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EDiT: OKAY NOW I'M FINISHED. YOU CAN STOP ASKING FOR THESE FEATURES NOW.

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Wow I hate journal memes. But yet, I still keep doing them. I really must hate myself. [EDiT: REALLY REALLY.]

Anyway. I did agree to do that gallery feature thing, so here it is. You comment here (telling me something you like about me or my art in accordance with the Spread The Love meme) and I go through your gallery and display three deviations that I like. Also note that there is a limit of ten people before I stop doing this. The first three slots are taken by people who have already featured my artwork in their own Journals recently.

Also, please note that although *Ideya-Freak, =Aura-Moon, and =feniiku are featured, I have not yet actually chosen pieces from their galleries to feature. I will do this tomorrow, when it is not 1:37 in the morning. Thank you in advance for your patience.


SPREAD THE LOVE MEME (taken from =Aura-Moon)

Leave a comment telling me one thing you like about me or my art, then re-post this meme on your own journal so I can do the same for you!

Spread the love!


FEATURED

The only condition upon which I will feature your art here is your posting a copy of this featuring my work as one of the ten.

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This drawing is only a tiny chunk of the tip of the iceberg when compared to the rest of the world that it represents. Dare has created a complex environment with a number of interacting and fully-realized societies, of which "My Friend" is only a single member. This world is worth exploring, and these drawings are the key.
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The colored version of Dare's Nightmaren of Purity. Though I am working on an alternate coloration of the same drawing, this so-called "bad" example of Dare's coloring work nonetheless effortlessly dwarfs my own in both quality and style.
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A deep thinker and a deep writer, Dare has proven time and again her capacity for this type of poetic analysis. Not only a great pencil artist, this modest example clearly shows her proficiency in literature.

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Who else remembers Doomsday Zone? That was, in my opinion, one of the best gameplay moments of Sonic history, captured extremely well here.
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One would be extremely amiss visiting Feniiku's gallery and not having a look at the PlotChasm flash series. It is one of the most gloriously random things I have yet seen here, and it continues to point out wonderful little absurdities in the Sonic series. Also: that pit was the stupidest thing in the world.
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A very fitting piece showcasing Metal Sonic's awesomeness. The pose and foreshortening make the drawing very dynamic.

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JEWEL LiBERATiON is a prominent name in the old NiGHTS fandom, and for good reason. Aura kept at it for years, keeping JEWEL in the spotlight and making certain that everyone knew about the Gen. Of course, with the classic Gen system growing somewhat dilapidated, JEWEL is no longer precisely the same, but the character is nonetheless a beautiful example of the style Aura has followed since day 1.
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Aura's self-named Nightmaren character is shown here in all her icy glory. With a stare that could probably freeze a Medusa, Aura maintains a sense of cold beauty in virtually all of her appearances, and this picture is no exception.
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A very competently designed mecha form for her Sonic character Mint. The inks are pulled off quite well, and the drawing does a good job of sticking to the mid-series mecha style of the Archie series, of which I was always a fan.

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Basically, this is the one semi-serious thing in his whole gallery. I'm just featuring it because of the line "A 12-year-old lady jeopardized me in the eye."
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Horrible Horrible is something that BDSb started writing as part of a rather casual art trade I roped him into awhile back. Then he wrote three more chapters, and the story became really just insanely awesome. I strongly recommend reading the full story, as it is chock full of humor, parody, and him brutally making fun of me. Good family entertainment.
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Okay, so that's more than three. Fine. Whatever. I can't not show off the insanity that was the seventh grade, nor Too Much Trouble Being Lazy (an insane make-fun-of-Q-fest that is dear to my heart). I also can't leave off his much-needed update to Chaos Comics, let alone the DelOS Macbomb error. One would be making a tremendous mistake not to look through these hilariously random submissions.

