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Published: 2008-01-03 00:35:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 66981; Favourites: 3418; Downloads: 233
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It could be his rejection and defeat, or it could be the first time he fell in love with Sarah. Both are painful, thrilling falls. A little melodramatic for me, but it gets the point across. (I'm lame!)I'm stuck on that long panel look. This whole thing was an excuse to draw the animal bones on the shoulders of Jareth's owl coat in the last act of Labyrinth, and you can't see much of them. I want to do another.
This one was frustrating and I don't know how I feel about it. I did it during a bad cold, so I was cranky and stuffy and inclined to half-ass it. Goddamn, I don't know what I was thinking with all the fabric. Never again, unless I get some skills.
The title kind of needs explaining; I've been really heartbroken twice in my life, and both times the only thing that made me feel better was listening to "Drowndeep: Hula" by Maxwell. It's an undulating, underwater song, appropriately embryonic, like a good Codeine fog. It put a new feeling to the word "hula".
materials: ink and Letraset illustration marker on bristol, plus a touch of the ol' PS
music: Maxwell, "Drowndeep: Hula"
Do not reproduce without my explicit permission.
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So... okay, for you to tell me that I'M amazing? Holy shit, I don't even know. I haven't even left you a comment on any of your drawings because I don't have the words. "Amazing" doesn't start to cover it.
This is a remarkable honor, to be complimented by you. Thank you so much.
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Thankyou very much, you are very kind. It's an honour to be complimented by you! You can draw things that i can't! First off, i've only ever sketched one drawing on photoshop and that's it because i have simply no idea how the hell i'm supposed to colour it - so yeah, can't do photoshop/digital work lol. Second, i always have to rely on ref pics to draw from, i am hopeless at drawing things off the top of my head. I get the ideas and have an image in my brain, but when i commit it to paper it comes out really bad. Then i lose my patience lol. I love this style of work, i dunno what to call it (i'm not gonna call it 'cartoony'
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Well, you know what. Everybody got their something. 
*revel revel*
P.S. I can't work PhotoShop for crap, if it makes you feel better. Digital color still gives me the heebie-jeebs!
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Ok, I have to finally comment. I have been favoriting all of your Bowie works, but this one struck me particularly. It's just stunning. Nice work.
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Holy carp, Jareth's been shot!!
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I love Labyrinth with D. Bowie and this drawing show exactly how I perceive the ending of this film.
Wonderful work : D
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God his face is perfect, and his hair is beautiful here.. wonderful use of color and movement. Beautiful.
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and this is where I outright died. amazing emotion and movement, even with the makeup for the eyes...ohmagad. I have nothing to say but ahakghfghafkjh. thank you. lol.
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*^_^* I'm really glad you like it. I had issues with this one. I started to hate it before it was done, but my mom really liked it.
I dig how Jareth's makeup and clothes change to reflect his mood or intentions.
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I can completely understand. there are a few things that I utterly hate by the time I'm through with them that get the best reception. point in case my oil pastel self-portrait. I now hate oil pastels with a passion.
my point is in all of this jabber is that it is by far one of my favorites so far. there is just so much emotiveness (a word? I think not!) in this piece *siiigh*. I lurve it. :3
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Thank you, I'm really glad that people can feel it.
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I can see where that would be a major, major pain in the rear-end. afterwards I might have to go naked for a week. lol. good job though! it came out amazing :3
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wow. You've made me fall in love all over again.
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Not that your PS skillz aren't awesome, but there's just something about the drawings you've colored with markers that's so much... better than the digitally colored ones. I feel like there's more emotion in the piece--it's more personable. Seems to fit you more, even though I don't know anything about me.
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I totally agree with you. I'm not much good at doing digital color, and I'm not comfortable with it, and it shows. I love the markers so much, and I think THAT shows.
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*even though I don't know anything about you.
Damn typos.
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I really, really, really like this. The arrows seem especially appropriate given Jareth's look of an animal hunted in that outfit, and his overall bird-of-prey theme. The long frame brings Sarah's fall to mind, so it's a nice parallel. Love it.
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Thank you. You're right about the hunter/hunted thing. Funny how that works, eh?
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Excuse me while I favourite everything in your gallery.
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You shot Jareth! Anywho, So pretty... I love the colors.
