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:iconmornmeril: asked me once to design a tatoo for her character - and it took me a considerable amount of time to think and finally draw it, eh...
Bless =mornmeril for her patience!

From the beginning I knew that wings should be spread and that the rose should be raven's 'heart'.
It's definitely the best, stylized rose I've ever drawn - simply because I rarely draw such things :XD:
Also its thorny stem allowed me to smuggle a bit of knot-work to this piece.
It suggests that there are actually two roses. One is at the front one at raven's back. Duality? To sided-shield?? Spell?

As far as I know Mori has big scars on her chest and back, caused by some sort of vicious spell. I may have gone too far with my speculations, but for me this information was significant and I guessed that it could also be symbolized like this.

I didn't make raven's tail or body detailed, because it would provide to much chaos. Also I didn't make it as symmetrical as its wings or stem because this bird holds his head on one side - for me that kind of asymmetry gives this design a bit of life. What's is your opinion?

The greatest fun for me was making those dots and around. Is it an aura of magic? Or the waves of energy? Answer yourself or better - go read =mornmeril's stories ^_^


One more thing - PLEASE, don't ask me if this design can be used as any sort of decoration for you/your band/forum/site/etc., because the answer will always be NO.
The only thing I can allow you is when you'd like to have such tattoo on your body, but that's the only exception!



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Sketch on paper, CG in Adobe Photodeluxe + mouse

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:icondaihelsing:
Looks great! :wow: Bardzo mi sie podoba! Niesamowity pomysl! :D

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:iconaaroc:
That's beautiful, Tee!

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Hrm.. I was about to do something.. now what was it?:confused:
:icontelhilion:
I like ravens, I like roses... and well I like black on white tatoo style... it makes up alot of my doodles with my graphics pens :/ I used to use the nickname darkraven very early on which evolved rapidly with other things to be the core nick I use as Ravont_lee, which is a name I still link closely to a like for the raven.
:iconagguska:
Ja mysle, ze przy symetrii wygladaloby glupio, gdyby glowe tez mial symetryczna :D Good work, beatiful wings XD and rose^^
:iconsilwena:
Kjutne.. bedzie miala sliczne tatoo.. robotka wyglada jak wydziergana.. naprawde kjut.

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:iconnaiefae:
:omg: That looks awesome! I just love the raven :dance: hee hee, ravens are one of my favourite types of birds.

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:iconrillystar:
prettttyyyyyyyyy

Actually I like the fact that its asymmetrical - it makes it much more dynamic. Also it gives a more interesting line for the eye to follow.

The choice to not do too much detail in the raven was a good one IMHO. Too much detail tends to dretract from the choices you make in layout and design unless you're really really awesome at compiling and composing the detail overlay and layout. Personally I'm the type of person where less is more. :)

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:iconbellanouva:
Wholey goddess.....very beautiful work here:) well done!

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:iconteanah:
Thank youuu :floating: I'm glad that you like it :hug:

I always liked many fancy and complicated things, but after trying to make them myself I realised that I'm getting nowhere :dizzy: And it's true - not so infrequently 'less' is better than 'more':)
Another truth is that you have to be extremely good to create something greatly detailed and not get lost in it :XD:

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:iconteanah:
Thank you :floating: :hug: :heart: ^^

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