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Fall Into the Darknessby *ShadeofShinon

Traditional Art / Paintings / Fantasy

Somethings are needless to say,
We dive into the darkness
When everything fades to gray...

Such an inspiring song it is, Sonata Actica's "Everything Fades To Gray" I mean.

I was struck by inspiration as if it was a lightning that struck me. I just had to paint this one. It's not vent art or anything, just something that suddenly popped in my mind. The original title and idea was simply "Falling" but I thought it was boring so I coloured it up a little with the help of previously mentioned song. I fixed the title a bit, I think 'fall' was better than 'dive' since the dragon is obviously falling and has almost given up struggling to get back up.
I like how this turned out. It was nice to paint something not so colourful for a change. And of course it had to be a dragon; I love drawing membrane wings.

What's more, I finally managed to create some nice salt textures! I think the whole darkness/cloud/smoke thing looks very nice altogether.

I hope you like it!

Edit; I figured I could get rid of some theme challenges with this picture.
100 Themes Challenge 88. Pain
100 Techniques Challenge 25. Draw something that is supposed to arouse negative emotion from the viewer (sadness, nausea, anger). you can use both technique and subject of the drawing to achieve this.

^Medium Watercolours
^{Time taken} 3 hours

Art c =ShadeofShinon

Critique by *beyondimpression Dec 30, 2010, 9:05:12 AM

Okay I am speechless! I have NO words to describe this! So I have to think for a second.....
This.... is... AMAZING. You did a beyond of a good job. The textures are brilliant. The concept.. is brillieant. And you really macthed the song by amazing Sonata! The dragon was a brilliant figure to paint for this! Did you know that the dragon symbolizes power? and has humans, we have power over our lives. So while this dragon is falling in to darkness, it can kind of symbolize and realte to some humans that we too fall in to the hands of darkness within grey times no matter how strong we are. Even though we hace control, we can eventually lose control.
This is beautiful. I cannot find any flaws in this. The colours are stunning and perfect. You did an amazing job. This is beyond words...

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