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PLEASE CHECK THIS PIECE OUT ON MY OTHER ACCOUNT HERE: [link]Aboriginal wallaby slipping into the dreamtime as dingo spirits come to watch over her.
Aborigines believe that the dingo can see into the supernatural, it is a watchdog, warning of the approach of evil spirits and that they will protect them while they are in the dreamtime.
Strangely enough, I learned that little fact on the national geographic channel months after I finished the drawing.
Prisma color pencil on 19x24 bristol board
Inspired by both the half blind wallaby: [link]
and my boyfriend, Eric who helped me better understand how to use realistic and more vivid colors.
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Comments: 37
This is simply stunning! You have a real creative and artistic talent!
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Thank you very much!
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You're very welcome!
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This is stunning, brilliant use of colour pencils, lovely shading
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good painting
i can see your taste in mystics in it
if your into ,mystics check out my kaballah script picture on the page
they say that there is a great story shared betwin all the aboriginal tribes
and each tribe knows only a part of it
they have a very iteresting culture
i love the digeridoo music tool wich i have one at home
i liked your drawing
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Thaks. The aborigines facinate me. It greatly saddens me to see the Australians doing to them what the English did to the Native Americans so long ago. I dont wanto to see their culture die as the Native Americans' culture is near dead now.
I hope to go there one day and get an authentic digeridoo but I was told by a friend that there is extreem segrigation and racism against the natives and in return, the natives hate near every white person there. As an american though, some understand that they are just tourists and they have done no wrong. Either way, its a very uncomfotable and tragic situation. I can only dream that things will turn out right.
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your right about that
to bad human nature makes it dificult on people to accept the difrent and the strange as olso to put themselves above others
who knows the answers to all the miserys of the weak humankind
we need to pray to god that he/she will lead us to right road
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yeah. I think God may just be the problem. If people believe in something that is so far from us and look to the heavens to try and connect, its easy enough for those same people to just put their heads down and shut God out, ignoring his/her very "existance". I think that if we do like the aborigines and the native americans, we would be so much more content. We would be looking down and around ourselves. We would be looking to the earth and if people could only see the balance and harmony of nature and REALLY understand it, then innately, we as human beings, would pick up on that and try to copy it. But no one does. There are so many people destroying forests and whiping out entire species of animals and destroying that balance that people just cant see it anymore. Im not some crazy environmental activist or anything, I just know that whats happening is wrong and I was raised to always respect nature and try to maintain that balance.
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i know axectly what your talking about.
for me the belive in god says that all life is sacred becuse god is life, creation, and love and we people r all a collective one.
thats y when we hurt others we hurt ourselfs.
there r fanatic religious people if thats what you ment, that ignore the down here but they have theyre own part in the worlds destiny
everybody has its own purpose for god or bad
im also woried for the world future
i can see strugles coming twards humanity
ass all culture and nation become exposed to each other
boarders fall and all information is available to any one.
we can only try to make good, to help those that r in trouble or suffering.
and if u get into a situation were tou have to decide to help or not to help,
and you decide not to help its just as if you created the violance.
god for me is a way to remember that there is a biger cuse
i went trough drugs violance stupidity and black mystics and the only thing that saved me is the the knowing that god is here betwin us waiting for us to love love and stop hurting ourselves
the strugle is never ending and every one with his/her own capabilitys
and thats it
the love for other culture is good
always interesting to see other cultures
as for the destructive nature of the man
there r two options
one is that the human kind will realise that destruction and suffering does not pay and act before everything gets ruined
or the second option is that humnity will realise the truth when they will need each other when it will be to late.
