pictures where I was really excited and happy about being able to draw something intricate, but I was also really unhappy about having to waste 3-4 weeks on it >_< I don't really have a long attention span, so I try to avoid this type of complicated stuff. Then again, it's nice to do something large-scale every now and then so people don't think I'm a lazy bum
Part of the floral border is recycled from an older piece--stfu I still had to re-ink the whole thing >_<;;I remember when my dad walked in the room while I was still coloring stuff and he asked me what the picture meant. I just sorta looked at him blankly asked "Why? Does it matter?" There isn't really any deeper meaning to this or any of the other stuff I draw; it's simply my two characters (Nell and Fallyn) from A Flock of Ravens sitting beneath two statues and some crazy floral border. I always draw my female characters in spiffy 18th century dresses and I had a terrible urge to draw statues (blame my art history class >O> ) and the flowers are there because I like drawing them...? Since when does everything have to have some special meaning? Though I guess it does connect a little with the Dargaard song, which is where I got the title from. Go listen to Ancestors of Stone here: [link]
Nell & Fallyn © ~Seitou
For more info on A Flock of Ravens go here: [link]
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Comments: 135
You're work is absolutely incredible. I've looked at every single folder in your gallery! It is simply magical.
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nice...
It looks beautiful.
Very classy.
Awesome job!
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Can't stop 
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Hey! This deviantion was featured here: [link]
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it's just beautiful
love the colors and...all of it!
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Wow! The amount of details you find in this picture - it has left me speechless! I simply love how you draw! Your pictures are always so filled with atmosphere and beauty!
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The attention to detail almost makes my brain explode. 
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Beautiful!
At first I thought it was a photograph of some old postcard or so~, it's so beautiful!
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Well it was worth the time for me! Thanks... LOL!
This is gorgeous...
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Wow, this is just...I'm speechless D: (in good way!)
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Phwoooarrrrr!!!!!
points to the intricate designs of the flowers and victorian dresses*
EEEK! *___*
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wow, great job! I love the elegance of old fashion clothing, though it wasn't comfortable..
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This is really beatiful, The amount of detail is amazing, and the color's are very good as well. I really love it.
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Just remember that your dad loves you and is VERY proud of your skill. Your art is just amazing!
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Just remember that your dad loves you and is VERY proud of your skill. Your pieces are just amazing!
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You are right - art doesn't always have to have a meaning for people to love and admire it. Sometimes when you look at a painting you get a lot of feelings just by looking at it and loving it. That is the way I feel about this piece. I don't get a particular meaning from it, but still it fills me with a lot of emotions.
This piece is just a wonder to look at. All those details. Your work has really paid off. I simply love the crazy floral border and the two statues.
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awww i saw this on 's journal. its amazing~~! i adore the wings, and the shading and the lines >w<~ everything is sooo elegant an beautiful~!!!!
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the details are to die for
I generally don't like the faces in your drawings, but this time I must say that I like almost everything here. you have to be an unbelievably patient person. I especially like how you did the statues, they're drawn in a beautiful style. you definately didn't waste these weeks ; )
hope to see more drawings like thos one ^^
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I'm glad to hear I didn't waste those weeks 
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hm... I looked through your gallery, and I think that the "problem" lies not in the style itself, but in technical aspects. the eyes, the noses and the lips - they, in my opinion of course, are just too big as for such faces. for example, in this drawing - the statues have smaller eyes than the characters and it makes them look more delicate... also, I think that the eyelashes in your style are too strong and too long, and the lines in lips and noses - too thick. so, tu sum up - smaller and weaker face elements will make the weird feeling go away, because everything besides is faultless. ;D
It's of course my personal opinion. I know how hard it is to make drawings not to look like manga, or rather to make people stop saying that it is manga... so I understand your situation perfectly
I hope I helped : )
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That helps a lot 
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Your paragraph in your description (about pictures having a meaning)...I agree with you 100%! I don't get why some people believe that there has to be a meaning behind everything (like art & literature). It's like they want to tear apart everything & analyze it. (I'm an English major & in my literature classes, it drives me up the wall when these people try to sound so smart by trying to describe the "real meaning" behind a novel or play.) It's the same with artwork. I remember going to the Norton-Simon Art Museum (in Pasadena, CA) and this guy was looking a painting and going, "Oh, I can tell by the way the artist did those strokes that it symbolizes blahblahblah and the way the light reflects in the water is blahblahblah". I was thinking, "C'mon...you're getting in over your head. If the artist wanted to paint a lake, he just did...there is no "meaning" behind it." Or people ask, "Who is it?" It's nobody...just a random design for the most part (except for my OC for my stories). When I draw, there is no hidden meaning or representation behind it...I draw what I feel like.
Well, phew, that was kind of long. 
Anyway...wow...I totally 
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