"Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment." Harlan Ellison
Congratulations, aernath. Your posts may be many but they are always welcome.
Beautiful: don't worry about the image ... look at the colors ... the wonderful, surprising, lovely use of colors ... who would ever have thought this character would have inspired such creative use of green and purple ... ah ...
"beauty" doesn't seem to be what I collect, in spite of my abiding joy in most of my cels. At least not beauty in the conventional sense. I tend to go for those characters and moments that represent "The Other." In the literary sense.
As an example... I think this one is pretty amazing.
P.S. Where was the "all of the above?" up above, oh you of the paper-cuts and glass-slit hands?
"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
James A. Michener, The Drifters
Wow! So much beautifulness in one thread!! As I searched through my gallery to add to your congratulatory post, I was again faced with the fact that I don't "do" cute OR evidently beautiful either! Now if you have a thread for anger or agony, I'm spoiled for choice! But anyway, I do have one sketch that would probably be considered to fit "beautiful."
Congratulations on reaching 3000 posts, Leah! (And by the way, your Ichi stained glass piece will DEFINITELY fit into the "beautiful" category when you are done! It is looking fantastic already!!)
The Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
-I, Robot (Asimov)