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This is a wonderful example of Anthro's NiGHTS work, and I think it shows off the dreamlike, hopeful quality of her art very neatly. Done in a slightly cartoony fashion, but for me that makes it all the better. It just plain fits for the subject matter.
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The latest example of the Anthro's arts and crafts work, and in my opinion one of the best, the Talking Reala plush doll is very accurate to its original design and was made in less than a week for sale on eBay. Anthro is impressive in her ability to crank these out quickly at no loss of quality, and this doll proves it.
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Okay, I just had to double up again on this one. First we have her Dreamer ID, which is sort of a bandwagon thing. I couldn't cut it from my choices simply because I admire the art style she used on it so darn much. The other one is the eighth in her Glomp series (which is up to about fifteen or so now), which essentially is composed of a bunch of pictures of the Anthromew tackle-hugging (or headsitting, or in this case headbiting) her hapless (and usually somewhat depressed) target to cheer them up or otherwise pay them tribute. Have a look at the rest of these if you want to see a bunch of other peoples' traumatized characters being attacked by her avatar.

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Between her fascinations with Zero 2 and Auto, I'm mildly amazed she actually has any time left to draw them. But she does, and Blue has not only created a 02 fan out of me (to the point that I did my Zero 2 Miracle track for her) but also developed an excellent design for Disco Keychain Taser Auto.
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Not only does she draw, she writes as well. Blue has an excellent gift for poetry, and everything she produces is emotive and meaningful, though often quite sad.
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You remind me of the baby/(What baby?) The baby with the power/(What power?) Power of voodoo/(Who do?) You do/(Do what?) Remind me of the baby
If you don't know Labyrinth, don't say anything. Also, I love the wing shapes created in the second fractal. Those two are a small sample of a very large gallery of fractal art that Blue has made; I suggest you take a poke through those as well, if you have any interest at all in fractals.

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This one produces a nice, dreamlike feel, while still keeping the stronger presence generated by the character's design. A well-done exposition for the character, although it was not created by the artist.
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Reala abuse is generally very fun, and this drawing is no exception. Cheers for messing with the red dude, Anjelle!
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An unusually serious piece in Anjelle's gallery, this submission is essentially a poetic manifesto against alcohol, with which I wholeheartedly agree.

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Imaginary has posted the results of several remarkable cosplays, of which I believe this is the best. Her Jackle costume represents the character solidly, and of course the infamous mantle is reproduced quite well.
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An example of Imaginary's surreal work. I quite like the feel of the piece as a whole, but I think my favorite single element would have to be the fact that the clock's gears are shown instead of the face. Something about that really strikes me.
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Having done some vaguely similar class projects, I know that she may not have meant this as a commentary about modern marriage or other such rot, but I still find the idea of a manufactured, barcoded life to be well presented here as something to be avoided.

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As he is primarily a musician, I feel rather bad about not featuring any of Jimmy's (or rather, J-Vibe's) music. However, dA recently told him that music uploads are a no-no, so he left it alone and most of his older music is no longer stored on the external server he kept it on. So, we shall have to settle for some of his remarkable work in traditional art forms. These four pieces all share common themes -- fear, pain, sorrow, loneliness, anger... They all deal with negative emotions. For reasons that may or may not be obvious to the rest of the world, I find that these works resonate quite strongly with me. Each one shows a slightly different emotional trait, and each one is displayed very powerfully.
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I know the Otherside project is old news by now, but honestly? I'm still very much a fan and fully plan on doing a full set of fan art for it when I actually feel up to the task. This particular character is Kain, the King of Hatred, and in my opinion a staple of Jim's gallery that we need to see more of in the future.
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Something about this first one really struck me some time ago, though as with pretty much Jimmy's entire gallery I failed to tell him so at the time. There is of course the obvious connection to one of his older projects, Rhythm War, as well as his Mother fan work, but for me it went rather beyond that. Indeed, there was a set of drawings I had once planned to do, around the "theme phrase" of "Pump it up Pump it up!" or something like that, that were all inspired quite directly by this and a handful more of Jimmy's art. The second one shows a variant on the style of the first, of which I am quite fond, that Jimmy calls his "Hyperstyle." Also, a cactus.

