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This is a Skulldog for :iconskulldog:'s contest [link]

Kei is one of my best friends and I consider this to be a sort of portrait of how I see her avatar.
So it didn't take long for me to figure out what I wanted to do for this. When I think of a skulldog I think of....

First off, Blue Dog. Was that the name of the book? I loved the colors in that book, and how I just looked forward to turning each page thinking about how those colors would surprise me. Every time I think of Skulldog, I remember that particularly brilliant blue. Of course I had to add that in to my picture.

Second, Dreams. This Skulldog is walking across the dream, ruining it, and going back into the night. I thought about that feeling you get right before you wake up from a dream.. you can feel the world around you melting into darkness, and you're not sure if you want to hold on to the reality that you have, or plunge into the nighttime world of reality that you don't quite remember..

When I think of Skulldogs, I figure they bring dreams. Fantasies, illusions, hallucinations, any kind of dreams. Thinking back on the commonality of scary hallways in Kei's dreams, I thought some kind of creepy city would fit.

Finally, one last thing I think of is a certain paper mache sculpture that haunted our underground altar to music. Maybe this is just nostalgia, but it definitely came to mind a million times while I was drawing this..

Anyway, I hope you like it.
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~dragonsong12 Mar 30, 2010
I adore the color scheme on this one! And the lighting is beautiful!
not to mention the awesome, stylized background!

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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth"
~Pablo Picasso
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*SineSquared Mar 31, 2010
Glad you like it! Bright colors are fun to play with.
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*LaughingAstarael Mar 13, 2010  Student
I love this! I sort of want the edges between dream and night to be softer, but then I get distracted by how amazing that city is, and the way you united the purples and oranges and blues. Hee.

Good luck!
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*SineSquared Mar 14, 2010
Hm.. Maybe I should make the dream melting into the night more.
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*LaughingAstarael Mar 14, 2010  Student
Maybe try it out, see if it works for the image?
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*Tigershark06 Mar 13, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
This is seriously trippy - in a good way!!

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*SineSquared Mar 13, 2010
Yay! Then I did well.
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*Tigershark06 Mar 13, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
HEE I think so!!

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