Invisible and Forgivable [Stockholm Syndrome]

by engle

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May 5th 2007
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castor dreil expressive fantasy horror human portrait
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EDIT: thank you so much for the freature, I'm really excited!! and thank you for suggesting me. ;_;
And thank very much for actually featuring me.

I want to jump off a bridge.
This took me lots of time; a week, I think, which is a lot of time for me to be working on a painting - and these are actually two paintings attached with Open Canvas. Doing the reflections was particularly hard, since I had no idea what should reflections look like. I hope they came out good.
These are two new OCs: Castor [upper one with darker hair and Chinese clothing] and Dreil [lower cyberpunkish one] Sanjaya. They’re Jiang Shis [better known as Hopping Corpses or Chinese Vampires], and also Siamese twins separated after birth [hence the scars]. This painting is actually very meaningful for me, since it kinda represents their personalities. Castor is very attached [emotionally, obviously] to Dreil and has a very hard time being apart from him â€" while Dreil tries to have a life of his own, not entirely apart from Castor, since he owes him his life [Castor saved him once], but not as close to Castor as Castor would like them to be.
This is it, for now, I guess.

Dreil © , Castor © myself. The title was taken from Messenger by Blonde Redhead, and Stockholm Syndrome by Muse.
[P.S.; I know Sanjaya is the lame Indian guy from American Idol, FUCK OFF.]

Feature

Featured by d R A c LI tH
Jun 27th 2007
Fantastic layout and use of watercolors.

Suggested by [ur=Kerrigore]

Comments

zhicago Says:

Oh my god. Yes yes yes yes, how many times am I allowed to click yes? Only once? Ohhhhh man I hope this gets front page.

blue swan Says:

This is very nice! I love the coloring, especially on the hair and the reflection looks great. I also like their background story

Izar Says:

Looks good thou is very awkward to look at.
Why is it tilted?

Shutaboy Says:

That's a painting?!

tsuana Says:

holy crap but this is just...well it's ... WOW. this LOOKS like it took the amount of time you say, it's fabulous.

Anthropophagi Says:

OH WOW. This is beautiful, I like the details and all the colors :3 Are they laying on the water or beside?

skinnyvee Says:

Oh, I love the composition of this, how it's flipped upright like that. You'd expect it to be a largely horizontal picture. It's dizzying to look at--in a good way! (Though I must confess my neck is stiff now from cocking my head to see the marvelous details better!) And what marvelous details indeed! I'm geeking.

Kerrigore Says:

This is giving me a serious case of vertigo... haha. My gawd it's gorgeous. God damn Dreil looks hot. I really love how his shirt turned out. I adore how you handled the reflections. The details in this are amazing. You should be very proud of this one indeed!

Lucifer San Says:

wow madhim ha zvia!tagidi ze eize efronot maim yekarim?

Lucky Squid Says:

o3o I wish I had something more...intelligent to say, but I've been made speechless, so I'll just state that this piece is breathtakingly beautiful.