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An increasing mantra since day one.
Watercolor pencil, pencil and black ink.
Art and characters ©2003 Arphalia.
Watercolor pencil, pencil and black ink.
Art and characters ©2003 Arphalia.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 564 x 600px
File Size 100.4 kB
Hmhm and a very good mantra it is. Conformity is when you finally caste aside your views and worth and accept equals as greater than yourself. I don’t believe in it in nearly any form. Not to say I’m a gothic kid who goes around and hates the world and authority, that in itself is conforming to a place on the fringe of accepted society, dressing in a scheme chosen by other people before you. If you think greatly on your actions, you shouldn’t need a book or another person to tell you what’s right and wrong.
But anyways I really like this pictures, actually remember seeing it on DA I think, though it’s nice to run into you here as well. You often draw shadowed characters in your art which I have always enjoyed. You don’t see them in many other places, and I’ve found your personal characters to have certain uniqueness to them; your personality seems to portray itself in them greatly as well though that’s just speculation since I’ve never actually met you. This picture holds a lot of symbolism to me. For one it has a character being beat down by the will of a society. Perhaps the shadows in the center characters back were suppose to be daggers though I perceived them as crosses, which would bring a religious level to the picture as well. Seems there are to often the fanatical Christians who care only about rules stated in the bible and nothing about kindness, loving your neighbor and enemy, turning the other cheek, self-sacrifice, and the actual large lessons left to them by the most important figure in their religion. They become so obsessed with spreading their beliefs and changing anything they see as wrong that they become something darker than the so called evils they set out to change. May not be what you intended, but it’s a level of conformity that everyone frequently runs into in their lives; especially a fur artist (I’d imagine) since most would say your drawing demons or creatures not made from god.
This picture’s very well done in both concept and the art itself. Hope your mantra will stay with you over the years. You’re only are guaranteed one chance at life, so why would you ever want to let someone else tell you how to live it. If there is an afterlife at least I’ll be able to tell whoever I meet there that my faults and the good I did in the world was done of my own will and mind, not from me serving as a puppet for someone else’s beliefs.
But anyways I really like this pictures, actually remember seeing it on DA I think, though it’s nice to run into you here as well. You often draw shadowed characters in your art which I have always enjoyed. You don’t see them in many other places, and I’ve found your personal characters to have certain uniqueness to them; your personality seems to portray itself in them greatly as well though that’s just speculation since I’ve never actually met you. This picture holds a lot of symbolism to me. For one it has a character being beat down by the will of a society. Perhaps the shadows in the center characters back were suppose to be daggers though I perceived them as crosses, which would bring a religious level to the picture as well. Seems there are to often the fanatical Christians who care only about rules stated in the bible and nothing about kindness, loving your neighbor and enemy, turning the other cheek, self-sacrifice, and the actual large lessons left to them by the most important figure in their religion. They become so obsessed with spreading their beliefs and changing anything they see as wrong that they become something darker than the so called evils they set out to change. May not be what you intended, but it’s a level of conformity that everyone frequently runs into in their lives; especially a fur artist (I’d imagine) since most would say your drawing demons or creatures not made from god.
This picture’s very well done in both concept and the art itself. Hope your mantra will stay with you over the years. You’re only are guaranteed one chance at life, so why would you ever want to let someone else tell you how to live it. If there is an afterlife at least I’ll be able to tell whoever I meet there that my faults and the good I did in the world was done of my own will and mind, not from me serving as a puppet for someone else’s beliefs.
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