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yay finally a landscapea giant guillotine for man beast and alike
i know i know perspective issues
if i can correct i will in the meantime this is it
oh and those are statues not man that were turned into stone
just plain old sculpted statues of marble
"as night fell, the shackles were heard on the surrounding forest, though there was no living creature nearby"
~cheers
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I like this, it has a lot of atmosphere. The colors really help establish this sort of oppressive, ominous mood.
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ominous was the word i was hoping someone would call this 
thank you
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I remember now... hehe
Yes this was indeed a image that caught my eye from the very day u posted it in the teeny group
Its just breath-taking and the idea that it creates is practically infinite, especially since u pointed out that the men are statues..
I cant exacly grasp the idea behind it,but thats all part of the magic,isnt it?
And the excecution is brilliant ! the way u mixed up the sky purple and blue into that trubled mess is, in my opinion magicall !
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what part of the idea
ill be glad to fll you in on that
i love it when people show interest on whats beyond my art
thank you
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ookay,sry for late reply but anyways..
Well the fact that stone statues are pulling down the guillotine,is obviously a reference to what goes on in our world coorect? or not? im a bit confused on that one,
Im pretty sure i meant to say more things to this,but over time i forgot what i wanted to say
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ah no worries
i will be glad to explain
the whole concept of the guillotine is a part of the romance im writting
fantasy kinda thing, Eragon, LOTR and so on
so
this dude swore to avenge his fathers death, he was a farmer and so was his son. His son went and lived a rich full life away from the ones he held dear, mother and father. One day upon returning home, he found that the secluded residence of his father had been pillaged by mercenaries and bandits and all sorts of wrong people, his father was killed and his mother raped at a very late age, before dying alongside her husband she left him a note.
The promise he made to his father was that one day he would build a huge fortress and prison where he'd "enprision?" and enslave all evil people and criminals, the statues represent the very prisoners of that place, lifting the structure that would one day be the end of them.
It was the prisoners who built the walls and who built the guillotine, Jurrah, as the man was called was a fanatic for it, and so he ordered it to be built at a massive height and to be able to behead all sorts of creatures, from dragons to the pettiest of humans, it was a sadistic structure.
Everything was abandoned due to lack of funding once Jurrah died, prisoners took over, some died, other remained and other fled.
And 17 years before the timeline of the actual book a mystical discharge happened throughout the continent, and turned the dead of that place into living, and the living to dead, the once green plains were turned into swamps where the rrattling of the chains of the prisoners is still heard within the depths of the mist.
when i paint something i don't usually have anything behind it, what you see is what you get, it's there portrayed plain and simple. I don't like giving meaning to things, although some paintings have it, some don't this one is just an illustration such as many other in my gallery
but this one [link] has a more deep meaning, it's a reinterpretation of the David's from the rennaissance, but in this case with a different reading, the will of the small to confront the great and the beast
i think it's one of the few paintings i made that has a meaning beyond the illustrative side
hope i managed to enlighten you
i hate all that meaning behind everything, im not a thinker, well i am but that side of me is not portrayed in paintings and illustrations that i do, they oftenly do not have a seond interpretation or an intricate meaning behind all of it
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interesting story,thx for explaining,now i see
and as for ideas behind drawings,i think that is exacly the factor that defines a painting into art.
If the painting has no underlying message or story,it cannot be really classified as art,thats why ure piece drew my attention
I myself am only starting to grasp drawing in a more "experienced" level,but i still find most entertaining to see and do drawings that have an idea behind,and not the ones that just look cool.
Good luck with ure story!
Im thinking of writing up a LOTR parody [link] but i seriously dont know where to start from,i have figured out the main characters and all,but the story is quite non-existant.
How can someone parodize the greatest work of fiction ever?>
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don't really agree with what you said there
looking at still life paintings from the baroque you can see that they oftenly don't have an intricate meaning behind it, yet, they are still art right?
indeed
it's a hard job
good luck on that, maybe greab some inspiration from monthy python and all the movies that made parodies of the great masterpieces
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its just a theory ive been "philosophizing" on, so its okay to disagree with.
and i dont call it art,no.Its merely a reproduction of what one sees.
up till recently most of my "art" was exacly that,a reproduction of things i see around me(comics,landscapes)into drawings.But i wouldnt call them pieces of Art.
You see Art has overlapped with the meaning of craft so much,that people have come to confuse which is which,and this *i believe* is making its appearance in what we Artists call our creations.
