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Rosengeist — You look cold by-nc-nd

Published: 2008-06-05 09:10:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1511; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 0
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Description It had been an akward few weeks. Neither of them had said much at all. When their eyes met, they flew away quickly. Neither seemed to have an easy time acknowledging the other.
He had been the one to ask if she might walk with him, and she was not sure what he had hoped to gain from it as they both walked on together in a strange, tense silence beneath the darkening skies.
Soon, small bits of white fell all about them, and he glanced at her and couldn't help noticing how red her cheeks were. Her ears and nose were none to different, and she constantly rubbed her arms, her teeth chattering rapidly against one another.
He said nothing as he slid his coat off of himself and she did not seem to notice he had done this at all until he draped the garment around her chilled shoulders.
"You look cold," he said gruffly.
Startled, she glanced up and realizing what he had done she let two words slip from her mouth before she even realized what she was doing.
"Thank you," she said.
And he thought, as he looked at her that her, that her mouth had dimpled ever so slightly at the corners.
She had smiled at him, faintly, but still he was certain he had seen it, and he felt so warm from it he was also certain he needed no coat at all.

I've been working quite hard on this when I should be doing a lot of other things (like sleeping), but once this scene came to me I couldn't get it out of my mind, it commanded I let it loose.

This is a small scene between to of my characters named Biest and Cosette, the beauty and beast respectively in a version of the popular fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" that I have been working on for a while. For those of you who have been keeping tabs, I am not sure if this scene will appear yet in the story or not. It's not exactly spoiler material I think. For those of you unfamiliar but interested, all you need to do is check out my gallery, there you can find much more lit and art pieces on the subject.

This took me about 5 hours to finish, from sketch to final treatment. Watercolor paint, color pencil, white gellyroller pen and mechanical pencil, I unfortuneatly jumped the gun and was so excited to do this that I used the crappy paper it was first sketched on. It wrinkled a lot as a result and some areas, like her hand were affected. Despite my best efforts I can' fix it. There are a lot of faws in this piece. Her eyes bother me a bit, but then there is stuff I really enjoy too. I really enjoy how his belt came out.

Biest and Cosette and there little snow moment belong to me.
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Comments: 19

Ayashe [2008-06-05 22:16:34 +0000 UTC]

love the colors of this one

they look so sweet

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Rosengeist In reply to Ayashe [2008-06-06 03:00:39 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much honey

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Aeolus06 [2008-06-05 17:14:47 +0000 UTC]

outstanding work on this and coloring

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Rosengeist In reply to Aeolus06 [2008-06-05 18:26:10 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much sir

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Aeolus06 In reply to Rosengeist [2008-06-06 05:40:32 +0000 UTC]

ur very welcome ^^

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Rosengeist In reply to Aeolus06 [2008-06-06 05:42:01 +0000 UTC]

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Aeolus06 In reply to Rosengeist [2008-06-06 05:44:49 +0000 UTC]

^^

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RustedUrsa [2008-06-05 16:55:58 +0000 UTC]

Hey, this'll help for future fanartses.

I love his expression. It's like, "tender and concerned, but I don't want you to notice I'm so tender and concerned cause then you'll think I'm not a tough guy, which I totally am."

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Rosengeist In reply to RustedUrsa [2008-06-05 18:25:42 +0000 UTC]

Evn more fanartses? How wonderful of you to even suggest it

He's in "do not compromise masculinity" mode. I'm pretty happy with him, but I really am having issues with her expression.

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RustedUrsa In reply to Rosengeist [2008-06-06 04:10:00 +0000 UTC]

I think her eyes may be too close together. It looks like you were going for her turning more towards him than a 3/4 shot, but her nose and left eye ended up in the 3/4 position.

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Rosengeist In reply to RustedUrsa [2008-06-06 04:42:37 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, her eyes unfortuenately are too close. I had already put down pigment by the time I realized it and then it wouldn't come off the paper. Le' sigh...

I don't know, it's not just that, there just seems to be something inherently un-Cosette about the face, Biest, I feel is kind of off too. Arghhhh, I think I should rework and then repost this.

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RustedUrsa In reply to Rosengeist [2008-06-06 06:41:46 +0000 UTC]

I think you should keep it up, just so that you can look back on it a year from now and marvel at your own improvement. I keep my old stuff up for just that reason.

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Rosengeist In reply to RustedUrsa [2008-06-06 15:51:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh no, I meant change the hard copy and then replace the deviation as an update. But I might keep it up Thanks for the encouragement

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RustedUrsa In reply to Rosengeist [2008-07-08 02:55:12 +0000 UTC]

"Biest and Cosette, the beauty and beast respectively..." I just noticed the little boo-boo here. "Respectively," only works if the things are in the same order. Otherwise you're saying that Biest is the beauty and Cosette is the beast.

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Rosengeist In reply to RustedUrsa [2008-07-08 02:59:48 +0000 UTC]

Giggling XD

Yeah, that is very problematic, I'll get right on too fixing that.

Look at me, I'm Rosen and I use big ass words in innapropraite contexts. Mua, ha, ha

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Farbjous [2008-06-05 16:27:05 +0000 UTC]

*Has been banned from DA for typing to many ‘Aaaaawwww!’s, and to many ‘ ’ all at once. I hope your happy! D=<

Cuz I am. =3 *

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Rosengeist In reply to Farbjous [2008-06-05 18:24:36 +0000 UTC]

Ha, ha! My evil plan has worked brilliantly!

Glad you like it honey

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Choco-Kun [2008-06-05 16:18:11 +0000 UTC]

This is lovely! The soft colors help with the "Cold-day" feel, and the little blurb is a cute touch.

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Rosengeist In reply to Choco-Kun [2008-06-05 18:23:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much, on both compliments

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