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Is it the center part of a magnolia blossom? The part that falls off the tree after the petals are gone?
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Prim knows everything. Didn't you know that already, yov?
Great job on the drawings, yov. You definitely are talented, and you're definitely developing that talent. Good on you!
Great job on the drawings, yov. You definitely are talented, and you're definitely developing that talent. Good on you!
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No, no bonus points. Mr. Prim and I have one of those big magnolias in our back yard. We spend many early summer evenings sitting in its delightful shade, sipping artistically constructed beverages, and perusing great literature, and periodically shrieking and swearing as these huge things drop from the tree without warning and spill our drinks and conk us on the head.yovargas wrote:Bonus points for Prim!!Primula Baggins wrote:Is it the center part of a magnolia blossom? The part that falls off the tree after the petals are gone?
But back, of course! And of course, I'd never have known it if your drawing had not been so fearsomely accurate.
Small spaniels also like chewing on those things, BTW.
ETA: And then there was the time a houseguest thought we had a dead rabbit on our back lawn, and it was just a pile of those enormous magnolia petals.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Boy howdy, yeah.
Your technique really is wonderful, yov.
Your technique really is wonderful, yov.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
That's a wonderful compliment.
Yes, I do try to be painfully "realistic" in my pencil drawings, but I don't want the end result to be a clinical photocopy of reality. I'd like them to have a some sense of...hmm, wonder perhaps? Otherwise, it'd just be technical showing off and not (hopefully) interesting art.
Yes, I do try to be painfully "realistic" in my pencil drawings, but I don't want the end result to be a clinical photocopy of reality. I'd like them to have a some sense of...hmm, wonder perhaps? Otherwise, it'd just be technical showing off and not (hopefully) interesting art.
Well, this mama can't help but show off. Here's the drawing Katie (14 y.o.) just finished:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 1066880835
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 1066880835
IS this for sale? Or entered in a contest somewhere?yovargas wrote:My latest drawing:
(the scan came out kinda crappy)
The display of skill is amazing. It's like it's among us but not of us, if that makes sense. Something about the lighting, and the way it's off-center on the page. If you'd centered it, it would be more technical than artistic, but as it is it's sort of drawing/inviting you in, a gatepost of sorts.
When you can do nothing what can you do?
That's gorgeous! And her expression is just soo.... anticipatory?Lalaith wrote:Well, this mama can't help but show off. Here's the drawing Katie (14 y.o.) just finished:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 1066880835
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude