Looks great~ Love the mountainside

guuuuuuh I hate it :( I don't feel too hot and I had to meet his deadline... so I feel like I rushed it :<

nonsense. It looks great. For it being 'rushed' it looks amazing. I would love to see one you took your time on~

i agree with sessinoga, I like it.

This be awesum! Thank you so much Rouge <3

Sorry i made you rush it, but i think it looks good anyways :3 Do like it! ^^

No problem! :3 It was fun experimenting with backgrounds... this is actually my first time making a complex scene. If you like, I can work on this piece a little more, and try to make it look more awesome :3

so pretty! i like the scenery a lot actually, you did a great job; i especially like the feeling this portrays. Giz looks awesome. great work as always hun :3

Thank you babe, I am not so great with backgrounds so I still need to practice! :)

...wow you realize what this was supposed to mean for him, right? You hear what he had initially planned to do?

I had just heard.... :/

*hugs* =(

RIP Giz

I never even talked to him but its just so surreal when someone on the internet dies, especially someone so popular like him. You think that just because they have their pics up they are somewhat immortal or something. Its just sad to see a fellow furry go, because we are part of the same fandom it does feel like we are also part of the same very huge family. Or something. I dont know. aheria faded away not too long ago and despite that I never knew her I was really shocked (and now this happened and Im even more sad). It occurred to me that someone like YOU or Monster/Darky/Blaze/etc could also just suddenly die and theres nothing I could do.
The art is really good too sorry I talk too much

I know right? If anything happened to my closer online friends, I would not know what to do... I would be SO very upset :(

I felt really off about this piece.. not only that I wondered why he wanted me to upload it so fast, why he wanted me to draw THIS, it was little stuff like I did not know what to name it, I was not proud of this piece since it was rushed; I did not have time to put detail into the background, etc etc... now I know why :/

I think it is still very beautifull!

Well, this is probably the most depressing piece of art I have ever seen before. It's sad that you, as an artist, had the opportunity to do this for someone... but maybe a darker side of it may be good, that you were the artist he specifically chose for this. However one wants to view this issue... perhaps I'm rambling.

It's a nice piece, even though it makes me want to cry, and I never even knew Giz.

Giz was a very sweet guy, even though we chit-chatted every once in a while I considered him a friend.

Funny thing about this piece: it was supposed to be happy... he only said he wanted his character on a cliff looking down in thought, and I pictured a meaningful piece that meant life was beautiful, not what he actually wanted to do. When I described to him what I pictured in my head, he said he wanted the atmosphere of the picture to be darker and depressing. I thought it was weird, but I did not want to pry.

I have split feelings about it.. one side of me is upset (obviously) that he wanted me to draw this, and that this piece MIGHT start drama (even though I never knew what it was meant for). Another part of me is flattered because he chose me as his last artist AND for me to do this piece... I only wish that is was happier and he did not leave this life like that.

Either way,

Yeah, that's how I could see you feeling. That's what I was trying to say pretty much. Upset at what the picture actually and that you had to draw it, yet flattered for being that person who gets to draw a... um.. suicide art? *sighs and offers hugs*

I just can't wrap my head around what would drive someone into such madness as to kill themselves. My brain runs on logic as opposed to raw emotion, I can't quite process it. This is the first suicide that has reached me on such a level. Probably because Giz was more closely connected to me than anyone else I ever heard of having committed suicide. Even though that connection is very slight, I just saw another artist post a cute picture that he commissioned a few months ago. But who would know?

It was a strange feeling crying for someone who I never really met... :/

Yeah... :(

I'm not gonna go into the background of what happened cuz everyone seems to know, but all the morbidity aside, it is a beautiful piece and I think I know who to come to if I ever need a new commission and have the spare cash to do it

Thank you hun! :) Yes, I knew the first day a few hours after it happened... :(

I didnt know him but the day it happened every other journal in my notifier box was about im and I decided to see what was going on, because i've had someone close to me do that and i wanted to give condolences.

I found out today.....We had been friends for many years and he had done things for me that other haven´t. I found it weird why he had not spoken to me for a while but I put it down to me not being online that much due to work and school....I got worried and decide to see on is FA if he was away on a trip or something......I did not expect to find what I found....even as I called his cellphone for the hopes of it just being a very bad joke....well my hopes was shut down....I just wish he had said anything.....but I should have seen the signs.....I know them more than you should.....I would have stopped him.....I guess thats why he never said anything and I was to busy with life to see the other things......I had hope we could go to EF one day as i have never been there......now we never will.

Im sorry im writing it here.....I guess I just have to vent as I have no one to talk to about it.

No one could have stopped him. :/ Not his friends, his boyfriend, or his family.

I think the only think that could have delayed or stopped him was for him to be locked away where he can't harm himself, and medicated. What kind of life is that?

Just out of curiosity... You wouldn't happen to know just what drove him to make such a brash decision, would you? I know depression is the obvious answer, and I know it's really none of my business. But this has stuck with me for quite a few years and has to be one of the eeriest suicides I've ever heard of. I've always wondered just what was going through his mind and made him so desperate to kill himself like this.

I'm not really sure, myself. :/ I still miss him...

It was much more than just depression. There was a mess of horrible... dog knows what going on in his mind. He tried for years to fight it and put on a happy face to fool everyone, and it worked. He finally couldn't stand it anymore.

Poor guy...what happened? Is it known what drove him to making such a brash decision?

Not sure, but I would say probably severe depression or something of the sort.

Such a shame the word "deadline" took on an all-too-literal meaning just a week after this was posted.