Heh, very fascinating!

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I hope your candle won't melt too fast for your own best. Unfortunately, two of my friends had candles that was melting too fast, they were weak and their flames disappeared in their own selfish mind out of nowhere.

I can sure see it has your character, your style. I'm not sure if I should comment on what's outside that plate, the melted part of the candle. Maybe it wasn't on purpose, or maybe it was, I dunno. Also the few details in the background is a good thing if you'd ask me, kind of keeps your imagination going. There's so much to say, but I think it's excellent how you focused on the face on the candle and ignored details in the background. Not too sure about the border though.
Great job!

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I LOVE this piece

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i appreciate your input and I agree with the border.. so .. i changed it. it bothered me too... i have a few thing to iron out in this work.. the melted area around the dish is fair at best and will be updated in time... hmm.. maybe i should delete this and finish it before i post it.. dunno.. thanks again man

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wtf? awesome stuff!

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Awesome picture again. I love your ideas and style you make the pictures so smooth. I like to see the beautiness in such an ugly face (haha maybe it brings me some hope ), and I like the the way that man melts away.

Again, I love it, tho you should try some different angles. (doesn't mean that it's bad this way)
Anyways, can't wait for your next deviation.

oh i get it ..you're saying if someone calls me a drip...it's really not that bad..


Great stuff hero .....And i feel i must expound a bit about what i see here. There is no right or wrong .. but these are questions i would ask myself from my own sense of commercialism ...and i'm not sure i even know the answers.

What grabs me is that .. [[ Besides your excellent investment in detail ...( i can tell you had a lot of thought in the details like the lighting for one ) ]] ... Part of what i think the greatness is here is ....YOUR WORDS...( in the description )

The idea ( image ) of a head "used" as a candle is not new.. ( i believe Spencder's gifts tries to own a monoply on them ) ...but thoseimages are always used to merely convey a cheap sense of horror...

Because of your words... you have given class to a somewhat standard horror image. In other words ...were i to come across this as a print in a store ...i would not have the revelations you have presented in your description to guide my assessment of the piece. Because the words are done so well ... it adds so much extra weight to this...


Had i done this i would have needed to find a way to write those "questions " into the piece...maybe as a corner of a journal book exposed on the table .... as musings on a scrap piece of paper with wax drippings on it ...

My ultimate question being .... would consumers respond to this more purely for the image's sake ( being ignorant to your concepts behind it ? ) ( i.e. Kool man a burning head ) ...or woud they respond to it better as i believe you intended because PART of it's greatness is your concepts that cannot be conyed solely in a visual sense...

Or my real ultimate question being... Is that just my need to make sure works are taken as i intend speaking to me ?

Now i feel like I'M RAMBLING ... but i dont have a 37 hr. run with no sleep as an excuse ...but like i said ...maybe these questions don't have anwsers. Or i comptemplate too much...

Anyways ... i just didnt feel like woo-hoo 'n and thumbsup and i'm gone... , which it fully deserves , ...and i decided to get a little more "in-depth " and comptemplative over a work's struture from the get go .....

.........or .........i guess you could say ...i was ...." waxing " philosophical ( don't hit me )







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Whoa, do I feel sad for THAT candle dude.

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a wonderful concept....and how very true! i hope that you are a big strong candle which will burn for many years to come....as i hope i will be as well!
excellent work!

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he-he.. thanks man.. this work is really not even close to being finished and your feedback is really a great help.. there are several elements that I feel still need to be added as originally planned.. i will probably leave this up for a day or so.. get some feedback.. delete it. i probably should have sent this to the scrap to begin with because the changes that I will be making to this will be somewhat significant.. i like your journal idea, it has promise but my original idea is still where i think i will go with this.. i can see what you are saying about the Spencer gift idea.. i haven't been there in a couple years but i totally know what you are speaking of.. this image was definately not intended to be a generic horror image and i am glad you got that from my description.. i feel that sometimes people don't act upon their dreams until it's a bit too late.. it's something that i don't want to happen to me.. thanks for your feedback and insite as always

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