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On account of this being (yet) another of those pictures that is not only good but especially resonant with me, I have little recourse but to feature it. It's exceptionally emotive and conveys a great deal of depth -- doubly so considering that for some odd reason I can't fullview it at the moment. That's talent, folks, no sarcasm implied.
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I must say, in the case of much of Razi's gallery, the art is (ironically in the case of the second photo) simply breathtaking. I am regularly astounded by what this young woman can convince her camera(s?) to do, and as far as I am concerned, speaking as a fellow photographer, she is truly a magician.
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By largely the same "Razi makes magic with cameras" token, my soft spot for macro work has decided to assert itself. Making a crab emote, showing the universe that exists in a single dewdrop, and giving a flower the space to be strong, these are the marks of a decidedly talented artist with a peculiar strength in small-scale composition.

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Obviously, Jewel has an absolutely ungodly number of deviations that I want to feature here and cannot for fear of completely ruining my audience's attention to any of it. In all honesty, she is the single best artist I have encountered -- the most mechanically talented, the most creative, and the most prolific. She keeps no fewer than ten entire worlds running constantly in her mind at any given time, each of them fully populated by characters that have their own hopes, dreams, and entirely realized lives. Among these are vo!t@ge, Hokthai, Sonic Inversion, Parnassus, and many others. This is just a tiny, tiny sampling of these worlds' mascots, with a small amount of her fan art thrown in for good measure (mostly because I cannot bring myself to cull it out). The first one on the list is included primarily to show that even five years ago, Jewel's artistic skill far, far surpassed my own at present. Put simply, she's talented, she's funny, she supports what she likes, and she amazes me at every turn.
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She also writes. A lot. And very well. I can't honestly say I'm doing justice to her collection of written works, any more than I am to her drawn or photographed collections, but I'm doing my best here. This writing, though it does not include any of her fanfiction or abstracted stories, is nonetheless remarkable in its ability to convey powerful feeling far beyond the scope of what the words alone can communicate.
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So in addition to having the lexical skill of a poet, the ear of a musician, and the manual talent of a surgeon, she also has the eye of a photographer. As I said in a rather old comment that still holds true today, "[She is] just plain old better at this than me." I think of myself as a photographer among other things, and a pretty darn good one at that, considering my relative inexperience. But there is really very little in life that Jewel does not seem to out-perform me at, and photography is no exception at all.
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Music submissions would doubtless go here, except that I can seem to find little of it in her gallery that adequately represents her massive talent in that area as well. Evidently, the particular pieces I had been searching for were either taken down at some point (probably by the unrelenting force of low artist self-esteem, of which I occasionally suffer myself), or they were never on this particular website to begin with (also very possible, as they are scattered over several servers). However, suffice it to say that she is just as much a composer as a painter, writer, sketcher, photographer, and artist in general -- which in my opinion is quite high praise to her musical abilities indeed.
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When you look at these, I must stress that these are sketches. And, for that matter, often sketches that she feels she messed up on or took too little time on to be any good. Also, having personally witnessed the speed at which she can churn these out at plain old fishing incredible quality, I can tell you that she probably erased a maximum of about six lines on any one of these drawings and spent very little time on most of them. I cannot make art anything resembling that degree of mechanical talent regardless of how long I take, so Jewel's raw talent and honed skill should both be very plainly evident by this point. Lastly, I'd also like to point out that many of these are not her own characters, and that she probably had to improvise the conversion of other people's designs to her style on the spot. I personally have a great deal of doubt that this slowed her down in the slightest.
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Of course, this being the very last entry of one past the very last person on the list for this STUPIDLY long-running meme, I feel I have some license to feature the epic, epic, epic ego-bloats that Jewel has seen fit to bestow upon my meager selection of characters. There are several others, naturally, but these three are my favorites, for a whole host of reasons that I'm pretty sure most of you no longer care to hear. As a result I shall spare you any further reading about that, and simply move on to my conclusion:

All this, of course, says nothing of the incredible, unfathomably amazing soul that resides in Jewel's body, and I honestly could talk about it for days on end and not even scratch the surface. Quite frankly, anyone out there would do well to aspire to any of the qualities I see in both the persona and artwork of the person behind the name =spinningcannon.

Peace out,
~Q-Lok

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