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Triumph of Decay by *messa:iconmessa:

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I'm not sure what I was doing with this, or where I was going, just that I wanted to do something dark and grungy with ink splatters. The picture's named "Triumph of Decay" because Sipiyu looks like he's going "BOW DOWN TO ME, LOWLY HUMANS!" And Alice is just like ".. EGADS!" .. or.. yeah. XD

AND THUS, I have brought to you a Sipiyu artwork. Told you I'd do one! And I'm surprised that the paper I did this on survived..

Y'see, I took two sheets of normal computer paper, taped them down onto a canvas board with masking tape and then I used sharpie for the lineart and then I went over the parts I wanted to keep white with Art Masking Fluid. Then I used india ink for most of the black parts, and then used many layers of watercolor after that. When I was done I put over some paint age varnish that gave it this brown-ish hue.. Then I went into Photoshop, did some funky touch ups to bring out the color, and voila! You have a Sipiyu traditional picture. *pose!*

Enjoy. :hug:

Sipiyu, Alice, Artwork Đ Melissa S. (*messa)

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~C-D Dec 10, 2005, 11:08:23 AM
Oooo
awesome! good going Messa ;)
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!terrornight Dec 10, 2005, 11:08:38 AM
ooooh, it's awesome. :D love the colors. < 3
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~patsumii-yuki Dec 10, 2005, 11:11:55 AM
Very nice using the alternative colors... light and dark... to me, the whole picture constract all toether... nice job! It must have taken you long??? oh, I don;t know... It's a guess... what strokes do you use?
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~patsumii-yuki Dec 10, 2005, 11:12:11 AM
Very nice using the alternative colors... light and dark... to me, the whole picture constract all toether... nice job! It must have taken you long??? oh, I don;t know... It's a guess... what strokes do you use?
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~patsumii-yuki Dec 10, 2005, 11:13:08 AM
ohhh! sorry for the ddouble post, gime... TT_TT
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~Tashio Dec 10, 2005, 11:14:23 AM
Ooo, very pretty and...dark XD. What's india ink? Is it just some other type of ink that works like a pen? And where can you get it? You did a very good job with the artwork, :3

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~ilse-chan Dec 10, 2005, 11:17:53 AM
WONDERFUL!!! :star: :clap: :star:
WOOOW IT IS INCREDIBLE!!!! I CANīT UNDERSTAND HW YOU DID THAT!!! :cries:
GREAT!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!! :worship:

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~rindarro Dec 10, 2005, 11:20:55 AM
I'm so happy to see how far you've come with traditional media (and apologise since I can't recall seeing a lot of them before you started art class.)

Your work's becoming very free and expressive, which really packs an emotional punch. This is an image with impact, so I hope you're very proud of it.

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~kimcheese Dec 10, 2005, 11:25:39 AM
wow.. that's amazing..
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~AnonTheDarkOne Dec 10, 2005, 11:28:46 AM
sweeeetttt black wings are my fav can't wait for ur next deviation

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