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©2006-2009 ~Icetigris
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To kill or be killed,
extinguish or be extinguished,
Such was life,
Such was undeath,
Such is redeath.

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These creatures live in the land of the redead. As we all know, after land of the living comes the land of the dead. If a creature fails to reach the land of the dead, they remain in the land of the living as the undead. Once the undead die, they go to a lonely land on the edge of the planes of existence. Creatures have only a transparent, coloured, animated skeleton and a lantern. The little candle in each redead being's lantern is their lifeforce. If an individual loses their lantern or if their candle is extinguished, they die. This is the land of the redead. It is a cutthroat world where creatures whose candles burn low steal the lanterns of others. Only the most clever and most cutthroat survive.

There's kind of a Zelda refernce in here, but you have to have played it to get it (or at least know the LoZ bestiary pretty well). It's kind of odd I decided on pink. I really don't like pink, but when this hit me, it was pink. This is an experiment with doing glass- or gemstone-like skeletal creatures. I think it turned out pretty well and I'm thinking of more applications for this. I admit the anatomy is kind of made up/fucked up in places, but I think it still looks pretty cool.

Submitting this was a fucking bitch, by the way. DA was timing out CONTINUOUSLY, along with the rest of the internet. Someone must have been staging a denial of service attack on my local server farm or something. Fuckers. :X

Done in Photoshop CS.
Approx time: 20 hours.

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:iconstacie-yuriko:
Thats really cool looking. :)
:iconritabuuk:
Ooo! I like the see-throughy-ness and the ghostly feathers! The metal came out really nicely as well.
:iconleena-erufu:
This is freaky and awesome at the same time. O_O :heart:

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~*Leena
:chainsaw: Malcom solves his problems with a Chainsaw :nod:
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I've seen Advent Children! CLOUD KILLS DUMBLEDORE. And Reno smacks Snape. XP
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Sanbanfukutaichou of ~BleachaholicsAnon
:iconlillithterror:
That reminds me of "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem". There's a monster that bursts out people that kinda looks like that.

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Pain is just weakness leaving the body.
:iconparabolicphoton:
Wow. that's a great piece. You've capture a very etheral effect in it.

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We are all non-descript motorists on Life's road
Please use your turn signal when changing lanes

:crazy:
:iconkawaiiemiko:
this is freaking awesome; your colors are so beautiful and the story behind it is creepy.

:winner:

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"What if everything around you, Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know, Is an elaborate dream?"
:iconleechqueen:
wow, that's just great! :clap: congrats on the great transparency effect and the sad mood the picture carries, and also on the backstory, it really touched me. :)
:iconaerinl:
I really like this, how the 'feathers' look like and aurora almost, and I love love love the detail you've done for all the bones. It also quite neat how you've made the eye further away add to the effect that no, this guy isan't even slightly solid. I love the little candle/lanturn light and it's ghostly colour :>

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With one eye we achieve vision, with two eyes we aquire depth, with three eyes we gain understanding.

Icon by ~Xalxin!
:iconicetigris:
Thank you, I had a lot of fun with this. I would like to add that the candle that carries the dead bird's life force will eventually change the colour of the one who stole it. So, eventually, the pink bird will be the same blue ghost colour. :]

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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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