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Socar MYLES · Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2002 8:19 pm

...a rat.

A quickie--the first rat I've done in ages. Technically, I didn't REALLY have time to do this, but I am an evil slacker. Nyah.

It was inspired by this:

"Una vendetta in domino
� ci� che torna all'uopo.
Fra l'urto delle maschere
Non fallir� lo scopo;
Sar� una danza funebre
Con pallide belt�."

--Verdi, "Un Ballo in Maschera"

sacrelicious · Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2002 9:17 pm

Hey, that's not what I expected! Okay, yes, it was exactly what I expected. But it's still great!

P.S. I don't speak Italian.

edraket · Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2002 3:55 am

I like how gracefull it is.

One thing that bothers me is the bloodstain. It looks like a little blotch. But nothing more. I'd expect that to soak into the fur. Form an irregular looking stain.

All in all it's pretty nice though.

ELLioT · Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2002 4:46 am

GREAT! Maybe you could translate us (as far as possible) the italian poem so we get the mood of it....

Torstein Nordstrand · Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2002 5:30 am

As always, I must say I love your colours (or lack thereof), your muted look is terrific and recognizable. The textures are very fine here too. And it was not what I expected - Nice swirly composition, thumbs up. For critique, I too have a small problem with the blood drop, maybe it is because it stops my viewing motion? I follow the neck, the feathers, the mask, the snout, and it halts at the drop. It leads my eye to a large, quite uninteresting blank space in the downright corner. Is there something that can be added there? Something to lead our eye up to the neck again?

The Magic Pen · member Member # Joined: 05 Dec 2001 Posts: 321

Yep looks good !

Khaifin · Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2002 11:49 am

A vendetta in I dominate Is that that returns to the need. Between the collision of the masks dance With pales will not fail the funeral
scope Will be one beauty

real rough...

Morbid Guy · Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2002 2:26 pm

I like this one...especially the mask and fur. Great attention to detail.

Ghandaiah · Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2002 7:20 pm

*Stares.*

I have this set as my desktop background now...

You know what this looks like? It looks like it should be on the cover of a novel or something... And a good one, at that...

[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: Ghandaiah ]

Socar MYLES · Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2002 12:38 am

Sorry about the lack of translation. The quote is from an opera called "The Masked Ball", by Verdi. Some conspirators are planning to kill Gustav III, King of Sweden, at a masked ball (and they do it, too!) Apparently, this was loosely based on some actual occurrence, but I'm not really up on Swedish history.

Anyway, the quote means something like this:

"[It will be] a vendetta in costume; that's how we'll get our revenge. Hidden by the masks, we won't miss our target. It will be a funereal dance with pale beauties." (It doesn't translate very well...either that, or I'm just not a good translator.)

Anyway, that's the general idea.

[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: Socar MYLES ]