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Hey, I didn't shoot him! Mmmaybe it's an ode to my poor little owl.
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We're you the one that found the white one by the road?
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Well, I accidentally struck a barn owl some months back, if that's what you mean. I did take some photos of him and put them in my gallery. Poor little thing.
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Yes, I saw that. Poor thing.... at least it's in a better place now.
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So, uhm.. I prettymuch thought you came up with this out of the top of your head.
But ... I watched Labyrinth, again (lol I know), and just finished it now... and I totally realized that at the end with the "You have no power over me" line, that Jareth falls into his outfit, and the fabric is flying everywhere, and then he turns into an owl. When I was watching that just now.. I was like, "Omg, Lily's picture!", which was funny because I was looking for the exact point where you could literally see his heart break (sad, yea, I know).
So, uhm, yea.. thanks for helping me notice that.. haha!
It seems like every time I watch the movie I notice something new.. like this time:
- I noticed the music box that represents Sarah plays the "While the World Falls Down" tune in the beginning.
- I noticed that Sarah owns a Jareth doll that sits next to her mirror in every scene with her room (I noticed the other toys, but never the Goblin King figure ahahahhaha <3 do want!) --- [link]
- I've always noticed the "groupies" that Jareth has at the ball, but.. my god, he sure had a lot of them coming up to him and trying to kiss/hug/hit on him x) Bahaha, can't say I blame them!
- I've been paying hella close attention to whatever Jareth says, especially near the end.. and all the little nicknames he calls Sarah, and his reactions when other ... creatures.. talk about/mention her. Ie., "...The girl who ate the peach and was supposed to forget..." Jareth: *he gives a very ..thoughtful, and intense look* "What about her?.."
- And, I noticed this a couple weeks ago when I first wathced it again in the past many years, .. but did you ever notice the weird David Bowie rock illusion thing? -- [link]
Lol, yep.
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I love to slow-crawl through the scenes of her room and see the things that appear later in the Underground. Hoggle as her bookend, a plush Didymus and button-eyed Firebird puppet, the Jareth figure, her princess musicbox, the Escher poster, and the children's books that influence the Labyrinth. (Ludo is an obvious ode to Where The Wild Things Are, which does make me think of Sarah's monstrous friends---"Please don't go, we'll eat you up, we love you so!")
I've been reading so much Labyrinth fanfiction lately, and I'm surprised at how so many people portray Jareth. They make him absolutely cruel and malicious, violent, without a trace of warmth or any redeeming qualities. He isn't gentle or wise, just wrathful. That's part of why he was so beguiling in the movie---sure, he's not a nice guy. He's a bully, proud and manipulative and impatient, but he's also softspoken, clever, romantic and hopeful, and those are qualities of good people.
I said to my sister, He's mean. He had no problem chasing her down the tunnel with a knife wheel and sending his army after her with cannons and spears. And she said, yeah, but you get the impression that the second things got out of hand, that she was in real danger, he'd have been there.
There's a fanfic I'd like to read.
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I didn't notice the Escher poster.. hmmm. But, yea, I love going through movies like these and spotting all the little hidden things, or the things you aren't supposed to really notice until the 2nd, 3rd, 4th time around. God I love Jim Henson (R.I.P)! And I didn't realize that George Lucas helped out with the movie, too.. dayummm.
Yea, I know! I guess when I was little I just thought of him as mean until the ball scene, which just kind of confused me as a kid, ... but once you get that he loves her (I mean, hell-oooo, Sarah even says, "The Goblin King fell in love with the girl"), and you watch it again, you can spot points where you can feel that love. He just doesn't want to be defied, because HE'S the one who's supposed to be in power. It makes me think about the part in "Magic Dance" that gets sung at the very end... "You remind me of the babe. What babe? The babe with the power..." As if to show that later when he goes back to the Underworld, if it's not that it's only a part of Sarah's imagination, that he thinks about Sarah and is like, "You remind me of the babe... the babe with the power" because of the last line she says to him. *shrug*
And, yea, he's totally clever, and romantic, and hopeful, and softspoken.
And it's not that Sarah doesn't care about him either, she just learns to take responsibility, and finds out who she cares more about. Afterall, at the beginning she totally said, "It's not that I don't appreciate what you're doing for me..." She uses sarcasm the whole way to cover up her feelings, probably. LOL.
