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©2005-2009 ~rare124
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Hmm.. abstract equals conceptual? if not i'll move it to the miscellaneous subcategory...

I'm kinda pleased with this... and look. Non anime! lol. Designed for a college mag.

'Idraaq', the word, i take as 'understanding'. kinda like wisdom, knowledge and all that thrown in...

tried to use symbolism

the sea> Vast> infinity> knowledge
Dawn>> light, being delived from darkness
the roman lamp of light
Divine hand and veil >> reference to khayyam's ' there was a door to which i found no key, there was a veil beyon hich i could not see' kindas like, drawing the veil off in this respect and revealing....
Tree>> the tree of knowledge, with the
apple> fruit of the tree of knowledge.... yeah, i know Satan misled Eve and Adam and yada yada yada, but whatever...
Globe>> um.. world... wiide... wisdom? :D
and the step ladder of books... the common clip the sdtaircase of tomes to uh, the gateway of knowledge.. yeah.

Hehe, i figure i cud touch this up sometime later, the sea and a little more detail to the books, plus need to fix the wood a bit, and i forgot to add the quill... but i prolly wont be doing that anytime soon...

My dad said it looked like looking out the window of a old study/room out onto the sea... *shrugs* XD

oh yeah, 14 hours or so.. O.o i think thats less.. :D

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:iconqueenleashanneen:
It is very gorgeous! Excellent job! :D

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:iconlelablue:
You did a great work, I like it a lot. :aww: But how do you know it was an aple? The fruit of knowledge could be any you choose. ;)
:iconrare124:
its not an apple? i thought the apple was biblically significant coz of that... ^^; i think i caught that off someplace... i'll go check it...

thankyou for the comment and fave :hug:

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:iconjojitsu:
This is a great looking piece. The tones of the whole work really give off a powerful feeling. It just all flows so well.

A superb job :D

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:iconlelablue:
People use to say that it was an apple but in the Middle Ages and before the fruit of knowledge could be fig (*center of life and mind for greek; common misfortuned tree in the Bible and so on*) or even a grape. :aww: Ah, I'm not specialist, just historian and my field is Church History and Middle Ages... And as a protestant we hear many sermons where the pastor used to say that there was no apple. But it's common sense so, no prob and you did a superb job. :D
:iconmaniofdoom:
O_O Woah, this is beautiful..
:iconshadowyzman:
lovely!!!!! u should work for those disney peeps

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:iconshianra:
okay. this is good.

you should feel so proud, i think this is the FIRST art i've faved that wasn't anime/ cute picture of an animal related o.o

great stuff.

i draw mostly manga, a BIT of other stuff, come by and looksee sometime^^

oh, and what did u use to create this?

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wow :+fav:

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