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meluseena — The Queen and the Explorer
Published: 2008-07-14 04:09:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 47330; Favourites: 2002; Downloads: 5
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: Made alterations to the composition at someone's advice 
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:butterflytwo:Theme:
A sort of double portrait... Queen Elizabeth the 1st and explorer (some would say, pirate) Sir Francis Drake (only he's in the boat, so bear with me here please
) In her reign, Elizabeth's fleet was formidable and Francis Drake brought many riches from his pillaging of spanish ships in the Americas. Drake was knighted for his circumnavigation of the earth... and doubtlessly it pleased the Queen too that he brought home to England oodles of gold and riches.--------------
Technique:
Since so many have expressed a curiosity regarding my digital collages, I posted a detail tutorial/step by step of the creation of this image on my blog. Please have a look dears.
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Comments: 231
That is a pretty sweet rendition of Elizabeth I. Is the oceany part her dress?
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Not part of it, more like an illusion
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Well yeah. I got that it wasn't really there. It's just kinda hard to make out that it's a dress.
Still nice though.
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your work is amazing.
and i loved the WIP collage thing.
spectacular, thank you!
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thanks for WIP, it's always fascinating to watch how the artwork is done...
And the result is gorgeous!
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Amazing work, dear! I'm absolutely crazy of your style
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wow I feel so flattered!!
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What I,ve been talkin about being more precise?
Ok. it is out of date.
Lovely
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wondeful! as always!
The face of the Queen is so sweet *____*
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Wow, this is really something. Really a work of art. So unique and detailed.
there is just so much good to this I can't really focus on one thing.
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Aha! I recognize that dress! How lovely! <3
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You recognise the dress? Where from ? It's completelt fabricated by me, only loosely based on tudor clothing of the period...
[link] <-- a WIP so you can see how the dress was constructed.
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Maybe it just reminds me a lot of the one from my history book. It had a big ruff like that and all! If I could find that picture, I'd show you...sadly though, I can never find it on the internet when I go searching. Trust me, though, when I saw your picture, that picture of Elizabeth from my text book popped right into my head.
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Hehe well she is pictures in portraiture with big dresses, and ruffs, and bearing the rainbow of her reign - so it is not unlikely, but I did not use a single reference is what I meant, I used many.
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Ah, I get you. Still, it turned out very similar to that portrait... so similar that I almost had a history attack. How you do it is beyond me (even after seeing how you did it with the WIP!).
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Your latest pieces are just wonderfull!! And seeing how you do them opens me a new world!!
Thanks for sharing it!
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You did a great job on this. 
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Awesome! I was really amazed when I saw all the work it took to make such a marvelous piece of art!
From some books and the internet I found out that Queen Elizabeth was thought to be a witch so at first when I saw this picture I thought she was "scrying" to see Sir Francis Drake at his work.
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Tal-genn
One of my favourites by you, I love this technique so much, I'll have to try it one day.
And what was that about your crooked finger? Your finger is fine.
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Thanks!
But my middle finger's end phalanges (i think its called that, don't know, the end segment tad-difer biex niftehmu) goes off at an angle to the side, in both hands. Apparently my great granny had the same crookedness, and my great uncle does cause I saw it
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Still, it doesn't really show, not in the way your hands are. It wouldn't have crossed my mind hadn't you mentioned it.
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haha it's ok
It doesn't bother me so much really, it's just that everytime I use my own hands as model, they always show to me as 'mine' and are recognisable
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They're your hands?
o__O Cool!
I'd spent ages looking at the hands, saying "Why can't I draw hands like this?!" Of course, back then I had no idea of digital collage.
That book has been at me (well, my sister's, but anyway) for a year now and I'm still halfway through it xD Which is a pity, 'cause it's a really good book (man, finally something different in Maltese, instead of the usual "Hey, a cave! Let's explore it!").
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Haha! I love your description of maltese books
Well my own book in Maltese is coming out in November 
And hehe yes they are my hands or my husbands (miskin dejjem ikollu jippozali) and in one, the fish thing I think, there are also my arms in a cupped-hand position, and I also always recognise my arms cause I have a sort of curve in the flesh (also known as fat imma u iwa
I used to hate drawing hands but got into it some years ago, the trick is to use references over and over till you get the hang of it, and try to think of them dimensionally, as geometric 3-D shapes
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You've written a book in Maltese? Oh goody, let me know where you'll be!
Maaa, caves and some treasure...WE KNOW.
Curve in the flesh xDD Hahaha, I love that! I have a few *cough* of those, lol.
Yeah, it's true. The problem is getting all the details and folds without making the hand seem wrinkled
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Yeah, fold in the hands are a pain.
Another good thing to do is observe other artists' manner of interpeting fingers, especially comic artists - they really simplify structure, it helps to understand how to simplify a hand shape so then you can build on it. Start first with the basic shapes and cylinders of fingers/hands then move on and make the wrinkles after.
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Hey, that's a good suggestion, thanks!
It's true, they make hands look EASY o.0
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I love it . Your work is so unique. I featured you in my journal this month~
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Thank you so much for the feature
I love your sculptures, you have my great respect
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Your welcome! and thank YOU! You are such an inspiration!
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Oh, this is stunning - it may be my favorite work of yours, just exquisite *becomes incoherent*
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THis is such a fantastic work! So detailed and the textures are greatly done! And the idea is simply fantastic ^^
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Thanks
To me, idea is most important, then comes technique - and technique is important only cause the more brilliant it is, the more people will look at your idea.
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LOVE this lovelovelove. My favorite piece by you!
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For some reason it reminds me of Antoinette's Ship shaped hat. XD
Very nice work. :3
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I also thought of it once while I was drawing.
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very creative, elaborate, elegant and imagnitive
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