Thats why i have decided *stupidly,on my own* to call Art only pieces of which an idea lies behind.
calling a pot of fruit art is meaningless,no matter how weird it looks,or how much effort the artist put into the making.Its like the digital paintings u can see around here that are so life realistic they look like a photo,but why should we call it Art? because the artist put a lot of hard work in it?
A baker puts alot of hard work into a loaf of bread or a cake,but no matter how nice it looks at the end (or smells or tastes) we dont call it art.
Do u see my trail of thought?
also i offten disagree in calling ourselves Artist's,because most of the digital artists around dont paint for the sake of art,but for the sake of money,thats why in reality they are people of craft aka craftmen.
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Ive read Bored of the Rings,and thats about all the LOTR parodies ive ever heard of
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ah now thats why im thinking on going on more of a practical course than rather the whole fine arts spirit
before i would have ftted in because they only wanted the academic part
which i value more than anything else
now its all about expressions and concepts and visions and all about philosophy
hate all that
if i am not an artist because i don't have oftenly a meaning behind what i do
then i rather not be one and just draw fr the sake of draw
thats what i like more than anything
screw the meaningfull things
i like drawing, drawing from life, drawing fantasy and so on
it's not stupidly
people are diferent
and have different ways of appreciating art
while you may adore Kandinsky or Munch or Mondrien, Duchamps, so on
i find them full of crap and very little art
because like you said
i refuse those things
being open minded or not
i rather appreciate the masters
such as Caravaggio, Leonardo, Donatello etc etc, Jan Weenix, Rembrandt etc
they all have meaning behind what they do, yet they can still be academic
that is what i love more than the rest
i see it completely
oh but you are wrng there
do you think most of the portraits leonardo painted were fr the sake of art?
no it was for money
I completely refuse the Art you call Art, and that may people call Art
maybe im just stubborn or maybe i'm just being me
what i do nevertheless is not for Art, and it's not for money
what i do i do to become better at what i do and to reach my own goals
surely i do commissions we all need money
LOOOL
bored of the rings
god i have to take a look into that
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oh i forgot to mention that i have no idea of history of art,so all those names u mentioned? i only know Caravaggio, Leonardo, Donatello and Rembrandt,but i havent seen any of their works apart from a few DaVinci ones.
I didnt mean that i follow that what i call Art either,i like to draw just for the sake of drawing as well..its my favourite pass time,after gaming i s'pose..but only recently ive started looking more into what mroe i can make out of my hobby rather than just drawing cool stuff
I will never take the road of what people call Fine Art..going all abstract and all,cos that just wouldnt be me,i will always draw cause i like drawing but i would never call something with no meaning "Art" with a capital "A".
I practically refused going to the fine arts school cos i didnt like the kind of "Art" they would be teaching me there.Id rather spend 4 years in some other uni,but drawing what i like,*how* i like,which is digitally,pencils,with markers and spray paints...anyone would agree that those are not mediums one would find acceptable in a "Fine Arts" school.Hell! my arts teacher didnt even know about digital art an concept art!
i try to do a hybrid approach fusing my "ideal" of art with the fact that i like to draw for the sake of drawing,and thats what makes me and u and many others on here Deviants
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you should, modern arts (for more that i hate them and trust me i hate it so much) they are still important, don't ask why but they are
i don't get the point of it though
i'll always draw cool stuff and perhaps it will always remain that way
art to me doesn't need to have a meaning
neither will i
i hate that path but i also don't need to have meaning in what i do
i might use symbolism some times when i want a detail of a character to have meaning
but thats probably the only time ill ever do it
at my school it's really open minded
and perhaps a bit too much
i preferred the old term of fine arts
academic and so on
exactly
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yes well i guess we should...but still i think all the modern artist's seriously cant be bothered to draw or paint thats why they go off and do this crazy shit call it art and then sell it for millions..
Yes me 2 i guess , 
Art stuff is awesome as well but requires a stronger will from myslef that idont possess all the time
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ahah exactly my thoughts
neither do i
but i don't let that stop me
at least sometimes
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haha i usually give in...but sometimes im really good
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sem duvida uma imagem digna da Wizards of the Coast ^^
altamente
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all natural Lubrificant .
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I can swear I was thinking of a similar
design after watching The Death Machine
on Discovery channel but I would never
be able to pull it off quite this good.