And that sounds like a GREAT fic that you mentioned. Too bad I don't write fanfic.. hahaha. I never have the patience.
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In all the times I've seen it and listened to that tune, I never thought of the "babe with the power" connection.
Oh, if ONLY he hadn't been holding her baby brother hostage. They could have had a wonderful, gloriously dysfunctional relationship.
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Lol! WIN!
Omg, seriously... too bad she was 15, lmao. But I'm glad David Bowie made a line and was like, "I'm not kissing a 15 year old girl." Lol.. good choice, Mr. Bowie ;]
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While young Jenny Connelly shook her fists at the gods and cursed Bowie's gentlemanly sensibilities!
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Yea, seriosuly.. I would've been like, "Oh, no! It's fine, Mr. Bowie! I don't mind ;]" Hahhahaa.
It's so weird knowing that she was the leading actress in "The Blood Diamond"... god, she looks so different
I wonder if she had a Bowie crush when she was younger... or if today she regrets not having a Boie crush when she was younger? Lmao.
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I really love the little owl bones in this, as well as the expression you chose on his face.
It's both tragic and beautiful. The color choices are nice and subtle; I just adore the piece.
You're David Bowie pieces are all amazing. Even if you claimed you half-assed this; it's still amazing!
PS: Hope you feel better soon. <3
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Aw, thank you!
Months and months ago I accidentally hit a beautiful barn owl on the road to my house. It made me so sad, I took him home and took some photos of him so everyone could see him. He was just the most exquisite animal with a sweet heart-shaped face. We saved some of his feathers to make arrows from, and now I'm wondering if it's been long enough that I could go back and find his bones. Having an owl skull would be amazing, but then, I don't really want to disturb his rest...
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That's good to hear.
Aww, poor owl.
I would love to see photos of him.
You can try to go back and find his bones, but maybe it'll be best not to disturb his rest.
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I took some photos, actually, and put two of them in my gallery. They till break my heart a little.
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AURGH! This concept wins the internet Ma'am! D<
I love the texture you put into his coat, very creative.
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Very nice color scheme, and I love the facial expression and hair! Though, Jareth's hand looks a bit small compared to his face.
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I think maybe because most of his hand is hidden and his fingers are bent, but yeah, you're probably right. I tend to make my hands too small!
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Oh! Guh! I - I don't know how to express myself, it's like he's drowning or falling asleep, just completely in over his head. Of course I love how you drew his outfit, of course I love how you drew his hair, his face and the long graceful lines of his throat, but it is the coloring that completely undoes me. Subtle and yet rich, it's very hypnotic. My only objection, and this is because I'm such a labyrinth dork, is in my opnion, Jareth's character is a bit more brass in the movie. He's the kind of guy I imagine who would fall with his eyes open, never truly surrendering. Oh man, damn girl, i love this so much, how are you able to do this? This is going on my faves!!!
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*^_^* I love to make you gush. Yay!
David Bowie has, like, the most beautiful neck in all creation. I'm really glad you like the colors so much because I was really iffy about them. As for falling with his eyes open, even the Goblin King can't be prepared for falling in love. ^_~
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This is beautiful, and so detailed, I can't believe you did it while you were sick!
Love the symbolism, and the colors palette, as it gets progressively darker.
Aww, where are his magical twirly balls? X3
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There was always an exquisite drawing of a horse hanging in our house,which my mother did when she had a toothache once.
I love his crystal balls, but I never want to draw them because I'm so bad a perfect circles! And I don't have any, whaddaya call 'em... stencils.
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So cool! Love it. ^_^ I'm on a Laby kick right now, so this suits my mood perfectly.
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PS: You and Pika inspired me to write a new fanfic, so because you're responsible I shall give you the link: [link]
lol. All your fault! (~_^ Well, that and my melodramatic nature.)
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Ooh! Feed the little demons! :@
Thank you! I can't wait to read it.
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You may not think that his expression is clearly showing in this, but at first glance I could tell it was a mix between pain and euphoria... so, nicely done! :] As for your fabric dilemma, it looks fine. XP Much better than I could hope to accomplish, anyway.
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