god has a master plan and that plan has casualties
we will never understand god and we need to first of all understand ourselves
and as the rabi nahman sayed
have a smile its all for the better
cuse people only learn trough suffering theire own mistakes
sorry for this long thing i wrote to you but it just came out of that way
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Hey dont worry about it. I appreciate your thoughts. I fear that for us, it will be too late. We wont save ourselves until everything is too far gone. For instance, the oild drilling in the arctic refuge. It is a refuge because the generations before us made it that way. There were people who obviously cared and knew the consiquences of destroying such land. But now, today, congress will be passing a law to start drilling which means that the land and all its wild inhabitants will be destroyed. The companies will make billions of dollars but still the gas prices wont go down even though they will have more resources...Its sickening. These people know its wrong and they know of God, but they would sell out their own mothers for a couple of bucks. People like that need to be put into a rehabilitation center but unfortunately those kind of people are those in power and those in power always want more. I wish, for our race and our planet, that one day a giant electro magnetic pulse washes over the earch and destroys everything that we have come to depend on and benefit from. Only then weill we, as human kind, band together once again and trust and rely on one another. Either that or guerilla war will destroy everything and everyone and if thats the case, we dont deserve this planet. I know it sounds pretty extreme, but I think that that may be the only way to shock people into loving one another, themselves, and the place they live.
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i absolutly know what your saying
there will be an apocalypse one day im telling you
and only then people will understand what it means to be humain
thats the self destructive nature of ours
r u a voluntir in some kind of an association?maybe green peace?
it sounds like you would get alot off satisfaction from doing dome thing like that
we can only try to make things better the rest is in gods hand
and for those people exploiting and destroying nature for money
they hole existance in this for is around money
this people cant even think in a diferent diraction
money is what they live for and destruction is what they do
but its a big complex system and i belive destruction is a part of it
becuse as we said people only learn trough pain and suffering, to bad
nice to hear your oppinions you sound like a very inteligent girl
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Thank you very much, and no, Im not in any association. Personally, I hate them all...green peace, peta, shark...theyre all redicalists and what they believe is just as bad as the people doing the destroying. If they all actually got their way, we would whipe ourselves out to save the environment! No, I do it my own way. I volunteer at animal shelters and nature centers. I take part in environmental and conservation education. I help plant trees and create butterfly gardens. The pets I have are all rescues. I do my part and it is very rewarding and Im doing it with people that believe in the same things as I do, or for the most part. Im not a vegan or vegitarian. I dont disagree with hunting, but I am against waste and if you kill something, you have to eat it and use as much of it as you can...even if you donate the hide and bones to the science department in a school or the audubon. I take part in rodeos and the one I belong to, the IPRA, saves their animals. They buy their bulls and horses off the auction block where they were being sold for meat or glue. The animals then are only put into the show for a year and only actually working for a few minutes of their lives (8 seconds a ride) and then they are put out to pasture where they can graze for the rest of their lives. I am aware that there are many bad rodeos out there that abuse their animals and they should be stopped at all costs. But all rodeos shouldnt be shut down because of the few that are bad....
There are a lot of things in my life that many people would dissagree with and most of them are members of peta and other such organizations. They dont even agree with keeping pets. But I am aware of what I do and I am responsible and I understand this "balance" in the world and I know right from wrong. I was raised by wonderful parents. They taught me love, respect, patience, and most of all, my father taught me about the balance. He raised me believing in many things the native americans believed in. No waste and only take what you need. At one point my family was so poor that we were living off of church donated food and whatever meat my dad brought home from hunting. I didnt even know what beef tasted like until I was about 5 or 6. He butchered the deer himself, we ate every part even the heart and liver. The antlers were collected and used for various things. The hides were tanned and usually sold for a little extra money....there was so much he did with a single deer and I would watch and listen to him as he worked every day to feed our family. He was a good man and still is. If I ever need guidance, he is the first one I call. If only there were more people in the world like him, there would be more children learning as I did, and more children being taught again as I will.