I guess I'll just scrap my idea. Lol
No, really this is awesome!
I might have to try the Aragon wheel of
death...
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i can always do it
ideas aren't usually the same in the mind
hmm Aragon wheel of death
sounds sexy
go for it dude
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My ideas usually stays in my mind,
Yours come out for the world to witness...
I need some practice, hence the reason why
i'm not so active on DA + my uni work was
stacking up too!
I'll give it a go...
Cheers Rui!
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you should start taking them and putting them up for the world to see
neither am
im like once a day just to clean my inbox and i even fail at that
go for it dude
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Thanks Rui, Its getting harder for me
to try and balance uni work with leisure time.
I'll surely get better at it as time goes by.
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exactly
find the right balance and make your own routine
unless you hate routines
im very well adapted to my own and i try to make more with the time i have
of course dude
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I love routines
I just don't stick to them.
I think i'm planning less and
creating more now a days.
How's your education going?
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LOL
nah i cant do that although i am about to break mine
meh nothing major to report
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Cool, do you know any other softwares
beside Corel and Adobe suite?
What else do you do part from designing?
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well
theres SAI
ArtRage
OpenCanvas
well
...
erm
...
nothing
oh i play videogames but that doesnt count, i also go to college and spend some time with my missus
sometimes i play soccer as a goalie
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I haven't used any of them softwares.
Its nice to hear you get some time out with
your other half.
Soccer as a goalie! Lol I wasn't much into
football (soccer in your country), I've always
loved Basketball and Tennis and now more recently
I've started making games and I have to admit I'm
really enjoying this part of my life.
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used them all
but only Painter rivals Photoshop
and once CS5 is out i think the rivalry will be over
(actually its football in my country and soccer on the UK and US
bah never liked Basketball
i like tennis though
nice to know dude
so far i stick with playing them
hmm perhaps we could make a game
i'd let you do the programming and id do the art
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Can't wait to try my hands on CS5
Is it even announced yet?
Oops everyone calls it Football here
but in some countries they call it
Soccer (no offence)
Thanks, its actually more of a level
designer than a programmer, its really
not that difficult.
Have you heard of UDK or UED (Unreal editor)?
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yeah
along with a bunch of new decent and handy features
like blending brushes i think
finally i wont need to go to Painter to blend something decently
non taken
yeah i heard of them
what about them
never really messed with them or even touch them as a matter of fact
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Oh cool, just seen a few videos on youtube
looks promising.
I've started using UED since the last semester
and its like building a level using lego pieces
its really quite easy, i'll show you my finished
one for this semester when its done.
You get top dollar if you can master this software
as there aren't many out there who know how to
use this software + UDK is now available for free.
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LOL
i bet it cant be that easy
aye aye mate id like to see that
oh thats cool
dude btw have you checked my journal?
let me know if you can help me out with that
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Nah its not that difficult really,
sure thing buddy
I did check your journal but didn't
want to disappoint you.
I need to get that edition myself and
just don't get enough time to visit
my local town, i'm in uni 7 days a week..
If I do get one I'll let you know.
No promises!Sorry....
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thanks anyways buddy
let me know
if you get one
get another one for me and mail it
ill cover the expenses if you do
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Gosto como funciona a ilustração no seu estilo que pretendes e a ideia em geral é boa.
Adoro o céu, a indefinição de noite/dia propriamente o que contribui para algo mais fantasioso
os aspectos que aponto são aqueles que já te tinha dito: a lineart carregada nas montanhas e o facto de na coluna da direita da guilhotina a luz não incidir sobre ela como a da esquerda e estar mais lisa, o que faz com que pareça que a perspectiva teja um bocado mais desleixada. ISso e o facto da pintura em certas partes tar "ratada", isto é, não bem definida quanto recta
Gosto imenso da estatua da esquerda, vê-se mesmo que está em esforço o que dá força a imagem
Espero que não desistas desta imagem e tejas na disposição de fazer uns pequenos ajustes
<333 amoteeeeee
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obrigado
hmm
poderia ser entendido como sendo uma estrutura velha não?
inda bem ^^
bem depende de que ajustes são
tive uma ideia ontem a noite que não quero mesmo desperdiçar
<333333333 amoteeeeeeeeee
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sim, tem ar de velho e tal mas há coisas que o indicam e outras que sao mesmo erros de concepção
yayyy quero ver
<3333 amoteee
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