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Once upon a time, there lived a young and beautiful princess.
Rich

as she was she lived in a wonderful castle, where she had all kinds of

treasures to call her own. Sadly she did not understand that the human

heart cannot be bought with jewelry, so she caught a mermaid and told

her to turn her tears into magic stones if she ever wanted to be free

again. With those she would lure young men into the mountains which

center was her castle. But since none of them truly loved her, they all

turned into stone themselves, and so the mountains grew bigger and

bigger so that one day she would never see the sun again. In this rich

but sad world of loneliness and the desire of death her only friend

would be her toad.
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Okay so much about my try to write a kitsch story. XD

The

title comes not just from the poverty of loneliness but also because I

thought I had screwed the whole painting as I was half through. But

then I luckily got it on again and here it is finally finished after

three months of work.

The original idea came from my art

direction class which held the following subject to deal with in

photography: Full body subject with chair shown during every day work.

It can be documentary or fictional. When you plan to use this as

inspirational topic, show me your results!
Remember since this is

art direction the character surroundings like wallpaper and furniture

are very important so don't leave them aside.

Working on this

painting was such enormous work that I shot some reference photos, but

this wasn't enough, so speaking of art direction, I have to do it like

the Oscar's now, because there are many amazing people around here who

make it possible to give inspiration for such an enormous piece of art.



I wanna thank adiastock, objekt_stock, shnarfle_stock,

crumpstock, Iardacil_stock, Companda_Stock, LunaNYXstock, taho_stock,

angelcurioso, FantasyStock, midnightstouchSTOCK for being such a great

inspiration for all of us. For sharing their work, and for doing

wonderful art direction on their figure shots aswell. Without your

inspirations and references I would have never been able to finish this

piece of art direction, so I have added you all to the keywords, too.
Please

recognize that not everyone I mentioned here was used for reference. A

lot of them are inspirations, but an inspiration is as important as

everything else for the creation process of a painting, and many people

forget to mention that!
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Other

than that, thanks go to HuiLin85 who waited so patently for this

painting. I neglected to paint her for money because of her back story.

So instead she became my inspiration for this character.
Girl, I hope you will love it!


DRAWING: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/300330_289334194430719_168869113143895_969693_41050384_n.jpg

(Drawing was adjusted in contrasts and

sharpening for perfect online presentation, I am still not really happy

with the dress. It is ruined forever. XD)