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This little lady is another classmate of mine, and a fellow nyuugakusei (exchange student), a Thai called Fai, or Yada if you prefer to be formal. When I initially drew this, it was going to be a simple pic of her and her alone to surprise her, but then another idea crept into my head.

From inking the hair, I moved onto the idea of perhaps adding another figure placing its arm around her and placing its other hand on her other shoulder (as you can see here), but then I felt why make it an actually living figure? another human? Maybe I could make it something else- something dark, something inseparable- the side of us that is negative that clings onto us, but no matter how much we try, we cannot get rid of it.

Basically, the old 'goodness can't exist without evil', 'angels only live where there are devils' deal. But perhaps also with the sense that some people find solace in their own darkness and negative traits, and use them as an excuse to get by. Hence the idea of bringing her shadow to life as an embracing figure while she's vulnerable (bare, low facing angle, looking towards her shadow's embrace). A simple idea, and perhaps not too original, but it's one I find resonance with.

That said, Fai herself isn't currently in any sort of predicament that brings this about, and neither is she the sort to use her negative traits (if any) as an excuse in the time I've known her. It's a case of the pose and the look fitting the image. And yes, she is rather pretty, isn't she? :D

Materials Used: 4H pencil, fineliner pen
Time Taken: Roughly 2 hours
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~Vivenrican Jun 11, 2010
This is beautiful.
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*TekkieBrek Jun 11, 2010
Thanks :D I'm glad you think so :) thanks also for the :+fav: on this piece and on 'Tea's Up' :D

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"There's too many people trying to cross-stitch with dromedaries by the sounds of it"
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~Vivenrican Jun 11, 2010
Your Welcome Tek.
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~Jeannieblue May 3, 2009
I recently featured this lovely piece of your work @ [link]
:heart: :butterfly:
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*TekkieBrek May 6, 2009
Thanks :D this is one of my particular favourites, so I'm glad you chose to feature it :hug: :)

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"There's too many people trying to cross-stitch with dromedaries by the sounds of it"
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~Jeannieblue Jun 6, 2009
:smooch: :glomp:
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*TekkieBrek Jun 11, 2009
:kiss: :hug: (...:spank: :evillaugh: )

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"There's too many people trying to cross-stitch with dromedaries by the sounds of it"
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~Jeannieblue Jan 17, 2009
You know, the black figure actually made me think of illness (namely depression) or something dark and personal that's plaguing that person continually. :nod:
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*TekkieBrek Jan 17, 2009
Hmm, that's a good point actually :nod: Can't say I had such dark feelings on my mind, but the look definitely expresses a darkness, a grimness, on the horizon. Then again, perhaps she's a kind of avenging angel- light against the darkness coming in from the window into the abyss of the dark room, awaiting its progenitor.

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"There's too many people trying to cross-stitch with dromedaries by the sounds of it"
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~Jeannieblue Jan 17, 2009
True! :nod: I guess when you view the piece (well, anyone other than you who drew it), you bring your personal baggage to it and infer what you will. I took away the depressed metaphor, because that's often how I feel with my depression- that it's a black figure always at my side. :nod:
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