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She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.--Honore de Balzac, Passion in the DesertThis is a piece that breathed it's own unequivocal meaning as it came to be; With this sentience it became a demanding mistress, unrelenting and even cruel. But such is the way with some paintings. I cannot say it is my best, the problem with painting certain recurring ideas that exist in our conscious mind is the subconscious is always rewriting them even as we paint them, editing away ideas deemed superfluous and embellishing upon ideas left understated in earlier ruminations. In honesty I could probably spend eternity revisiting this piece, but it is time to move on to the new ideas that breath with molten breath against my muse. I promise to one whose name I dare not utter, next time I will do better <:.
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Tools: Photoshop CS5, Wacom Intuos 3
Size: 7773x4371 px at 300dpi
Prints: yes C:!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1866 x 1049px
File Size 524.1 kB
A night sky by you, the beauty is intense. I can get lost in it, and her eyes. She has Glory, Majesty and Elegance. All three of the greatest qualities embodied in one being. At times like this I wish I believed in a Deity.
How is finding a printer going, I have empty walls that need your art.
How is finding a printer going, I have empty walls that need your art.
heee <3! Actually I did find a printer ^___^. I just need to get my bumm in gear and color profile them to the printer and actually get some samples done up. I can't recall if you live in the US or elsewhere but if in the US, do you attend any conventions here C: ? I'd be happy to just deliver them in person ^_^
I am bereft of words. I saw this, and I spent a few hours, thinking about it. Rare is it to find a piece so moving and inspirational. It steals my breath and gives me so much more.
Every part of it. The sand to the stars... it all speaks to me on such a fundamental and basic level. It's hard for me to say what it means to me, but it means a great deal.
I have always loved the stars as they have always captured my imagination and dreams. And this just seems to capture everything that I have always loved so simplistically and with an ineffable elegance. The folds of her dress.. the sine of the sand dunes, the ratios of the stars spirals. And her eyes. Those eyes...
Every part of it. The sand to the stars... it all speaks to me on such a fundamental and basic level. It's hard for me to say what it means to me, but it means a great deal.
I have always loved the stars as they have always captured my imagination and dreams. And this just seems to capture everything that I have always loved so simplistically and with an ineffable elegance. The folds of her dress.. the sine of the sand dunes, the ratios of the stars spirals. And her eyes. Those eyes...
Thank you always for your thoughtful elegantly organized comments. I always feel humbled in their wake and honored to be on their receiving end, more than I can adequately put into words. With your words you fulfill one of my most earnest and most deeply coveted of dreams <3.
Wow .. I'm stunned. Is that Simoom I see there?
Your cosmic backgrounds have always been a thing that struck me intensely with awe. You know how to let something look ethereal and omnipotent.
This is a goddess I would bow before and that means something, since I'm nihilist. ;)
The whole scenery reminds me of the sun surface during a protuberance. Yes I'm sucker for cosmology. It's not suprising, that many old religions saw the sun as the highest divine force.
Your cosmic backgrounds have always been a thing that struck me intensely with awe. You know how to let something look ethereal and omnipotent.
This is a goddess I would bow before and that means something, since I'm nihilist. ;)
The whole scenery reminds me of the sun surface during a protuberance. Yes I'm sucker for cosmology. It's not suprising, that many old religions saw the sun as the highest divine force.
I am not at all opposed to the idea of 'worshipping' the cosmos, in the sense that such wonders can make us feel humbled and small in the face of such great divinity. I just feel you can experience the sensation of the numinous without need of ascribing sentience to the object or place that evokes this emotion. That seems to be a grave contradiction in this instance as I used an anthropomorphic deity to represent the creation of the universe ;P...but she is a symbol of the universes knowable knowledge. She is a symbol of the dream we have as thinking beings to understand the universe. She has very deep sentimental meaning to me but the difference is I am consciously and critically aware she is a personal manifestation and not a real entity.
All that said, I consistently feel in awe of the world and the smallest of things can lend me a sensation of earth shaking profundity...even so much as looking at a seashell and the perfect iterations of the spiral within is enough to bring tears to my eyes.
