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The eldest brother was gentle and pale
So pale
that when you tried to recall his image
it was nothing more than a shine.
He was as sand is --
white on the ocean bed
untouched by the sun
and dreaming eternally

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Given 2006-04-21

A poetic description accompanies The Eldest Brother by ~saprophilous underscoring the somber yet wistful quality in the lines and tones of this piece. (Suggested by ~wiredgirl and Featured by `oedalis)

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:iconhokuto:
.................. he is unfairly beautiful. ;o; The textures are most well-done, I bask in them... The description is the perfect touch. :heart:

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:iconruya:
WOW. Just WOW.
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arashi such things you have achieved! i knew you always were masterful with fabrics but really now this is getting ridiculous~ haha.
ohh where to begin!

youve achieved so many delicate and subtle textures that each individually remind me strongly of some different aspect. for instance in the upper left corner that reminds me of sooty tree bark found in a cave, while along the right side you can see furrows that i think look like mercury would. it looks almost like you had pressed something into the wet paper to create such an effect, but it is more ghostly than that. rrhggh these things you do... they look almost unintentional through how things so perfectly belong. it all at once looks like a solar system and the deep sea. under him in the middle... i love the skeletal figure that just kind of appears like some breed of fish, and the strokes off him resemble rib bones of the delicate sort.

and the colours.... :chew:
its so beautiful.. there are things that at first glance look like something, then something else upon further study, neither of which they are necessarily 'intended' to look like but are perfect for it.

your lines, no matter what they are of, are always skeletal in the most wonderous sort of way.

<Br damn fine.
also i heard you cancelled your art show!!!! how could you!!
haha you know... >8D i was totally planning on crashing the party
:iconmezzoforte:
this is gorgeous. the delicate linework and use of the black and white is excellent. Really a beautiful piece.

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:iconwiredgirl:
This is absolutely stunning.
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My dear this is so perfectly stunning; I was so taken by the image when first I saw it in simple and fragile pencil work, but this here has an entirely separate impact - captivating in several senses - it has only been enhanced, and wonderfully so. The ink is neither hard nor artificial, and compromises nothing, as ink may sometimes do this in application over penciled lines. There remains the exquisite quality if implied intricacy - overwhelming, certainly, were it very speficifically defined. A very successful decision in building this image in the way that you have.

I am especially taken by the fragile simplicity - and fragile is indeed the perfect word for this - in his face. There is an implied quality in this area that speaks beyond what is forefrontally obvious: the deliberately singular linework that composes his profile and the features therein. That quality being of course that all is not simple nor is it quite exactly as singular as singular often shows itself in art - your lines are ever directed in something that lasts in memory as something so much more complex, and as I see it, the sort of thing that cannot be reproduced.

This image is so suited to its task. You have summed his essence and his character beautifully with this. I am so impressed with the way you have used your words, as well. Dreaming, white sand beneath an impenetrable sea is just the sort of poetic brilliance that you would think of! :heart::orange::batman:

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:iconkaenguma:
*iswithoutwords....* *stares* *dies*

Arashi, this is simply put: fantastically, stunningly & forever beautiful! *lies at your feet*
I don't know if you wanted to make it this way, but it remembers me of Dream of The Endless by Neil Gaiman... and I love you for that. the words, so much like Dream. the art, beautiful beyond words.

have to fave and I will make a wallpaper of this beauty. just for me. and if you want to, to share with Ascot and you.
thank you very, very much for this one.

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Kaenguma,
Oh no, *has you stand*
Thank you very much.. you are highly flattering.. and yes I know what you are talking about when you mention "The Dream of the Endless"..
That you are reminded of Yoshitaka's work by mine is nothing to sniff at... I'm very grateful and honored... and also glad you enjoyed that story! I have flipped through it a couple times.. and it has left an impression on me (Surely at some point I should go through and actually read it)

Honored also, that you would want to make a wallpaper.. how kind of you! I'm so surprised.. and naturally,
I'd love to see what you do.

Thank you again,

Arashi Hara

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contrast is beauty.
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Ascot, thank you as always.. you are attentive to my madness like none other *rofl* j/k
*hug and hug*
thank you thank you... you seem to always read exactly what it is I was going for. (Ascot knows me better than anyone -- of course.)

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contrast is beauty.
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> 0 < thanks pedrooooooooooooo xs

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