Sometimes an artist has a moment of absolute artistic epiphany, and something that astounds even its creator is born... Sometimes a moment of pain, or excitement, or grief so profound finds its way into our lives and that emotion is channeled into something of pure creative energy. When this happens to me, the piece I create tends to be born from the blaze of passion and tempered by my patient will to mold and edit and polish my every creation... When inspiration meets motivation, I have what some might call "Art."
Best Oneshot:
 
Heart to Heart - CTTOC entry
"I'm not a hero."
Dove's eyes were held low with self-disappointment, seeming to fall on the unused communicator cradled absent-mindedly and hesitantly in her hands. The only reason she had ever accepted it was because, all that time ago, she was losing her mind, and Raven sensed what was wrong - Dove never admitted it, but she had been too afraid to tell her half-sister, blocked their empathic bond, and Raven was prompting her to communicate. It was a measure of desperation. This was supposed to symbolize valor, compassion, connection - the team, the Teen Titans - the heroes. But here she was, sitting in the living room staring at that spec
A sweet suspenseful piece of reassuring affection between two of my characters and my future couple, Dove and Srentha. (Slight Teen-Titans references; it is, technically, FanLit.)
Best Story Chapter Yet
Have a summary while I comb through the 17-and-a-half-chapters to find the one I really loved...
DDD: Summary in Poetry
Conscious concession
of calm and collection,
Dove has self-doomed to demise;
Chaos combining
with sadist consigning,
to which Trigon's triumph gave rise.
I have yet to write another chapter I was so satisfied with... (More fanfiction, but I pride myself on my stories being non-typical and centering around completely original concepts.)
Best Colored Piece
Besides being my most complete picture yet, the lineart for the characters alone still gives me pause!
Best Character Portrayal
Dove, my sweet, nervous, shy-and-fragile-looking but stronger-than-she'd-ever-imagine hero. <33 She just doesn't know it yet. <:}
Best Character-Centric Writing
Dove'sOrigin: Magena's Exile
The deepest information of Dove's bio.
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The man's mind was already slippery with frustration; this woman never backed down. Coman, magistrate of all Azarath, stood stiffly, meeting Magena's gaze with a calm, steady countenance that only infuriated her, with the Council behind him, looking on and each wearing in their own thoughts. Azar, the High Priestess, stood beside the council, watching silently, waiting for the tension to recede.
The woman Magena saw his mind reaching for logic to console her, and yet she couldn't hold her tongue. "And I suppose your philosophies would do more to save my life?!" the woman cried, her arms th
Dove's Diary -TFJ prologue-
Some things should never be done. Some things should never be seen. Some things should just never be.
I'm one of those things.
I was never supposed to exist. The prophecies all foretold that my sister would be the only child of our father to survive.
But my grandmother changed all that, shattered their reality, changed her future family's history when she chose to follow a different path. She was banished, she came to Earth, and there my mother was born – and there my father seduced her. And then… Bad things happened. Things that tormented my mother for the rest of her life. I was conceived. And before I was born, my grandmother
First, Dove's origin from the very start of what made her unique: her grandmother's Exile. Then: a journal written by Dove, summarizing how she came to be, and then wondering why she exists, if she has a purpose...
Best Project
 
Transition!
Best Traditional Media:
   
These are all art class projects; except the FEAR<-->RAGE ambigram, that was pure freetime and fascination.
Best Poems
Slippery Stars, Meditation, Worst Song, and Lunar Admiration; Black Phoenix, Dove's Prophecy...and then what would I be, without Thorn's Eternal Offer?
...So hard to choose... Not necessarily because they all have literary merit, but because they all have a special place in my life.
Best Philosophical Writing
I still remember...
I wrote my feelings and thoughts this morning down into my mirror book. And this is what they said...
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"I still remember the world, from the eyes of a child / Slowly those feelings were clouded by what I know now..." ~Field of Innoncence
When you learn how to feel guilty, you lose your innocence. When you learn why people hurt each other, you lose your trust. When you desperately want to change the world but can't do it without touching everything that disgusts you, you lose your faith in society.
I want to help purify the world - I want an energy-efficient home to to help save the earth - I want to have enough money to save my c
It's bittersweet, it was amazing to reconcile, and I believe it's universal.
Best Photoshop Pieces
    
I'm not a Photoshop editor, I'm a Photoshop painter.
But here's my favorite photo-based Photoshop picture:
Again, piece for an art class - online, Digital Photography. There were no filters involved or any copying of layers; I traced the photo (lineart = own layer), colored it myself, and utilized Photoshop's brushes of course, but every texture and shadow was put together myself. |
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