All that said, I consistently feel in awe of the world and the smallest of things can lend me a sensation of earth shaking profundity...even so much as looking at a seashell and the perfect iterations of the spiral within is enough to bring tears to my eyes.
I wish humanity would consist of more people like you. I completely understand what you mean and I'm trying to see the world that way, too.
Unfortunately, due to several malicious turns of fate I experience I became and am still becoming more and more blunt and blind for the world that surrounds me ...
This world fascinates me a lot, but my feelings are longing for a person or people I can share my impressions with on a regular basis. People who are hard for me to find and even harder for me to keep.
Yesterday my girlfriend and I pretty much broke up, because she doesn't believe she can handle the distance much longer and doesn't feel as much for me anymore as she used to do. It's by far not the first time this happens to me, but this time I'm trying harder to make it a controlled and untroubulous end, even if that means acting against all my feelings.
When I wrote that comment yesterday nothing of that had happened and now I clearly feel the difference .. my mind is locking up and doesn't let me enjoy this beauty anymore as I did when I saw it in the first moment.
Sorry that I'm venting here, but I need to get that off my mind and writing it down helps me to do so. In addition, I believe that you're one of those people who have the empathy to understand what I mean and don't just give the same standardized mottos like "Head up, there are other ones out there." and stuff like that.
Sincerely yours
Duamutef, who is disappointed of himself, that he can not fathom the beauty of things as you see them.
Unfortunately, due to several malicious turns of fate I experience I became and am still becoming more and more blunt and blind for the world that surrounds me ...
This world fascinates me a lot, but my feelings are longing for a person or people I can share my impressions with on a regular basis. People who are hard for me to find and even harder for me to keep.
Yesterday my girlfriend and I pretty much broke up, because she doesn't believe she can handle the distance much longer and doesn't feel as much for me anymore as she used to do. It's by far not the first time this happens to me, but this time I'm trying harder to make it a controlled and untroubulous end, even if that means acting against all my feelings.
When I wrote that comment yesterday nothing of that had happened and now I clearly feel the difference .. my mind is locking up and doesn't let me enjoy this beauty anymore as I did when I saw it in the first moment.
Sorry that I'm venting here, but I need to get that off my mind and writing it down helps me to do so. In addition, I believe that you're one of those people who have the empathy to understand what I mean and don't just give the same standardized mottos like "Head up, there are other ones out there." and stuff like that.
Sincerely yours
Duamutef, who is disappointed of himself, that he can not fathom the beauty of things as you see them.
AHhh, I remember the work in progress of this...and now I get to see all the little details that you've added to it, and what it has become from that point I saw it so long ago. Truly this is magnificent. Truthfully it makes me think a lot of creation, of wonder, of power and mystery. I know what it is that she means to you, and while I don't think we'll ever truly be able to capture that in art, at least, not in a way that we'll ever be satisfied with, I think you've done the best of your ability....and that is indeed what she deserves. ;) She inspires us all, every day, and ignites the fires that drive us to create. Truly, this is beautiful.
I always wanted to try out CS5, but I hear how laggy it can be to most users.
The new art engine it uses is one I realy would like to try. I use cs2 for the time being.
The piece is awesome and very spiritual inspiring. The hues and values are fluid, the light attracts and gives the surrounding colors purpose, very well done. And thats one red cosmic pussy cat if I ever saw one.
The new art engine it uses is one I realy would like to try. I use cs2 for the time being.
The piece is awesome and very spiritual inspiring. The hues and values are fluid, the light attracts and gives the surrounding colors purpose, very well done. And thats one red cosmic pussy cat if I ever saw one.
All the details hidden in this piece still amaze me. Almost every sinlge one of them is brilliant and just obvious enough that an attentive eye can spot them but the same time hidden enough that you will need to know what to look for. This is great. Besides that the picture has so many awesome details, effects, colors and just everything else that I can't find the words to describe, how much I love it. The godly appearance of here and the streaming sands of creation, the wonderful sky, letting you see into the universe itself and the extremely strong feeling inside it all is too awesome to ruin it with a pathetic attempt to describe it all and tell how much I love it.
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