Return to Nature - Perspectives II (Artists please look)

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This story is dedicated to the artists of the Endless Forest community. After you read, please look at the request beneath it for a fun event.

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"Inspiration"

I called your name, asking, "Let me be born today. Bring me to life." You answer as your pencil touches the paper. You have thought of me all day, and slowly you begin to draw my frame.

The lines connect and become my body, my skeleton. I feel myself start to take shape. You take a pen and ink in the pencil lines, giving me eyes, ears, a nose, a mouth, legs, and a tail. I can finally draw upon my senses as each are added. You finish the last details and return to your pencil, creating a scenic landscape for me to live. You provide sunlight, grass for me to eat, trees to protect me, and birds to keep me company. You finish the land with your pen, revealing the true beauty of your own imagination.

You then take a box of colored pencils and make my world come alive. Your strokes give beautiful definition to the world, and I feel the land I stand on pulse as if it had it's own heart. You then place the pencils on me, and I suddenly feel myself become one with the landscape, my body having warmth and a pulse of my own.

With the last bit of color, I live in the world you created for me.

No longer am I a part of your mind, but a living creature in a world of my very own. I now will do my share to honor you, by inspiring those who see me and my land to dream of their own creatures to bring to life. I have become a living dream for all to see.

Thank you for creating me.

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Were you inspired by this story? Did you see your own deer come to life in your mind as you read it? Would you like to share that experience with someone else?

If you have a few minutes, it would be wonderful for you to create an artwork for someone else. Choose anyone you'd like - a deer who inspires you; a deer you think needs more fanart; someone random who has a deer that catches your eye.

Then spend five or ten minutes making an artwork for them. It can be any media (does not have to be pencil and paper) and please feel free to put them in any environment (does not have to match the land in my story). When you finish it, please let us see it on here, so we can continue to be inspired by not only our own imaginations, but by the deer of the Endless Forest as well.

Thank you for your participation, I hope you enjoy this little event. (I also need an artwork done by someone to use as the picture link on my Index page. I can use anyone's artwork with permission, and it can be any character. Thank you to anyone who helps with this.)

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Giftart done by this event:

Vala by RedKora
Cloud by QuadRaptor
quadraptor's picture

I'm really tempted to use my

I'm really tempted to use my first Secret Santa gift or Jen's drawing as the icon link for the index page, but I'd rather use one suggested instead. I dunno yet...
Serenai's picture

... ♥ We just drove

... ♥

We just drove into a lodge at the moment, but if I fetched my tablet... I was saving all fanart for a massive surprise blog, but... This feels like it needs something. I'll keep this tab open in case I can't get to this right away.

Bravo. c:
Icon Art © Beloved
Redkora's picture

Quad, you are amazing. While

Quad, you are amazing. While I don't consider myself an artist, I consider myself artistic enough to draw and color. I will participate in this. Laughing out loud

*nuzzles*
[pixel deer by Aldebaran]
quadraptor's picture

This was another one I came

This was another one I came up with at work. It's shorter than my others but I wrote it entirely on my break and then thought of the event later.

Thanks for participating, guys! Also you don't have to be an artist to participate, anyone who can draw a deer can join! I'm planning on doing one myself, probably on iScribble though.
Laruna's picture

I wanted to contribute a




I wanted to contribute a picture but since I'm leaving on a trip today, I only have time to make a couple of small index banners (they're basically the same, just a slight color difference). You don't have to use them if you don't want to though. =)
(The original deer photo is not mine, I just found it on the internet.<3)
quadraptor's picture

Oh those are awesome! Thank

Oh those are awesome! Thank you! Do you mind if I use one in my signature?

Also there's no time limit on this event so please feel free to participate when you get back.
Laruna's picture

Of course! You can use them

Of course! You can use them however you want to. Smiling
And I'm glad to hear there isn't a time limit. I like the idea of this little event a lot.
quadraptor's picture

Just my luck, it's too long

Just my luck, it's too long to have both links to my updates and RtN, but what I'll do it put it at the very top of my updates page, so no worries!

Thanks again, I totally wasn't expecting a surprise like that today! I guess I need to straighten up my updates page a little, too.

Also added our first giftart today - RedKora made a giftart for Vala.
Redkora's picture

I can't wait to see what

I can't wait to see what other people do for this event!

Again, Quad, may the Gods bless you.
[pixel deer by Aldebaran]
quadraptor's picture

I got one done for Haru last

I got one done for Haru last night. I started up RtN Story XII earlier but I think I want to save writing it for later.
Kiraki's picture

This is an awesome idea :3

This is an awesome idea :3
Laruna's picture

Sorry about that. xD How's

Sorry about that. xD How's this one?
quadraptor's picture

Sorry, meant to clarify

Sorry, meant to clarify that:

The code to use both pictures is too long, not the pictures themselves. It's alright, I've got it on my updates so no worries.

Thanks again, though!
Laruna's picture

OH haha sorry about that. xD

OH haha sorry about that. xD Glad you were able to find a use for 'em though.<3

This is a wonderful idea (:

This is a wonderful idea (: