youth

eyestrain's picture
Torn between wanting to grow and wanting to stay the same... These are mostly my feelings, but I have imposed them on brd.

Gorgeoussss art

Gorgeoussss art<3 Brd is so adorable as a fawn:) Good Luck little guy Eye
-Konoha-

Snail's picture

Your art is so amazing urg. I

Your art is so amazing urg. I just wanna eat them all. o_ O
Is that normal? I dunno. ANYWAY...

Great job, I love the mysterious figure in the background. ; v ;
Kaoori's picture

I know this feeling all too

I know this feeling all too well.

Poor Brd.

&hearts Beautiful art piece.

&hearts Beautiful art piece. And I know the feeling of trying to figure out to remain small or get older x3

This is a really beautiful

This is a really beautiful drawing, a little bit sad though..♥

AlisonRobin's picture

I love everything about this

I love everything about this picture.

Did I mention your art is


Did I mention your art is truly beautiful and fantastic?
lafjdklaj This picture, you blew me away again.
First off, the color palette you chose looks spectacular. It's very soft, and matches the feel for this piece perfectly. I also love how you composed this, having what could be danger (and the mystery of growing up) simply looming in the background, unknown the the fawn in the front. The antlers on that stag are also wonderfully drawn. :]
Brd's pose is also lovely! I love how you colored and shaded that sweet little fawn~ <3
I also really like how you draw poppies and grass. They look so soft! I would jump into this drawing just to lay in that grass! 8D

Just, fantastic. Truly. Keep up the amazing work! <3
Hope Brd cheers up soon!

i love this. It is very

i love this. It is very powerful and has a lot of emotion in it.
Baal's picture

I think this picture embodies

I think this picture embodies the thoughts of every adult. So often I hear children say 'I can't wait to grow up!' But then, all I can think is, how I wish I had never grown up. How I miss the things I enjoyed as a child. The freedom, the simple joy of play, the way everything in the world could be so wonderful, exciting and new!

Little Brd seems so very sad here and the ominous weight of the figure behind just plays with ones emotions. Almost like death waiting in the wings, but nothing so dreadful as that. Well, maybe the death of childhood. I think, unlike most children, Brd seems so aware of what will be lost once childhood is gone.

I hope I haven't just read a bunch of my nonsense into your work but I find your pieces accompanied with your words to speak so much. This is beautiful and amazingly sad.
eyestrain's picture

Thank you Konoha, Snail,

Thank you Konoha, Snail, Kaoori, Leveled, Nopje, Allison, Shimmy, and Firedance. It makes me happy you take the time to understand and give your words of support.

Baal, I think you hit on something. It is a theme I find myself using again and again in roleplay when I have a young character. I impose my own sense of lost youth and hesitance to rush forward onto them, when in reality I was in such a rush to be an adult it is hard for me to remember exactly when I became one and started looking backwards.

In all honesty brd is a character looking forward to his adulthood. These feelings of reluctance are mine, and I suppose they are sad. I am in a way in mourning for his disappearing youth and my own. But I am also very excited for what power he will gain as an adult and the confidence I hope he gains. Realistically I would never return to my own childhood because I was so miserable for most of it. But the transcendental nature of our lives is something that gets stuck in my head a lot.

Thank you for your keen observation, it helped me sort something out that I had been wondering about.


I don't strive to be the best, but instead I strive to do my best, and always give it my all every time.
-faunet

I just adore your art. I love

I just adore your art. I love how the adult silhouette just hints to the stag he could become and the quiet, almost mourning fawn.

I had a lot of mix feelings about my deer Zanny growing up. I knew I would miss the complete innocents of that time in his life. I would miss his childish antics, the magnetic characteristics that seems to draw some people to him. But I had not wanted him to be a fawn forever, I wanted him to grow. And Zan’ himself is eager to be like the stags he looks up to. He is currently in his teenage stages. And though he is starting to mature and become more confident he still has a lot of his fawn like personality that will fade over time.

I think this maybe one of my favorite peaces of yours because it reminds me so much of my own reluctance to let my deer grow up. <3
Aranyani's picture

Gorgeous, as always)))

Gorgeous, as always)))
-formerly Silensia-

Oh beautiful

Oh beautiful<3

...I don't want to grow up either...
...It's a scary world out there...



arrowdoe's picture

Hn... I know what you mean-

Hn... I know what you mean- and know it all too well.
Beautiful. Simply Beautiful ♥
Redkora's picture

I find the way you drew the

I find the way you drew the poppies to be interesting. Is the way you drew them was to symbolize fleeting innocence and/or youth?

I also like how you portrayed the stag being in the back of the fawn's mind, sort of quietly catching up to him as time creeps up on all of us.
[pixel deer by Aldebaran]

what you made is

what you made is sublime,unique
Custard's picture

Ahh....&hearts

Ahh....&hearts
REYKAT's picture

love your art.

love your art.