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Submitted: February 7
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I'veWalkedThisFloorby =foolishsunsets

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Animals & Plants

_{_{She broke your throne, and she
cut your hair. And from your lips she drew
the Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Maybe, I have been here before,
I know this room, I've walked this floor.
I used to live alone, before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch;
Love is not a victory march.
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah . . .}

I think I have used this song as an inspiration for
a multitude of manips, but never as the sole source
of it. I devoted the entire layout of this manip to
the lyrics of the song, working with interior achicture
being something I've never tried before. I used a
lot of light tones and whiteness to symbolize the
innocence that haunts the melody, while using
subtle shadows to accent the sorrow and loss.
I know using birds is a bit cliché in manips now
days, but honestly the dove fits this song so
perfectly that I don't really care about being
cliché. This piece is entirely by myself for myself.
It's not for anyone else, just...me. Something
about Hallelujah has always touched a chord
within me, so I hope this pays it some tribute.

_{And yes, there is some slight bloodiness
around the horse's muzzle. I don't perceive it as
gory enough to mark this as mature content, and
I hope nobody is bothered by it. It adds to the
emotion though, and I won't remove it.}

S t o c k
_{Background: [link]
Throne: [link]
Horse: [link]
Dove: [link]
Chain: [link]
Manip: Me.}

Time taken: About six hours.

_{Work © foolishsunsets • Do NOT steal}}

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=Deltapotamus Feb 27, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Okay so I've always liked this piece, and I thought it was a beautiful tribute to the song... but there was something that bothered me about it, and I just figured out what it was. Your lighting - especially on the throne - is kind of all over the place. If you flipped the throne horizontally it would make the shadows on it match up much better with the overall lighting. And then ground both the throne and the horse a bit more. I think those little changes would make this perfect ~~and hopefully I didn't offend you by nitpicking at this~~ ♥

=foolishsunsets Feb 27, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

_{I know it's got issues...I'm kind of
just done with it.}

=Deltapotamus Feb 27, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

That's okay. I completely understand

=foolishsunsets Feb 27, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

_{Yeah, I mean thanks so much for trying
to help. I didn't like it very much from the start
because the lighting inside that cathedral is just
so much tougher than natural settings, but I
was over it. xP}

=Deltapotamus Feb 27, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Haha, that's how I was with the tail of the roan on my last piece. Although I did it before I did the curly hair on the bay, just knowing that I had to do curly hair, I had no motivation to redo it even though I wasn't very happy with it.

~AlluringDesigns Feb 16, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It kinda reminds me of Oedipus Rex for some odd reason.. Maybe the gauged out eyes? Ah, such a literary nerd.. Anywho, love, love, love it! The details are incredible!

=foolishsunsets Feb 16, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

_{I love literature, but unfortunately I've
never been able to read that one yet. Soooo,
I don't know what you're referencing. /sadhonk}

~AlluringDesigns Feb 21, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It's a Greek story based off of a myth about a baby sent with a shepherd to be killed because he it was foretold that he would kill his father and marry his mother. The baby is saved by a king and queen of a neighboring place and grows up believing he is their child. A drunken man later tells him the story and Oedipus (the main character) runs away from his family where he kills his birth father, the King of Thebes and solves a riddle to marry the queen who is unknowingly his mother.. Anywho a bunch of stuff happens and he ends up finding out and his mother/wife kills herself and he tears his eyes out with the necklace that she wore.. heheheheh. Nice story, huh?

=foolishsunsets Feb 23, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

_{Wow, that is intensely amazing. xD}

~xXKawaiiInuXx Feb 11, 2013 Student General Artist

So beautiful! I love the details!
*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*

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