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it sounds like you went trough alot in your life
and thats how you learn true wisdom in life by going trough difficulties
maybe once when people lived in the nature they were a lot smarter
the nature teaches a lot
the nature is a reflection off gods face, and so r we
im very happy to hear about the activities u r involved in
for me to its the ultimate purpose to help the does who need it the most
unfortunatly for me when i started to learn whats realy important in life it was to late to try and help the sarounding and i had to try and help myself first
as i see it you went trough the right road, maybe a very difficult one but the right one, if thats whats important to you now and if your allredy able to fulfill your desire to help
me katz tomas is very proud of you about that
you can see a better reality for the world and thats something not so commen today
growing up with indians must off been a hell of an experience
here in israel there is a lot of work in helping people
not only what you see on the news the political stuff
more soacial problems like the difficulties of the ethiopians to merge into this society
the ethiopians came from tribe culture of nature and very diffrent rules
and as they came to the "promised land" the hursh reality realy struck they face
the older generation that never saw supermarkets, never paid bills and never saw things that r obvious to us like toilet or fridge, they r now in a competitive hard society
being push to the sides.
the younger generation of the ethiopians have to help theire parents to get along in the modern life and so they become sort of parents themselves
the realastate people sold them wothless houses in places were ivantualy thw white people moved out of and so they became black ghetos.
soacialy that is the most big problam in israel right now
and to see the people who took advantage off them without shame exploiting theire naiviti about the new mercyless modern world realy makes me sick
it realy makes me sad to talk about this hursh reality becuse its a feeling of hopelessness
becuse i cant realy do something about right now, maybe in the future
now im working 8 hours a day as a guard in the mall
and the only thing i can think off when i come home is to watch tv exercize a bit and sit with my fammily
im realy glad that you r who you r
and never stop beign youself
thats one of the hardest things to learn is to love yourself the way you r
and thats something im working on for a wile now
was raly interesting to hear your story
you must be a very interesting girl
kisses
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Everywhere in the world has its difficulties no matter how beautiful or wonderful it may seem from afar. YOu probably know that we have plenty of black ghettos here too. I know theyre nowhere near the same as where you live, but here theres a fine line white people need to tread on. I live in a small "safe" area where about a square mile is virtually owned by Jewish families and its nice here, but directly across the street is one of the more dangerous ghetto areas. There are good and bad places all mixed together and its a constant battle. The black people all band together and walk around in large groups. They live in fairly nice houses, but they live packed together as to split the rent and spend all their welfare money on hooked up cars. White people are always a target here and the blacks always complain about racism...after living here for about a year and being a small white female, Ive experienced more racism from black people then I have ever seen in my entire life! I was raised to respect everyone no matter what race or religion as long as they were good people. Well, its too bad that there are just so many hateful, disrespectful, and just up to no good black people in this city that they make a bad name for the few good ones that are here. I never considered myself racist, but I cringe and get very nervous when anyone looking "ghetto" comes too near. I used to be shocked when I saw just how awful some of the people could be, now Im shocked when I meet a black person who is polite or generous. Its very sad and I hate myself for thinking these things, but its like Im a mouse surrounded by thousands of owls. Even if Im driving down the street and a black person walks out in front of me causing me to stop and I honk my horn, they can cry racism and Im the one who gets into trouble, not them when they were the ones jay walking which is illigal. They take advantage of that word and use it against whites so they can get away with just about anything. They have become animals here. Back in my parent's town where I used to live, there were plenty of black families and they were wonderful people. I guess its just the way you're raised and in what environment. I would be just as shocked and disgusted if it were any race, even my own, and once I move out of here and to a place where everyone is respectful no matter what race, I wont feel this way anymore. So I dont think that I truely am racist, Im just very unhappy in the place I live. I think the town is trying to fix the problems though by improving housing and taking down some of the project housing but I know that will take many many years and I will be long gone by then.
You sound like you are very aware of whats going on around you as well. It can be very discouraging when a problem seems hopeless or just too big for you to do anything about it, but it never is. It may take more than your lifetime to change things, but every person counts in a fight like that. I personally am more concerned with our environment and our animals. Thats where I can help and where my passion is. Although Im not going to stand outside the whitehouse and parade a sign around, I still do my part. I think education is the most powerful tool. If people learned about how wonderful and important nature is to us then they can care as well and make decisions based on maintaining our balance. not destroying it. I love going around and telling people cool facts about animals in the hopes that I will plant a seed in their minds to urge them to learn more.
