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Submitted: September 25, 2012
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Yeby ~ricochet188

Digital Art / Drawings / Illustrations / Conceptual

This was made as for a drawing assignment. The topic was Beauty and Decay. You could choose to illustrate one or both of those words into an image using the medium of your choice.

I'd had an idea growing in my head for a while now that I though fit perfectly into the project description.

There is an old woman named Ye, she was born and raised in Africa until in her early teens she immigrated to America (for what reason I do not know) She grew old here, never quite getting into the swing of things, always longing to go back to her Africa but never having the money to do so and with her age, plane travel is simply too strenuous. She has outlived her friends and her twin brother Yao who died many years ago, and she grows older and older.

In her old age, with her body withering away her imagination becomes a bigger and bigger part of her reality. Her mind transforms the concrete walls of cities in to massive trees, open roads to golden plains. Everything blurs away into a skewed vision of reality where Africa comes to her.

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I was in a mad hurry to finish this so there are a lot of compositional issues... pardon them

~Peepook Sep 28, 2012 Student General Artist

i miss the rains down in africa

~ricochet188 Sep 29, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I BLESS the rains down in Aaaaafricaaaa

~Kelsey-Kat Sep 25, 2012

This looks amazing, and the concept is beautiful.

*Tumhoy Sep 25, 2012 Student Digital Artist

This looks awesome and I like the message!

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