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Cover art for an upcoming project. You get a cookie if you know what the title means without having to look it up.Related content
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The water texture - wow! The pose, detail, lighting just blew me away <3Β
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Beautiful! I wish I could draw water that well. (Or at all.) What kind of mythology is being created? (Yes; I had to look it up.)
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and wow this has to be the best thing i have ever seen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i LOVE the colouring you used and the subject is also great. IM JEALOUS NOW
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I really like how you did the coins under the water.
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Hey, that's an interesting and unusual picture! I like how the blue, turquoise and lime colors work together here! Neat.
I suppose "Mythopoesis " is something about how certain stories and myths tend to persist through cultures and be reused again. Or how do they evolve...
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Sounds like mythoepia. Turns out it's related. The making of myths. Brilliant! Have you read the Tolkien poem called mythoepia?
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I hadn't read it before, but if I understand the gist of it, we're both talking about the same idea: how myth-making is a part of human identity and consciousness. Not just the large myths, but the small ones as well, the myths of who we are and how we relate to the world.
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Exactly! And (at least I am) how myths, while generally not true to fact, can express true ideas, communicating them with a power that is not found in other methods.
Your drawings are beautiful. Beautiful but creepy. This isn't exactly bad... just different. Like stepping into a world where everything has changed slightly.
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Probably uncanny valley at work. I make things realistic enough to trigger the sort of unconscious scrutiny we apply to real people, but the expressions on my characters' faces are usually just a bit too introspective and out of kilter with their surrounding to look like a straightforward capture of a moment.
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Is that on purpose, or is it something you realize you do, without meaning to? I'm just curious. You're totally right, thinking back to how they look.
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It's a little bit on purpose, but I think it's just the sort of thing I like to draw.
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I think it's really cool that you've analyses yourself/your drawing style enough to know that. Maybe that makes me weird, but whatevs.
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It's what I do all day, may as well think about it.
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Well if an Apotheosis is like attaining an enlightenment, is mythopoesis like attaining a mythical status?
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