Through all the bad things that surround me, the things that keep me going are the love of my long time boyfriend and all our pets. There is nothing more joyful in the world then getting down on the floor and make a fool of myself as I romp around with the ferrets. Its probably the funniest sight anyone has ever seen, but thats half the fun of it! Its also amazingly rewarding, the love of an animal. The love that is unconditional because they know you love in return. You feed them and clean them and do all the things they depend on you for and that simple kiss on the nose makes it all worth it. Maybe you should get a pet of your own? Its not for everyone, but I couldnt imagine living without all my furry babies.
I didnt actually grow up with the native americans, I was just raised with similar beliefs as them. Icidentally though, my uncle is now married to a native american woman and she is absolutely amazing.
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to tell you the truth thing in the usa r much worse if we r speaking about crime
we all the time see the newest american movies, series, late shows, music so from what i've
crime there is much more exegarated (sorry about my bad english)
it realy looks to dangerous there, with all those guns unsupervised
but wel,l we'r a small country
what i see all the time about the us is that there is realy to much racizm
all most every comedy show that a blac man there does is about white and black racizm
it like they'r obssesd with it
in englend for exemple there r a lot of black people that also were slaves at one time, but they live quite ok with the whites and the racizm there is very low, in brazil blacks and white r absolutly the same and there is almost no racizm.
here in israel there isnt like a real racizm issue
there r social issues that involve certain social groups, that had a hard time itergrating into the israeli society as new comers
sometimes to tell you the truth i see american show and i think, man dont they have anything better to do then making big eating contast were they eat kilos of desgusting things
what a waste of food
and i also saw this movie from the internet call -the bum fight crew- its was absolutly unbelivable that there such stupid people
all kinds of suburbian kids that had it all good in theyre lifes
going around with big shiny cars enjoying theyre stupidity, and catching homless people to tie them up and beat them
well to tell you the truth its not fair to compaire our two countrys becuse israel fits into america like a million times and you a much biger varity of people and problems
in israel people enjoy the difrent cultures
to tell you truth i realy love my little scizophranic country
and now writing about it made me realize again how much i love israel
thank god today i dont have to work they replaced me with another guy that wants to work 12 hours sence i told them that 12 hours guarding is to much, i can go insane there alone guarding at night
its sooooooooooo boring
i could poke my eye balls out just for the fun of it
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Back in the 1961 when there were only about 150 million people here, the number of violent crimes was at about 960. Now in 2006, the population has about doubled, but the number of violent crimes has multiplied hundreds and hundreds of times over. The crime rate is absolutely rediculous! just last night, my boyfriend and I called 911 on a bunch of kids. They were a group of about 13 black kids ranging from 8 to 16 years old chasing and harasing an older white man. They were all on bikes and they were trying to knock him off! These same kids attacked someone we knew and took his wallet. When they realized there was no money they beat the crap out of him! They were doing the same thing to another kid that Eric, my boyfriend, saved. He pulled over in his car and chased them away with a baseball bat. He took the kid to the hospital down the street. He was beaten up pretty bad....yes, our country is obsessed with racism and its all between the blacks and whites, but in all honesty, from what Ive seen, its the black people that have it out for the whites. In cities like Hartford, the whites outnumber the blacks so whenever a black person does something stupid or starts acting out, no one thinks much of it. All they think is "oh stupid ghetto kid is up to no good" and shrug it off. Here in New Haven where the blacks outnember the whites, the kids ride around on bikes hunting for a single white person to harass and beat up. The adults arent really a problem. Its almost always the kids. People always associate racism with white people doing bad things to black people. Here, I always see black people doing bad things to white people. It really makes me sick. I hate seeingthis every day and feeling afraid to go outside on my own for fear that some gang of black kids are going to try and hurt me. I cant even ride my own bike around the city!
