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One of my favorite artists Camille Rose Garcia ' http://www.camillerosegarcia.org/ '
had inspiard me to draw a picture depicting scences, item, and expresstions from her dark, creepy, yet sad paintings. My picture started out with just a simple marionnette drawing. She had large stift hair, a jeweled corset, a feathery skirt with matching wrist bands and leg warmers, tall pumps, striped stockings, exadurated make-up and, to top it all off, a tiny crow placed at and angle right above her head. After completeing her, she seemed lonley in the upper right hand cornner of the page, so I gave her a sorrowful expresstion. i drew a heart behind her and added some rains drops to simbolize tears. Something was still missing, so i draw a giant cartooney eye. I figured and animal at random would be best for this doodle, so i made an elephant..everyone needs a friends. But and elephants body for the elephants head would make to much sence, so i gave it the dainty body of a baby deer. Now, I'm sure you can imagen the rush of creative genious that surged through me at the moment. So i thought to my self, this picture will be all about miss matched creatures from the deep, so i kept drawing, my thinking, and the bits and peices of things taken stright from my own stuft animals and the mind of Camille, i found myself drawing a sort of cat, lamb, and teddy bear mix. i gave it blank, circle, eyes wiht dark, think, rims, an unevenly striped upper section, no arms, floppy ears, two swinging legs, and two buttons, right under the first set of stripes. But, on it's upper leg, i added a little bottle wiht a heart on it, dripping dark liquid...perfect, i thought. Above this adoribly sinaster creature i pencild in a 5 legged octipuss with quarter moon shaped eyes that held little , cat like slits, i figured an ocquardly distrot look upon his face would mimic that of the puppet and soon enough i ended up with and extremly sad looking octipuss. but then i thought, well, these things can't all be...well..sugary sweet..would be the easiest way to put it, though not the most acurate..so i earased the top left half of the heart behind the puppet and drew an oval. in that oval i drew the same eyes that the octipuss had, only i added tall, curvy, inward slanted eye brows. along the botttom i drew a full smile, and conected the bottom of the oval and the line i drew with a sharp, curved zig-zag line. i added two curved ovals along the bend of the heart, ( they its arms if you can't picture what i explaoined) and gave it two horns and a tail..i figured makeing it a girl demon would add a touch of cute, so i drew on some eye lashes and a bow. then i drew a simple little castle on a small little cloud. i gave it two all blak quarter moon eyes and a largre, grining, drooling mouth. cascadeing down from the back of the castle is a swervy walkway filled with tulips, and rain drops. it was at this ime i looked up at the tv and saw that it was a camercial for the new pirates of the caribean movie, suddenly thoughts started racing throught my head, The Pirate & The Puppet...what an idea..this picture could tell a story of love! so i set to work on my little pirate boy. i gave him a hat with a sad looking skull on it two wedge shaped eyes with slits. a collored coat, half blakc and half white wiht a striped shirt pokeing through. puffy striped pants tucked into tall jack boots, and to top him off a cutlass, and it wasn't untill later that i realised that he was rasing his sword and it was pointing at the puppet. i also noiced that she was looking directly at him. so i changed he mouth to a smile and between to the two, i drew a striped heart. i drew a heart behind the pirate and then added a little demon for him two, this one, however, was not bareing his teeth and in stead of a bow, i gave him a little top hat. he was placed in the same place as the gilr demon thing. i was scaning through the picture when i noticed some thing that looked kinda like a flower petal neer the puppets face.i had figured i was going to make it an ear and stoped. i liked it more as a flower and finished the petals. i grew more and more flowers cascadeing down her body, just like the rain drops i had made. i did the same for the pirat , but instead of flowers, i drew stars and rain drops. i gave figured that the puppet needed something in her hand, so, i put a bottle with the same face as the castle in her right hand..it added a nice touch. i wanted another building thing in there, so, neer the octipuss i drew a small, average shaped house, with miscevious quarter moon eyes ( with slits), dark shark drips fall down the front of the house, and it's grin was made all the better when i added fangs. above the castle i added a moon with strings comeing down it, and at the bottom there were stars attached. on the each side of the moon i drew two cup cakes, one with all dark eyes, and one with slit eyes. both happily wearing an inosent smile. i wrote out in big leters ' A Story of Love ' and i called it good! i may add in some little things later, but i've got most of the story down there already. i will be makeing this into an actual story which i will be postinjg ( so don't start yelling at me to post it..i'm talkin to you siobhan stare ) And i may ink and post the actual picture if i ge enough requests to and if i don't feel extremely lazy. well. i'm happy wiht my newly imagend, romantic, and gaunt charactors. synopsis ( sp?) and first chapter thingy comeing soon! hope you enjoyed read about the proses i go through to get a picture done! Good night...and good luck! 4laugh