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Description
This piece was inspired when I was walking in the rain.

The text on the piece are the lyrics to a Japanese song "上を向いて歩こう" ("I look up when I walk") by Kyu Sakamoto (click here for wikipedia on the artist ).

However, a more well-known title of the song is "Sukiyaki" by the music group "4PM" (and other groups - click here for wikipedia on the song "Sukiyaki" )

I actually love rain and wanted a more joyous feel to this piece, but I guess my macabre fascination (or is it my monochromatic color sense?) took over and this piece became what my wife calls "gothic emo."

I had started writing a different, original prose in Japanese to go along with this piece, but in the end decided that the lyrics to this song is more appropriate for the feel of the art.

It also fits *sparou 's description of the song: "The song sounds happy, but is actually very sad." (paraphrase). Hence why he's smiling in the picture.

Tidbits about the artwork:
1. Yes, I suck at drawing hands - I'm learning x.x;;;
2. Yes, there isn't really rain and the character isn't wet... I couldn't figure out how to add rain without ruining the current feel (i.e. whatever modification I did to this picture brought about lots of complains from my wife - hence it stays 'cuz she likes it as is).
3. In case you haven't figured it out, the lyrics on the left hand side is Kanji, the middle is English (duh), and the right is Hiragana, but they're all the same thing.
4. The full size version is sized to be 800 pixels in height just in case I feel like using this for my wallpaper.
5. Don't bother asking how much time I spent on it, the answer is "way too much time."
6. Yes, I should be studying for my finals instead x.x;;;;

Disclaimer: If I'm breaking any sort of copyright laws by putting up the lyrics, I apologize sincerely as none is intended. Please feel free to let me know and I'll remove the text from the piece (and maybe put up my own aforementioned prose x.x;; ).

Addendum to the disclaimer (after reading the text while looking at the overall pic):
I will not be hold responsible if you feel any form of depression, melancholy, stress, pain, sado-masochism, etc. etc. etc. that may come from viewing and/or reading this picture and/or the text in it (respectively). Thank you.

Credits:
Kanji and Hiragana Lyrics obtained from: http://tokidoki-eigo.splinder.com/
English translation obtained from: http://www.japanorama.com/kyuchan.html

Other Links:
Click here to listen to the Japanese version of the song
Click here to listen to the English version of the song
Links above found from the following website: NXB KimDong Forum
(Note: These links are active as of May 4, 2006, but they are not hosted by me)

Description
This piece was inspired when I was walking in the rain.

The text on the piece are the lyrics to a Japanese song "上を向いて歩こう" ("I look up when I walk") by Kyu Sakamoto (click here for wikipedia on the artist ).

However, a more well-known title of the song is "Sukiyaki" by the music group "4PM" (and other groups - click here for wikipedia on the song "Sukiyaki" )

I actually love rain and wanted a more joyous feel to this piece, but I guess my macabre fascination (or is it my monochromatic color sense?) took over and this piece became what my wife calls "gothic emo."

I had started writing a different, original prose in Japanese to go along with this piece, but in the end decided that the lyrics to this song is more appropriate for the feel of the art.

It also fits *sparou 's description of the song: "The song sounds happy, but is actually very sad." (paraphrase). Hence why he's smiling in the picture.

Tidbits about the artwork:
1. Yes, I suck at drawing hands - I'm learning x.x;;;
2. Yes, there isn't really rain and the character isn't wet... I couldn't figure out how to add rain without ruining the current feel (i.e. whatever modification I did to this picture brought about lots of complains from my wife - hence it stays 'cuz she likes it as is).
3. In case you haven't figured it out, the lyrics on the left hand side is Kanji, the middle is English (duh), and the right is Hiragana, but they're all the same thing.
4. The full size version is sized to be 800 pixels in height just in case I feel like using this for my wallpaper.
5. Don't bother asking how much time I spent on it, the answer is "way too much time."
6. Yes, I should be studying for my finals instead x.x;;;;

Disclaimer: If I'm breaking any sort of copyright laws by putting up the lyrics, I apologize sincerely as none is intended. Please feel free to let me know and I'll remove the text from the piece (and maybe put up my own aforementioned prose x.x;; ).

Addendum to the disclaimer (after reading the text while looking at the overall pic):
I will not be hold responsible if you feel any form of depression, melancholy, stress, pain, sado-masochism, etc. etc. etc. that may come from viewing and/or reading this picture and/or the text in it (respectively). Thank you.

Credits:
Kanji and Hiragana Lyrics obtained from: http://tokidoki-eigo.splinder.com/
English translation obtained from: http://www.japanorama.com/kyuchan.html

Other Links:
Click here to listen to the Japanese version of the song
Click here to listen to the English version of the song
Links above found from the following website: NXB KimDong Forum
(Note: These links are active as of May 4, 2006, but they are not hosted by me)