One good thing is that our government and law system usually guarantees that if someone does something wrong, they will be punished. Sure we have our fair share of corruption, but not as much as, say, Russia. They have a lot of corrupt cops asking to be paid off in return for protection. But with all that our law enforcement has to give, why is it that we still have one of the highest crime rates in the world?
I hope that one day I will move away to a nice quiet town somewhere in the world and find peace and happiness. I cant stand being afraid every day and seeing the things I see. Last night there was this poor grey tabby cat laying next to the dumpsters bearly breathing. It looked as if a piece of furniture had fallen on it and broke something. It was near dead by the time I found it but it hadnt been there for long. Its fur was so healthy and shiney and it wasnt skinny or anything. This cat was well taken care of. I called everyone I could think of - animal control, shelters, police...and no one cared. The cat died before anyone ever came...
And food eating contests! Dont even get me started. That food could go to hungry children...not the sick entertainment of watching fat lards stuff their faces with even more food! Its so gross!
I never watched the bum fights but I heard about it. I dont understand the kind of people that would do such things. I really think that this country provides just about everything for people and it makes it so they dont learn the value of things that they take for granted every day.
12 hours is too long for me to work anywhere period! Right now Im working 5 hours in a computer lab (now) and later in the day, 5 hours at Best Buy selling computers...ironic thing is...I hate computers! No, not really, but I do get very frustrated with them.
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you know, i sit with my grandma a lot latley, shes quite seek.and she tells me alot of what used to be in her time.
shes from transilvania romania, and the people there had such a strong feeling of identity. they had acommunity with respect to the elders and betwin each other.
but there were like social rules there,like for exemple a women who couldnt make food would have a hard time finding a husdband of if she was know as some one that sleeps around nobody would want to marry her.
so its like reversed or something what they had a long time ago.
anyway.... they were catholic so its no wonder about this social rules
but i would realy love to live in the country side of romania
its so beautifull place there the people r so calm and frieandly
there r gypsies there that influansed the romanian culture a lot with their spaciel culture personality
a lot of folklore good romanian athnic food and wine
and the romanians r a beautiful nation aspacially the girls
its a dream to buy there a house in the country even though its a poor country
about the subject with the black kids gangs
get the hell out of there.
those people r blind
its not like the us is a 3rd world country that dosent have food so they rob for money for food
its not like they dont have oportunitys to make something with themselfs after all american aconomy is maybe the best in the world
its not that theyre country is at war and the social morals r low becuse of it
and its not like they r new comers to the us and they feel culturaly confused
maybe socialy some of them have some domestic problems or violance.
as a kid you cant predict the future of your actions
they fall as victims to bad culture
you should be feeling sory for them for they way they chose
and be angry at those that created that way
its realy easy living in the us from what i saw on tv and heard
people there can not go to work and live like that for years
i think maybe americans dont have anough problems and they r boerd and thats what creates the crime , maybe
i dont want to look like a snob or someone that thinks he know all
maybe i dont know other prblems of the us
but its very sad that people die from fatning and not from hungre
its actualy that poor people die from to much fat and food
wierd
there must be a comunity you can move to
away from a problamtic place
by the way russian is another world absolutly
its a 3d world country were most of the population is alcoholic
violance is a way of life there
and russia is a realy realy bad place to live in
-30 -40 c in winter, maffia whatnot
do you know that there is a russian web site were the declare that they will arange any fantasie or wish you wont for the right money, from driving and shooting a tank, flying a mig airplane anything you want any sexual fantasie
so corru[tion is a way of life there
how much do you make for 5 hours minimum in the us?
