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Death is Nothing

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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

For slashTHREE Artpack 10 - World Exhibition II


I had a lot of fun with this one. One morning I turned my room into a wimpy photostudio and messed with some of our sheets. Funny.
Again I got most of my inspiration from the amazing =kubicki. I hope you like it. :)


kudos to:
`FantasyStock
~grace-stock
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some textures from [link]



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161before's avatar
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

This truly shows that you can create a masterpiece out of sheer ordinary things e.g. stuff nearly everybody has at home.
Did you know this curtain we can see in the background is made of soaked sheets ? It looks extraordinary, but is still attributable to simple stocks. Brilliant !

Lets look in the middle. This dark theme and the gloomy setting is a nice idea, but still I think the sword should be even more visible on top. The details would become consistent and withdrawn, so the feeling of this levitating sword will be enhanced.

If I look on the right or left side I have to admit, that it looks too dirty there. You achieve this messy/chaos composition with the clouds and fire in the middle background hence you do not need so many black 'dots'. Less is more I guess.

At last the obvious ground beneath has got a low quality, in other words it is too sharp specific around the end of the sword. It shall be a rather calm situation there, this would give a gracious contrast to the fire.

All things considered this is a black and white gem in the photomanipulation gallery for the very reason that we can see a potential movie poster here. And this for some very magnificent movie.

Greetz
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