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Soul Dependant by *dennisdonohue:icondennisdonohue:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Surreal

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©2007-2009 *dennisdonohue
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This is the finished album cover for Etiku World Recordings number one. It was designed entirely to represent experiences of the soul through music, and the extensions of the soul into sound. The two fundamental parts of the tree represent the concious and subconcious parts of spiritual connections, the branches offering more concrete examples, and the roots containing a more stylistic and figurative approach. The serpents represent my fixation on Ouroboros and represent several different themes as well, ranging from the serpent in the tree of life to the dancing line of the soul that is individual in every person. This finished copy will be on the album which should be released by May, and I've retained the license on this one, which is why I can post it here. I hope you enjoy it! :)

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~Engel08 Apr 20, 2007, 6:26:49 PM
Oh my god to of my favorite themes. A absolutely beautiful piece. Did you pre-plan it in pencil first?

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*dennisdonohue Apr 21, 2007, 2:09:31 AM
It's funny when I think about it, because the concept took a couple of weeks to think-up, while I was milling over ideas, but as soon as I had the basic idea, I laid out the space on the paper. Since it is for an album cover, I wanted the original size to be used, rather than having to enlarge it at all. So I set the area to occupy about 60-70% of the 12x12 standard size, but as I went, it kept getting larger and larger, until the vertical height was almost the full 12 inches. I would plan some of the areas with pencil (for instance the loops of the snake) and then freehand fill the rest of the things around. Since the only real constant were the snakes, it didn't require a full plan-out first, and it's with those kind of drawings where your concious can really meet your subconcious in art, as you basically have a detailed conversation between the two when you are finally finished. Thanks for the comment :)

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fear is the lock, and laughter the key to your heart...
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~frolix8 Apr 21, 2007, 5:35:52 AM
'Bout time! :)

That looks like it was a lot of fun.
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*dennisdonohue Apr 21, 2007, 1:29:06 PM
LOL! It was indeed. I have one more in progress that I need to finish, but I have over two years and 400some hours into it, so you'll get to see it semi-soon, i think.

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fear is the lock, and laughter the key to your heart...
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~epstein Apr 25, 2007, 2:41:25 PM
this is beautiful man, i cant stop looking at it, the detail is staggering!

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~moiaaron May 19, 2007, 10:44:31 PM
this is god-like, i cant stop staring at the detail, my respects for this!
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Mood: Love ~tlane Jul 5, 2007, 10:17:01 PM
Hey sorry i haven't given this piece of work love yet but here it is! I LOVE IT! so this is what you've been working on!

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*CaptainMazda Jul 17, 2007, 2:12:17 AM
That's some magnificent pencil magic right there. This could easily be mistaken for LOTR art. It's beautiful :D

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~stellenero Jul 17, 2007, 7:07:07 AM
wow, amazing detail! :] this is just so beautiful. I can't stop looking at it!

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~Maligris Jul 20, 2007, 8:30:26 AM
Excellent work :+fav:

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