i asked for 8 hours now and i got it
i also be transfered to a better classie place
i now do night security at big companys building
with a lot of big companys
i sit around bihind a huge fancy desk and watch the security cams and every2 hours i do a patrol
there is a company there thats working on cable and satalite tv broadcasting in cell phones
so maybe you will hear about it one day
you know its rea;y cool writing to people and knowing people in other countrys
i heard a few times that people was talking for a while with people in other countrys
and i couldnt understand whats fun about it in writing letters and stuff
but this way you can realy talk about some thing becuse you have all the time rephrase your self and get out what you realy think about stuff
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I dont think your a snob. Not in the least bit. I have friends all over the world and its always nice to talk to someone with a completely different perspective. I know a couple people from Russia, Australia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea, Canada, Egypt, Germany...It think thats it. I went to a private school where I met most of these people and even if they were "rich kids" they didnt act like it. They were so different from what I was used to, I just had to get to know them. Ive lived my whole life in Connecticut and the furthest Ive traveled out of the country is Montreal, Canada. Within the country, Ive been up and down the east coast from Maine all the way to Florida. Ive been to Colorado (I love colorado...) and Texas and thats about it. Ive seen just about every lifestyle from trailer trash and ghettos to uptown mansions and everything inbetween. But still after all this time, my favorite are the cowboys...the real ones, not the city slickers. Out in the country working with their hands and working hard for a living. They know the land and who they are and theyve got noone to impress but themselves. Most cowboys are good people and would lend a hand to a stranger if called on.
I definately dont plan on staying here. Im only in this town because I wanted to be close to school and move out of my parent's house. Ive always needed to be independant and I may have moved out a bit soon, but I dont regret it. I do miss my old town though and the stars...I cant see the stars here...too many city lights. Once I graduate, Im out of here! I have good friends here and I go to a good school so Ill make the best of it while Im here.
Eric is always telling me about Russia. Fortunately he remembers it fondly because he grew up durring Communism so he remembers the tin toys and the clean streets. He remembers going out to play with his friends and the adventures at his datcha (summer cottage) He and his mom left durring the fall of communism so he didnt see all the awful things happen. When he returned to visit, his homeland that he remembered so lovingly no longer existed. I couldnt imagine what it would feel like to not have a place to go back to where all your childhood memories were made. I wouldnt consider it 3rd world though. There is a vast difference between rich and poor and theres no inbetween but for the most part, 3rd world countries dont have a rich social order at all. At one point they may have come very close to being one, but from what I know from friends who live there or have lived there, its definately not a very good place to live but its getting better.
Im probably going to find a nice quiet town to live in once I graduate, where I can see the stars and when I walk around at night, all I have to worry about are the yipping coyotes. I hope to spend some time in Canada, Great Britain, and most of all, Australia. And maybe one day, Ill live in one of those places. Who knows? But I am very angry toward the people who do all the bad things. All the crime and problems they cause. They give their race a bad name and ruin it for all the good people out there. They get all pissy when people automatically assume they are up to no good, look at the overall population of black people and how many do crimes. Sure white people and every other race also do horrible crimes, but black people...little punk kids mostly, wear their crimes like a badge of honor and THATS what ruins it for their race. I know of three wonderful black families that live in the apartment building Im in and I always look forward to talking with them...and thats why I get so upset. I feel so bad for them and I think about the hardships they must endure because of the color of their skin because of all the punks out there that are screwing everything up! Its an endless corrupted cycle that only they can stop. No one else. Please dont think Im trying to say that whites are better than them or anything...its just like how you can see the US from an outside point of view and see things that most of the people who live here cant...I can also see from an outside point of view what is happening to the black race while a lot of them, the ones causing all the trouble, cant. And unfortunatly, because of who I am, a small white female, there arent that many black people that would stop to hear what Im saying, because, Hey, what do I know...Im white and if I try to say anything, it automatically makes me racist! I continue to try to understand for my own sake, but I dont try to help people that dont want to be helped. Maybe someday everyone, all races, will realize that crime doenst get anyone anywhere and it only hurts the people around them, especially the ones they love whether its directly or indirectly.
