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Minor character from an RP; the embodiment of insanity. Taken and twisted from a half-remembered supernatural detective story set in China.
Finally, me doing some artwork for my own sake. It's not either of the pictures I wanted to finish, but it was a lot faster than either.
I'm almost done with the huge commission. That'll probably be next up.
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`hokuto Nov 10, 2006
What an utterly gorgeous piece - so simple and flowing in design, but everything perfectly done. o.o *stares in admiration*
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~angoukohaku Jul 6, 2006  Hobbyist Writer
this is just kickass... *stares*
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~Artfix Jul 5, 2006  Student Digital Artist
This one is faving it. I like the compusition and how the snakes are tided back in to the womon by the green/gray being repeted in her by the thing arond her wast.(sorry for bad speling I'm at art "boot" camp and thers no "Word" to ues for spell check)
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~titanic1912 Jul 3, 2006
I like the flow of the snakes, how she is slightly leaning, her wing-arms and her content, mellow expression. Your line art is amazing.

"a half-remembered supernatural detective story set in China."

I'd just /love/ to hear more about that. Is there anywere I can go and read?
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~melukilan Jul 3, 2006
Well, the problem is, it's half-remembered. I got it out of the library, and it had a title something like "Judge Wu and One Strong Ox" but I really don't remember the title or author or anything except dreamlike snippets of the story. It was about an old detective magistrate guy and his young assistant, and there was a puppet-master and his beautiful daughter, and...the best you could probably do is look for some key words on a library computer. Sorry!
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~gypsymoongate Jan 16, 2008
You are probably thinking of "The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox", a collection of three books by Barry Hughart. The individual titles of the books are "Bridge of Birds", "The Story of the Stone" and "Eight Skilled Gentlemen".

And I absolutely adore this picture. The graceful simplicity of the lines is really striking. It looks like something that should be embroidered on silk.
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~melukilan Jan 16, 2008
Oh, THANK YOU! Yes! Thank you thank you thank you! You wonderful clever person!

Oh, and thank you for the compliment, as well!
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~titanic1912 Jul 11, 2006
Ah well... That happens for me all the time too.
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~Kyriani Jul 1, 2006  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Absolutely gorgeous! ^_^ Is that marker? Amazing how well just two colors can be used as such a striking contrast.
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~Kid-Tijid Jun 30, 2006
Another great picture ^.^; bravo! we wantz more that we do! very pretty and i like that type of style as well
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