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Published: 2007-07-17 04:44:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1121; Favourites: 50; Downloads: 0
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EDIT: Rescanned and uploaded on October 24, 2008. This looks so much better.It's not far down to paradise
At least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away
And find tranquility
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
It's not far to never never land
No reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy
Of innocence again
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
Excerpt song lyrics copyright 1981 “Sailing” by Christopher Cross
=PolarisAstrum needed a reference for his coloring and I realized that I didn’t have any full body drawings of him anywhere, so I finally completed one. Here is Thomil in all his strength and glory. He looks like he's showing off...probably for The Wanderer, his love. The background was inspired by two things: The song “Sailing” and by the upcoming trip to Florida with my boyfriend and his family (For those of you who don’t know, Thomil is based on him). The water was a nice challenge, and I love how the sky turned out. Actually, I’m just in love with this picture. As for posting the lyrics with this picture, not only were they part of the inspiration for the background, but they are from a tremendously beautiful song about sailing and the comfort that sailing brings to Christopher Cross, a recovering addict at the time. Sailing was his cure and sanity, and I think there is something about the ocean and the beach and the open sky that brings out the peaceful, serene, and complacent mindset in all of us.
My scanner completely chewed up the colors on this...they are way too light...
*Image and character Thomil are copyright to Ashley Mutek*
*Colored pencil on Bristol Board. July 16, 2007*
As seen on Elfwood [link]
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Comments: 30
This looks so much better than before that it's almost unbelievable! It doesn't even look like the same. If you didn't tell you rescanned it, I'd think you had gone over it again and worked all over the old coloring 
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He looks very strong, masculine, and protective.
As he should.
I think I can see some difference, but I don't really remember the last time I saw this. I know it looks really good though.
<3
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Awww, very true. I love you, babe <3
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Of course it's true, you created the character based on me!
I love you too!
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Beautiful-ness! 8D
The incredible muscle detail is what I believe stands out the most, but overall tis an awesome picture.
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Just gorgeous!
The shading is just lovely and the anatomy is perfsect.
Very nice picture!
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I love him! He's so pretty, and the pose is just great!
Excellent background too...the sunset is great!
Definite 
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Awe. Such a prettttyyy pose o3o EPIC
and the color is so.freakin.amazingggg.
The details and the mane are so wonderful! C:
mmm eyecandyyy much
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Love the contrast between body and manes (though maybe that's the scanner, but hey, who cares
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Thank you! I love this guy so much
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IT'S HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!!!! *falls off the chair* I just got back home and I came to check your gallery and it's heeeeere! Sorry, I'm veyr hyper right now and I don't think I need to tell you why XD I may email you later telling you about this week, it was so great! And I'll stop by later here and comment, geez I've so many comments and pictures to check through, I'm finally finished wit my Elfwood gallery though, this will take a while.
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Hehe! Yay! You're back! I haven't signed onto DA since yesterday morning, and I had a ton of messages to sort through. Pretty crazy. Anyway, I can't wait to hear about your week!
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Thormil and The Wanderer are my fav characters! He's so handsome!
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Hehe. Handsome boy...that he is.
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your going on a trip with connor? *stares surprised* didnt expect that but totally wicked awesome. i wish brad could have gone to florida with us. he would have liked it
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Yea...his family...my family...it's all the same now. Though, my parents aren't going, so it's just me and his family. Really excited.
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aw, you guys are going to have fun
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I like how the mane and tail are so light that they blend into the background. It has a cool effect
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Yea....that's kind of due to the annoying scanner. The mane is supposed to be light, but not nearly that light. Stupid scanner *walks off mumbling and fiddles with scanner settings*
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funyy, it works though. its cool
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So beautiful! He looks like he's made out of silver or iron. I agree that the water and the sky are very good indeed, awesome job!
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Thanks. It's just annoying that the scanner chewed the color up. And now the sky doesn't look as orange as it does a strange brown color. Oh well. Thomil looks really good, so that's what counts.
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You added the flying sand!!!
Anyway, yeah, what you said about the colors- they do look much better in person. The scanner made it so that you can barely tell his mane from the sky; bad scanner!
I like the color of his coat, btw. It's very sheen-ey.
the feathering on his legs turned out really well.
This, without question is going to be a fav.
Oh, and thanks for gendering him!
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Yea...well....he would be kind of lack-luster without being gendered. Besides, I think we're all mature enough here to deal with it.
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