As far as jobs and getting paid, in Connecticut, minimum wage is about $7.50 - 7.80, but not every state is the same. So for 5 hours of work, you would get about $35 after taxes are taken out. Security guards get paid much more. Its easy to get higher paying jobs. With no previous training but good people skills, I got a job selling computers for $9.50 an hour and they trained me.
If you want to, you can email me at lilangelwings@gmail.com
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ok i added you to my e mail account
i also have msn messenger katz_t@zahav.net.il
being a guard is a realy easy job, nobody stands on your neck
nobody tell you what to do
im alone all night reading and listening to music
and i see the sunrize everyday cuse the lobby is almost all made of glass pointing to the east
i read a book thats called in hebrew "how good to be a wall flower" a very good book
its from a new yorkien writer you better check it out
if guards get more than 7$ for hour i think i could make some good money in the us
i get about 5 $ for hour guarding here
saving money for colage
so stay in touch i have to go to work
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The colors are awesomeness..... I like the spirits comming out of the bowl
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This is very creative. I could see this as an illustration in a children's folk tale book.
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Oh that is so cool. I love shaman arts (not that I practice it, I just find it very cool), and this is a painting that sets a rather mysterious, somewhat eerie mood. Awesome!
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I definately like the colors and detail in this drawing! I like the contrast between the bowl and the sky. My only critique would be that the wallaby looks too stiff. The arms are straight, and it looks like his movements would be jerky, not smooth and fluid. Other than that, it is a great piece! Very well done.
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Thanks. Colors are a strength but fluidity is a weakness of mine. I didnt use any human reference so that probably would have helped, but practice makes perfect.
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I love thr dreamtime type theme, it's beautiful. Stunning work! *worships shamelessly*
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hehe My first worshiper!
*hugs* thanks!
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Oooh, love this, the markings on the kangaroo are awesome. Great fur texture too.
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I really like the colors and design. Very creatively done.
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How wonderful! This is extremely well done! I was immediately attracted by the textures and the bright yet believeable colors. I really like the lighting of the piece, bright enough for everything to be seen but just dark enough to play with shadows and glow.
Great job with everything, from the anatomy to the concept. I don't know a lot about Aboriginal culture, but everything in this piece seems to fit the theme. Particularly the choice of animals, and the patterns on the wallaby's fur. Nice!
I do see one tiny annoyance, though. The wallaby's back! It's straight as a pole! And at a ninety-degree angle to the horizon, no less! Though curving the spine a little would probably have been a good thing, I doubt I would have noticed it if not for the unnatural angle of it in relation to the horizon.
All in all, fabulous job! You have a lot of talent.
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Thank you for the honest critisizm. I tried very hard to incorporate both human and wallaby anatomy and while a human would be more hunched, a wallaby would be more upright particularly when sitting on their tails as she is. And to counter that I did try to make the horizon a bit more interesting by angling it and adding rocks and such but you have a very good eye. Theres no fooling you! Im terrible at backgrounds and this is only the second full detail color pencil piece Ive ever done. I know I have improvements to make, but hell, Im still damn proud of this piece! XD The thing that bugs me a little is the smallness of her hands. Human hands are about as big as the person's face but wallabies have teeny little hands so that was a tough one too.
Practically the whole time I had my boyfriend standing over me asking him how this or that looked so a lot of the lighting was his instruction and suggestion. He's not even an artist really but he has an eye for color and realism. I really think he can help me reach a new level with my art and Im pretty excited about that!
Thanks again
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No problem.
^_^ I thought about the tiny hands, but I figured that was a wallaby thing. Since there is no single correct way to draw anthropomorphic anatomy, I pretty much leave everthing that is feasible alone. But, wallaby or human, I don't think any spine should be quite that straight. That's why I mentioned it.
And don't worry about your background! It looked marvelous. Proud you should be!
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Thanks. Its always refreshing to have an honest critique from someone. I cant improve unless someone points out whats wrong cause after a while and soooo many hours of wourk....you just cant see whats a bit off when someone else whe has never seen it before can!
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