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TFC Life, Death, Rebirthby ~ESDA06

Fan Art / Digital Art / Drawings / Other

My submission to

's "Life, Death, Rebirth" contest. She asked that submissions include one or more of her characters involved in one or more of these themes. I tried to include all three themes into my piece, with Khaos (blue eyed dog) alive, K's brother dead or dying, and the flower representing rebirth.
I spent about a week on this piece meticulously adding fur, the rest (flower, nose, paws, nails, so on) took me about a day. Fur takes a long time to do, doncha know?
This, besides being a contest entry, was also an experiment in drawing things with atmospheric perspective (lighter colors and less detail the further away you are from an object). Thus, K's brother is rather faded and blurry while Khaos (the focus point being somewhere around his nose and the flower) comes into sharper focus and is darker.
So hopefully, everyone appreciatest the symbolism embedded in this piece. I didn't want any blood because gore wasn't my focus and besides, I want the audience to guess what's afflicting Khaos's brother. What could it be? Is there some gaping wound somewhere or illness, or some genetic ailment? It's fun to imagine the explanation and why there is one lone pink rose in the middle of a wasteland.

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~Clank101 Dec 15, 2012

Impressive.

~Spottednose13 Mar 15, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Wow

~2003line Jan 10, 2012

this is soooo full of details i reeeaaalyy love it *__*

amazing work

~cyndergirlXP Jul 17, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

wow such an epic picture ..love it

!Howl-Legend Aug 1, 2010

this is really awesome!!!

~dominicano4life96 Feb 22, 2009

Beautiful. I don't have words to say how amazing this is.

~IceyThatBitch Oct 13, 2008

THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!

-ICEY-

~mystiquedragoness Oct 2, 2008

Beautiful work! You really have the "glazed death look" down without (as you said) being overly gorey. The sad expression of the other and the amazing detail really wrap this up as a great piece - lots of emotion. The rose details came out very nice as well, and the perspective you mentioned is right on. Another fave.

!BlackHowlingKiller Jul 23, 2008

Ok.. I think there's nothing I can say that hasn't been told before.. this piece is stunning, I wish I could fave it more than once

~stolen-dream Jul 10, 2008

this is beautiful, the perspective, the details
this flower is amazingly detailed

keep up your amazing work <3

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